- Redeem training credits for training or services of your choice
- Reliably solve infrastructure challenges
- Create FE models quickly and efficiently
- Get realistic assessments of stresses and displacements
- Drive efficiency with multidiscipline workflows
PLAXIS 3D
3D geotechnical engineering software
Including 10 training credits
Model and analyze geo-engineering projects with finite element analysis in 3D
PLAXIS is a user-friendly, finite element package with trusted computation that is used by geotechnical engineers globally. PLAXIS 3D offers CAD-like drawing capabilities to help with the analysis of subsurface environments for geoengineering projects. From excavations, embankments, foundations, tunneling, and mining, to reservoir geomechanics, users can determine the deformation and stability of geotechnical engineering and rock mechanics to assess the geotechnical risk.
Because every firm has different needs, there are multiple variations of PLAXIS 3D.
PLAXIS 3D
Reliably solve infrastructure challenges
Easily generate and scale construction sequences for excavations of any complexity. Facilitate steady-state groundwater flow calculations, including flow-related material parameters, boundary conditions, drains, and wells. Use interfaces and embedded pile elements to model movement between soil and foundation, such as slipping and gapping. Get trustworthy results with realistic soil models and a complete portfolio of visualization abilities.
Create FE models quickly and efficiently
This comprehensive solution for the design and analysis of soils, rocks, and associated structures makes it easy to model in full 3D. Drawing tools, such as extrude, intersect, combine, and array operations facilitate finite element modeling, while multicore calculations and a 64-bit kernel can handle simple and complex models. Create safer infrastructures with fully-optimized designs.
Get realistic assessments of stresses and displacements
To meet the unique geotechnical challenges of soil structure interactions, PLAXIS 3D offers different calculation types, such as plastic, consolidation, and safety analysis. A range of material models for predicting the behavior of various soils and rock types, combined with robust calculations, helps ensure reliable results. Display these forces in various ways, and use cross-section applications to inspect certain areas in greater detail.
Drive efficiency with multidiscipline workflows
Create logical geotechnical digital workflows that take projects from subsurface imports through design and analysis to various outputs.
Modeling
- Automatic Swept Meshing for more efficient meshes
- Elastoplasticity for beams and plates
- Revolve around axis tool
- CAD import and export
- Nonlinear geogrids: Elastoplastic (N-?) and Viscoelastic (time-dependent)
- Cross and parallel permeability in interfaces
- Polar and rectangular array
- Easy definition of rock bolts and girders in Tunnel Designer
- Define excavation sequence in the Tunnel Designer
- Automatic generation of staged construction phases for tunnels
- Design arbitrary geometries combining NURBS curves and polycurves
- Automate processes with full command line support?and remote scripting API
Material Models
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Calculations
- Field stress initial calculation type
- Full 64-bit software
- Multicore computing
- Well-proven and robust calculation procedures
- Plastic calculation, consolidation analysis, and safety analysis
- Pseudo-static and dynamic analysis, including dynamics with consolidation
- Facilities for steady-state groundwater flow calculations, including flow-related material parameters, boundary conditions, drains, and wells
- Fully coupled flow-deformation analysis
- Convenient and intuitive Phase explorer
- Automatic regeneration of construction stages?for geometric changes
Results
- Structural forces from cylindrical and square volume piles
- Realistic assessment of stresses and displacements
- Output Model Explorer
- Movable cross-sections
- Extensive report and movie generator
- Contour, shading, iso-surface, and vectors plots
- Advanced data slicing?
Usage
- Rock-mass response and surface settlements due?to tunneling, mining, or reservoir depletion
- Slope stability and seepage analysis for earth and tailing?dams, embankments, and open pit?mines
- Predicting differential settlements of buildings adjacent?to excavation pits
- Stability of and seepage into excavation pits, lateral?displacements of diaphragm walls
- Bearing capacity analysis of suction anchors
- Calculate consolidation time for pore pressure dissipation in undrained loading problems?
Processor
Required: Dual Core CPU
Recommended: Quad Core CPU
Operating System
Windows 10, Windows 11
Memory
Recommended: minimum 8 GB
Large projects may require more
Disk Space
Minimum 2 GB free space on the partition where the WindowsTEMP directory resides, and 2 GB free space on the partition where projects are saved. Large projects may require significantly more space on both partitions.
For best performance, ensure that the TEMP directory and the project directory reside on the same partition.
Display
Graphics Card
Required: GPU with 256 MB OpenGL 3.3
Bentley strongly recommends avoiding simple onboard graphics chips in favor of a discrete GPU from the nVidia GeForce or Quadro range with at least 128-bit bus and 1 GB of RAM, or equivalent solution from ATI/AMD.
Video
Required: 1024 x 768 pixels 32-bit color palette, Recommended: 1920 x 1080 pixels 32-bit color palette
