This blog is a part of the series Tunnel your way to success with PLAXIS.
The tunnelling modelling and analysis looks to the bright future of tunnelling projects in connecting the world. These projects are becoming more and more challenging and advanced.
Tunnel engineers are struggling on how to optimize and improve their modelling techniques of complex choreography of construction procedure, trajectories, digital soil/rock behaviour and reinforcements such as rock bolts and many others. All of this increases the importance and need for a powerful Finite Element Software (FEA) to conquer the mentioned projects with confidence. PLAXIS techs and functionalities are offering a transformative solution and thereby yielding designs that are optimized, cost-effective, and fully functional.
Are you interested in gaining more knowledge about Tunnel modelling in PLAXIS? Are tunnel excavations in rock, NATM, TBM, PLAXIS Tunnel designer of your point of interest?
Then this blog is the perfect resource for you to start and explore the PLAXIS tunnelling world. In this blog, you will find all the PLAXIS tunnelling library of Virtuosity webinars in one place that were dedicated to PLAXIS users and their tunnelling challenges.
Webinar 1. Madrid Traditional Tunneling Method (MTM) with PLAXIS 2D/3D
Claudio Dias
What the webinar will discuss:
- Madrid Traditional Method (MTM) sequence
- How to model the MTM in PLAXIS 2D and 3D
- How to use PLAXIS Tunnel Designer feature
- How to use Tunnel Designer in a similar project in hand mining or square works
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
- Get a free PLAXIS trial license
- Join our PLAXIS community
- Ask your technical questions
Webinar 2. Safe and Fast Tunnel Analysis in Urban Environment with PLAXIS 2D/3D
Dr. Richard Witasse and Martin Cahn
This webinar will highlight:
- Main PLAXIS tunnelling features (Tunnel designer, TBM, NATM, constitutive models, soil/rock reinforcement)
- Dealing with mixed conditions at excavation font
- Speeding up analysis techniques (equivalent 2D, one step 3D analyses)
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
Webinar 3. Tunnel Series 2: Full-scale TBM Tunnel Construction Showcase in PLAXIS 3D
Xing-Cheng Lin
This webinar will point up:
- TBM tunnel support & advancement.
- Groundwater seepage due to TBM activities
- TBM induced ground movement
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
Webinar 4. Tunnel Series 3: NATM Tunnel Design
Jeena Mary John
This webinar will spotlight:
- Modelling of NATM tunnels and incorporation of construction sequence in PLAXIS
- Analysis of settlement of surrounding soil
- Assessment of impact of tunnelling on adjacent structures
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
Webinar 5. Underground Rock Engineering Works with PLAXIS: Modelling Brittle Behaviour of Rock Masses
Dr. Giuseppe Cammarata
What you will learn:
- Rock mass constitutive law for brittle behaviour
- Simulation of the rock masses behaviour in deep underground operations
- Numerical method as a tool for optimized design
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
Webinar 6. User Success Webinar: Applying Geotechnical Studies in Tunneling with Dr. Sanchez
Dr. Fermin Sanchez Reyes
You’ll gain an overview of:
- The application of geotechnical studies in tunnelling, particularly in complex situations such as the one presented in the case study.
- Insights into the process of creating a 3D geotechnical model that closely represents the real-world situation, and how this model can be used to design a cost-effective solution.
- About the use of PLAXIS as a reliable geotechnical analysis tool, and how it can save time and costs in the field.
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
- Get a free PLAXIS trial license
- Join our PLAXIS community
- Ask your technical questions
Webinar 7. Modelling With Tunnel Designer in PLAXIS 2D & 3D
Jeena Mary John
In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
- Modelling of Tunnel structures and determination of forces and displacements on the tunnel
- Detailed discussion on Tunnel designer
- Overview of introducing cable bolts and rock bolts along the length of tunnel
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
Webinar 8. Access the Underground Space with Style – A PLAXIS Webinar
Xing-Cheng Lin
This webinar, will highlight:
- Logical workflow in tunnel modelling
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Webinar 9. Deep excavation for an Underground Metro Station
Xing-Cheng Lin
This webinar will showcase:
- The simulation of bottom-up excavation adopting the ground-anchor and parallel strutting scheme, for the construction of an underground metro station
- Briefly touch on the modelling of excavation in Plaxis 2D and Plaxis 3D, as well as the drainage behaviours, dewatering etc
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
Webinar 10. Tunnelling Solution in Urban Areas and Mountainous Terrain
Xing-Cheng Lin
This webinar will underline:
- PLAXIS simulation for tunnel construction.
- TBM and NATM methods
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
Webinar 11. Working with Rock Mass Anisotropy – A Tunnelling Perspective
Xing-Cheng Lin
In this webinar we will showcase:
- Formulation and visualization of Jointed Rock model
- Extension of the Jointed Rock model with an overall Mohr-Coulomb criterion
- Tunnelling direction, rock bolts array with respect to the orientation of the joint plane
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
Webinar 12. Webinar Series | Rock Your Analysis with PLAXIS
Dr. Richard Witasse
In this series will highlight:
- Efficiently use the Tunnel Designer for modelling underground excavation
- Apply the Convergence-Confinement method in 2D tunnel analysis
- Define rock bolts using embedded beam elements
- How to introduce creep deformation in rock
- How to use power-law creep deformation in combination with MC failure criterion
- How to model yielding sprayed concrete lining in PLAXIS
For more details of this project, sign up for the OnDemand version.
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