EMstage in plaxis analysis for tunnel excavation

Hi all, In one of the webinar regarding the tunnel explanation, the presenter used Emstage 0.5 when excavating tunnel. Can anyone tell what is the purpose of that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
PLAXIS 3D Tutorial 05: Phased excavation of a shield tunnel

Generally speaking, after the tail of the shield machine is completely passed, there will be continuous consolidation settlement on the surface, that is, the settlement value at the same point will gradually...
Plaxis 3d Phased excavation of a shield tunnel tutorial - surface contraction

Hi all, In tutorial 7 of plaxis 3D - Phased excavation of a shield tunnel, I wonder why the surface contraction is not applied on the surface of 1.5-m-long ring segments after the TBM because the section...
PLAXIS 3D Tutorial 02: Excavation in sand

Application PLAXIS 3D Version PLAXIS 3D Date created 04 Oct 2018 Date modified 24 Aug 2023 This lesson describes the construction of an excavation pit in soft clay...
Soil arching effect in soil excavation and how to represent that in Plaxis

Hi all, The retaining system contains H piles and the steel plate lagging and the lagging arrangement can be 1. behind the front flange 2. behind the end flange as shown below. My questions are...