[OCTOBER 2025] Join us for an engaging Answer Hour session focused on interpreting and evaluating results in PLAXIS Output.

Understanding how to make sense of the results generated in PLAXIS is key to drawing meaningful conclusions from your simulations. In this session, we'll explore practical tips and techniques to help you confidently assess deformation, stress, structural forces, and pore pressure results, and identify potential issues in your model setup or interpretation.

We'll walk through various examples such as pile analysis, earthquake analysis, excavation projects and many more, all while highlighting useful visualization tools, and share best practices for navigating the Output interface to extract the most relevant insights.

After the session, you should be able to:

Understand how to interpret key results such as displacements, stresses, structural forces and pore pressures. Use visualization tools effectively to evaluate model behavior. Identify common pitfalls and how to avoid misinterpretation of results. Know which key results to focus on depending on the type of analysis (e.g., plastic, consolidation, dynamic, flow, etc.) This is part of the Answer Hours series focused on answering common questions from users like you! Time will be reserved for live Questions and Answers (Q&A). Live Bentley Answer Hours are exclusive to E365 accounts. On-demand recordings are available to all Bentley users. All Answer Hour programs are free of charge. To view prior sessions, across multiple topics, watch the Recordings On-Demand.