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
After finishing his MSc at the University of Saskatchewan in 2001 Chris worked as a project engineer for different consulting companies. In 2004 he decided to go back to the university to do a PhD that he finished in 2008.
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Chris then joined GEO-SLOPE as research and development engineer. When GEO-SLOPE joined Seequent in 2019, he became Director of Geotechnical Analysis for GeoStudio.
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.
