Consolidation — deformed mesh
Embankment on soft ground, deformed mesh after 425 days of consolidation.
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PLAXIS Training
India's go-to for PLAXIS training
India's longest-running PLAXIS training provider — teaching in classrooms since 2001, before PLAXIS joined Bentley. Authorized distributor and Bentley-certified partner. Certified PLAXIS 2D and 3D training — globally-recognised Bentley certificate, free licence to learn on.
Who it's for
Built for everyone who models the ground
Geotechnical engineers
Deformation, stability and seepage for excavations, tunnels, slopes and foundations.
Civil & structural engineers
Soil-structure interaction where the ground governs — retaining walls, rafts, basements.
Consultants & EPC teams
Deliverable-grade geotechnical analysis and reporting for infrastructure projects.
MTech / MSc / PhD students
Learn PLAXIS the right way — with a Bentley certificate and a free Ultimate licence.
Researchers
Advanced constitutive models and Python scripting for academic and applied studies.
Recognised by Bentley Systems
Official Bentley credentials — not a claim, a certification.
Recorded in-house
Watch a 2D model come together
A complete PLAXIS 2D run, screen-recorded by our engineers — from geometry and staged construction to the safety phase. This is the workflow you practise on our training.
A soil-nailed excavation built end-to-end in PLAXIS 2D. Wall and nails staged in, mesh generated, five excavation stages calculated, the c-φ safety phase closing the run.
Soil nailsStaged excavationSafety phase
Output from our own models
What a 2D result actually looks like
Consolidation, seepage, slope and tunnel results from models our engineers built and ran — the same output you produce on our training.
Embankment dam — groundwater flow
Flow field through the dam body and foundation with the phreatic surface resolved.
Slope — incremental deviatoric strain
The failure surface emerging as a strain band through a benched slope.
NATM tunnel — plastic points
Plastic and tension cut-off points forming around a sequentially excavated tunnel.
The software you're mastering
Why engineers standardise on PLAXIS
The industry-standard constitutive-model library — the same models PLAXIS 3D runs, so results carry from a 2D section to a full 3D model.
Foundational
Linear ElasticMohr-CoulombTresca / Drucker-Prager
Advanced hardening
Hardening SoilHS small-strain stiffnessNGI-ADP
Soft & time-dependent
Soft SoilSoft Soil CreepModified Cam-Clay
Rock
Hoek-BrownJointed Rock
Liquefaction (dynamics)
UBC3D-PLMPM4SandPM4Silt
Your own
User-Defined Soil Models (UDSM)
Field Notes
Real work, from the engineers who do it
Training sessions, project runs, and technical notes our team shares directly from practice — republished here rather than embedded, so the substance stays on the page.
Staged excavation sequencePLAXISTechnical note
In staged finite element analysis, your final result isn't determined solely by your final geometry. It depends heavily on how that geometry was built. Every single stage permanently alters the stress state and deformation history of the soil. Two models can look identical in the final phase, yet yield completely different results if their construction histories diverge.
Jitendra Kumar Pradhan
Technical Support Engineer (Geotechnical Solutions), RAM CADDSYS
Pile-raft load sharingPLAXIS 3DProject note
A recent analysis of a pentagonal piled raft foundation supported by 60 piles revealed valuable insights into soil-structure interaction and load transfer mechanisms. […] Although the piles carry the majority of the load, the raft contributes significantly to the overall foundation performance. This highlights an important aspect of piled raft systems: the raft is not merely a pile cap - it actively participates in load sharing and settlement control.
Jitendra Kumar Pradhan
Technical Support Engineer (Geotechnical Solutions), RAM CADDSYS
Local factor of safetyPLAXIS 2DTechnique
In a standard PLAXIS safety analysis (c-phi reduction), the software universally reduces soil shear strength parameters until a global failure mechanism develops. But what if you want to find a local FOS? […] use the Soil-Cluster Exclusion Technique (Targeted Strength Reduction). This forces PLAXIS to calculate a local FOS by instructing specific soil zones not to fail.
Jitendra Kumar Pradhan
Technical Support Engineer (Geotechnical Solutions), RAM CADDSYS
Capabilities
One engine. Every ground problem.
From a deep urban excavation to a soft-ground embankment — the same solver and soil models, across every problem you model in section.
Deep excavations
Diaphragm walls, sheet piles, struts and ground anchors with staged dewatering, soil-structure interaction and adjacent-building settlement.
Deep excavations
Diaphragm walls, sheet piles, struts and ground anchors with staged dewatering, soil-structure interaction and adjacent-building settlement.
Tunnels & underground
NATM and TBM sequences, lining design and surface-settlement troughs for metros, road tunnels and shafts.
Slope stability
Factor of safety by c-φ reduction for slopes, embankments, dams and cuttings — the true failure mechanism, not an assumed surface.
Consolidation & groundwater
Coupled flow-deformation, consolidation and steady / transient seepage through saturated and unsaturated soil.
Dynamics & seismic
Earthquake, vibration and liquefaction analysis with time-history and pseudostatic loading (Ultimate edition).
Foundations
Settlement and bearing capacity for shallow footings, rafts and single piles under static and cyclic loading. (Pile groups need PLAXIS 3D.)
Scripting & automation
Automate PLAXIS with Python
PLAXIS ships a documented Python remote-scripting API — drive the modeller and calculation kernel from your own scripts. Parametric studies, batch analyses, repeatable workflows. (We cover it in the advanced courses.)
Python remote-scripting API
Build geometry, assign materials, define stages and read results programmatically via the plxscripting interface.
Parametric studies
Sweep soil parameters, geometry or loads across dozens of runs to bracket sensitivity — no manual re-modelling.
Batch & repeatable
Queue and solve calculation phases in bulk, and standardise your firm's analysis workflow into reusable scripts.
Interoperable
Import CAD geometry, and pair PLAXIS 2D with GeoStudio in the WorkSuite for combined FE and limit-equilibrium.
python — plxscripting
Claude Code
Opus 4.8 — ~/ramcadds-site
> from plxscripting.easy import *
> s_i, g_i = new_server('localhost', 10000)
⏺ plaxis · remote scripting API
g_i.gotostages(); g_i.calculate()
⏺ 12 phases solved · max settlement 24.1 mm
⏺ exported plots + result tables
>Ask Claude to script a parametric study…
Licensing
Need a licence too? Buy the right scope
PLAXIS 2D scales from Standard to Ultimate; PLAXIS 3D adds full three-dimensional soil-structure interaction. RAM CADDSYS sizes it with you — every course includes a licence to learn on.
PLAXIS 2D
Everyday deformation & safety analysis — plane-strain and axisymmetric FEA for excavations, embankments and settlement.
PLAXIS 2D includes
- Core soil models — Mohr-Coulomb, Hardening Soil, HS-Small, Hoek-Brown, NGI-ADP, Cam-Clay
- Deformation (plastic) & Safety — c-φ reduction
- Phreatic levels & pore pressure from previous phase
- Staged construction, CAD import/export, Python scripting API
PLAXIS 2D Advanced
Everything in Standard, plus consolidation, groundwater & thermal flow and the multicore solver.
PLAXIS 2D Advanced includes
- Soft Soil, Soft Soil Creep, Sekiguchi-Ohta, UDCAM-S, Concrete
- Consolidation, plus steady-state groundwater & thermal flow
- Multicore & parallel calculation
- Design approaches (partial factors) & pseudostatic analysis
PLAXIS 2D Ultimate
Everything in Advanced, plus dynamics — earthquake, vibration & traffic loading — and fully-coupled, time-dependent analysis.
PLAXIS 2D Ultimate includes
- UBC3D-PLM liquefaction model
- Fully coupled flow-deformation, plus dynamics — earthquake, vibration & traffic loading
- Transient, time-dependent groundwater & thermal flow
- 1D site-response analysis & dynamic boundaries (free-field, compliant base)
Which PLAXIS 2D tier do you need?
Standard covers everyday deformation & safety analysis; Advanced adds consolidation, groundwater & thermal flow, multicore solver; Ultimate adds dynamics and fully-coupled, time-dependent analysis.
Swipe to compare tiers →
| Capability | PLAXIS 2D | 2D Advanced | 2D Ultimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soil constitutive models | |||
| Core models — Mohr-Coulomb, Hardening Soil, HS-Small, Hoek-Brown, NGI-ADP, Cam-Clay | |||
| Soft Soil, Soft Soil Creep, Sekiguchi-Ohta, UDCAM-S, Concrete | |||
| User-Defined Soil Models (UDSM) | |||
| UBC3D-PLM liquefaction model | |||
| Analysis & calculation types | |||
| Deformation (plastic) & Safety — c-φ reduction | |||
| Consolidation | |||
| Fully coupled flow-deformation | |||
| Dynamics — earthquake, vibration & traffic loading | |||
| Groundwater flow | |||
| Phreatic levels & pore pressure from previous phase | |||
| Steady-state groundwater flow (seepage) | |||
| Transient, time-dependent groundwater flow | |||
| Thermal (THM) | |||
| Steady-state thermal flow | |||
| Transient thermal flow & full thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling | |||
| Solver, workflow & scripting | |||
| Staged construction, CAD import/export, Python scripting API | |||
| Multicore & parallel calculation | |||
| Design approaches (partial factors) & pseudostatic analysis | |||
| 1D site-response analysis & dynamic boundaries (free-field, compliant base) | |||
Feature scope per the official Bentley PLAXIS 2D product tiers. Every RAM CADDSYS course includes a free PLAXIS Ultimate licence to learn on.
Brochures, official tier matrices and course syllabi — tell us where to send it, and we'll include an edition recommendation.
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