BRUSSELS: 25'11'2004 GeoTechNet Network Meeting 4

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BRUSSELS 25.11.2004GeoTechNet Network Meeting
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• Session on WP 3Design Tools FEM OM
• Ir. N. Huybrechts, Belgian Building Research
  Institute

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WP3 OBJECTIVES

• Stimulate accelerate use of innovative cost
  effective design methods
• Key-innovative methods FEM OM
• Important demonstrate the correct use of
  these methods

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WP3 DELIVERABLES

• Report on "FEM" use with - WP3-work
  analysis - Recommendations for proper
  FEM-use for future RTD

• Enquiry un the use of FEM
• in geotechnical engineering

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WP3 DELIVERABLES

• Report on "FEM" use with - WP3-work
  analysis - Recommendations for proper
  FEM-use for future RTD

• Organisation Benchmark
• Excavation of a trench in
• cohesive soils

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WP3 DELIVERABLES

• Report on "FEM" use with - WP3-work
  analysis - Recommendations for proper
  FEM-use for future RTD

Report on "OM" use with - Recommendations for
OM applications (based on European
experiences) - Recommendations for the
implementation of the OM - OM-cases in fixed
format (Arup Geotechnics)
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WP3 DELIVERABLES

• Report on "FEM" use with - WP3-work
  analysis - Recommendations for proper
  FEM-use for future RTD

Report on "OM" use with - Recommendations for
OM applications (based on European
experiences) - Recommendations for the
implementation of the OM - OM-cases in fixed
format (Arup Geotechnics)
Databases (WP1) - RTD, monitoring-measurement
techniques, OM case studies, FEM- case studies
(benchmarks, back-calculations, ), FEM-General
aspects
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AGENDA

• OM-cases in the Netherlands Betuweroute tram
  tunnel
• Ir. Dirk Luger, Geodelft
• ?ab-initio best-way out applications of the
  OM,
• Role of experiments and Observational Method
• Prof. Rolf Katzenbach, TUDarmstadt
• ?concept en realisation of OM within some
  difficult geotechnical projects in Germany
• Some comments on the use of OM Case
  Berendrechtsluis
• Prof Jan Maertens, Jan Maertens bvba KUL
• ?groundwater control
• Discussion/Conclusions