Bishop's effective stress


Application PLAXIS 2D
PLAXIS 3D
Version PLAXIS 2D
PLAXIS 3D
Date created 24 June 2016
Date modified 24 June 2016

This document verifies that groundwater flow principles are correctly implemented in PLAXIS. Bishop's effective stress (Bishop & Blight, 1963) is used in PLAXIS to handle unsaturated soil conditions. An example is used to verify the capability of PLAXIS to calculate Bishop's effective stress.

3D Geometry for the verification of Bishop's effective stress

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