Hi everyone,
for a study project I wanted to plot stress points along with the failure criterion I used in Plaxis.
Therefore I plotted the points in a sig1-sig3 plane and used the formula from the materials manual to plot the criterion:
def hoek_brown (sig_3,sig_ci,m_b,s,a): sig_1 = -(sig_3 - (abs(sig_ci)*(((m_b*sig_3/sig_ci)+s)**a))) return sig_1 def get_hoek_brown (sig_3_values,sig_ci=310,m_b=6.097,s=1,a=0.5): sig_1_values = [hoek_brown(sig_3,sig_ci,m_b,s,a) for sig_3 in sig_3_values] return sig_1_values
If I then plot everything together it looks like plaxis is using some different failure criterion:
The question now is what am I doing wrong, or am I just using the wrong equation?
Any help is appreciated, thanks a lot in advance!
Greetings
Lukas