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The document announces a specialized program in structural design: New Trends in Urban and Industrial Buildings located in Lima, Peru in November 2019. It discusses topics including soil-structure interaction, numerical methods, an introduction to PLAXIS software for dynamic analysis, applications such as single source vibrations and earthquakes, defining loads and boundary conditions, soil parameters, damping parameters, calculations, and output analysis. The course will be taught by Dr. Jorge L. Cárdenas Guillen.

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The document announces a specialized program in structural design: New Trends in Urban and Industrial Buildings located in Lima, Peru in November 2019. It discusses topics including soil-structure interaction, numerical methods, an introduction to PLAXIS software for dynamic analysis, applications such as single source vibrations and earthquakes, defining loads and boundary conditions, soil parameters, damping parameters, calculations, and output analysis. The course will be taught by Dr. Jorge L. Cárdenas Guillen.

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Programa Especializado en Diseño Estructural:

Nuevas Tendencias en Edificaciones Urbanas e


Industriales

Interacción Suelo Estructura


Métodos Numéricos
Introducción al Plaxis – Análisis Dinámico

Lima, San Borja, Noviembre, 2019


Dr. Ing. Jorge L. Cárdenas Guillen
Profesor Universitario, Ingeniero Civil - Consultor Geotécnico

UPC – Sección de Posgrado Contacto: [email protected]


Applications
• Single source vibrations:
o Radial spreading of waves.
o Geometric damping.
o Axisymmetric model is generally most applicable

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Applications
• Earthquakes:
o Waves from the deep soil.
o Plane strain model is generally most applicable.
o Rayleigh damping may be required.

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Loads
• Load systems and/or prescribed displacements have
to be set as dynamic load system in PLAXIS Input.
• Loads can be used for instance machine vibrations,
falling objects, shock loads.
• Prescribed displacements can be used for earthquake
loading and can be displacements, velocities or
accelerations.

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Boundary conditions
• Reality:
o Waves propagate to infinity.
• Model:
o Waves reflect at model boundaries.
• Solution:
o Absorbent boundaries (viscous dampers).

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Boundary conditions
Predefined boundaries in PLAXIS
• Standard absorbent boundaries
o Absorbent boundaries at left, right and bottom side of
the model.
• Standard earthquakes boundaries
o Absorbent boundaries at left and right side,
prescribed displacement at the bottom (ux=0.01,
uy=0).

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Elastic soil parameters
Wave velocities
• Compression:
Eoed
Vp 

• Shear:

G
Vs 

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Damping parameters
• Damping per material set, both soil and plates.
• Rayleigh damping:
o Rayleigh α and β parameter
o Damping matrix C is written as:
C  M   K
o Presence of M in C: Damping of lower frequencies.
o Presence of K in C: Damping of higher frequencies.

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Damping parameters

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Damping parameters

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Calculations
Time stepping
t
• Time step: t 
nm

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Calculations

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Calculations

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Calculations
Activating dynamic loads
• Harmonic loads
o Active load = harmonic multiplier x Input value
• Harmonic multiplier

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Calculations
Activating dynamic loads
• User-defined loads
o Time-multiplier series from ASCII files
• Accelerograms
o SMC-files (available from USGS)
o Used with prescribed displacements

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Output
• Plot of:
o Displacements
o Velocities
o Accelerations.
• AVI-movies

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Curves
• Curves in time domain (time series).
• Curves in frequency domain (spectrum).

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


Thank you

Introduction to PLAXIS Dynamic Analysis


References

• Lectures notes in Course on Computational Geotechnics, October


2007, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil.
• Potts D.M. & Zdravković L.T. (1999), Finite element analysis in
geotechnical engineering: Theory, Thomas Telford, London.
• Potts D.M. & Zdravković L.T. (2001), Finite element analysis in
geotechnical engineering: Application, Thomas Telford, London.

Introduction to PLAXIS Safety Factor Analysis


UPC – Sección de Posgrado Contacto: [email protected]

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