Finite Elements

Finite Element Notes and Programs

Plaxis

Online Manuals Professional version 7

Below you can find the online manuals for PLAXIS software. The manuals are in PDF format. If you have Acrobat reader installed the link will open in your browser window. If not you can use right-click "Save target as.." To download the file to your computer.

General information

General information

Part 1:Tutorial manuals

	Table of contents
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Getting started
	Chapter 3. Settlement of circular footing on sand (Lesson 1)
	Chapter 4. Submerged construction of an excavation (Lesson 2)
	Chapter 5. Undrained river embankments (Lesson 3)
	Chapter 6. Dry excavation using a tie back wall (Lesson 4)
	Chapter 7. Construction of a road embankment (Lesson 5)
	Chapter 8. Construction of a shield tunnel (Lesson 4)
	Appendix A. Menu tree
	Appendix B. Calculation scheme for initial stresses due to soil weight

Part 2:Reference manuals

	Reference
	Table of contents
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. General information
	Chapter 3. Input (pre-processing)
	Chapter 4. Calculations
	Chapter 5. Output (post-processing)
	Chapter 6. Load-displacement curves and stress paths
	Chapter 7. References
	Chapter 8. Index
	Appendix A. Generation of initial stresses
	Appendix B. Program and data file structure

Part 3:Material model manuals

	Table of contents
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Preliminaries on material modelling
	Chapter 3. The Mohr-Coulomb model (perfect-plasticity)
	Chapter 4. The Hardening-Soil model (isotropic hardening)
	Chapter 5. Soft-Soil-Creep model (time dependent behaviour)
	Chapter 6. The Soft-Soil model
	Chapter 7. Applications of advanced soil models
	Chapter 8. References
	Appendix A. Symbols

Part 4:Scientific manual

	Table of contents
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Deformation theory
	Chapter 3. Groundwater flow theory
	Chapter 4. Consolidation theory
	Chapter 5. Element formulations
	Chapter 6. References
	Appendix A.Finite element calculation process based on the elastic stiffness matrix
	Appendix B. Symbols

Part 5:Validation & verification manual

	Table of contents
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Elasticity problems with known theoretical solutions
	Chapter 3. Plasticity problems with theoretical collapse loads
	Chapter 4. Consolidation and groundwater flow
	Chapter 5. References