Welcome
The Plaxis Development Community is a group of users of the Plaxis Code that supports the software development of the Plaxis Finite Element Code.
Plaxis is a leading international program for the design of geotechnical structures. This finite elements program enables programmers to calculate advanced geotechnical structures for which the interaction between the soil and structure is an important part.
A group of enthusiastic users has come together to form the Plaxis Development Community (PDC), the objective of which is to ensure that Plaxis continues to improve and remains attuned to advances in design practice. The PDC is an open community. Very many companies and organizations, primarily in West-Europe, are already members. If you would also like to become part of this community of international professionals in your field, share your experience with them and contribute to the ongoing improvement of Plaxis, please sing up/enroll here.
The coordination of the PDC is carried out by a committee, the PDCC. This process is supported by CUR Building & Infrastructure, which has extensive experience in innovative research in the civil engineering sector.
New member
Dr. Huynh Dat Vu Khoa joined NGI as a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow in March 2007, after following M.Sc. (2001) and post-doctoral research (2006) at the Laboratoire Sols Solides Strucutures in Grenoble (laboratory 3S, France). Sinds end of 2008 he has been working in the Computational Geomechanics Division at NGI as a permanent employee. His area of expertise includes two main axes of research. The first one is numerical modelling involving usage and improvement of incrementally nonlinear constitutive models as well as elastoplastics models, application of these models into nonlinear boundary value problems, developments of graphical post-processors. The second axis is related to instability and bifurcation analyses in geomaterials. He has published several journal, conference and report papers related to constitutive and numerical modelling of soils as well as bifurcation analyses in granular materials.