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How PLAXIS 2D Helps Explain Rainfall-Triggered Debris Flows

Debris flows are among the fastest and most destructive forms of slope failure, and predicting when and how they initiate remains one of geotechnical engineering's toughest hazard-assessment problems....

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Hot-dip galvanized steel foundations demonstrate corrosion resistance over decades of field service

Evaluations of hot-dip galvanized Chance® Instant Foundations installed in the early 1980s have confirmed continued structural performance after more than four decades in service. The foundations util...

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Single-Helix Anchors and Piles Show Load Capacity Gains of up to Seven Times Over Plain Pipe Piles

Dr. Alan J. Lutenegger, Emeritus Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, published a technical analysis examining how the addition of a single helical plate t...

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PLAXIS 3D Study Finds Winged Piles Can Cut Uplift Settlement by Up to 95% in Sandy Soil

A PLAXIS 3D numerical study of under-reamed 'winged' piles in sandy soil has found that adding a wing near the pile tip can cut uplift-induced settlement by up to 95% compared with a conventional stra...

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3D PLAXIS Model Validates 2D Design for Geosynthetic-Encased Stone Columns Beneath Bavarian Roundabout

A three-dimensional PLAXIS finite element model has been used to verify and cross-check a two-dimensional design for geosynthetic-encased stone columns supporting a new roundabout on soft peat in Bava...

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Where Geotechnical Engineering Is Heading: What 1,257 ICSMGE 2026 Papers Reveal

A data-driven analysis of every paper accepted to the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering finds a discipline consolidating around its traditional core — founda...

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PLAXIS 2D Dynamic Analysis Shows Hammer-Induced Pore Pressure Can Cut Offshore Monopile Driving Resistance by 62%

A PLAXIS 2D dynamic finite element study of offshore monopile driving has found that excess pore pressure generated by hammer blows can reduce soil resistance to driving by up to 62%, a mechanism the...

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Layered seabed geology changes how subsea cables should be protected

The weakest part of a subsea cable route is not always the cable itself. Often, it is the ground model used to decide where and how the cable should be buried.New research by the British Geological Su...

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PLAXIS 2D PM4Sand analysis cuts predicted liquefiable layer thickness by up to 81% versus simplified methods

A comparison of three liquefaction assessment methods for an offshore wind site has found that a fully coupled PLAXIS 2D dynamic analysis using the PM4Sand constitutive model predicted a critical liqu...

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A new sleeper shape could change how railway tracks absorb impact

Researchers in China have investigated how a new X-shaped railway sleeper could improve the response of ballasted track to impact loading. The study compared conventional I-shaped sleepers with X-shap...

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