In the tables below, you can find an overview of the features offered in the different Tiers, for e.g.:
Some features of PLAXIS Monopile Designer can be used stand-alone, while others require a concurrent PLAXIS 3D license, together with Geotechnical SELECT Entitlements (GSE). PLAXIS Monopile Designer can be used stand-alone with rule-based or user-supplied soil reaction curves. It requires PLAXIS 3D and GSE for numerical-based calibration of soil reaction curves, and for 3D verification.
See below the features available in PLAXIS Monopile Designer:
| 1D Analysis | PLAXIS Monopile Designer | PLAXIS 3D + Monopile Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Homogeneous soils | ✔ | ✔ |
| Layered soils | ✔ | ✔ |
| Built-in PISA rule-based models | ✔ | ✔ |
| Built-in API P-Y curves | ✔ | ✔ |
| Tapered pile segmentsNEW | ✔ | ✔ |
| User-defined depth variation functions | ✔ | ✔ |
| Force control | ✔ | ✔ |
| Displacement control | ✔ | ✔ |
| Modal analysis of monopilesNEW | ✔ | ✔ |
| Export results as TSV | ✔ | ✔ |
| Python remote scripting interface for the 1D analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
| Python interpreterNEW | ✔ | ✔ |
| Remote access to Python scripting APINEW | ✔ | ✔ |
| Calibration | PLAXIS Monopile Designer | PLAXIS 3D + Monopile Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Generation of 3D calibration models | ✔1 | |
| Calibration of multiple ground profiles | ✔1 | |
| Calibration with target displacement | ✔1 | |
| Calculation of soil reaction curves | ✔1 | |
| Parameterisation of PISA depth variation functions | ✔1 | |
| Export to SACS/OpenWindPower | ✔1 | |
| Python remote scripting interface for calibration | ✔1 |
| 3D design verification | PLAXIS Monopile Designer | PLAXIS 3D + Monopile Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Generation of 3D verification models | ✔1 | |
| Calculation of 3D verification models | ✔1 | |
| 3D verification results | ✔1 | |
| Accuracy metrics | ✔1 | |
| Export to SACS/OpenWindPower | ✔1 | |
| Python remote scripting interface for 3D design verification | ✔1 |