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Interface to study soil-structure interaction in Plaxis 3D (Clay Hypoplasticity)

Leon Cortes|21.8.2018|Finite Elements|6 |

Hello, I am trying to simulate the behavior of helical anchors (also called screw anchors) using PLAXIS 3D and a clay hypoplasticity constitutive model. The helical anchor shaft is simulated […]

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new hypoplasticity laws in Tochnog Professional

dennis roddeman|8.8.2018|Finite Elements|0 |

The 2014 Masin hypoplasticity for clays has been implemented in Tochnog Professional under guidance of Dr. David Masin. This implementation includes structure, intergranular strains and visco effects. Extensions to the […]

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Website editing capability for SoilModels members!

David Mašín|6.8.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

Website editing capability for SoilModels members! SoilModels members can now edit website content associated with their accounts. While this change will be hardly noticeble to website visitors at the first […]

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Messaging system launched at SoilModels

David Mašín|13.7.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

Messaging system has just been launched at SoilModels, so that SoilModels Members cant contact each other without a need for the system to reveal email addresses (they are never revealed). […]

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Updated authorship of SoilModels database items

David Mašín|12.7.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

An authorship of SoilModels database items has been updated so that real contributors are now indicated as authors, not the SoilModels admin. This gives more credit to our contributors. We […]

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CEL analysis using hypo plasticity Vumat

abd Elfattah|12.7.2018|Constitutive Modelling|8 |

Greetings i used interface Vumat with Umat for simulating CEL problem, after 50% of analysis, i got the error as “Excessive incremental rotation of the elements in element set ” […]

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SoilModels Publication Database including Mohr (1900) paper defining Mohr-Coulomb model

David Mašín|11.7.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

Publication Database has just been launched at SoilModels. Its aim is to collect papers, theses or presentations associated with constitutive models available in Constitutive Model Database. These papers will also […]

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MatLab m.file

Ala Aljorany|10.7.2018|Constitutive Modelling|6 |

Hi everyone, I’m trying to simulate a triaxial test by using Matlab, adopting the sand hypoplasticity model with strain softening but so far couldn’t succeed. Would anyone help me with […]

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PM4Sand and PM4Silt models available

Katerina Ziotopoulou|5.7.2018|Constitutive Modelling|0 |

The constitutive models PM4Sand (Boulanger and Ziotopoulou 2017) and PM4Silt (Boulanger and Ziotopoulou 2018) for plane-strain earthquake engineering applications for sands, and clays and low-plasticity silts respectively are now available […]

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UMAT in Geotechnics

Majdi Flah|1.7.2018|Constitutive Modelling|2 |

Hi Everyone! I am a research Intern at Laval University, my project is about the effect of soil structure interaction on the seismic design of Geostructures. Exactly we want to […]

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Question about Interface between UMAT and VUMAT

Sina Niazi|8.6.2018|Constitutive Modelling|1 |

Hello, I read the research report and the FORTRAN code available at https://soilmodels.com/download/vumat_umatinterface-zip/. It sounds quite interesting but I have a couple of questions about the FORTRAN code: 1- Did […]

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PM4Sand now available in PLAXIS 2D

Micha van der Sloot|1.6.2018|Constitutive Modelling|0 |

With the release of PLAXIS 2D 2018, a new User Defined Soil Model for liquefaction analysis is introduced, the PM4Sand model (Boulanger & Ziotopoulou, 2017). The PM4Sand model is defined […]

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change the friction angle with the plastic strain in Abaqus following mohr coulomb model.

Majid Fetrati|18.5.2018|Finite Elements|1 |

Hi, I want to change the friction angle with the plastic strain in Abaqus following mohr coulomb model. Vermeer and de Borst (1984) proposed an equation for frictional hardening and […]

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Oedometer test simulation with “Sand Hypoplasticity Model” in Plaxis

Manuel Winkler|4.5.2018|Constitutive Modelling|2 |

Hi, I just came across some problems with the implementation of the “Sand Hypoplasticity Model” in Plaxis. I wanted to to perform a simulation of an oedometer test on a […]

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PM4SAND model

Mohammad Zarrabi|20.4.2018|Constitutive Modelling|3 |

Hi all, I have been trying to code the PM4SAND model for several months, but I faced some problems. I was wondering if there is anyone who worked with this […]

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SANISAND dll

Emilio Bilotta|18.4.2018|Finite Elements|2 |

Hi there, I’ve used successfully used SANISAND .dll with Plaxis 2016, but after switching to 2017 and now 2018 the .dll seems not to work (the parameter fields appear without […]

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Automatic calibration software ExCalibre has been launched

David Mašín|18.4.2018|Constitutive Modelling|0 |

On behalf of the team of developers I am happy to announce that, after more than four years of development and testing, ExCalibre has just been launched. ExCalibre is a […]

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Regarding FRIC : As a beginner

Arun C|13.4.2018|Constitutive Modelling|1 |

Sir, As a beginner of FRIC I am facing some difficulties to implement it. The downloaded FRIC code has been added to my pile soil friction model and trying to […]

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How to replicate results for vertical cut in FEM program

Amine Aboufirass|17.3.2018|Finite Elements|0 |

The equations for a vertical cut in cohesive material are given in several publications including Heyman (1973): The stability of a vertical cut (see attachment Equations1.jpeg) and Verruijt (2001) Soil […]

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Compile triax calibration software under windows

Hans Henning Stutz|14.3.2018|Constitutive Modelling|1 |

1. Download install exe (32 or 64 bit) from https://cygwin.com/install.html 2. Choose a mirror site / click Next and select all packages you need for compiling: Type: “gcc” into search […]

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Course “Hypoplasticity for Practical Applications”

David Mašín|13.3.2018|Event Announcements|3 |

A PhD-level course on hypoplastic constitutive modelling intended for both academia and practitioners.

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Hypoplastic Interface Model: Virtual Shear Zone Thickness and Surface Rougness Coefficient

Tunç Gökdemir|1.3.2018|Constitutive Modelling|9 |

Hello, I want to use Hypoplastic Interface (Fric Subroutine) in my ABAQUS contact models. However, I don’t know how I can determine Virtual Shear Zone Thickness. It is the Parameter […]

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Multilaminate model – new model at SoilModels

David Mašín|1.3.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

Multilaminate model (Schädlich, Schweiger and coworkers) is now available for download as Plaxis UsrMod. Thanks to Helmut Schweiger and coworkers from Graz University of Technology, Institute of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Computational […]

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Hypoplasticity now available for GeoSlope SIGMA/W

David Mašín|1.3.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

Hypoplasticity (sand and clay models) is now available for GeoSlope SIGMA/W finite element code in a form of user defined Add-In. The implementation is based on ABAQUS umats and it […]

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Velacs Project Data

WaiChing Sun|28.2.2018|Constitutive Modelling|1 |

Dear colleagues, I want to ask your help — does anyone know where we can find all the test data from the old Velacs Project? If so, that would be […]

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Error: permission to access files denied (Hypoplasticity in PLAXIS)

Katharina Fechtner|27.2.2018|Constitutive Modelling|4 |

Hello, I am trying to implement the dll for hypoplasticity in Plaxis 3D. It runs through both the Initial Phase and a Nil Step. However, when it calculates about 20 […]

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Triaxial Callibration test with Hypoplasticity

pooyan ghasemi|20.2.2018|Constitutive Modelling|3 |

Dear all I am trying to calibrate the HP for sand, and I have quite comprehensive data. but they are not totally consistent with each other . we have the […]

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Calibration of Hypoplastic material model parameters

Amine Aboufirass|2.2.2018|Constitutive Modelling|6 |

I would like to derive material parameters based for a simulation which will implement the hypoplastic material model based on the following information: • Heavily overconsolidated • Very dense, fine […]

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Original Announcement of the soilmodels.info project in 2007

David Mašín|28.1.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

Did you know about history of SoilModels? Here you can download the original announcement, written during September 2007 meeting of ALERT association in Aussois, France and published in the International Journal […]

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SoilModels News – Barodesy, Incremental Driver update, post views count and ExCalibre input files

David Mašín|28.1.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

Number of interesting news at SoilModels from past week: New Barodesy constitutive model, umat with source code and Plaxis DLL. Thanks to the researchers from the University of Innsbruck (Barbara […]

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Hypoplastcity sand model

Pooja Patil|24.1.2018|Constitutive Modelling|7 |

Not able to run the subroutine ……..error is coming ……UMAT: illegal (negative) actual void ratio detected Can anybody help

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Geotechnical software database launched at SoilModels

David Mašín|14.1.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

Geotechnical software and constitutive model database has just been launched at SoilModels. With this new functionality, users can select a constitutive model and they will directly see in which finite […]

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Upated version of SANISAND umat including Plaxis interface

David Mašín|12.1.2018|SoilModels News|2 |

New version of SANISAND umat, including interface for Plaxis, is now available in Download section (https://soilmodels.com/sanisand/). Original implementation has been developed by M. Martinelli, C. Miriano and C. Tamagnini in 2013. This […]

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Subroutine of SANISAND model

Pooja Patil|10.1.2018|Constitutive Modelling|13 |

I am trying use sanisand subroutine posted in this website. But it is not working. Getting no values for field variable in the odb. I think i am missing something. […]

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Download sharing at SoilModels

David Mašín|8.1.2018|SoilModels News|0 |

If you want to share some material for download at SoilModels with the others such as the presentations in this post: Presentations on hypoplasticity applications, D. Mašín, NGI 2017 please […]

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Presentations on hypoplasticity applications, D. Mašín, NGI 2017

David Mašín|4.1.2018|Finite Elements|0 |

Based on some requests, I share here two presentations on hypoplasticity applications. One is related to simulation of various boundary value problems, the other focuses on simulation of cyclic and […]

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Tochnog Professional 100 element free version, www.tochnogprofessional.nl

dennis roddeman|3.1.2018|Finite Elements|0 |

The Tochnog Professional finite element program is now available as free version with 100 elements. It can be downloaded without registration from http://www.tochnogprofessional.nl. Several commercial and free pre- and postprocessors […]

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ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Winterschool 2018

David Mašín|29.12.2017|SoilModels News|0 |

The ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Winterschool 2018 on Natural versus compacted clayey soils: from micro to macro behaviour and modelling will be held from 5th to 9th of November 2018 in […]

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Triax element test driver

David Mašín|25.10.2017|SoilModels News|1 |

A new element test driver named “Triax” has been included into the list of calibration software available at https://soilmodels.com/triax including source code and pre-compiled Windows and Linux executables. I have been using […]

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Calculation of coordinates of climbing formwork using hypoplasticity and pressuremter tests

Christian Schwab|20.10.2017|Finite Elements|0 |

Our article published in the latest issue of Ground Engineering 10/2017. Great combination of cone-pressueremeter-testing (CPM) by FUGRO and advanced 3D Fem modelling by GEOLINK using hypoplastic constitutive equations to […]

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SoilModels presentation and logo

David Mašín|4.10.2017|SoilModels News|0 |

At the following link, you may find a short presentation on SoilModels from the ICSMGE conference in Seoul, Korea, September 2017. Please feel free to distribute the presentation among your […]

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New sand hypoplasticity umats at SoilModels

David Mašín|29.9.2017|SoilModels News|0 |

Two new umats are available now at SoilModels, thanks to Wolfgang Felling of the University of Innsbruck. These umats use different integration scheme compared with the other sand hypoplastic umats. […]

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SoilModels : Hub for Geotechnical Professionals

David Mašín|9.9.2017|SoilModels News|1 |

Dear collagues and friends, SoilModels has been around for 10 years now. Though we found the project succesfull in disseminating advanced material models in geotechnical engineering, we still see it […]

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