Bentley Webinar | Efficient Soil Improvement Modelling with PLAXIS

Soil improvement encompasses various techniques aimed at enhancing soil properties to make it suitable for construction, infrastructure, and geotechnical projects. These techniques focus on increasing soil strength, minimizing settlement, controlling water flow, and improving overall stability. Soil improvement is critical in cases where the natural soil lacks adequate load-bearing capacity, has high compressibility, poor drainage, or is prone to erosion.​

The most common soil improvement techniques involve preloading the soil to increase density and reduce future settlement, stabilizing it by adding lime or cement for enhanced strength, and utilizing drainage systems to remove excess water and accelerate soil consolidation. Grouting is used to fill voids and reinforce weak areas, while geosynthetics like geogrids help reinforce soil and improve load-bearing capacity.​

PLAXIS offers a robust set of functionalities to simulate soil improvement techniques in geotechnical engineering. It provides advanced material models that simulate the behavior of soil after improvement methods such as stabilization or compaction. PLAXIS also supports detailed soil-structure interaction analysis, accurately depicting how soil interacts with structures like rigid inclusions or geotextiles following improvement. Additionally, PLAXIS can simulate long-term consolidation processes, enabling users to model preloading, surcharging, and the use of vertical drains to alleviate pore pressure and improve soil behavior.​

Join our experts, Richard Witasse and Jerome Racinais (Engineering Director at Menard), in a live webinar where they will demonstrate how to enhance your modeling capabilities using PLAXIS.

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What you will learn: 

• Unit cell model definition and calibration​
• How to model PVD drains in PLAXIS​
• The use of embedded beam element for modelling rigid inclusions​
• Efficiently running consolidation analysis in PLAXIS​

Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock the potential of PLAXIS for soil improvement and elevate your geotechnical modeling skills!!

This webinar is a part of the series: Your Guide for Soil Improvement with PLAXIS 

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