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Plaxis 3D

This lecture discusses the use of PLAXIS 3D for geotechnical modeling and analysis. It covers the key steps of building a 3D model including defining the soil profile using boreholes, assigning material properties, generating meshes, applying loads and boundary conditions, and performing staged constructions. Examples shown include modeling a basement, building, and water tank to demonstrate how to model different geotechnical structures in PLAXIS 3D.

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Plaxis 3D

This lecture discusses the use of PLAXIS 3D for geotechnical modeling and analysis. It covers the key steps of building a 3D model including defining the soil profile using boreholes, assigning material properties, generating meshes, applying loads and boundary conditions, and performing staged constructions. Examples shown include modeling a basement, building, and water tank to demonstrate how to model different geotechnical structures in PLAXIS 3D.

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LECTURE 4

PLAXIS 3D
Mahmoud Ali
MSc, BSc Cairo University
Research Assistant, Construction Research Institute
Geotechnical Senior at A&A Consultant
Model and Selection explorer

For managing any objects created in the model:


– shows number of materials, loads
– Showing, hiding or deleting model items
– Renaming model items
– Changing properties of model items
(load values, water height, material sets, …)
Command line

All the actions carried out using either the mouse or the explorers are translated into
commands.
• Alternatively, PLAXIS 3D allows to carry out actions using keyboard input by
directly typing the corresponding commands in the command line.
– The Session tab displays the commands executed in the active session
– The Model history tab displays all the commands executed in the project
Other functionality

 Selection by either clicking individual objects or at once by defining a selection


box in the draw area. Criteria can be applied to the type of items to be selected.
 Group creation for fast model creation when the same operations have to be
undertaken over a large number of objects

Soil Model
Soil Model
• Definition of soil volumes and initial water levels
• Based on the concept of boreholes
• Offers import geometry facilities
• Boreholes
– Locations in the draw area where the information on
soil layering and location of the water table is specified
– For multiple boreholes, PLAXIS 3D will automatically
interpolate the soil layers between boreholes
– Each defined soil layer is used throughout the whole
model.
Borehole definition
• Defining soil layer heights in the Soil layers tabsheet
• Defining water conditions in the Water tabsheet:
– Specific Head
– Hydrostatic distribution,
– Interpolate from adjacent layers
– Dry
– User-defined pore pressures
• Defining Initial Soil conditions in the Initial conditions
tabsheet
– Specify OCR, POP, K0x and K0y for
the K0 procedure
Material Sets
• Definition of material sets and parameters for representing the
soil layers and structural elements.
• Same method of input as Plaxis 2D
Structures Mode
Structure Mode toolbar
Structures Mode
Defining the geometry
Points
– Generated by clicking the Create point button.
– Used for
Point loads, Point prescribed displacements and Fixed-
end anchors.
Structures Mode
Defining the geometry
• Lines
– Generated by clicking the Create line button.
– Used to define
Beams, Line loads, Line prescribed displacements,
Node-to node anchors and Embedded piles.
Structures Mode
Defining the geometry
Surfaces
– Generated by clicking the Create surface button.
– Used to define
Plates, Geotextiles, Interfaces and Surface loads.
– The first three created points define the surface plane by
default.
– Existing surfaces can be edited from the Surface points
dialog box of from the pop-up submenu of Create surface
button
Structures Mode
Defining the geometry: Array

Generate multiple copies of a selection, arranged in a rectangular pattern


Structures Mode
Defining the geometry: Extrude

Extrusion of Lines and surfaces in order to create surfaces and volumes respectively:
• From the Extrude dialog box
• By dragging and dropping the bottom surface to the top surface location
Structures Mode
Defining the geometry: Other functions

• Decompose into surfaces: creates outer surfaces of selected volumes


• Decompose into outlines: creates contour of selected surfaces
• Intersect: splits selected geometric objects along their intersection
• Combine: merges selected geometric objects of the same kind
• These functionalities are only accessible from the RMB context menu in the draw area
Structures Mode
Loads

• Generated by clicking the Create load button or by right-clicking on any geometric


objects in the draw area

• In a similar way it is possible create Prescribed displacements.


Structures Mode
Prescribed Displacements

• Can be generated by clicking the Create prescribed displacements button or by


invoking the RMB context menu on any geometric objects in the draw area is a very
similar way as for Load definition
Structures Mode

• Generated by clicking the Structure button


• Can also be created by right-clicking on selected:
– points
• (fixed-end anchor)
– lines
• (beam, node-to-node anchor or embedded pile)
– surfaces
• (plate, geogrid, interfaces)
Structures Mode
Rotate

• Rotate any selection around a rotation point compared to global axis


• Possibility to directly rotate the selected objects from the draw area using Euler angles
Structures Mode
Default Boundary Conditions

• Default boundary conditions are


– All displacements fixed for the
• bottom surface of the soil contour
– Perpendicular displacement fixed
• for lateral surfaces of the soil
• Contour
 Default boundary conditions can be overwritten by specifying Prescribed
displacement surfaces on the soil contour
Mesh Mode
Global Coarseness:
• Defines an average element size based on model dimensions and relative
• element size factor Re (Very coarse / Coarse / Medium / Fine / Very Fine)
• Reference element size = 0.05 * Re * (Model diagonal length)
• Local refinement (Fineness factor):
• Element size can be locally refined or coarsened
• Element size = (Fineness factor) * (Global coarseness) * (Ref. elem. size)
Color code
• Depending on their degree of local refinement, geometric objects are
displayed in different color in the Draw area (gray for Fineness factor of 1
and green otherwise with darker colour when getting more refined)
Mesh Mode
Mesh Mode

The View mesh and the Select points for


curves will open the Output Program where
– mesh could be evaluated
– nodes and/or stress points could be selected at
the location of which Output needs to be
generated
Mesh Mode
Local mesh Refinement
Water Level
Water Level
Generated water level is created by specifying a Head in the boreholes (in the Soil mode) and
is the default water level
 A single borehole can be used to create a horizontal water surface that extends to the
model boundaries.
• When multiple boreholes are used, a non-horizontal water surface can be created by
combining the heads in the various boreholes
• – Non hydrostatic distribution in the soil may be specified in the Water tabsheet of the
Modify soil layers dialog box
• User water levels are available in the Water levels mode and can be used as a alternative to
the Generated water level.
Water Level
Water conditions in soil volumes
Water levels can be specified for each individual volume
• Available options are:
– Global level (default)
– Custom level
– Head
– User-defined
– Interpolate
– Dry
• Can be done from
– The Water Conditions feature in the Selection explorer.
– Right-clicking the mouse
Stage of Constructions
Example No. 1-1
Example No. 1-1
Example No. 1-2
Basement
Floor distributed load = 5.3 kN/m2
Example No. 1-2
Basement
Example No. 1-2
Basement
Example No. 2
Building
The Building consist of 5floors (3m height for each floor) and abasement.
10m wide x 17m height including the basement (2m basement height).

Clay

Sand
Example No. 2
Building
The Building consist of 5floors (3m height for each floor) and abasement.
10m wide x 17m height including the basement (2m basement height).
Example No. 2
Building
Example No. 2
Building
Example No. 2
Building
Example No. 2
Building
Example No. 2
Building
Example No. 4
Tank
The Tank height is 20m with (5m, 10m, and 15m water depth). Diameter is 20m with 2m
thickness
Example No. 4
Tank

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