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Banff Geotechnical Modeling Workshop
September 15 - 17, 2008

Nestled in the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains is a charming little mountain village called Banff. Just a 90 minute scenic drive or commuter shuttle from Calgary International Airport, the Banff Conference Centre is a perfect setting to learn, enhance and fine-tune your numerical modeling skills under the personal guidance of GEO-SLOPE personnel.

The annual workshop has become a very popular event and has sold out well in advance of the workshop dates for the past number of years. Many clients have returned to the workshop year after year to continually enhance their modeling skills and to experiment with new types of analyses.

This year we are expanding the workshop to include an optional fourth day (September 18th). The format of this day will be flexible and will allow participants to choose from a series of concurrent specialized sessions on various topics. Space is limited, so register soon!

Permafrost Thawing and Deformation Study

Recently there has been a large amount of interest directed towards the potential effects of global warming on permafrost regions. One important aspect of the warming trend is: “What degree of deformation may be expected if historically frozen permafrost soils start to thaw”?

This process can now be modeled by coupling TEMP/W transient results with a load/deformation SIGMA/W analysis, in which the soil properties in an elastic-plastic constitutive model are applied using an Add-In which adjusts the soil cohesion in the frozen and unfrozen zones.

Read the whole Detailed Example and follow along using the GeoStudio 2007 data file.

Permafrost Thawing and Deformation (1.39 MB)

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