Courses

AGE bvba organises training courses on several topics. Training seminars are usually held in conference halls in the neightbourhood of Ghent. We also offer "personalised" training courses for companies which could be held at their offices. Content, duration and level can be adapted according to the client's wishes. If you are interested in receiving a price proposal, please contact us at training@AGE-be.net.

Following open courses are scheduled at the moment:

  • Lateral loading on Piles and Pile Groups : 3 day course, December 7-9, 2009. In co-operation with Ensoft Ltd. See here.
  • Soil Parameters from Geotechnical Testing : 1 day course, planned for January 2010. See here.
  • Modelling Groundwater and contaminantflow using MODFLOW : 2 day course, planned for March 2010. See here.

Soil Mechanics

  • Soil parameters from geotechnical testing.

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    Next seminar : January 2010
    Location :
    Instructors : Prof. Dr. William Van Impe (Belgium, AGE bvba), Dr. Peter Van Impe (Belgium, AGE bvba)
    Content : advanced geotechnical testing, use and relevance of soil parameters
    Schedule :
    Deadline registration :

Foundation Engineering

  • Lateral Loading on Piles and Pile Groups (in co-operation with ENSOFT Inc.)

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    Next seminar : December 7--9, 2009
    Location : UGent Conference Centre 'Het Pand', Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Instructors : Dr. William Isenhower (USA, Ensoft Inc.) and Prof. Dr. William Van Impe (Belgium, AGE bvba)
    Content : The course deals with the complexities of designing piles for lateral load, which is a critical design element in many contemporary constructions : horizontal loads from berthing of ships on marine structures, wind- and wave-loading on off-shore windmill structures, wind forces on highrise buildings, ...
    Schedule : (preliminary)
    • Principles of soil-structure interaction
    • Theoretical basis of lateral load-transfer (p-y) curves and experimental validation
    • Description of the p-y curves used in LPILE and GROUP software
    • Study of nonlinear moment-curvature behaviour of bored piles and prestressed concrete piles
    • Software training with LPILE
    • Practical considerations for design of bored piles
    • Software training with GROUP
    • Axial loading on piles
    • Analysis of pile groups under combined axial and lateral loading
    • Geotechnical testing related to lateral loading analysis
    Deadline registration : November 20th, 2009 (number of participants limited to 45)

Environmental Geotechnics

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