Soil supports can be linear or multilinear distributed supports assigned to selected piping or structural elements as a stiffness per unit length and CSiPlant will automatically discretize the model with options to control the internal meshing. Soil stiffness properties can be different in each acting direction with soil support local axes following piping local axes.
In addition to user defined soil stiffness, CSiPlant can also auto-generate soil properties based on American Lifelines Alliance (ASCE) soil property guidelines using the 'General' tab in the Define Supports>Distributed.
CSiPlant offers some powerful options for applying imposed displacements to distributed supports. Please see CSiPlant Help menu>Documentation>Manuals for the 'Soil Modeling per American Lifelines Alliance' manual for more details.
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