Introduction

Settlement is one of the most important components in the design and analysis of the foundations. Foundation settlement need to be accurately estimated to ensure stability of buildings, embankments, dams, towers, bridges, and any high-cost structures.

Settle 3 is a three-dimensional program for the analysis of settlement and consolidation under foundation, embankment and surface excavation. Settle 3 can be used for a wide variety of geotechnical analysis and design, such as shallow and deep foundation, road and railway embankments on soft soil, water retention and tailings dam, ground improvement, tunnels, liquefaction analysis and construction sequencing.

With increasing demands for using numerical modeling software in settlement analysis, it is paramount to understand the principles of settlement and consolidation theory, selection of correct soil parameters, calibration of the models and validity of numerical outputs. This course is designed to deliver theoretical and practical understanding of settlement analysis.

Course objectives

This course is designed for the attendees to understand theories and principles of settlement and consolidation analysis to calculate settlement under buildings, embankments, dams, towers, bridges or any other foundations. Step-by-step Settle 3 model setup and analysis for different case studies will help attendees to solve practical problems related to settlement of foundations and increase confidence in analysis and design.

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WEEK 1: Theory of Settlement

• – Immediate and Consolidation Settlement
• – One-dimensional consolidation
• – Degree of consolidation
• – Standard one-dimensional consolidation test and interpretation
• – Coefficient of consolidation
• – Correlation equations for soil consolidation

WEEK 2: Introduction to Settle 3

• – Settle 3D theory
• – Project set-up
• – Geometry and finite element mesh
• – Soil layers and properties
• – Result visualization

WEEK 3: Time Dependent Consolidation

• – Model 1 – Primary & Secondary Consolidation under Embankment
• – Model 2 – Staged Construction of Embankment

WEEK 4: Preloading & Wick Drain

• – Model 3 – Consolidation analysis with wick drain
• – Model 4 – Preloading
• – Model 5 – Preloading with wick drain

WEEK 5: Excavation & CPT

• – Model 6 – Ground excavation
• – Model 7 – Liquefaction analyses using CPT data

WEEK 6: Ground Improvement

• – Model 8 – Ground Improvement using Vibro-Compaction
• – Model 9 – Ground Improvement using Stone Column

Rashed Chowdhury

Rashed Chowdhury has over 14 years of experience of research, design, and large earth construction projects in the field of geotechnical engineering. His experience is mixed between consulting, contractor and provincial government, mostly in Canadian Industry. He is a registered professional engineer in Canada (Saskatchewan and Alberta).

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering. His experience largely focused on shallow and deep foundation, site investigation, instrumentation, advanced laboratory testing, numerical modeling, dam safety, slope stability and seepage assessment, and landslide remediation. He has published 2 peer reviewed journal papers and four conference proceedings in the area of expansive soils, unsaturated shear strength, mat foundation and landslide remediation.

The course is delivered online through our easy-to-use Virtual Campus platform. For this course, a variety of content is provided including:

– eLearning materials
– Videos
– Interactive multimedia content
– Live webinar classes
– Texts and technical articles
– Case studies
– Assignments and evaluation exercises

Students can download the materials and work through the course at their own pace.
We regularly update this course to ensure the latest news and state-of-the-art developments are covered, and your knowledge of the subject is current.

Live webinars form part of our course delivery. These allow students and tutors to go through the course materials, exchange ideas and knowledge, and solve problems together in a virtual classroom setting. Students can also make use of the platform’s forum, a meeting point to interact with tutors and other students.

The tutoring system is managed by email. Students can email the tutor with any questions about the course and the tutor will be happy to help.

• – Undergraduate and graduate students with basic knowledges of soil mechanics
• – Geotechnical engineers
• – Dam engineers
• – Tailings engineers from mining industry
• – Construction engineers

Once a student finishes the course and successfully completes the assignments and evaluation tests, they are sent an accreditation certificate. The certificate is issued by Ingeoexpert to verify that the student has passed the course. It is a digital certificate that is unique and tamper-proof – it is protected by Blockchain technology. This means it is possible for anyone to check that it is an authentic, original document.

You will be able to download the certificate in an electronic format from the Virtual Campus platform. The certificate can be forwarded by email, shared on social networks, and embedded on websites. To see an example, click here.

Settle 3D is one of the most widely used numerical modeling geotechnical programs in the industry. Completion of this course will provide exposure to the settlement theories, foundation and earth construction and numerical modeling. Knowing an important software like Settle 3D will help existing engineers to grow faster in the organization and new graduates to land a job in the industry faster.