Elastic Analysis of Drained Footing

First Exercise

Dennis Waterman
Alfonso A Manilla
Plaxis B.V.

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES

 First Exercise
Resume of input steps

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES

 Input geometry

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Draw geometry

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES

 Input boundary conditions

Default fixities

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES

 Input loads

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Point force A & B

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES

 Input material properties

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General properties, model parameters

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES

 Mesh generation

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Full automatic mesh generator

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES

 Initial conditions

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Water pressures, Initial stresses

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES

 See course manual

PLAXIS FINITE ELEMENT CODE FOR SOIL AND ROCK ANALYSES