PLAXIS LE
Limit Equilibrium Geotechnical Application
PLAXIS LE can be used for projects involving engineering analysis of slope stability, groundwater flow, consolidation, or a combination of these complex scenarios. Take advantage of automated techniques, data management through to analysis workflows, and access to comprehensive analysis methods to find solutions. With PLAXIS LE, you can:
- Design more efficiently
- Save on construction costs
- Meet design standards
- Reduce risk to project timelines
PLAXIS 2D LE (formerly 2D SVSLOPE, 2D SVFLUX, 2D SVSOLID, SV SOILS, and SVSOILS Advanced) covers your 2D workflows. And PLAXIS 3D LE (formerly 2D/3D SVSLOPE, 2D/3D SVSLOPE Advanced, 2D/3D SVFLUX, 2D/3D SVSOLID, and 2D/3D SVSOLID Advanced) supports your 3D workflows.
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Spend your time where it’s most critical.
Valuable analysis time can be lost in tedious data input requirements and extensive solver times in numerical modeling applications.
Save time with methods that automate slope stability techniques and can perform thousands of calculations with minimal inputs. With PLAXIS LE, users can reliably complete numerous limit-equilibrium slope stability models with intuitive workflows and fast analysis. Advance your digital workflows with the ability to design 3D geometry and analyze both 2D and 3D scenarios in a single application. Efficiently represent materials spatially with various methods, and use the SOILVISION Soils Database for resourceful material management.
PLAXIS LE helps you efficiently manage complex geotechnical projects with multiple scenarios. Equip your team with the ability to quickly and confidently create common or complex real-world 2D or 3D numerical models and analyze with credibility.
Bring together powerful 2D/3D integrated geotechnical capabilities with a slope stability focus. Build conceptual models and geometry and integrate groundwater analysis. Represent materials spatially with advanced techniques and automate slope stability techniques. Utilize reinforcements, dynamic loads, and design standards. Determine material parameters with SoilVision Soils Database. Perform consolidation analysis. Manage various project workflows and scenarios.
Create 2D and 3D limit equilibrium slope stability models of soil and rock slopes. Take advantage of the comprehensive set of search methods and over 15 analysis methods, including rapid draw-down, effective stress, and finite-element input. Leverage over 20 material strength models like Mohr-Coulomb, Hoek-Brown, Undrained, Anisotropic, and Unsaturated.
Benefit from multi-plane analysis (MPA), which offers enhanced spatial slope stability analysis. Save time with automatic sliding direction determination, efficient search methods, probability analysis, and sensitivity analysis. Assess risk by rapidly solving extensive road, rail, riverbank, or urban areas.
Build 3D conceptual models in PLAXIS Designer for geotechnical analysis applications like slope stability, groundwater, consolidation, and stress/deformation. Move quickly from OpenGround, terrain mesh, and water level data to 2D and 3D analysis scenarios for an improved modeling workflow. Geometry creation methods include extrusion, multi-profile stitching, boreholes, fence diagrams, surface and layers, material volumes, and block models.
Determine material properties from site test data or search the database of 40,000+ soils. Estimate unsaturated soil properties through data mining, including GIS location. Manage constitutive model data for saturated/unsaturated flow, shear strength, compressibility, consolidation, thermal, pore-air flow, and contaminant transport analysis applications.
Perform analysis on popular use cases, such as embankments, dams, reservoirs, and cover systems through earth structures and broader hydrogeological settings. Consider unsaturated groundwater flow, transient boundary conditions, and multi-year climatic effects, either as distinct models or combined with slope stability analysis. Calibrate complex 2D and 3D models with 1D analysis and Soilvision Soils database inputs.
Organize each modeling project by grouping scenarios and sequencing analysis from steady-state groundwater flow, to transient water level changes, through to slope failure back analysis and stabilization options. Link multiple models to a standard set of material parameters or initial conditions. Update an input once and batch analyze hundreds of models.
Plan mine tailings facilities considering consolidation analysis, filling rates, and multiple deposition points. Maximize capacity from volume calculations and consolidation time predictions. Efficiently solve entire facilities with the automated pseudo-3D technique.
Represent the subsurface as layer-cake geology, irregular material volume meshes (MVMs), and complex engineered earth structures. Define block models, use bedding guides with anisotropic material strength relationships, and utilize spatial variability methods. Reduce material strength through blasting zones in mining operations.
Design to standards like Eurocode 7 or BS 8006. Incorporate over 10 typical slope reinforcements, such as soil nails, geotextiles, grouted tiebacks, and back-analyze for optimal spatial configurations. Determine the influence of point, distributed, and water loads, as well as seismic loading by pseudo-static or Newmark permanent displacement methods.
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