Civil Engineering Association

PLAXIS 2D is a powerful and user friendly finite element package intended for two-dimensional analysis of deformation and stability in geotechnical engineering and rock mechanics. PLAXIS is used worldwide by top engineering companies and institutions in the civil and geotechnical engineering industry. Applications range from excavations, embankment and foundations to tunnelling, mining and reservoir geomechanics.
PLAXIS is equipped with a broad range of advanced features to model a diverse range of geotechnical problems, all from within a single integrated software package.

PLAXIS uses predefined structural elements and loading types in a CAD-like environment. This empowers the user with fast and efficient model creation, allowing more time to interpret the results.

PLAXIS 2D Geotechnical Finite Element Software
Perform two-dimensional analysis of deformation and stability in geotechnical engineering and rock mechanics. Engineering companies and institutions in the civil and geotechnical engineering industry count on PLAXIS for a variety of projects. From excavations, embankments, and foundations to tunneling, mining, and reservoir geomechanics, engineers rely on PLAXIS as their go-to finite element analysis application. Use predefined structural elements and loading types in a CAD-like environment for fast and efficient model creation, allowing you more time to interpret the results.

Capabilities
Create finite element models
Efficiently create models with a logical geotechnical workflow. Define everything from complex soil profiles or geological cross-sections to structural elements, such as piles, anchors, geotextiles, and prescribed loads and displacements. Import geometry from CAD-files. Automatically mesh to create a finite element mesh almost immediately.

Assess stresses and displacements
Accurately model the construction process by activating and deactivating soil clusters and structural elements in each calculation phase with staged construction. With plastic, consolidation and safety analysis calculation types, a broad range of geotechnical problems can be analyzed. Constitutive models range from simple linear to advanced highly nonlinear models through which soil and rock behavior can be simulated. Well proven and robust calculation procedures ensure converging calculations and accurate results.

Analyze results with post-processing
Leverage powerful and versatile post-processing and display forces, displacements, stresses, and flow data in contour, vector, and iso-surface plots in various ways. Cross-section capabilities allow for a more detailed analysis of the results. Data can be copied from tables or via Python-based scripting for further processing purposes outside of PLAXIS. The Curve manager enables graph creation, plotting various types of results from available calculation data.

Featured User Projects
Design and Build of Harbour Road 2
PT. Wijaya Karya transitioned from 2D modeling to BIM methodology to design a USD 530 million toll road that includes the longest double-decker bridge in the world.

Regional Connector Transit Corridor
Anil Verma Associates used BIM applications and 3D modeling to develop new rail lines and three additional underground stations within the dense environment of downtown Los Angeles.

Tanjong Pagar Mixed Development – Guoco Tower
Arup Singapore used gINT and PLAXIS to help minimize disruptions to nearby structures and design a strong foundation for Singapore’s largest tower.

WSP and McGee Deliver Optimized Design for Complex Basement under Iconic Admiralty Arch
WSP designs a complex basement beneath an iconic London landmark, leveraging RAM and PLAXIS to save one month in design time.