Updates

13-11-2009: Repeated stage regeneration for phases using groundwater flow can give incorrect pore water pressures: When generating a new mesh for an already defined model, the Plaxis 2D software will regenerate all phase settings, recalculate the pore pressures based on a phreatic level and perform the K0 analysis. Pore pressure distributions based on groundwater flow analyses must always be recalculated manually.
The behaviour works as intended for projects that do not use groundwater flow, and in cases where the regeneration is performed once.
However, if a project contains defined phases that use groundwater flow and its mesh is regenerated several times (e.g. for mesh refinements), the stage regeneration sometimes mixes up the type of pore pressure generation, which can lead to incorrect pore pressures for any phase. Should your project use groundwater flow, we strongly recommend making manual recalculation of all pore pressures and K0 procedure a part of your normal phase consistency checking following an automatic stage regeneration.
If you have projects with very large numbers of phases, please have a look at the speedup possibilities offered by the tip in the FAQ section. This option will also reset all phases to use phreatic level calculation. In this case it is sufficient to recalculate pore pressures only for the phases that need to be switched back to groundwater flow.
This issue will be addressed in the next major release of PLAXIS 2D.

13-11-2009: Repeated stage regeneration for phases using groundwater flow can give incorrect pore water pressures: When generating a new mesh for an already defined model, the Plaxis 2D software will regenerate all phase settings, recalculate the pore pressures based on a phreatic level and perform the K0 analysis. Pore pressure distributions based on groundwater flow analyses must always be recalculated manually.
The behaviour works as intended for projects that do not use groundwater flow, and in cases where the regeneration is performed once.
However, if a project contains defined phases that use groundwater flow and its mesh is regenerated several times (e.g. for mesh refinements), the stage regeneration sometimes mixes up the type of pore pressure generation, which can lead to incorrect pore pressures for any phase. Should your project use groundwater flow, we strongly recommend making manual recalculation of all pore pressures and K0 procedure a part of your normal phase consistency checking following an automatic stage regeneration.
If you have projects with very large numbers of phases, please have a look at the speedup possibilities offered by the tip in the FAQ section. This option will also reset all phases to use phreatic level calculation. In this case it is sufficient to recalculate pore pressures only for the phases that need to be switched back to groundwater flow.
This issue will be addressed in the next major release of PLAXIS 2D.

13-11-2009: Repeated stage regeneration for phases using groundwater flow can give incorrect pore water pressures: When generating a new mesh for an already defined model, the Plaxis 2D software will regenerate all phase settings, recalculate the pore pressures based on a phreatic level and perform the K0 analysis. Pore pressure distributions based on groundwater flow analyses must always be recalculated manually.
The behaviour works as intended for projects that do not use groundwater flow, and in cases where the regeneration is performed once.
However, if a project contains defined phases that use groundwater flow and its mesh is regenerated several times (e.g. for mesh refinements), the stage regeneration sometimes mixes up the type of pore pressure generation, which can lead to incorrect pore pressures for any phase. Should your project use groundwater flow, we strongly recommend making manual recalculation of all pore pressures and K0 procedure a part of your normal phase consistency checking following an automatic stage regeneration.
If you have projects with very large numbers of phases, please have a look at the speedup possibilities offered by the tip in the FAQ section. This option will also reset all phases to use phreatic level calculation. In this case it is sufficient to recalculate pore pressures only for the phases that need to be switched back to groundwater flow.
This issue will be addressed in the next major release of PLAXIS 2D.

13-11-2009: Repeated stage regeneration for phases using groundwater flow can give incorrect pore water pressures: When generating a new mesh for an already defined model, the Plaxis 2D software will regenerate all phase settings, recalculate the pore pressures based on a phreatic level and perform the K0 analysis. Pore pressure distributions based on groundwater flow analyses must always be recalculated manually.
The behaviour works as intended for projects that do not use groundwater flow, and in cases where the regeneration is performed once.
However, if a project contains defined phases that use groundwater flow and its mesh is regenerated several times (e.g. for mesh refinements), the stage regeneration sometimes mixes up the type of pore pressure generation, which can lead to incorrect pore pressures for any phase. Should your project use groundwater flow, we strongly recommend making manual recalculation of all pore pressures and K0 procedure a part of your normal phase consistency checking following an automatic stage regeneration.
If you have projects with very large numbers of phases, please have a look at the speedup possibilities offered by the tip in the FAQ section. This option will also reset all phases to use phreatic level calculation. In this case it is sufficient to recalculate pore pressures only for the phases that need to be switched back to groundwater flow.
This issue will be addressed in the next major release of PLAXIS 2D.

13-11-2009: Repeated stage regeneration for phases using groundwater flow can give incorrect pore water pressures: When generating a new mesh for an already defined model, the Plaxis 2D software will regenerate all phase settings, recalculate the pore pressures based on a phreatic level and perform the K0 analysis. Pore pressure distributions based on groundwater flow analyses must always be recalculated manually.
The behaviour works as intended for projects that do not use groundwater flow, and in cases where the regeneration is performed once.
However, if a project contains defined phases that use groundwater flow and its mesh is regenerated several times (e.g. for mesh refinements), the stage regeneration sometimes mixes up the type of pore pressure generation, which can lead to incorrect pore pressures for any phase. Should your project use groundwater flow, we strongly recommend making manual recalculation of all pore pressures and K0 procedure a part of your normal phase consistency checking following an automatic stage regeneration.
If you have projects with very large numbers of phases, please have a look at the speedup possibilities offered by the tip in the FAQ section. This option will also reset all phases to use phreatic level calculation. In this case it is sufficient to recalculate pore pressures only for the phases that need to be switched back to groundwater flow.
This issue will be addressed in the next major release of PLAXIS 2D.

13-11-2009: Repeated stage regeneration for phases using groundwater flow can give incorrect pore water pressures: When generating a new mesh for an already defined model, the Plaxis 2D software will regenerate all phase settings, recalculate the pore pressures based on a phreatic level and perform the K0 analysis. Pore pressure distributions based on groundwater flow analyses must always be recalculated manually.
The behaviour works as intended for projects that do not use groundwater flow, and in cases where the regeneration is performed once.
However, if a project contains defined phases that use groundwater flow and its mesh is regenerated several times (e.g. for mesh refinements), the stage regeneration sometimes mixes up the type of pore pressure generation, which can lead to incorrect pore pressures for any phase. Should your project use groundwater flow, we strongly recommend making manual recalculation of all pore pressures and K0 procedure a part of your normal phase consistency checking following an automatic stage regeneration.
If you have projects with very large numbers of phases, please have a look at the speedup possibilities offered by the tip in the FAQ section. This option will also reset all phases to use phreatic level calculation. In this case it is sufficient to recalculate pore pressures only for the phases that need to be switched back to groundwater flow.
This issue will be addressed in the next major release of PLAXIS 2D.

13-11-2009: Repeated stage regeneration for phases using groundwater flow can give incorrect pore water pressures: When generating a new mesh for an already defined model, the Plaxis 2D software will regenerate all phase settings, recalculate the pore pressures based on a phreatic level and perform the K0 analysis. Pore pressure distributions based on groundwater flow analyses must always be recalculated manually.
The behaviour works as intended for projects that do not use groundwater flow, and in cases where the regeneration is performed once.
However, if a project contains defined phases that use groundwater flow and its mesh is regenerated several times (e.g. for mesh refinements), the stage regeneration sometimes mixes up the type of pore pressure generation, which can lead to incorrect pore pressures for any phase. Should your project use groundwater flow, we strongly recommend making manual recalculation of all pore pressures and K0 procedure a part of your normal phase consistency checking following an automatic stage regeneration.
If you have projects with very large numbers of phases, please have a look at the speedup possibilities offered by the tip in the FAQ section. This option will also reset all phases to use phreatic level calculation. In this case it is sufficient to recalculate pore pressures only for the phases that need to be switched back to groundwater flow.
This issue will be addressed in the next major release of PLAXIS 2D.