Overview

About the Calculator

The Laterally Loaded Piles Calculator helps engineers easily design concrete piles subjected to lateral forces in compliance with AS 2159:2009 and IBC 2024. This tool simplifies pile design by calculating the required embedment depth and reinforcement, ensuring lateral stability without overdesigning. Whether you're designing fencing posts, retaining structures, or foundations for buildings, this calculator provides a reliable and efficient solution.

Calculate minimum embedment depth for lateral stability with ease

Ensure lateral stability by accurately determining the minimum embedment depth for your piles. The calculator uses established methods like the Broms method for cohesive soils and IBC 2018 for cohesionless soils to calculate the required depth based on soil strength and load conditions.

Design pile reinforcement to meet code and performance requirements

Quickly calculate the optimal reinforcement for laterally loaded piles, including longitudinal bars and fitments, while meeting AS 2159:2009 and AS 3600:2018 standards. Avoid under or over-reinforcement with precise recommendations tailored to cohesive soil conditions.

Evaluate horizontal soil strength and safety factors

Calculate horizontal soil strength capacity and factor of safety with reference to industry standards such as IBC 2018 and M.J. Tomlinson’s Pile Design and Construction Practice. Easily verify that your piles can resist applied lateral loads.

Link loads from from beam or column analysis for seamless design integration

Eliminate manual data entry errors by linking lateral loads directly from column or beam calculations in ClearCalcs. This integration ensures an accurate and efficient workflow, saving time and reducing the risk of inconsistencies.

Why ClearCalcs?

Frustration to Flow

See how ClearCalcs transforms structural calculations from a tedious, error-prone chore into an efficient, stress-free process.

With spreadsheets and clunky software

Frustration, fuss, and fragile formulas—the old way of engineering calculations that holds you back

Struggle with endless spreadsheets and custom formulas.

Building codes change, but outdated software and spreadsheets don’t.

Triple-check and verify manual input at every turn.

Old software feels like a maze, with unclear settings, limited templates, and rigid interfaces.

With ClearCalcs

Effortless, efficient engineering calculations at your fingertips.

100+ pre-built calculators for different materials.

Every calculation comply with the latest codes and standards.

Forget the worry of “black box” calculations; verify calculators with inline formulas, codes, and checks.

Intuitive tools built to your workflow, plus unmatched customer support.

How It Works

Your code-compliant calculator

Tired of complex calculations? ClearCalcs Calculator Library keeps it simple, secure and code-compliant – so you can calculate with confidence.

Save time with ready-to-use templates for wood, steel, and concrete

ClearCalcs offers an extensive library of easy-to-use calculators for beams, columns, and footings, designed to make structural calculations simpler and faster.

Choose from a wide range of pre-configured beam and column options, complete with automatic member sizing, so you can quickly reach reliable designs and reduce rework.

Beams

Columns

Foundations

Walls

Loads

Dynamically track your load paths from roof to foundation

No need to copy and paste reactions between calculations! If the top calculator's reactions change, the loads being inherited onto the lower calculator will update automatically. This includes all loads such as dead, live, snow, seismic, and wind.

Submit professional reports for permit review

ClearCalcs is not only easy to use, but also easy to check! All calculations follow an easy to understand traffic light check system, with multiple levels of detail available giving you the choice of printing every step of the calculation and all code and standard references, or simply a compact, one-page print out.

Report heading includes your project name and address

Easily upload your organization logo for a professional report

Use custom PDF upload to merge additional documents to your structural calculations

Download a sample report

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Laterally Loaded Piles Calculator to AS 2159:2009, IBC 2024