Bishop's effective stress

Application	PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Version	PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Date created	24 June 2016
Date modified	24 June 2016

This document verifies that groundwater flow principles are correctly implemented in PLAXIS. Bishop's effective stress (Bishop & Blight, 1963) is used in PLAXIS to handle unsaturated soil conditions. An example is used to verify the capability of PLAXIS to calculate Bishop's effective stress.