Geotechnical Design
Title
Geotechnical designs using Reliability Index
Project coordinator(s)
Dr. Trevor Orr
Email: torr@tcd.ie
Tel: +353 1 896 1204
Description
Foundations and retaining walls are designed to Eurocode 7 using partial safety factors. The aim of designs to Eurocode 7 is to ensure that the occurrence of an ultimate or a serviceability limit state is sufficiently unlikely. The partial factors adopted in Eurocode 7 aim to provide a particular level of reliability, i.e. a certain reliability index or b value and b values are proposed in the Eurocodes for ultimate and serviceability limit states. This project involves calculating the values for foundations designed to Eurocode 7 and examining how the b values vary as the size of the foundation is increased.
Title
Optimisation of retaining wall design
Project coordinator(s)
Dr. Trevor Orr
Email: torr@tcd.ie
Tel: +353 1 896 1204
Description
The design of a gravity retaining wall involves designing different components – the base, the heel and the toe. This project involves finding the optimum dimensions for a given design situation to provide the most economic design that provides the required level of safety.
Title
Foundations subjected to inclined and eccentric loads
Project coordinator(s)
Dr. Trevor Orr
Email: torr@tcd.ie
Tel: +353 1 896 1204
Description
This project involves examining the different methods for the design of foundations with inclined and eccentric loads, such as the foundations for wind turbines. In Eurocode 7, there is a number of different Designs Approached with different ways of applying the partial factors in the case of eccentric loads. Part of this project would be to investigate the effect of using these different Design Approaches and how they compare to existing foundation methods for eccentrically loaded foundations.
Title
Stress distribution around driven piles
Project coordinator(s)
Dr. Brendan O’Kelly
Email: bokelly@tcd.ie
Tel: +353 1 896 2387
Description
Not available.