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3-D elasto-plastic continuum footing FE — the shape effect a 2-D model can’t see
Our largest differentiator went live: a genuine three-dimensional nonlinear finite-element bearing-capacity solve — the meshed 3-D continuum answer firms otherwise keep a PLAXIS-3D / RS3 specialist seat for — built from the governing textbook and validated against published worked examples before it shipped.
- 3-D elasto-plastic continuum footing bearing capacity — a square, circular or rectangular pad on a c′-φ′ half-space solved as a full 3-D boundary-value problem (quarter-symmetry, 20-node serendipity hexahedra, general-stress Mohr-Coulomb enforced by a viscoplastic stress-redistribution scheme), load-ramped to the collapse mechanism. Returns the full load–settlement curve and q_ult, capturing the square/circular shape effect (Skempton s_c ≈ 1.2) that a 2-D plane-strain model fundamentally cannot
- An interactive 3-D deformed-continuum viewer — the real computed settlement bowl on the soil block (orbit, section-cut, isosurface, deform slider, turntable export), cross-checked live against the closed-form Skempton / Vesić bearing capacity and shape factors (φ=0 square converges on Skempton 6·sᵤ)
- Heavy solve runs on scalable cloud compute with a coarse in-app fallback, an on-screen progress timer and a cancel control — you never wait blind