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Session 12 – Discussion on Pile Foundation – Live technical discussion

Join us for live technical discussion related to “Pile foundation” on 10-JAN-21 at 11:00AM IST. We are going to discuss the important areas related to geotechnical and structural aspects of the pile foundation.

Please share your points of discussion in the below comment box which will be taken up during the live session. Vivek Kumar MITRA will join as a guest expert during the session.

Link for joining the session is mentioned in the first comment below.

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Facilitator : Bhavin Shah (Founder & CEO, SQVe Consultants)

An initiative of SQVe Consultants
(Enhancing the engineering profession)

We will discuss following areas during the session. Please suggest the other points which may be taken up during the live session.

1. When pile foundations are required?
2. What are the different types of piles and their applications?
3. How to decide diameter and length of pile?
4. What are the major factors affecting pile capacities?
5. Can we go ahead with only friction piles?
6. What is negative skin friction for piles?
7. What are the different tests required to ascertain pile capacity?
8. Is it mandatory to perform pile test?
9. What is PDA and how it is useful for pile testing?
10. Major steps for performing structural design of piles
11. What are secant piles?

Session 12 – Discussion on Pile Foundation – Live technical discussion

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First LinkedIn Live session – Importance of interface between Geotechnical engineer & Structural engineer

Glad to announce our first LinkedIn Live session on 24-DEC-20 at 11:00AM IST related to importance of the interface between Geotechnical engineer & Structural engineer.

For safety & stability of the structure as well as for the cost optimization, interface between geotechnical engineer and structural engineer is extremely important in the project. We will discuss few such important interface areas and also, we will take up the discussion points suggested by the participants through live chat.

Vivek Kumar MITRA (Founder & CEO, VKM Geotechnics) will join us in the live session.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhavin-shah-ceo_for-safety-of-the-structure-and-cost-optimisation-activity-6747135517843865600-0a_d

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Geotechnical Engineering News & Events Online Courses Structural Engneering

First Facebook Live session of SQVe Consultants : Importance of interface between Geotechnical and Structural engineers

We had an interesting conversation on the subject : Importance of interface between Geotechnical & Structural Engineers. Your further comments / queries on the subject are invited.

For safety of the structure and cost optimisation, appropriate geotechnical investigation is extremely important. Apart from definite statistics, it can be said that the geotechnical failures are one of the major causes for collapse of the structures. In the typical fast track projects, sometimes proper interface is not carried out between geotechnical engineer and structural engineer which may affect adversely the major goals of engineering, i.e. safety of the structure and cost optimisation. Also, the project may get delayed substantially due to inappropriate soil investigation or may be due to lack of interface between geotechnical engineer and structural engineer.

VIVEK KUMAR MITRA is a renowned consultant in Geotechnical Engineering. He commenced his career as a GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER at TATA Consulting Engineers Limited, Mumbai. Later he moved to organization like Bureau Veritas, Reliance, Impac, Egis Consulting Engineers. He was at Abu Dhabi for mega artificial Island Project in 2013 and represented ADNOC. He is geotechnical consultant for projects at Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Dubai.He has worked in projects in the areas of Offshore, Infrastructure, Power, Refinery, Petrochemicals & Marine. He also handled with distinction various projects in Ports & Harbors, Mega-Infrastructure, Artificial Islands, Dredging / Land Reclamation and Oil & Gas, Ground Improvement for ultra-soft soil. He is the Founder & CEO of VKM GEOTECHNICS which he started in 2019.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Mr. Bhavin Shah is passionate about Engineering profession with two decades of experience. He is having a dream for enhancing the engineering profession in different organisations. He completed graduation in Civil Engineering and Masters in Structures from Sardar Patel University. He is having unique experience of working in the specialized firm of civil / structural consultancy which grew as multidisciplinary firm (VMS), large multidisciplinary firm (L&T Chiyoda Ltd.) and owner based engineering set up (Adani Infra (I) Ltd.). He worked in different organisations at different levels, starting from junior design engineer to CEO. He is Founder & CEO of SQVe Consultants.

Link for registration and payment for the online course GEO-STR-001 : https://sqveconsultants.com/2020/10/14/online-course-process-of-interactive-geotechnical-investigation/

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Session no. 9 – Discussion about our upcoming online course GEO-STR-001 : Live Technical Discussion

Session 9 - Discussion about our upcoming online course GEO-STR-001 : Live Technical Discussion
Session 9 - Discussion about our upcoming online course GEO-STR-001 : Live Technical Discussion

We are glad to announce our first online course in the important area of interface between geotechnical and structural engineering. The course title is “GEO-STR-001 : Process of Interactive Geotechnical Investigation”.

For safety of the structure and cost optimisation, appropriate geotechnical investigation is extremely important. In the typical fast track projects, sometimes proper interface is not carried out between geotechnical engineer and structural engineer which may affect adversely the major goals of engineering, i.e. safety of the structure and cost optimisation. Also, the project may get delayed substantially due to inappropriate soil investigation.

The course is designed carefully to address the practical aspects so that the details can be readily used in the real projects. We are thankful of Vivek Kumar MITRA for his efforts in designing the unique course.

We are pleased to mention that it created a lot of excitement in the prospective participants. We have received numerous suggestions/questions from social media regarding the content and structure of the course. Part of the same will be covered in this course and we will attempt to cover the balance details in the future courses.

In next live technical discussion on 8-Nov-20, we are going to focus our discussion on the upcoming online course. The agenda of the session will be as follows:

  • To give overall introduction about content and structure of the course
  • Brief discussion about the interesting questions (around 35 nos.) received from social media
  • Collating the further important suggestions/questions received from the participants through live chat
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Link for participating in all live technical discussions (EVERY SUNDAY at 11:00am IST):
https://youtube.com/c/StructuralEngineering/Live

Registration for the course is open. For more details and registration, please refer the following link:

https://sqveconsultants.com/2020/10/14/online-course-process-of-interactive-geotechnical-investigation/

Looking forward for your participation in the session of 8-NOV-20. You may also share the input in the below comment box.

Session 9 – Discussion about our upcoming online course GEO-STR-001 : Live Technical Discussion

Facilitator : Bhavin Shah (Founder & CEO, SQVe Consultants)