Bentley PLAXIS 3D Product Tiers.pdf

Bentley PLAXIS 3D is a user-friendly, finite element software for geotechnical engineers, offering three product tiers: PLAXIS 3D, PLAXIS 3D Advanced, and PLAXIS 3D Ultimate, each tailored to different geotechnical analysis needs.

Geometry Creation:
- Borehole tool, selection, move, rotate, and array tools
- Point, line, NURBS curve, and surface creation tools
- Polycurve designer, intersect, combine, extrude, revolve, loft, and blend surface tools
- Load and prescribed displacement tools for points, lines, and surfaces
- Embedded beam, plate, geogrid, anchor, and interface tools
- Surface contraction, well, line drain, surface drain, and groundwater flow boundary condition tools
- Added mass, moving point and line load tools
- Tunnel designer with reinforcement, girder/beam definition, excavation sequence, and automatic staged construction

Material Models:
- Soil: Linear Elastic, Mohr-Coulomb, Hardening Soil, Modified Cam-clay, Jointed Rock, NGI-ADP, Hoek-Brown, Soft Soil, Sekiguchi Ohta, UDCAM-S, Concrete, User Defined
- Structural Elements: Elastic, elastoplastic plates, geogrids, beams, embedded beams, anchors
- Dynamic and Groundwater Flow Material Properties: Groundwater properties, Rayleigh damping

Calculation Types:
- Initial: K0 procedure, gravity loading, field stress, groundwater flow only
- Deformation: Plastic, safety, consolidation, dynamic, dynamic with consolidation, fully coupled flow-deformation
- Pore Pressure: Phreatic level, use pore pressures from previous phase, steady state, transient groundwater flow

Additional Features:
- Cluster field stress, staged construction, multicore and parallel calculation, pseudostatic analysis, soil test and parameter optimization
- CAD import/export, command line input, scripting, ProjectWise integration, Bentley Cloud Services
- Time dependent groundwater flow, dynamic loads, movement functions, scaling tools, Fourier, response spectra, and Arias intensity plots

Dynamic Boundary Conditions:
- Viscous, compliant base and free field boundaries, all nodes fixity

Postprocessing and Results:
- Display forces, displacements, stresses, strains in contour, vector, and iso-surface plots
- Tables of results with copy, sorting, and filter options
- Curve manager for graphs, load-displacement curves, cross-section tools, automatic centerline extraction
- Animations, report generator, printing and saving plots and curves
- Plots and curves of accelerations, velocities, structural forces envelopes, pore pressures, saturation, suction, Darcy flux

Export:
- Results to Paraview