Dr.

Leonard Lam
CnTech Co., Ltd.,
Shanghai, China, June 5, 2010
Wuhan, China, June 9, 2010

 Dr. Leonard Lam

● Made in China (Born in ShenZhen)
● Raised up in Hong Kong
● Educated in Canada
● Ph.D. – University of Saskatchewan, Canada
● Senior Project Engineer with Clifton & Associates Ltd., Canada
● Partner, Senior Engineer with GEO-SLOPE International since 1993
● Long term interest in numerical modeling for engineering practice
● Key developer of SLOPE/W and SEEP/W

 Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, GEO-SLOPE

International Ltd. is a privately-held company.

 GEO-SLOPE International Ltd. develops, markets and

supports state-of-the-art software for geotechnical and
geo-environmental modeling.

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 Our objective at GEO-SLOPE is to create software that is
both technically comprehensive and easy to use, making
geotechnical modeling accessible and practical for all
geotechnical engineers.

 We constantly seek to improve its engineering

capabilities and remain current with the rapid changes in
the computer industry.

Version 7.0 of all products

Released May 1, 2007
Latest version – 7.16

 Licenses in more than 100 countries

● World wide user group

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  Capable of handling saturated – unsaturated soil conditions

 Many in practice still wish to ignore unsaturated zone

 Ignoring unsaturated zone or not dealing with it correctly

greatly limits types of problems that can be analyzed and can
lead to erroneous solutions

 Product integration – use results of one product in another

product

 These two features greatly expands the types of problems that

can be analyzed

 More difficult for water to flow when there are air

filled voids

 Need a conductivity function

● Ksat only works for the saturated zone

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  What is happening as suction (-pwp) increases?

VWC

- pwp (kPa)

K Air-Entry
Value
Saturated Unsaturated Fully Drained
S=1 1 > S > Sr Sr
- pwp, (kPa)
10

Question : Which soil is more permeable?

y
 Concept of
Capillarity
● e.g. paper towel in cup
of water
 Pressure profile?
 Water content profile?
● Definitions
 Air entry value (AEV)
 Residual water content
or suction

- pwp
0 

12

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  Seepage through a dam

6.7562e-003
4
00
e-
01
.08
7

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 Infiltration problem

 Contaminant Transport

60

Containment Pond Time Step#4:

60
40
Distance (m)

20
Aquifers
40

0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120

Elevation (m) 20

Contaminant Plume

0
0 20 40 60

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 Unsaturated Shear Strength - Slope Stability

Rainfall

Slip Surfaces
Phreatic Surface

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SEEP/W – SLOPE/W

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 SEEP/W – SIGMA/W

SIGMA/W – SLOPE/W

 Version 7 of all products

 One Model, One Tool, Many Analyses

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 Introduce some key features of GeoStudio

 DEFINE the Problem

 SOLVE the Problem
 CONTOUR the Solution

 Sketch problem, Draw geometry, KeyIn data, Modify objects

 View results, Graph results, Contour results
 Reporting, Movie, Online Helps, Resources

 Show some examples solved by GeoStudio

 Example 1
 – Steady State Seepage and Stability Analysis (SEEP & SLOPE)
 Example 2
 – Transient Seepage and Stability analysis (SEEP & SLOPE)
 Example 3
 – Foundation Heave due to Infiltration (SIGMA)
 Example 4
 – Reservoir draining consolidation and stability analysis (SIGMA-SLOPE)
 Example 5
 – Soft ground couple consolidation analysis (SIGMA)

 GeoStudio 2007 has many powerful features,

yet easy to use.

 Saturated-Unsaturated capability and product

integration opens doors for solving complex
engineering problems.

 One model – One tool - Many analyses.

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 Day 1 – Basic Modeling using SEEP and SLOPE

● Morning - Steady state SEEP theory, demo examples and hands-on exercises in the morning.
● Afternoon - Basic SLOPE theory, demo examples and hands-on exercises in the morning.
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 Day 2 – Advance Modeling using SEEP and SLOPE

● Morning – Transient SEEP theory, demo examples and hands-on exercises in the morning.
● Afternoon – Advance SLOPE theory, demo examples and hands-on exercises in the morning.

 Questions?

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