Description

PLAXIS Monopile Designer CONNECT Edition is the most advanced application for designing monopile foundations. With PLAXIS Monopile Designer, you can significantly optimize the designs for your monopile foundation project and lower steel, fabrication, transportation, and installation costs.

PLAXIS Monopile Designer uses the most advanced and innovative method for designing laterally loaded monopiles - The Pile Soil Analysis (PISA). This method is the industry’s best practice for developing current and future generation offshore wind farms. Through it, PLAXIS Monopile Designer addresses many of the shortcomings of other design methods for construction in the offshore wind turbine sector.

PLAXIS Monopile Designer is fully interoperable with PLAXIS 3D and can be used either as a stand-alone application when defining the soil reaction curves (rule-based design) or with the most advanced and widely used geotechnical software solution when extracting them numerically from 3D FEM models (numerical-based design).

Working together, PLAXIS Monopile Designer and PLAXIS 3D easily automate the process of generating and calculating 3D models, deriving, normalizing, and parameterizing soil reaction curves, and extracting them to the 1D model.

Capabilities

  • Analysis of layered soils according to PISA Phase 2
  • Optimize monopile designs
  • Integrate seamlessly with PLAXIS
  • State-of-the-art research brought to engineering practice 
  • Use of standard API P-Y curves for clays and sands
  • 3D Design Verification

Specifications

Licence:
Commercial
Provider:
Bentley
Platforms:
Desktop - Windows 10
Version:
1.0.0

Tags

Wind farms Soil reaction curves Bentley monopile monopile design Offshore PISA Plaxis Monopiles under horizontal loading Monopile head stiffness offshore structures

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