• Consolidation Analysis in Plaxis

    Dear all, First, thank you for your replies and kudos to PLAXIS for starting a forum like this. When calculating consolidation using conventional methods (by using Cc and Cs coefficients, together with the foundation stress) we can easily predict…
  • Consolidation: Minimum Pore Pressures and Degree of Consolidation analysis may give spurious displacements of boundary nodes

    Application PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D Version PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D Date created 30 October 2015 Date modified 30 October 2015 When performing a consolidation analysis three possibilities exist: Staged Construction ( SC…
  • Stiffness modulus when using Hardening soil and Undrained B

    Hi, I am performing calculations in Plaxis 2D for a deep excavation and am using the Hardening soil model. However i want to set a clay layer to Undrained B as i dont want to overestimate the shear strength of the material. When i change it to undrained…