Fall is here, and this issue of Rocnews has an Education focus. Read about an innovative design project from the University of British Columbia, find out what our student interns were up to this summer, and what Rocscience has been doing in the area of education. Also check out our Developer’s Tip on water table extents in Slide 5.0. Your comments are always welcome through our feedback page.

Education - Building on University / Industry connections - Fall 2006

                                                                                                                                                                                              


Phase2 6.0 analysis from student presentation and Term Project, University of British Columbia

Geological Engineering students at UBC tackle geological uncertainty in their Geotechnical design projects - Each year, as part of their course “EOSC 433 – Geotechnical Engineering Practice”, Geological Engineering students at UBC take up the challenge of investigating geotechnical design aspects related to a major construction project. Last year, students formed 6 small “consulting” groups of 4 students each to study different stability and deformation issues related to different aspects of Vancouver’s Canada Line.

University of British Columbia, Earth & Ocean Sciences
Dr Erik Eberhardt, P.Eng., Associate Professor, Geological Engineering

  
A common modeling mistake is to define a water table which does not span the extent of all materials for which it is intended to calculate the pore pressure. Read how to detect and avoid this modeling pitfall using Slide.


This summer, three students joined us at Rocscience Inc.
Derrick Shum focused on 3D modeling for finite element analysis while Elena Pricoiu worked on further developments in RocProp. Felex Wibowo helped prepare new slope stability models for Rocscience software.
   

How to Create a Model in Rhino and Import it into Examine3D

A new set of examples has been added to the Phase2 Slope Stability Verification Manual. Several of these examples are taken from the book titled "Soil Strength and Slope Stability" by M. Duncan and S. Wright. Examples of MSE walls are also included in this manual.

  
Rocscience believes that a close collaboration between education and industry is crucial to the future of both. Read more.
   
Rocscience was recently in Vancouver for the Sea to Sky 2006 Conference. Our paper on the Performance of the SSR Method on Reinforced Slope Examples continues the research using this method in slope stability analysis.

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