The embedded beam is particularly useful in cases of large numbers of piles to be accounted for in a PLAXIS 3D model. This feature was developed to simulate the behavior of piles in a simplified way. The embedded beam is a special feature in PLAXIS 3D.
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Piles as embedded beams, or how to efficiently deal with many piles A large number of piles would have to be considered and the increasing number of elements (as the number of piles to be modeled increased) might become simply impractical at some point. The volume approach also requires the use of relatively small elements implicitly induced by the relatively large slenderness of the pile element itself and, as a result, large number of elements.