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Prague Geotechnical Days 2023 and 29th Prague Geotechnical Lecture are scheduled for May 22-23 2023.
The 29th Prague Geotechnical Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Yannis Dafalias from the University of California, Davis.
Topic of the workshop will be "Cyclic Loading of Geotechnical Structures".
Prelimiray programme is as follows:
8:30-9:00
Registration, commercial exhibition
9:00-9:15
Opening address
Zdeněk Sekyra, Jana Frankovská, David Mašín
9:15-9:50
Lars Andresen
NGI, Norway
"The NGI framework for cyclic loading foundation design"
9:50-10:25
Byron Byrne
University of Oxford, UK
"Design of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations for Cyclic Loading"
10:25-11:00
Ana Page
NGI, Norway
"Predicting the accumulated rotation of monopiles under lifetime conditions"
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:05
Andrew Whittle
MIT, Boston, USA
"Thermo-mechanical modeling of seasonal heat storage in clay"
12:05-12:40
Hauke Zachert
TU Darmstadt, Germany
"Design of pile foundations for large storage tanks under seismic loading"
12:40-13:40 Lunch break
13:40-14:15
Andrea Diambra
University of Bristol, UK
"Exploiting soil behaviour to improve cyclic geo-structural performances: from seismic to offshore applications"
14:15-14:50
Maciej Ochmanski
Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice
"Numerical analyses of monopiles under cyclic lateral load: from simple 2D to complex 3D approaches"
14:50-14:55
Quido Záruba Prize Ceremony
14:55-15:10
Presentation of Quido Záruba Prize Winner
15:10-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00
29th Prague Geotechnical Lecture
prof. Yannis F. Dafalias,
University of California, Davis; National Technical University of Athens; Institute of Thermomechanics, CAS, Prague
"Critical State constitutive modeling of sands within Bounding Surface plasticity, and application to centrifuge data for geotechnical structures under cyclic loading"
Workshop 23.5:
prof. Yannis F. Dafalias,
University of California, Davis; National Technical University of Athens; Institute of Thermomechanics, CAS, Prague
"Fabric anisotropy within Anisotropic Critical State Theory"