Hi João, I would say that your approach is correct. Although it is not always necessary, it is a good modelling practice to prevent stress oscillations by specifying additional interface elements inside the soil body. However, remember that these…

Dear Boris, 1 ) The easiest solution is to have the the material for which you want drained and undrained behaviour 2 times. So you have 2 material sets with all the same parameters, but one is drained and the other one is undrained. Then calculate…

Dear Jamal, I would take it down to the basics: what does a node-to-node anchor simulate? A node-to-node anchor is a linear structural element (also considers an out-of-plane spacing in 2D) which can handle only axial forces, no bending or shearing…

Group effects can mainly be categorized with respect to pile spacing. If piles are far enough apart then there is no evident soil-pile interaction. If piles are little closer together then there is minor soil-pile interaction. If piles are even more close…

If by app you mean PLAXIS, then it will be fine. As explained in the link, we record usage when the application is running. Checking the Forum (nice!) or the Wiki (even nicer!) is not recorded as PLAXIS usage as long as PLAXIS is not launched on that…

Dear Jamal, Resetting displacements to zero is a feature to simply reset the counter of the already recorded deformations to zero. We have an article describing it in detail: https://communities.bentley.com/products/geotech-analysis/w/plaxis-soilvision…

Hi Jamal, PLAXIS shows only the total (elastic+plastic) deformations/rotations for structural elements in Output. You can, however, try to calculate the plastic (hinge) rotation manually. Alternatively, you can check whether the plate element reaches…

Dear Jamal, If you have data that is indeed only upward motion data you can use u=1.0. I'm not so sure though that PEER data is upward motion data, so you would have to check that. With kind regards, Dennis Waterman

Dear Jamal, Are you using the Curves manager? Then this option should be there:

Hi Jamal, you have some problems with the understanding of embedded pile and I would strongly recommend you to take a look at the reference manual again. In the example you give, you have to enter 157 kN/m all along the length, not linear. Plaxis will…

What I tried to tell in that slide was always enter ultimate (characteristic values), because pile behaviour is non-linear, and you have to use characteristic values to simulate piles in Plaxi - to get the correct deformations.

You can find the English version here: berkdemir.github.io/.../

Dear Jamal, Based on the kind of soil and experience you could indeed assume a certain ratio. Alternatively you would have to determine it through some test. For instance a triaxial, oedometer or DSS test with unloading to determined Eur or Gur ...…

Dear Jamal, Defining the size of the model is one of the first and important steps when modelling with any finite element software. The model boundaries should be far enough so that they do not affect the area of your model. Why is that? Because in…