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The UK Geotechnical Modeling Workshop: June 2-4, 2008

image from freefoto.com Located in a beautiful wooded valley in the heart of Shropshire stands the World's First Iron Bridge. It's fitting that the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, which brought together innovation and engineering, will act as the setting to learn, enhance and fine-tune your numerical modeling skills under the professional guidance of GEO-SLOPE personnel.

The UK workshop has become a very popular event and has sold out well in advance as many clients have returned to the workshop year after year.

This year you can attend for a full three-day session or a shortened session with reduced content for two days. The two-day workshop will focus on SLOPE/W with introductory sessions on both SEEP/W and SIGMA/W. More advanced SEEP/W, SIGMA/W and introductory QUAKE/W sessions will be included on the third day.

Predicting Climate-Ground Interactions with VADOSE/W Basic

Landfill and mine waste cap design has typically been based on regulated design criteria, simple water balance modeling (e.g., HELP model), or semi-rigorous finite element or finite difference modeling (e.g., UNSAT-H, HYDRUS). These latter two models are rigorous from a seepage solution standpoint, but are limited in their ability to accurately predict the climate-ground interactions. VADOSE/W has been commercially available for seven years in a two-dimensional formulation but is now available in a one-dimensional Basic Edition formulation at a significantly reduced cost. VADOSE/W is unique in its formulation in that actual evaporation from a ground surface is based on the stress state in the soil; in particular the temperature and relative humidity and matric suction at the soil-climate interface.

Read the whole Detailed Example and follow along in GeoStudio 2007 using the VADOSE/W data file.

VADOSE/W Basic Tutorial (836 KB)

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Volume 4, Issue 2
April 2008

In this issue:

• UK Workshop
• VADOSE/W Basic

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