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Geotechnical Engineering Expertise and Services
The Geotechnical Engineering capabilities of the Structural Division include:
Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering: Sc Solutions' expertise includes geotechnical and foundation analyses, soil dynamics, seismic hazard and ground motion evaluations and soil-structure interaction analyses.
Additionally, our geotechnical engineers have been involved in the development and application of nonlinear soil methods for large seismic deformation analysis of slopes and excavations.
This wide range of expertise have been used during performance evaluations for diverse projects involving bridges, dams, tunnels, pipelines, underground structures, LNG tanks, hospitals, high-rise buildings, major industrial facilities, landfills, nuclear power plants, offshore structures, and port and harbor facilities.
Industry Standard Execution: SC Solutions' Chief Geotechnical Engineer, Dr. Mansour Tabatabaie, is a principal author of the System for Analysis of Soil Structure Interaction (SASSI) program which evaluated the dynamic response of soil-structure systems in three-dimensions.
This includes the effects of large pile groups, fluid-structure interaction, structure-soil-structure interaction, general seismic wave fields, and includes inclined propagating body waves and surface waves, traveling loads, incoherent ground motions and ambient and random vibrations.
Advanced Technology Development and Implementation: Traditional methodologies for the implementation of soil analogs into structural models involve separate activities conducted by geotechnical engineers.
Depending on the types of substructures, soil representations are developed and then "handed over" to the structural engineers for incorporating in the structural analysis models.
During this process, typically very little or no validation of the alignment of the geotechnical and structural model behavior is carried out.
Similarly, ground motions are developed with very little or no consideration to the type of structures or its response characteristics.
Considering recent developments of the computer and software technology, it has become feasible to merge geotechnical and structural models.
In doing this, great care must be exercised to make sure that physical nature of these models is maintained.
SC Solutions' geotechnical engineers have developed an advanced methodology and practical implementation approach to integrated SSI analysis.
This unique methodology has gone through extensive validation and has been peer reviewed and accepted for use on many major projects.
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