Lateral pressure on piles due to horizontal soil movements

- Geotechnical Seminar Series 2015 -
Lateral pressure on piles due to
horizontal soil movements
by
Prof. Oliver Reul
Department of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Kassel, Germany
23 March 2015 Monday
15:30-16:30, K1 Conference Room
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German design approach.
Large scale test in the course of the construction process of a steel mill in Brazil.
Small scale model tests.
Numerical analyses.
Background of Prof. Reul
Prof. Reul graduated in 1993 with a Diploma (equivalent to a Master degree) in Civil Engineering
from Technical University (TU) Darmstadt. In 2000 he got his PhD degree also from TU
Darmstadt with his thesis on “In-situ measurements and numerical studies on the bearing
behaviour of piled rafts”. From 2000 to 2002 Prof. Reul was a visiting researcher at the Centre for
Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS) at University of Western Australia where he continued his
research on piled rafts in collaboration with Prof. Randolph. After his return to Germany, Prof.
Reul joined the consulting engineering company CDM where he headed the
Infrastructure/Geotechnics group of the Rhein-Main branch. From 2009 to 2012 he was
Professor at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Since 2012 Prof. Reul heads the
Department of Geotechnical Engineering at University of Kassel. He is a member of the
International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), of the German
Geotechnical Society (DGGT) and of the German Geothermal Society (GtV-BV). Since 2010
Prof. Reul is accredited as a test engineer for geotechnical engineering.