Provisional Programme

Sunday 24 March
19.00-21.00: Welcome reception
Monday 25 March
08.40-08.50: Opening of conference
M.A. Hicks (Conference Chair)

08.50-09.00: Introduction to conference theme

M. Karstunen (GEO-INSTALL Coordinator)

Session 1: Installation effects

Chair:

09.00-09.50: KEYNOTE LECTURE

Effect of installation mode and loading history on the static and cyclic response of
SOLCYP test piles
A. Puech

09.50-10.10: The load capacity of driven cast in-situ piles derived from installation parameters
D. Egan

10.10-10.30: On the numerical modelling and incorporation of installation effects of jacked

piles: A practical approach
H.K. Engin, R.B.J. Brinkgreve & A.F. van Tol

10.30-10.50: Analytical and laboratory study of soil disturbance caused by mandrel-driven

prefabricated vertical drains
A. Ghandeharioon

10.50-11.10: Coffee break

Session 2: Soil-structure interaction

Chair:

11.10-11.30: Modeling of rock fall impact using discrete element method (DEM)
G. Grimstad, O. Melhus, S. Degago & R. Ebeltoft

11.30-11.50: Investigation into the factors affecting the shaft resistance of driven piles in sands
D. Igoe, K. Gavin & L. Kirwan

11.50-12.10: Monitoring and risk assessment in EPB TBM’s in urban environments. High speed
railway tunnel Sants-Sagrera running next to Sagrada Familia Basilica (World
Heritage)
J.E. Paris Fernandez & J. Gomez Cabrera

12.10-12.30: Effect of roughness on keying of plate anchors

D. Wang, C. Han & C. Gaudin

12.30-14.00: Lunch
Monday 25 March

Session 3: Soil improvement

Chair:

14.00-14.50: KEYNOTE LECTURE

The undrained cohesion of the soil as a criterion for column installation with a
depth vibrator
J. Wehr

14.50-15.10: Volume Averaging Technique in numerical modelling of floating deep mixed

columns in soft soils
P. Becker & M. Karstunen

15.10-15.30: Comparison between theoretical procedures and field test results for the
evaluation of installation effects of vibro-stone columns
E. Carvajal, G. Vukotic, J. Castro & W. Wehr

15.30-15.50: Coffee break

Session 4: Soil improvement

Chair:

15.50-16.10: Numerical analyses of stone column installation in Bothkennar clay

J. Castro, M. Karstunen, N. Sivasithamparam & C. Sagaseta

16.10-16.30: Execution of Sprinsol deep mixed columns: Field trials

S. Melentijevic, F. Martin & L. Prieto

16.30-16.50: A method of modelling stone column installation for use in conjunction with unit
cell analyses
B.G. Sexton & B.A. McCabe

16.50-17.10: Cement grout filtration in non-cohesive soils

X.A.L. Stodieck & T. Benz
Tuesday 26 March

Session 5: Installation effects

Chair:

09.00-09.50: KEYNOTE LECTURE

Seabed pipelines: the influence of installation effects
D.J. White

09.50-10.10: Displacement pile installation effects in sand

A. Beijer Lundberg, J. Dijkstra & A.F. van Tol

10.10-10.30: Cyclic jacking of piles in silt and sand

F. Burali d’Arezzo, S.K. Haigh & Y. Ishihara

10.30-10.50: Influence of installation procedures on the response of capacitance water content

sensors
M. Caruso, F.Avanzi & C. Jommi

10.50-11.10: Coffee break

Session 6: Installation effects

Chair:

11.10-11.30: CEL-Simulations for soil plugging, screwed pile installation and deep vibration
compaction
J. Grabe, S. Henke, T. Pucker & T. Hamann

11.30-11.50: Towards a framework for the prediction of installation rate effects

S. Robinson & M.J. Brown

11.50-12.10: Rate dependent shear strength of silt at low stresses

S. te Slaa & J. Dijkstra

12.10-12.30: Control of excess pore pressure development during pile installations in soft
sensitive clay
T. Tefera, G. Tvedt & F. Oset

12.30-14.00: Lunch
Tuesday 26 March

Session 7: Offshore construction and foundations

Chair:

14.00-14.50: KEYNOTE LECTURE

LDFE analysis of installation effects for offshore anchors and foundations
L. Andresen & H.D.V. Khoa

14.50-15.10: Investigation into the effect of pile installation on cyclic lateral capacity of
mono-piles
T. de Blaeij & J. Dijkstra

15.10-15.30: Lag penetration assessments for self elevating

D.A. Kort, S. Raymackers, S. Hofstede & V. Meyer

15.30-15.50: Development of a coupled FEM-MPM approach to model a 3D membrane with an

application of releasing geocontainer from barge
F. Hamad, C. Moormann & P.A. Vermeer

15.50-16.10: Coffee break

Session 8: Computational methods

Chair:

16.10-17.00: KEYNOTE LECTURE

A dynamic material point method for geomechanics
I. Jassim, C. Coetzee & P.A. Vermeer

17.00-17.20: Adaptive Mesh Refinement for strain-softening materials in geomechanics

C.E.Heaney, R.B.J. Brinkgreve & P.G. Bonnier & M.A. Hicks

17.20-17.40: Fracture growth in heterogeneous geomaterials

P.J. Vardon & J.D. Nuttall

19.00-23.00: Conference banquet

Wednesday 27 March

Session 9: Constitutive modelling

Chair:

09.00-09.50: KEYNOTE LECTURE

Modelling rate-dependent behaviour of structured clays
M. Karstunen, N. Sivasithamparam, R.B.J. Brinkgreve & P.G. Bonnier

09.50-10.10: FEM Simulation of large vertical deformations caused by land subsidence and
verification of the results by using radar interferometry techniques
C. Loupasakis, D. Rozos, F. Raspini & S. Moretti

10.10-10.30: Numerical modeling of fracturing in soil mix material

G. van Lysebetten, A. Vervoort, N. Denies, N. Huybrechts, J. Maertens, F. de Cock
& B. Lameire

10.30-10.50: A 3D practical constitutive model for predicting seismic liquefaction in sands

A. Petalas, V. Galavi & R.B.J. Brinkgreve

10.50-11.10: Coffee break

Session 10: Constitutive modelling and computational methhods

Chair:

11.10-11.30: Comparison of two anisotropic creep models at element level

N. Sivasithamparam, M. Karstunen, R.B.J. Brinkgreve & P.G. Bonnier

11.30-11.50: Large deformation analysis of cone penetration testing in undrained clay

L. Beuth & P.A. Vermeer

11.50-12.10: Pile penetration simulation with the Material Point Method

L.J. Lim, A. Andreykiv & R.B.J. Brinkgreve

12.10-12.30: Coupling triangular plate and volume elements in analysis of geotechnical

problems
S. Tan, M.A. Hicks & A. Rohe

12.30-14.00: Lunch

14.00-17.00: Technical visits