Symposium & User Meeting 2024

Symposium and User Meeting
Friday 30 August 2024, 09:00–16:30 CEST
Live at HEIA Fribourg, Switzerland or online by Zoom
Celebrating 39 years ZSoil

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The symposium combines invited presentations, and contributions by ZSOIL users, developers and others. It has been taking place every year in late summer over the past twenty years, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Lausanne and newly at Haute Ecole d’Ingénierie et d’Architecture de Fribourg.

 

Schedule:

 

9:00 – 10:30 :

5’   S. Commend (GeoDev). Welcome address

20’  G.W. Byun (EG Soft). Stability of corner strut system in deep excavation

20’  Yi Zhang (Eiffage), S. Commend and G. Jacot-Descombes (GeoMod). Probabilistic approach – application to the interaction between TBM and piles in the L16-1 project

20’  M. Borgers (Illwerke). Tunnel cross passage joint block in anhydrite containing rock

20’  C. Strobl (IGT). Pre- and post- processing tools using Rhino and Python

 

10:30 – 11:00 : coffee break

 

11:00 – 12:00 :

20’  A. Truty, K.Podleś (GeoDev). Arbitrary and moving loads/masses in ZSoil v2025

20’  M. Preisig (GeoMod). 3D model of a deep excavation in urban environment, prediction and measurements

20’  T. Kazerani (BG-WSP). On the use of heat exchangers

 

12:00 – 14:00 : lunch break

 

14:00 – 15:00 :

20’  C. Buchs, K. Podles, S. Commend (GeoDev). A new graphical user interface for probabilistic, sensitivity and reliability analysis within ZSoil 2025

20’  R. Maye, R. Obrzud (K-F). Examples of effective team-oriented workflow to tackle large scale simulations of soil-structure interaction projects developed in ZSoil

20’  M. Delage, G. Jacot-Descombes (GeoMod). Update on modeling wood joints and structures with ZSoil

 

15:00 – 15:30 : coffee break

 

15:30 – 16:30 :

20’  Y. Ji (SGI). Analysis of the Influence of TOD (Transit-Oriented Development)Project on the Urban Railway Station under construction

20’  K. Lisewska M. Cudny (Gdańsk University of Technology) and A. Truty (Cracow University of Technology). Incorporating cross-anisotropic small strain stiffness kernel into the Hardening Soil-Brick model.

20’  S. Kivell. What’s new within ZSoil 2025?

 

17:00 – 19:00 : cocktail dinner

 

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