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SoilMat
Material set that can be assigned to a soil.

Property Long name Unit Description

Name of the soil
Name Name
material.
Comments on the
Comments Comments
soil material.
Identification of the
MaterialName Identification
soil material.
Colour of the soil
Colour Colour
material.
Identification
MaterialNumber Identification number number of the soil
material.

Linear Elastic
Use the Linear
Elastic model.
This model is
generally too
crude to
capture
essential
features of
soil and rock
behaviour, but
for modelling
massive
structural
elements and
bedrock layers
it tends to be
appropriate.
Mohr-Coulomb
Use the Mohr-
Coulomb
model. This
model
SoilModel Material model represents a
'first-order'
approximation
of soil or rock
behaviour.
Hardening Soil
Use the
Hardening Soil
model. This
model is an
advanced
model for the
simulation of
soil behaviour.
HS small
Use the
Hardening Soil
model with
small-strain
stiffness. This
model is the
same as the
Hardening Soil
model, but

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also accounts
for the
increased
stiffness of
soils at small
strains.
Soft Soil
Use the Soft
Soil model.
This model is
a Cam-Clay
type model
especially
meant for
primary
compression
of near
normally-
consolidated
clay-type
soils.
Soft Soil Creep
Use the Soft
Soil Creep
model. This
model is the
same as the
Soft Soil
model, but
also accounts
for viscous
effects, i.e.
creep and
stress
relaxation.
Jointed Rock
Use the
Jointed Rock
model. This
model is an
anisotropic
elastic-plastic
model,
especially
meant to
simulate the
behaviour of
rock layers
involving a
stratification
and particular
fault
directions.
Modified Cam-Clay
Use the
Modified Cam-
Clay model.
This model is
meant
primarily for
the modelling
of near
normally-
consolidated
clay-type
soils.
NGI-ADP

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Use the NGI-

ADP model.
Hoek-Brown
Use the Hoek-
Brown model.
Sekiguchi-Otha
use the
Sekiguchi-
Otha model.
Sekiguchi-Otha EVP
use the
Sekiguchi-
Otha EVP
model.
User-defined
Use User-
defined soil
models. A DLL
file containing
one or more
user-defined
soil models
must be in the
directory of
PLAXIS 2Dx in
order for this
to work.

Index number of
the soil model from
UserDefinedIndex UserDefinedIndex
the DLL file that is
currently used.

Drained
Drained or
long-term
material
behaviour in
which stiffness
and strength
are defined in
terms of
effective
properties.
Undrained (A)
Undrained or
short-term
material
behaviour in
DrainageType Drainage type which stiffness
and strength
are defined in
terms of
effective
properties.
Undrained (B)
Undrained or
short-term
material
behaviour in
which stiffness
is defined in
terms of
effective
properties and
strength is

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defined as
undrained
shear
strength.
Undrained (C)
Undrained or
short-term
material
behaviour in
which stiffness
and strength
are defined in
terms of
undrained
properties.
Non-porous
Material
behaviour in
which pore
pressures
cannot occur.

True
Enables the
use of
dilatancy cut-
off.
DilatancyCutOff Dilatancy cut-off
False
Disables the
use of
dilatancy cut-
off.

Standard
Undrained
behaviour of
the soil
material is
standard.
UndrainedBehaviour Undrained behaviour Manual
Undrained
behaviour of
the soil
material is
defined
manually.

Rigid
The value of
Rinter is set to
1.0.
InterfaceStrength Strength Manual
The value of
Rinter can be
determined
manually.

True
Enables that
K0PrimaryIsK0Secondary K0PrimaryIsK0Secondary K0 in the
primary
horizontal
direction is

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equal to K0 in
the secondary
horizontal
direction.
False
Disables that
K0 in the
primary
horizontal
direction is
equal to K0 in
the secondary
horizontal
direction.

Manual
K0 is defined
manually.
K0Determination K0 determination
Automatic
K0 is defined
automatically.

Reference value of
Gref Gref F/L2
the shear modulus.
Reference value of
cref cref F/L2
the cohesion.
Friction angle of the
phi φ °
soil material.
Dilatancy angle of
psi ψ °
the soil material.
Reference
coordinate on the
vertical axis above
verticalref verticalref L
which the Young's
modulus is equal to
the reference value.
Increment of
cinc cincrement F/L2/L
cohesion.
Coefficient of lateral
K0 K0 -
earth pressure.
Unit soil weight
gammaUnsat γunsat F/L3 above phreatic
level.
Unit soil weight
gammaSat γsat F/L3 below phreatic
level.
Permeability of the
soil along the
perm_primary_horizontal_axis perm_primary_horizontal_axis L/T
primary horizontal
axis.
Permeability of the
perm_vertical_axis perm_vertical_axis L/T soil along the
vertical axis.
Strength reduction
Rinter Rinter - factor for
interfaces.
Permeability of the
soil along the
perm_secondary_horizontal_axis perm_secondary_horizontal_axis L/T
secondary
horizontal axis.
Allowable tensile
TensileStrength Tensile strength F/L2
strength in the soil.

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Power in stress
dependent stiffness
UDPower UD-Power - rule of interfaces
with a user defined
soil model.
Slope of reference
verticalinc verticalinc -
plane.
Increment of the
Ginc Ginc F/L2/L
shear modulus.
ninit ninit - Initial porosity.
nmin nmin - Minimum porosity.
nmax nmax - Maximum porosity.
Weight of pore
gammaPore γpore F/L3
fluid.
Rayleigh damping
RayleighAlpha Rayleigh α -
parameter.
Rayleigh damping
RayleighBeta Rayleigh β -
parameter.
Change of
ck ck
permeability.
Poisson's ratio for
nuu νu undrained
behaviour.
User defined
UDPRef UD-Pref F/L2
reference pressure.
einit einit - Initial void ratio.
emin emin - Minimum void ratio.
Maximum void
emax emax -
ratio.
Real interface
Dinter δinter L
thickness.
Skempton's
SkemptonB Skempton-B -
B-parameter.
Reference bulk
KwRefN Kw,ref/n F/L2 stiffness of the pore
fluid.
Coefficient of lateral
earth pressure in
K0Primary K0Primary - the direction of the
primary horizontal
axis.
Coefficient of lateral
earth pressure in
K0Secondary K0Secondary - the direction of the
secondary
horizontal axis.
Over-consolidation
OCR OCR -
ratio.
Pre overburden
POP POP F/L2 pressure, positive
for (over)pressure.
nu ν - Poisson's ratio.
Percentage of the
soil material that
SoilRatioSmall < 2μm %
has a grain size
smaller than 2 μm.
Percentage of the
soil material that
SoilRatioMedium 2μm - 50 μm % has a grain size
between 2 μm and
50 μm.

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Percentage of the
soil material that
SoilRatioLarge 50 μm - 2 mm % has a grain size
between 50 μm and
2 mm.
Limit of the head
PsiUnsat ψunsat L for the unsaturated
zone.
Residual saturation
Sres Sres -
of the soil material.
Saturation of the
Ssat Ssat -
soil material.
Van Genuchten
Gn gn -
parameter.
Van Genuchten
Ga ga 1/L
parameter.
Van Genuchten
Gl gl -
parameter.
Approximate Van
PsiK Ψk L Genuchten
parameter.
Approximate Van
PsiS Ψs L Genuchten
parameter.

Van Genuchten
Sets the
hydraulic
model to 'Van
Genuchten'.
Approx. Van
Genuchten
Sets the
hydraulic
model to
'Approximate
Van
Genuchten'.
General Van
Genuchten
Sets the
hydraulic
model to
HydraulicModel HydraulicModel 'General Van
Genuchten'.
Reserved
Reserved for
research
purposes.
Table
Define the
hydraulic
model by
giving a table
with values
for the
parameters.
Saturated
Sets the
hydraulic
model to
'Saturated'.

Currently not in
FlowDataModel FlowDataModel
use.

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True
Enables the
option to use
default values
for the
advanced
parameters.
DefaultValuesAdvanced Set to default values
False
The values of
the advanced
parameters
should be
defined
manually.

Standard
Sets the soil
data set to
'Standard'.
Hypres
Sets the soil
data set to
'Hypres'.
USDA
Sets the soil
DataSetFlow Data set
data set to
'USDA'.
Staring
Sets the soil
data set to
'Staring'.
User-defined
Sets the soil
data set to
'User-defined'.

Van Genuchten
Sets the soil
model to 'Van
Genuchten'.
Approx. Van
ModelFlow Model Genuchten
Sets the soil
model to
'Approximate
Van
Genuchten'.

Van Genuchten
Sets the user
defined soil
model to 'Van
Genuchten'.
Spline
Sets the user
UDModelFlow Model defined soil
model to
'Spline'.
Saturated
Sets the user
defined soil
model to
'Saturated'.

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