Personal page of Patrick Arnold

Personal page of Patrick Arnold

*** TESTBED - December 2011 ***


	PhD student Geo-Engineering SIG (University of Manchester) Geo-Engineering Section (Delft University of Technology)


	p.arnold@tudelft.nl +31 15 27 81641 (tel) +31 15 27 83328 (fax)


	Recent / upcoming events Curriculum vitae Research project General research interests Publications Downloads People I work with Links Besides looking at soils...


	Visiting address Geo-Engineering Section Department of Geotechnology Stevinweg 1 2628 CN Delft Room 00.560		Mailing address Geo-Engineering Section Department of Geotechnology Delft University of Technology P.O. Box 5048 2600 GA Delft The Netherlands

Last update: 14 December 2011

Recent / upcoming events

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WORKSHOP

Safety Concepts and Calibration of Partial Factors in European and North American Codes of Practice

30/11 - 01/12/2011

Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

The objective of this workshop is to transfer knowledge between European and North American experts on safety concepts and calibration of Codes of Practice. Speakers will describe their national approach and the code choices made in terms of design, partial factor values and target reliability levels. The overall aim is to identify advantages and limitations as well as similarities and differences between the code approaches and, thereby, to get an overview of the state-of-the-art and generate ideas for future developments.

This informal lunch-to-lunch workshop is free of charge and will take place at Delft University of Technology from November 30^th to December 1^st, 2011. For more information please see the flyer below or visit the workshop website (due server problems temporarily moved).

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Link to workshop website (due server problems temporarily moved).

Curriculum vitae

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University Education Profile

04/2008 - to date

PhD in Civil Engineering

Project: Stochastic modelling of unsaturated slope stability

University of Manchester (UK)

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michael A. Hicks (Delft), Dr. Pauleen Lane (Manchester)

08/2006 - 09/2007

MSc in Geotechnical Engineering

Dissertation: Constitutive modelling of unsaturated soil

University of Manchester (UK)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael A. Hicks

09/2002 - 08/2006

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) in Civil Engineering

Thesis: Untersuchungen zur freien Standhöhe von Böschungen in Sand und Kies (in German)

University of Applied Sciences Dresden (Germany)

Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Engel, Dipl.-Ing. Carsten Lauer

Professional Experiences

04/2011 − to date

Researcher

Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Geo-Engineering Section, Delft, the Netherlands

01/2003 − 06/2006

Research assistant (part time)

Soil mechanics laboratory, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Dresden, Germany

08/2004 − 02/2005

Trainee site engineer (internship, full time)

Katzenbergtunnel construction site Efringen Kirchen, Ed. Züblin AG, Tunnelling Division Stuttgart, Germany

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General research interests

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Probabilistic methods in geotechnics:	Characterisation and modelling of heterogeneity, stochastic modelling of geostructural performance and reliability based risk assessment.
Computational geomechanics:	Finite Element modelling and numerical simulation of flow, deformation and stability problems in unsaturated porous media.
Unsaturated soil mechanics:	Constitutive modelling of coupled behaviour.
High Performance Computing:	Parallel computation.

Publications

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Conference papers:

[C1]	P. Arnold and M. A. Hicks. Stochastic modelling of unsaturated slope stability. In A. Zervos, editor, Proc.: 18th UK Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACMEUK), pages 9-12, Southampton, UK, 2010.
[C2]	P. Arnold and M. A. Hicks. A stochastic investigation of unsaturated slope stability. In E. Alonso and A. Gens, editors, Proc.: Fifth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2010), pages 1237-1242, Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
[C3]	P. Arnold and M. A. Hicks. A stochastic approach to rainfall-induced slope failure. In N. Vogt, B. Schuppener, D. Straub und G. Bräu, editors, Proc.: Third International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR), pages 107-115, Munich, Germany, 2011.

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Documents:

The below poster and one page research summary have been prepared as part of the Project Book 2011 of the Geo-Engineering Section (Delft University of Technology, Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences) and contain a short summary/overview of my PhD research project.

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Presentation:

The presentation below was given at the Third International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR) in Munich on June 2^nd, 2011.

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People I work with

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Jonathan Nuttall (Delft Universtiy of Technology) Parallel computation and reliability based design
Maximilian Huber (University of Stuttgart) Interpretation and evaluation of spatial variability in soils
Timo Schweckendiek (Deltares / Delft Universtiy of Technology) Reliability based design methods

Links

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Personal:
GeoWorld My GeoWorld profile

Universities:
MACE University of Manchester (UK) - School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
CITG Delft Universtiy of Technology - Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences
BAU-HTW University of Applied Sciences Dresden (Germany) - Faculty of Civil Engineering/Architecture

Societies, Associations and Orgnisations:
IISMGE International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
DGGT German Geotechnical Society
GeosNET Geotechnical Safety Network to promote, coordinate, and support activities relating to geotechnical safety
Georisk & Reliability Information and networking platform
CEN/TC250 CEN Technical Committee 250 (Structural Eurocodes)
ETC 10 European Technical Committee 10 for the evaluation of Eurocode 7
Eurocode 7 - geotechnical design Resources to help you get the most out of Eurocode 7
TC 205 ISSMGE Technical Committee for Safety and Serviceability in Geotechnical Design
TC 304 ISSMGE Technical Committee for Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management
ESRA European Safety and Reliability Association
LARAM LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation
ALERT Geomaterials European School of Thinking in the field of the Mechanics of Geomaterials

Database:
GeotechLinks Free internet link directory for geotechnical engineers and researchers
GeotechML Website dedicated to developing tools for exchanging geo-engineering data and sharing data via the world wide web

Software:
GNU Project and Free Software Foundation Unix-like operating system which is free software
openSUSE Free GNU/Linux operating system

FEM source codes and librares by D. V. Griffiths assosiated with the book Programming the Finite Element Method
OpenTURNS Uncertainty engineering software
FERUM Finite Element Reliability Using Matlab
RETC Software for quantifying the water retention curve and hydraulic conductivity function of unsaturated soils

GNU Octave Open source interpreted language similar to MATLAB
Maxima Open source Computer Algebra System for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions

LibreOffice Open source office suite like Microsoft Office and (Oracle) Open Office
LaTeX Free document markup language
Engauge Digitizer Open source digitizing software to convert an image (graphs/maps) into numbers
LaTeXDraw Graphical drawing editor for LaTeX

Besides looking at soils...

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UTMB Ultra-Trail du Mount-Blanc ... 166km ... 9500 m of positive altitude change = The Target (to get an impression)
RadioEINS Best German radio station!
Trojka Polskie radio ... one of ways to learn polish.
HIPNOZA For music or food ... Jazzclub HIPNOZA in Katowice.
Steffen Möller Besides Angela Merkel and Benedikt XVI the most famous German in Poland.
Dynamo Dresden Everybody has a team. This is mine.