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By the end of this live session, you'll understand how to validate, optimize and build deep excavation models in MIDAS GTS NX
1. Reading deformation results against expert-assessment limits
2. Turning validation results into an optimized design
3. Building an efficient 3D deep excavation model
4. Simulating and interpreting a full 3D excavation
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Description
A residential complex in a dense urban area required a deep excavation immediately next to existing buildings already showing cracks, settlement and long-term degradation.
This session opens with how that retaining system was validated and optimized against strict deformation limits — 10 mm maximum horizontal displacement, 14 mm maximum settlement, 7 mm relative settlement — across 24 representative staged-construction profiles in MIDAS GTS NX.
Key Points
Multi-Profile Staged Modelling: 24 distinct 2D profiles along the excavation perimeter, each reproducing its own soil stratification, groundwater level and neighboring geometry.
Soil-Structure Interaction & Dewatering: Interface elements between soil and retaining piles, combined with staged groundwater lowering, to capture the real transfer of stresses through each phase.
Design Optimization: Comparing the conservative initial retaining scheme against the staged-analysis result: 23% less pile length and over 55% less temporary steel, all within the imposed deformation limits.
Benefit
Official GEN NX License
Speaker
He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering, and his expertise focuses on reinforced concrete structures and geotechnical works, including special foundations, deep excavations, and retaining systems.