Nº 8 - JULY 1999 Editorial Editorial staff: Nisa Nurmohamed, chief editor We are very pleased to present this special Marco Hutteman, Plaxis Users Association (NL) edition of the PLAXIS bulletin. Besides the Peter Brand, Plaxis bv normal contents part of this bulletin is devoted to the PLAXIS symposium held last Scientific committee: March in Amsterdam. As requested by Prof. Pieter Vermeer, Stuttgart University participants the opening speech by Dr. Ronald Brinkgreve, Plaxis bv Margriet Janzs and a publication on creep by the Dutch Ministry of Public Works and Water management are published. In addition, a summary of the discussions is provided. Column Vermeer FIELD SITUATION WITH OCR ≈ 1 he first international PLAXIS symposium was Ta big success, nearly 100 participants from Very young soil deposits have experienced 20 different countries participated. The only vertical stresses due to self weight, Experienced Users Course directly after the without additional deformations due to conference was very well attended with 40 previous overburden or ageing, i.e. creep. Bulletin of the participants. Such soil may be truly normally PLAXIS Users Association (NL) consolidated with an over-consolidation Other courses included a PLAXIS short course factor of nearly one. PLAXIS bulletin P.O. Box 3302 in Egypt, and the course “Introduction to To my experience such situations are rare 2601 DH Delft The Netherlands Computational Geotechnics” organised as a and even alluvial deposits are mostly E-mail: post-conference activity to the XIIth “European characterised by a pre-overburden pressure,
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