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The rapid development in the last decades all over the world leads to the need of complex infrastructure projects as well as more and more high-rise buildings in complicated geotechnical conditions. Therefore, applications of highly sophisticated site investigation, design procedures applying complex numerical analyses and monitoring programs are now daily work of geotechnical engineers. New engineering generation are asked applying sophisticated numerical analyses to solve all geotechnical problems facing them during the design and construction of complicated structures. The interaction between the required enhanced theoretical knowledge with the appropriate methodologies for engineering applications is a big challenge for the young engineers.
The objective of this paper is to show the interaction between Academic Knowledge and Daily Practice regarding complicated and enhanced numerical analyses and real applications to reach the most economic design with minimum risks and also to optimize the required geotechnical solutions for some geotechnical applications.
Design of deep pit excavation as well as tunnel projects in complex geological conditions, huge sliding problem that takes place during construction of infra-structure projects and optimization of deep foundation of high rise buildings will be presented and illustrated as some practical examples of how sophisticated academic knowledge can be applied in complex megaprojects.
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The first author would like to emphasize his thanks to the geotechnical institute at TU Darmstad where he has done his PhD work under the supervision of Professor Eberhard Franke and Professor Rolf Katzenbach. Special thanks should be awarded to Professor Katzenbach for the many years cooperation in many national and international projects.
The authors appreciate the support of all our colleagues in Arcadis during the last 25 years specially Mr. Duerrwang and Mr. wittman from Arcadis germany.
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El-Mossallamy, Y., Schulz, G., Heeres, O. (2019). How to Improve Exchanges Between Academic Knowledge and Daily Practice?. In: Shehata, H., Desai, C. (eds) Advances in Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering. GeoMEast 2018. Sustainable Civil Infrastructures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01926-6_2
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