Join us to learn how to use both PLAXIS and GeoStudio for your slope stability project. Move your project between PLAXIS and GeoStudio to do both a strength reduction analysis with Finite Elements or a Limit Equilibrium analysis to determined a factor safety and learn where those two methods complement each other.
This workshop on Slope stability is given as a special topic day added to the Advanced Course on Computational Geotechnics, but can also be joined as individual workshop. The workshop focuses on the calculation of a factor of safety against slope sliding and explains how this is done using the strength reduction method in Finite Elements (PLAXIS) and the limit equilibrium method (GeoStudio). Different methods of slices like Bishop, Janbu and Morgenstern-Price are explained as well as the use of reinforcements in Limit Equilibrium. With hands-one exercises we will combine deformation and stability analysis in PLAXIS with safety analysis in GeoStudio.
What will the course cover?
• General aspects of slope stability
• Factor of safety using strength reduction
• Introduction to Limit Equilibrium analysis
• Short introduction to GeoStudio
• Advanced models of slices
• Reinforcements in LE analysis
• Combined analysis using PLAXIS and GeoStudio
What should I have?
- Prior experience in using PLAXIS for engineering applications
The course cost includes:
• Lunch and dinner on the workshop day
• The use of a computer provided by the organization with the appropriate licenses installed
• Binder with printed course material
Kathryn Dompierre completed a M.Sc. in environmental policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Ph.D. in civil engineering at the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Canada). Her doctoral research explored the movement of pore water, contaminants, and energy through oil sands fine tailings using field testing and numerical analyses. She joined the GeoStudio engineering team in 2016, and now manages the learning and technical content related to GeoStudio. Kathryn is involved in the Women in Engineering committee for Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba and serves on the boards of two environmental NGOs: Lake Winnipeg Foundation and Manitoba Eco-Network.
Dennis obtained a Master's degree in Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology before he joined PLAXIS in 1996 as a programmer. He has been involved for several years in the development of new PLAXIS products before shifting his main field of activity to user support and lecturing courses in 2002. Since 2006 he is the international course coordinator, a position he continued to fulfil when PLAXIS joined Bentley Systems in 2018 and Seequent in 2021. From 2020 Dennis is now also responsible for the technical documentation of PLAXIS.
