This presentation is aimed to discuss the behavior of embankments on soft soils, ground improvement methods, site investigation, instrumentation and monitoring.  It is backed by over 50-year experience from methods used in many countries in Europe, Far-East, North and South America.  The course is tailored to engineers, geologists, and undergraduate and research students interested in soft soils.

Date: Wednesday October 9.  2 - 4 pm ET

Credits: 2 PDH Units

Learning Objectives At the successful conclusion of this course, you’ll be able to identify and discuss:

• • Typical common defects and failures of embankment of soft soils;
  • Discussion of site investigations tools most used in soft soils, like SPT, CPTU and VST;
  • Instrumentation and monitoring tools
  • Trial embankments.
  • Stability control.

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Presenter Biography: Alberto Ortigao, PhD, FICE, CEng is a senior geotechnical consultant with 50 years of experience in a variety of projects from tailings and water dams, slopes, embankments, foundations, excavations structures and tunnels. He is a Fellow and Chartered Engineer of the Institute of Civil Engineering, London.  He received his first degree in Civil Engineering in 1971 from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), followed by a PhD in 1980.   From 1978 to 2003 he was an academic at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.  From 1982 to 1984 he was a researcher on offshore foundations at the Building Research Establishment, UK, followed by work on offshore foundation design at Fugro UK Ltd.  He has been a Visiting Professor at the following universities: UBC University of British Columbia, Canada, City University of Hong Kong and University of Western Sydney, Australia.  He worked in several countries including the UK, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia and all South American countries.  This is a results of his language skills: English, Spanish, German, Portuguese and some French.  He authored over one hundred technical papers and two books “Soil mechanics in the light of critical state theories” by Balkema in 1995 and, in 2004, the Handbook of slope stabilisation by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.