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Plaxis Tutorial 02 PDF
Plaxis Tutorial 02 PDF
Applications
Part II
by Ari Cohen
Tutorial 1 Continued: The Modeling the
Settlement of a Circular Footing on Sand
12. General Calculations
Default
Calculation
Interface
12. General Calculations cont.
Phases can
be named
for
clarification
Accept
default
values for
control
parameters
and iterative
procedure
For “Loading
input” accept
default and
select “Define…”
*see section 4.4.3-8 of the
PLAXIS reference manual for
load stepping applications
14. Calculation Multipliers
Apply a
displacement factor
of 0.1 to the
prescribed
displacement
This window
appears (Output
interface) asking
one to select points
at node locations
16. Verifying Ultimate State Note the
the
Note
prescribed ultimate
prescribed ultimate
state
state has
has been
been
reached
reached fully and
fully and
proceed to the
proceed to the
output
output
A successful
calculation is noted by
a green check mark,
while a red “x” implies
an error was
encountered
17. Checking Reached Values
Fy corresponds to 1
radian of the
axisymmetric
footing. For total
force multiply by 2p
What's to come?
Modeling a loaded
flexible plate vs. a
prescribed displacement