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Year in Infrastructure 2026: acknowledging subsurface innovation and excellence

Bentley Systems has announced the finalists for the 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards, highlighting infrastructure projects that are advancing digital engineering and helping solve some of the world’...

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PLAXIS 3D Study Finds Winged Piles Can Cut Uplift Settlement by Up to 95% in Sandy Soil

A PLAXIS 3D numerical study of under-reamed 'winged' piles in sandy soil has found that adding a wing near the pile tip can cut uplift-induced settlement by up to 95% compared with a conventional stra...

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Combining PLAXIS 2D and 3D Kept the Lueneburg Lock's Century Project Within 4 mm of Its Historic Neighbour

Engineers designing the new Lueneburg Lock in northern Germany used a deliberately complementary combination of PLAXIS 2D and PLAXIS 3D models, rather than a single large 3D model, to control a 30 m d...

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3D PLAXIS Model Validates 2D Design for Geosynthetic-Encased Stone Columns Beneath Bavarian Roundabout

A three-dimensional PLAXIS finite element model has been used to verify and cross-check a two-dimensional design for geosynthetic-encased stone columns supporting a new roundabout on soft peat in Bava...

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Where Geotechnical Engineering Is Heading: What 1,257 ICSMGE 2026 Papers Reveal

A data-driven analysis of every paper accepted to the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering finds a discipline consolidating around its traditional core — founda...

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Stop Guessing, Start Designing: Introducing Support Designer in Slide2

Design with Confidence, Not Iteration Instead of manually iterating toward a workable solution, Support Designer now enables engineers to define a target factor of safety and let the software calculat...

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Scripting Comes to RS3: Automate, Customize, and Accelerate Your 3D Modelling

Why Scripting Matters Geotechnical projects are more complex. Models are larger, construction sequences have more stages, and parametric studies must be rerun. Manually building and post-processing mo...

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From Conservative to Precise: Settlement Prediction in Layered Soils with Settle3, RS2, and RS3

In geotechnical design, settlement prediction is only as reliable as the stress distribution used to drive it. Long before consolidation theories, constitutive models, or serviceability criteria enter...

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Bentley Systems Announces 2026 Year in Infrastructure Event and YII Awards Honoring the World’s Most Innovative Use of Infrastructure Engineering Software

Awards build on a two-decade legacy of recognized innovation, setting the benchmark for excellence across the world’s most critical infrastructure assets. Bentley Systems, Incorporated (NASDAQ: BSY...

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Effect of Joint Orientation on Inter Ramp Stability

Anisotropy is an important factor in controlling the stability of rock slopes because it affects the mechanical behavior of the rock mass. Rock masses can have different mechanical properties dependi...

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