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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Increase of Stiffness in Hardening Soil with Undrained B</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/geotech-analysis/f/forum/222945/increase-of-stiffness-in-hardening-soil-with-undrained-b</link><description>Hi PLAXIS team, 
 Reading from PLAXIS manual, I see the following and agree with it. 
 &amp;quot;PLAXIS has options to deal with undrained behaviour in an effective stress analysis, the use of undrained shear strength (cu or Su) may be preferred over the use of</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Increase of Stiffness in Hardening Soil with Undrained B</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/685580?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2021 12:41:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:9170410e-2b5e-4dd6-ae48-0dad3360a1f4</guid><dc:creator>Omar Mahdy</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Dear James,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this is not possible since the pressure dependency of stiffness formula depends mainly on the friction angle which in Undrained B case is zero. So the stiffness will be constant no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Omar&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>