With this Workshop the aim is to create a Belgian network between geotechnical engineers involved in FEM models. 

Subjects will be constitutive models, returns of experience, comparisons with monitoring results, soils and rocks, onshore & offshore,… 

After the presentations, time for open discussion and sharing of experience is foreseen. 

Approved for 2 CPD points.

• 16.00 - 16.15    Welcome
• 16.15 - 18.45    Short presentations followed by Q&A’s
  
  
  • Jonas Bernaert (SBE):  Oosterweelverbinding – Scheldetunnel en Bouwdok - Design approach for Cut&Cover Rechteroever
  • Uda Pannizzo (Tractebel): Exploring parametric modelling and automation scripting to enhance FEA workflow in Geotechnical Engineering - An application for the Oosterweel project
  • François Nader and Jean-Christophe Ballard (Fugro): Capacity assessment of suction caissons under VHM loading with Plaxis 3D
  • Wouter Lambrechts (Besix): Optimized Cofferdam Design for a Channel Crossing of a Cut-and-Cover Tunnel
  • Malek Allani (Fugro): Small strain soil stiffness models : from modelling to measurement techniques 
    
    
• 18.45 - 20.30    Drink + Visit of Fugro On-Shore and Off-Shore Geotechnical Laboratory