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This webinar is a part of the series: Your Guide for Soil Improvement with PLAXIS
Soil improvement encompasses various techniques aimed at enhancing soil properties to make it suitable for construction, infrastructure, and geotechnical projects. These techniques focus on increasing soil strength, minimizing settlement, controlling water flow, and improving overall stability. Soil improvement is critical in cases where the natural soil lacks adequate load-bearing capacity, has high compressibility, poor drainage, or is prone to erosion.
The most common soil improvement techniques involve preloading the soil to increase density and reduce future settlement, stabilizing it by adding lime or cement for enhanced strength, and utilizing drainage systems to remove excess water and accelerate soil consolidation. Grouting is used to fill voids and reinforce weak areas, while geosynthetics like geogrids help reinforce soil and improve load-bearing capacity.
PLAXIS offers a robust set of functionalities to simulate soil improvement techniques in geotechnical engineering. It provides advanced material models that simulate the behavior of soil after improvement methods such as stabilization or compaction. PLAXIS also supports detailed soil-structure interaction analysis, accurately depicting how soil interacts with structures like rigid inclusions or geotextiles following improvement. Additionally, PLAXIS can simulate long-term consolidation processes, enabling users to model preloading, surcharging, and the use of vertical drains to alleviate pore pressure and improve soil behavior.
Hear our experts, Richard Witasse and Jerome Racinais (Engineering Director at Menard), in a webinar where they will demonstrate how to enhance your modeling capabilities using PLAXIS.
What you will learn:
- Unit cell model definition and calibration
- How to model PVD drains in PLAXIS
- The use of embedded beam element for modelling rigid inclusions
- Efficiently running consolidation analysis in PLAXIS
Don’t miss this opportunity to unlock the potential of PLAXIS for soil improvement and elevate your geotechnical modeling skills!!
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With this webinar, you will receive PLAXIS Soil Improvement practical examples (model Files + Description).
Webinar Presenters
Daniel Berro
Product Sales Engineer
Bentley Systems
Daniel is an experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Geotechnical Engineering industry. He has a total experience of 9 years in delivering cost effective geotechnical projects across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Currently, he is working in Bentley Systems Spain, as a Product Sales Engineer
As a Product Engineer at Bentley’s Virtuosity, he helps professionals across EMEA in solving their complex Geotechnical engineering problems and improving their analysis by providing them with best practices for their design workflows.
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Richard Witasse
Principal Product Manager
Bentley Systems
Recognized as an expert in geotechnical analysis and engineering, Richard Witasse has more than 20 years of experience in working with geotechnical digital tools and geotechnical finite element analysis software. After starting his career as a software engineer in the field of finite element analysis software for reinforced concretes structures, Richard became an application engineer and worked for the global leaders in geotechnical analysis software. Richard joined PLAXIS in 2008 and has always worked since then on geotechnical consulting, customer success and training for the many users of the most popular digital solutions for geotechnical engineering and analysis. Since 2018 Richard Witasse is Principal Application Engineer with Bentley Systems.
Jerome Racinais
Engineering Director
Menard
Since graduating in 2001, Mr. Jerome RACINAIS has worked in the field of geotechnical engineering for the ground improvement specialist company MENARD. As Engineering director and design department manager, he and his team provide technical support to the Menard agencies spread around the world. He is responsible of the development of new design approaches and internal software for ground improvement solutions. He is immediate Vice-Chairman of the Technical Committee TC211 (Ground Improvement). He is also visiting professor in French engineering schools (Centrale PARIS, CHEC, ESITC Caen) and is currently involved in the French ASIRI+ national program dedicated to the design, construction, and quality control of rigid inclusions.
