Ground Engineering Essentials
This not to be missed seminar will be held in the historical buildings of the University of Birmingham home of the Lapworth Museum and National Buried Infrastructure Facility and hosted by the Equipe Group.
Many ground investigations lead to conservative geotechnical designs which often cost the project unnecessary additional costs. All too often this is through inadequate investigations using inappropriate investigation techniques and testing or just too little. Even when aspects such as advanced testing have been specified there is a lack of confidence which also leads to a conservative approach.
When advanced testing is specified, it is essential that the right team is created to maximise the benefit. What may be seen as an unnecessary additional cost, in the right hands, will generate not only confidence in the data but also less conservative designs reducing build costs for the client.
Book your place View upcoming course datesAdvanced geotechnical laboratory testing is often seen to be too expensive or inappropriate for all but the most prestigious or complex projects. However, many of these tests provide geotechnical design parameters which are much more akin to the physical conditions and environment for the materials and therefore produce results which reflect more realistic behaviour of the soil or rock for the proposed structure.
Speakers
Dr John Powell, Technical Director, GEOLABS
Tom Lunne, Technical Expert, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Dr Apollonia Liana Gasparre, Senior Partner, Geotechnical Consultancy Group
Wonjun Chan, Researcher, University of Birmingham
Many in situ (field) tests such as pressuremeter are massively underutilised which again leads to conservative designs and less reliance in the other data obtained during the ground investigation. Pressuremeter testing has been available for several decades but is generally poorly understood and under specified because the benefits are not fully appreciated by the designers. This seminar will provide an overview of the types of pressuremeter tests available, their advantages and limitations, applications in geotechnical practice as well as a series of Case Studies.
Speakers
Dr Peter Allan, Managing Director, Pace Geotechnical
John Holt, General Manager, In Situ Site Investigations
Robert Whittle, Co-owner, Cambridge Insitu
Lillian Jenkins, Geotechnical Engineer, Arup
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08:30 – 09:15 - Registration and Refreshments
09:15 – 09:30 - Welcome and Introductions
09:30 – 10:05 - Overview of advanced geotechnical lab testing – why etc
10:05 – 10:35 - Sampling and sample quality
10:35 – 10:55 - IL and CRS oedometer tests test specifications etc
10:55 - 11:15 - Aspects of interpretation of CRS tests
11:15 – 11:30 - Morning Break
11:30 – 12:15 - Advanced triaxial and DSS tests and Ring shear
12:15 – 13:00 - Establishing test specifications and testing of sand
13:00 – 14:00 - Lunch and Tour of Advanced Laboratory
14:00 – 14:30 - Resonant column and BE
14:30 – 15:15 - Design of advanced tests & the importance of starting from a repress. e p’. and their use in modelling for design
15:15 – 15:45 - Introduction to cyclic testing
15:35 – 16:00 - Q & A and Discussion
16:00 – 17:00 - Presentation by Birmingham University and Tour of Advanced Laboratory
08:30 – 09:15 - Registration and Refreshments
09:15 – 09:30 - Welcome and Introductions
09:30 – 10.00 - Introduction and history of pressuremeter testing & Understanding the choice of pressuremeters for soil and their test results
10:00 – 10:20 - Self-boring pressuremeter
10:20 – 10:40 - Full displacement pressuremeter
10:40 – 11:00 - Menard pressuremeter
11:00 – 11:15 - Marchetti Dilatometer
11:15 – 11:45 - Morning Break
11:45 – 12:05 - Understanding the choice of pressuremeters for rock and their test results & Weak rock pressuremeter
12:05 – 12:25 - High Pressure dilatometer
12:25 – 12:50 - Equipment calibration
12:50 – 13:15 - Onshore and offshore applications
13:15 – 14:30 - Lunch and National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF) Tour
14:30 – 15:15 - Analysis and interpretation of the results
15:15 – 15:40 - Comparing pressuremeter results across the types
15:40 – 16:10 - Lessons learnt on recent projects
16:10 – 16:30 - Q&A and Discussion (Panel)
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This seminar is for geotechnical engineers who want to deepen their expertise in advanced laboratory and in-situ testing techniques to improve data interpretation and ground behavior analysis.
University of Birmingham
£595 + VAT per delegate for both days
£300 + VAT for a single day
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