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
Registration is open now: Registration form
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