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Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company's In-person Workshop | Practical Use of PLAXIS 2D for Deep Excavations begins on Feb 6th 2023
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Awards of sophisticated civil engineering for two California projects

Two California projects its San Francisco section 2022 project awards were awarded from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): (i) outstanding geotechnical award for YouTube’s HQ in San Brun...

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New releases: PLAXIS CONNECT Edition V22 Update 2 is out!

With the latest release of PLAXIS 2D, PLAXIS 3D, and PLAXIS Monopile Designer, Bentley continues to add functionality to make PLAXIS easier to use for rock and mining engineers, offer workflow improv...

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New release PLAXIS CONNECT Edition V22 Update 1 is out!

In this latest minor release for PLAXIS 2D, PLAXIS 3D and Monopile Designer Bentley Systems introduced the discontinuity element in PLAXIS 3D, improved scripting support, did some CAD import improvem...

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New major release PLAXIS CONNECT Edition V22.00 is out!

PLAXIS V22 brings a major overhaul to the data structure of the material database and a more flexible and more robust way of handling project units. Due to these major changes, PLAXIS V22 will be ins...

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Parameters Variation: Model Customization and Sensitivity Analyses

A well-known engineering challenge in the framework of finite element (FE) analysis-based design is the large number of input factors involved in geotechnical computational models. There is always a...

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NorSand in RS2: An Advanced Constitutive Material Model

RS2 - 2D Finite Element Analysis Software  Back in March of 2019, RS2, our 2D finite element program received a major upgrade with the addition of NorSand as a constitutive model. This implementation...

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PLAXIS 2D/3D CONNECT Edition V21 introduced the Fluid model, a new User Defined Soil Model (UDSM)

This constitutive model has been specifically created to simulate the effects of free water on water-retaining structures and quay walls or any other situation involving fluid-structure interaction....

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The Precursor to RSData: Hoek-Brown Failure Criterion

The Precursor to RSData: Hoek-Brown Failure Criterion Numerical modeling of geotechnical structures and excavations is reliant on accurate rock and soil parameters, including their strength and mass...

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Advantages of pseudo-3D consolidation analysis with SVSOLID, SVFLUX

Tailings Management Facilities (TMFs) require the numerical modeling of large-strain consolidation to represent the release of water with time. Such numerical modeling in the state of practice has tr...

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Video: Watch the 2014 Terzaghi Lecture!

Watch the 2014 Terzaghi Lecture, entitled "Energy Geotechnology: Enabling New Insights Into Soil Behavior" delivered by Prof. J. Carlos Santamarina, Ph.D.,Ing., A.M.ASCE, at the 2014 Geo-Con...

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