This document describes an example that has been used to verify the dynamic response of a multi layer system due to a transient load pulse. For such a system, no analytical solution exists. For verification, the computational results of PLAXIS are compared with those obtained from a semi-analytical technique using the 'spectral element method' (Al-Khoury, Scarpas, Kasbergen & Blauwendraad, 2001).

Used version:

• PLAXIS 2D: 2018.00 | 2016.01 | 2015.02
• PLAXIS 3D: 2018.00 | 2016.01 | AE.01

This requires a dynamics module