This instructor-led course will provide you with the fundamentals skills for conducting stability investigations or assessing groundwater flow. Attendees can attend for 2 days or for the full 3 days, as outlined below, with lunch, coffee and snack provided throughout.
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What will the 2-day course include? [$1200 USD]
- Fundamental limit equilibrium and groundwater flow theory
- Methods of analysis and geometry creation in GeoStudio
- Methods for setting up strength and hydraulic material properties
- Review of the available hydraulic boundary conditions
- Defining your finite element mesh
- Example analysis workflow
- Integration of finite element pore-water pressures in limit equilibrium stability analyses
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What will the 3-day course cover? [$1800 USD]
- The previously listed course materials from the 2-day course
- Fundamental stress and deformation theory
- Staged construction and consolidation analyses
- Integration of finite element stresses in limit equilibrium stability analysis
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What should I have?
- Please have your own laptop with the latest version of GeoStudio, as well as a mouse and charger
- Prior to your course, you will be contacted via email with instructions for accessing a GeoStudio subscription for the duration of your training, along with resources to download
Curtis is responsible for identifying and prioritizing research initiatives and features that enhance the solution capabilities of GeoStudio.
Curtis has domain expertise in heat/mass transfer processes, static/dynamic stress-strain behavior, and strength reduction, limit equilibrium and stress-based stability methods.
He is actively engaged in research, solver implementation, and customer success via support and training.
Vincent Castonguay did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in civil engineering at Université Laval (Québec City, Canada). His doctoral research led him to explore the inner workings of the NorSand constitutive law, in order to improve its behaviour prediction capabilities for sands subjected to cyclic loading.
He joined the GeoStudio research and development team at Seequent in 2020, where he primarily works on the development of the SIGMA/W module.
Vincent served as the Young Professional Representative on the Canadian Geotechnical Society's national executive committee for 2020-2021. He was also co-chair of the organizing committee for the 2019 St.John’s cYGEGC. The time he has left in a week is ideally spent hiking, sleeping in a tent, or breaking his hands on a climbing wall.
