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PLAXIS Monopile Designer Featured

Pile Foundations , Offshore Geotechnics

PLAXIS Monopile Designer CONNECT Edition is the most advanced application for designing monopile foundations. With PLAXIS Monopile Designer, you can significantly optimize the designs for your monopile foundation project and lower steel, fabrication, transportation, and installation costs.

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PLAXIS Monopile Designer uses the most advanced and innovative method for designing laterally loaded monopiles - The Pile Soil Analysis (PISA). This method is the industry’s best practice for developing current and future generation offshore wind farms. Through it, PLAXIS Monopile Designer addresses many of the shortcomings of other design methods for construction in the offshore wind turbine sector.

PLAXIS Monopile Designer is fully interoperable with PLAXIS 3D and can be used either as a stand-alone application when defining the soil reaction curves (rule-based design) or with the most advanced and widely used geotechnical software solution when extracting them numerically from 3D FEM models (numerical-based design).

Working together, PLAXIS Monopile Designer and PLAXIS 3D easily automate the process of generating and calculating 3D models, deriving, normalizing, and parameterizing soil reaction curves, and extracting them to the 1D model.

Capabilities

Analysis of layered soils according to PISA Phase 2
Optimize monopile designs
Integrate seamlessly with PLAXIS
State-of-the-art research brought to engineering practice
Use of standard API P-Y curves for clays and sands
3D Design Verification

Category	Pile Foundations , Offshore Geotechnics
Licence Type	Commercial
Current Version	1.0.0
Developer Website	https://www.virtuosity.com/software/geotechnical-engineering/plaxis/