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SUMMARY: Geotechnical Design: Design Codes\, Databases &amp\; Soil Stress-
 Strain - Paul Vardanega\, CUED
DTSTART:20110520T150000Z
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CONTACT:Zelda Stuck
DESCRIPTION:Geotechnical Engineers have to design safe\, economic and serv
 iceable foundations and retaining walls. Engineers use design codes to gui
 de them in this endeavour. Sadly many design codes focus too much on the p
 revention of collapse and not enough on the design of a serviceable\, econ
 omic structure. With pressure to reduce the amount of embodied energy and 
 carbon in civil infrastructure\, geotechnical engineers should focus on de
 velopment of better methods to compute differential settlement which is th
 e major cause of structural 'failure'. If these are available then the lev
 els of conservatism in standard designs can be more scientifically determi
 ned. \nSoil-stress strain databases are presented and their use in design 
 examples is shown. Databases are suggested as an alternative to probabilis
 tic methods in dealing with variability of soil properties.\n
LOCATION:Engineering Department - Lecture Room 6
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