• Assign more than 1 material set to 1 soil volume to be extracted
    M I
    Hi, I has an uneven soil topography in Plaxis 3d. How do I proceed when excavating? How do I assign more than 1 material set to 1 soil volume to be extracted? Thanks in advance for any help!
  • Plate Element or Solid Volume for Volume Piles
    Samiha Rabbani
    Hi. I am modelling an underwater foundation with 4 piles and a 3.6m x 3.6m pile cap. I am using volume piles. Now my question is, should I model my pile cap by plate element or solid volume? Which would...
  • Structural Capacity Failure of Volume Piles
    Samiha Rabbani
    Hi. I am modelling an underwater foundation with 4 piles and a 3.6m x 3.6m pile cap. I am using volume piles. I have applied load starting from 500 kN to 3000 kN increasing gradually (phase by phase)....
  • Piled-Raft Modelling with raft as a volume element
    Amir Omar
    Hi All I am designing piled-raft foundations. we have modelled the raft as a volume element, and piles as embedded beam elements with dummy plat at the bottom level of the raft to connect the Raft (element...
  • How to set mesh size
    Ilaria Esposito
    I am about to perform a dynamic analysis, and, stating a frequency and a shear velocity, I need a certain value of the element size, this value is about 2m but I'm not able to obtain it. In fact, when...