Documentation

How to use Rischio and how each tool calculates: its method, its equations and assumptions, and the verified examples it reproduces. No black boxes.

Tools

• Retaining walls

  Earth pressure, overturning, sliding, bearing and gabion levels

  • Overview
  • Inputs
  • Method and assumptions
  • Earth pressure
  • Stability
  • Bearing capacity
  • Gabion walls
  • Equations
  • Warnings
• Footings

  Bearing capacity, eccentricity and elastic settlement

  • Overview
  • Inputs
  • Method and assumptions
  • Bearing capacity
  • Settlement
  • Equations
  • Warnings
• Piles

  Shaft and toe resistance, and pile groups

  • Overview
  • Inputs
  • Method and assumptions
  • Shaft resistance
  • Toe resistance
  • Pile groups
  • Equations
  • Warnings
• Open channels

  Normal and critical flow, and the section's capacity

  • Overview
  • Inputs
  • Method and assumptions
  • Section and roughness
  • Normal and critical flow
  • Capacity and rating curve
  • Equations
  • Warnings

• Get startedYour first model, from a template to its report
  • Your first model
• Using the studioThe editor, the results and the report
  • Models
  • The editor
  • Results
  • Calculation report
  • Keyboard shortcuts
• AI and agentsBuild a model from a sentence, or connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
  • Create a model with AI
  • Connect your agent (MCP)
  • MCP tools
• ExamplesWorked examples from recognized references, their answer beside Rischio's
  • Verified examples
• ReferenceDefault criteria, symbols and shared methods
  • Default criteria
  • Symbols and units