SYNOPSIS

With the phenomenal increase in population in urban areas, construction works are now often carried out in close proximity to existing buildings and geotechnical structures. As such, many soil-structure interaction problems exist and examples of such problems include the effects of deep basement on adjacent structures. Nowadays, the problems have become more complex as new structures are often constructed within very congested sites as the choices of ‘good’ sites have rapidly diminished in the ever-growing large urban cities. In view of this, deformation of the retaining systems that adopted is vital to ensure the integrity of the adjacent existing structures. In this short course, the speaker will share the simplified and finite element methods in deformation analyses of deep excavation with the participants.


BIODATA OF SPEAKERS

Professor Ou obtained his Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan in 1977 and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 1987. His main research interests are on Deep Excavation, Soil Behavior, Constitutive model, Electro-osmotic Chemical Soil Improvement,  and Shield tunnelling. Prof. Ou had been a professor at Department of Construction Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology from 1994 until 2001. Besides that, he was also a dean at the College of Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology from 2004 until 2010. Now, he is a Chair Professor at Department of Civil and Construction Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.