PLAXIS 2D Tutorial: Stabilisation of a rock slope
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Date created
25 Aug 2023
Date modified
25 Aug 2023
This tutorial illustrates the use of PLAXIS 2D for simulating the excavation of a road cut in a siltstone rock mass with…
Cable reinforcements in PLAXIS Tunnel Designer
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D 2023.1
Date created
08 March 2023
Date modified
08 March 2023
With the release of PLAXIS 2D 2023.1, the tunnel designer has been updated to include the Cable bolt element…
Modelling a drift from an underground mine in PLAXIS 2D
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D 2023.1
Date created
10 March 2023
Date modified
10 March 2023
This movie shows how to set up a model in PLAXIS 2D starting from a drift cross section of an underground…
PLAXIS 2D CE V22.02.00 Release notes
New in PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V22 Update 2
Release: October 2022
PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V22 (22.02.00.1078) contains the following improvements and updates compared to PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V22.01 :
Compatibility notes : Due to the major…
Modelling of progressive failure mechanism of mine pillars
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Original Title
Modelling of progressive failure mechanism of mine pillars
Original Author
G. Cammarata, D. Elmo, S. Brasile
Publication year
2022
Date created
29 September…
Field of stresses in "non deep tunnels"
Hi,
I am a rock engineer getting started with Plaxis. As many rock engineering people I am more familiar with the Rocscience package but I am starting to see great potential on PLAXIS.
In the Rocscience package there was a possiblity to model gravity…
PLAXIS 2D CE V22.01.00 Release notes
New in PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V22 Update 1
Release: May 2022
PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V22 (22.01.00.452) contains the following improvements and updates compared to PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V22.00 :
Compatibility notes : Due to the major…
Modelling Rock mass using discrete discontinuities vs Jointed Rock
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V22
Original Title
Modelling rock discontinuities with Jointed Rock vs Discontinuity elements
Original Author
D. Waterman
Publication year
2022
Date created…
PLAXIS Soil model numbers in command line
Application
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Version
PLAXIS CONNECT Edition V22
Date created
01 November 2013
Date modified
24 January 2022
Original author
Micha van der Sloot
For PLAXIS 2D or 3D CONNECT edition V22, in…
Materials overview in the Model explorer
Application
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Version
PLAXIS CONNECT Edition Version 22
Date created
24 January 2022
Date modified
24 January 2022
Original author
Stefanos Papavasileiou - Bentley Technical Support Group
…
How to define and edit a material via the command line
Application
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Version
PLAXIS CONNECT Edition V22
Date created
24 January 2022
Date modified
24 January 2022
Original author
Stefanos Papavasileiou - Bentley Technical Support Group
Introduction…
How to validate a material via the GUI and command line
Application
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Version
PLAXIS CONNECT Edition V22
Date created
24 January 2022
Date modified
24 January 2022
Original author
Stefanos Papavasileiou - Bentley Technical Support Group
Introduction…
N2PC-Salt and N2PC-MCT - PLAXIS UDSM
Application
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Version
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Date created
28 January 2019
Date modified
12 October 2022
Rock, especially rock salt, exhibits time-dependent behaviour. Creep of rock and rock salt is…
Rock Your Analysis with PLAXIS - webinar series
Rock engineering projects can be challenging. Engineers working on rock need to design solutions that mobilize the natural strength of complex, largely unknown rock masses, which often play the roles of both loading and engineering material.
Numerical…
Hoek-Brown model with softening - PLAXIS UDSM
Application
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Version
PLAXIS 2D CONNECT Edition V20 Update 1 PLAXIS 3D CONNECT Edition V20 Update 1
Date created
7 January 2020
Date modified
7 January 2020
Hoek & Brown (HB) failure criterion…
Isotropic Jointed Rock with Mohr-Coulomb Failure Criterion - PLAXIS UDSM
Application
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Version
PLAXIS 2D PLAXIS 3D
Date created
15 September 2014
Date modified
15 September 2014
The Jointed Rock model with overall Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion (Iso-JRMC) has been developed…
Swelling Rock Model - PLAXIS UDSM
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Date created
10 February 2014
Date modified
10 February 2014
The Swelling Rock model is a user-defined model that can be used to simulate the time-dependent anisotropic swelling…
Response of a rock mass to circular excavation (non-uniform in-situ stress)
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Date created
25 February 2016
Date modified
25 February 2016
In the video, we show how to set-up the model discussed in the validation report below. The validation concerns…
Circular tunnel driven in elastic cross anisotropic rocks
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Date created
26 February 2016
Date modified
26 February 2016
This movie shows how to set-up the model used in the validation document linked below. The validation concerns…
Response of a rock mass to circular excavation (uniform in-situ stress)
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Date created
25 February 2016
Date modified
25 February 2016
In the video we show how to set-up the model discussed in the validation report below. The validation concerns…
How to model Rockbolts in the Tunnel Designer
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Date created
25 February 2016
Date modified
25 February 2016
In this movie we explain how to define rockbolts in the Tunnel Designer, available since PLAXIS 2D 2016.
Note…
Creating a complex soil stratification in PLAXIS 2D
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Date created
25 March 2015
Date modified
25 March 2015
In some cases using the borehole tool is not the most efficient way to create the soil layering. This movie introduces…
PLAXIS 2D Tutorial 05: Excavation of an NATM tunnel
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D
Date created
20 May 2017
Date modified
27 Feb 2023
This lesson illustrates the use of PLAXIS for the analysis of the construction of a NATM tunnel. The NATM is a technique…
Hoek-Brown material model
Application
PLAXIS 2D
Version
PLAXIS 2D 2015
Date created
27 December 2016
Date modified
27 December 2016
This document verifies that the Hoek-Brown model is correctly implemented in PLAXIS. For that purpose, the…