Mustafa Jafari

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What should be the design load of a pile installed in a soil with strain softening behavior?

I have conducted static pile load tests on model pipe piles (diam. of 60.3mm and wall thickness=1.6mm) in a calcarenite. The load-settlement curves can be seen in the attachment. All curves...

08 May 2020 7,334 0 View

What is the maximum number of elements that Plaxis 2D can handle?

For a domain (e.g 5Mx5M), Plaxis mesh generator can create upto 39244 triangular elements if the relative element size (re) is set to 0.335 and polygon coarseness factor is set to 0.08). Is there...

10 April 2020 3,146 4 View

What hardware to choose for reducing calculation and postprocessing time in Plaxis?

I am planning to purchase a new workstation to run a large 2D Plaxis model. I am hesitating between these two processors: 1- Intel® Core™ i7-7700 Processor, 8M Cache, Base freq. 3.60 GHz, max...

03 April 2020 3,923 8 View

Can Plaxis be installed on a Linux-based operating system, for example CentOS?

I intend to use Plaxis on our high performance computing facilities (large number of CPU\'s, memory, etc) where the operating system is CentOS Linux. Does Plaxis 2D setup for Linux platforms...

03 April 2020 5,956 2 View

How well does Plaxis scale with the number of CPU's?

Checking the numerical parameters for Plaxis calculations, one can choose as high as 256 cores. I am curious to know if Plaxis has ever been tested with so many cores and if Plaxis takes advantage...

03 April 2020 9,198 3 View

Are there periodic boundary conditions in Plaxis?

For a soil column subjected to a sinusoidal base shear, How can one impose lateral periodic boundary condition i.e. constraining opposite nodes on lateral boundaries to undergo the same...

03 April 2020 1,086 2 View

What is the default value of the normal and tangential interface stiffness in Plaxis?

For interface elements in Plaxis 2019, the user is given a choice to choose between default stiffness values or to enter the values manually. The default values are not displayed. How can one...

02 April 2020 7,861 3 View

How to scale elasticity and strength of a cohesive-frictional soil in Abaqus CEL in order to achieve a larger time increment?

Abaqus CEL is commonly used in order to study soil resistance during pile installation, spudcan punch through, CPT penetration, etc in cohesive soils (friction angle=0). The analysis is usually...

02 April 2020 1,520 0 View