Prague Geotechnical Days on "Cyclic Loading of Geotechnical Structures"

Prague Geotechnical Days 2023 are scheduled for May 22-23 2023 with impressive list of speakers focusing on cyclic loading of geotechnical structures. The 29th Prague Geotechnical Lecture will be delivered by prof. Yannis Dafalias.

Everyone is welcome to join us i Prague and listen to most distinguished researchers in the field.

Preliminary programme is as follows:

8:30-9:00
Registration, commercial exhibition

9:00-9:15
Opening address
Zdenk Sekyra, Jana Frankovská, David Maín

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"