Material Volume Meshes are a new feature of #PLAXISLE that can be used by engineers to avoid various geometry limitations. MVMs are supplemental to the region/surface paradigm, but separate from it. Each MVM represents one distinct volume of material. An MVM is defined by a mesh that specifies the boundary shape of a volume, and it can be assigned almost any material that can be given to a region-surface block. The mesh can be given any arbitrary shape, and, importantly, each one is fully independent from others – the engineer does not have to worry about how the MVMs are spatially ordered, nor incorporating geometry that is not part of the unit or requiring mesh intersection operations with other geometry. Additionally, any part of an MVM that is outside the overall model volume (boions and surfaces is overridden by an MVM wherever the MVM volume is defined. Show more