ZSoil Day 2024 Presentations
39 years of ZSoil & Structures
Numerics in Geotechnics and Structures 2024
The 2024 meeting brought together ZSoil users, engineers and researchers on
30 August 2024 at HEIA in Fribourg, Switzerland,
marking 39 years of ZSoil & Structures.
This year’s presentations cover a broad range of practical and research
applications, including deep excavations, interactions between tunnel boring
machines and piles, tunnelling in anhydrite-containing rock, heat exchangers,
timber structures and construction around urban railway stations.
Modelling topics include moving loads and masses, probabilistic and
reliability analysis, small-strain stiffness anisotropy, comparisons between
predictions and measurements, and workflows using Rhino and Python, alongside
collaborative modelling practices and developments in ZSoil 2025.
The presentations from the four technical sessions are available below.
Session 1
9:00–10:45 · Chair: S. Commend
Stability of corner strut system in deep excavation
EG soft consulting Seoul, South Korea
PDF presentation
Probabilistic approach – application to the interaction between TBM and piles in the L16-1 project
Eiffage Génie Civil, France
HEIA-FR, Switzerland
GeoMod SA, Switzerland
PDF presentation
Pre- and post-processing tools using Rhino and Python
IGT Geotechnik und Tunnelbau, Austria
Presentation link not available
Session 2
11:00–12:15 · Chair: R. Obrzud
3D model of a deep excavation in urban environment, prediction and measurements
GeoMod SA & GeoDev., Switzerland
PDF presentation
Session 3
14:00–15:15 · Chair: S. Kivell
A new graphical user interface for probabilistic, sensitivity and reliability analysis within ZSoil 2025
GeoDev., Switzerland
PDF presentation
Examples of effective team-oriented workflow to tackle large scale simulations of soil-structure interaction projects developed in ZSoil
Karakas-Français SA, Switzerland
PDF presentation
Session 4
15:30–16:30 · Chair: M. Preisig
Analysis of the Influence of TOD (Transit-Oriented Development). Project on the Urban Railway Station under Construction
SGIDI Engineering Consulting Co Ltd, China
PDF presentation
Incorporating cross-anisotropic small strain stiffness kernel into the Hardening Soil-Brick model
Gdańsk University of Technology
Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Presentation link not available
