Program
Abstracts
Gambin lecture
Keynote lectures
- Jean-Louis Briaud, Ali Doostvandi – Intermediate Geomaterials: Properties and Foundation Capacity Using the Pressuremeter
- Sébastien Burlon, Philippe Reiffsteck – ARSCOP: a French national project to continue with the development of the pressuremeter
- Julian Contreras, Colin Dreger, Hari Om Sharma, David Elwood – Analysis of Pressuremeter Testing: Evaluating Anisotropic Behaviour, Operational Stiffness, and Non-Linear Elasticity in Soils and Soft Rocks
- John Hughes, Robert Whittle – The rigorous application of cavity expansion data
Parallel session 1A – Data Interpretation and Analysis
- John Hughes, Robert Whittle – Advantages of the concept of Pressuremeter Tests in Tailing Storage Facilities
- Alexandre Lopes dos Santos, Julien Habert – Advanced Interpretation of Pressuremeter Tests: Determining Damping Ratio Through Unload-Reload Loops
- Gabriel Sedran, Louis Marcil, Roger Failmezger, et al – Rate of Loading Effects on Pressuremeter Testing: Stress- vs Strain-Controlled Procedures
- Rafael Martinez, Fernando Schnaid, Gonzalo Montalva, et al – On the determination of the at-rest lateral earth pressure coefficient and the state parameter using pushed-in high-resolution Pressuremeters
- Apostolis Ritsos, Nikos Gerolymos, Ilias Michalis, et al – Pressuremeter Tests and the Hardening Soil Model for Deep Excavations in the Athens Basin Formations
- Youngcheul Kwon, Akiyoshi Kamura, Keigo Azuno, et al – Case Studies and Field Applications of Cyclic Pressuremeter Test to Liquefaction Damaged Ground by Noto Peninsula Earthquake in 2024, Japan
Parallel session 1B – Site Characterization and parameter determination
- Julio Cesar Chable Moreno , Adrián Leonardo Ferriño Fierro – Importance of the Pressuremeter to evaluate the Permeability of the Rock Mass by applying Flow Networks
- Sami Hamdi, Steve Gruslin – Cylindrical cavity expansion in Hoek-Brown rock: analytical Solution with experimental Validation through pressuremeter tests in marls and numerical modeling
- Marie-Claude Lévesque, Simon-Pierre Gravel, Louis Marcil, et al – Relationship between pressuremeter test results, SPT-N value and other in-situ tests for deposits in the Saint-Charles River area, Quebec, Canada
- Philippe Reiffsteck, Daoud Dirir Mohammad, Taisuke Sanagawa, et al – Reduced scale pressuremeter for shallow foundation model tests
- Brhane Ygzaw, Paul Cosentino, Anuar Akchurin, et al – Using the SSMini Pressuremeter for Compaction Quality Control
- Ichrak Gaaloul, Wissem Frikha, Othman Ben Mekki , et al – Thermal pressuremeter- Novel tool for study the thermomechanical behaviour of soils
Parallel session 2A – Pressuremeter Testing Techniques and procedures
- Anuar Akchurin, Brhane Ygzaw, Paul Cosentino – The Development of a Fully Automated Pressuremeter
- Brhane Ygzaw, Paul Cosentino, Brett Parrish, et al – Pushed-in PPMT for Settlement Prediction: Insights from Indoor Test Pits in Florida Fine Sands
- Soufyane Aissaoui, Philippe Reiffsteck, Zadjaoui Abdeldjalil – Design and development of an innovative pressuremeter for improved soil characterization
- Saul Andres Minuche Cruz, Sergio Felipe Zaldivar Reyes, Jose Ramon Cruz Aguila – Interpretation of Menard’s Pressuremeter Tests in sandy soils through analytical and numerical methods
- Bilel Ouertani, Zeineb Ben Salem, Wissem Frikha, et al – Soil Creep Behavior from Modified Pressuremeter Tests
- Louis Marcil, Simon Pierre Gravel – Optimisation of Drilling Methods for Pressuremeter Tests – North American Experiments
Parallel session 2B – Data Interpretation and Analysis
- Marek Tarnawski, Tomasz Tarnawski – Determination of soil deformation modulus E based on the results of the Ménard pressuremeter tests
- Ammar Dhouib – Variabilité des essais pressiométriques – contrôle des paramètres mesurés
- Babak Hamidi – Further use of the Pressuremeter for Ground Improvement
- Carlos Silva, Eduardo Fonseca, Ezequias Borges,et al – Ménard Pressuremeter Test – PMT on Mining Industry Geomaterial
- Lang Liu, Rick Chalaturnyk, Derek Martin, et al – Quantifying Stiffness and In-situ Stress Anisotropies from Pressuremeter Testing
- Vincenzo Silvestri, Ghassan Abou-Samra – Analysis of PMTs, SBPMTs, and VSTs in a Stiff Clay of Quebec
Parallel session 3A – Applications in Foundation Engineering
- Christopher Tinat, Birthe Knabe, Jean-Luc Chaumeny, et al – Beneficial use of Pressuremeter Tests for accurate the Slab foundation design of a Biogas Plant in Germany
- Jean-Claude Gress – Améliorations récentes pour le calcul des tassements de consolidation unidimensionnelle
- Philippe Reiffsteck, Daoud Dirir Mohammad, Fabien Szymkiewicz – Long term settlement assesment of shallow foundation and extended duration of load step during pressuremeter expansion test
- Ramdane Bahar, Amal Medjnoun, Lynda Djerbal, et al – L’utilisation du pressiomètre Ménard en Algérie pour la conception des ouvrages géotechniques
- Ichrak Gaaloul, Othman Ben Mekki , Sami Montassar, et al – Une méthode pratique de dimensionnement des pieux énergétiques basée sur les résultats des essais pressiométriques
- Jean-Pierre BAUD, Jérôme Cuccia, and Marc Zénéré – Protocol for measuring the at rest horizontal earth pressure prior to MPM test. Verification by total pressure sensors Geocell Ménard
Parallel session 3B – Case Studies and Field Applications
- Kubra Golbasi, Cemal Yildiz, Ayhan Kocbay – Comparison of Menard Pressuremeter Test Results around the DSİ Buildings Before and After Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes on 6th February 2023
- Ammar Dhouib – Correction des modules pressiométriques et application aux grands projets
- Hervé Duplaine, Jean-Pierre Baud – Incidence de la qualité des essais pressiométriques sur le cout et le planning d’un ouvrage
- Norbert Gündling, Mattias Fischer, Dirk Markgraf, et al – Conception of the deep foundation for the new construction of a warehouse and administration bulding based on cored borings, CPT-, CPTU-, pressuremeter- and phicometertests
- Eduardo Fonseca, Carlos Silva, Ezequias Borges, et al – The Relevance of PMT – Ménard Pressuremeter Test in Geotechnical Investigation for Stability Analysis of Deep Foundations
Parallel session 4A – Standards and Guidelines / Techniological Innovations
- Jacques Monnet, Luc Boutonnier – Study of Consolidation Using the Pressuremeter
- Soufyane Aissaoui, Philippe Reiffsteck, Zadjaoui Abdeldjalil – Dégradation des modules de cisaillement des sols à court terme lors des séismes ou des ruptures d’ouvrages : application d’un pressiomètre innovant
- Jean-Pierre Baud, Damien Bréchot, Lionel Daré, et al – Phicometer Borehole Shear Test Improvement by Continuous Recording and Automated Pulling System
- Moulay Idriss Zerhouni, Robert Heintz – In Situ Shear Resistance Measurement of Soils by The Phicometer Borehole Shear Test According to the New ISO 22476-16 Standard
- Yasuaki Kawai, Susumu Yamabe, Shiro Ohta, et al – Examples of PMT usage in Japan and comparisons with other measurement methods
Parallel session 4B – Site Characterization and parameter determination
- Marwa Ben Khalifa, Zeineb Ben Salem, Wissem Frikha – Etude de l’expansion de cavité cylindrique dans la vase de Tunis
- Antal Csuka, Lukas Henzinger, Roberto Cudmani – Characterizing the Stiffness of Munich`s Tertiary Soils using the TEXAM Presuremeter
- Arash Alimardani Lavasan, G. Claus, Jean-Frank Wagner, et al – The MENARD pressuremeter: a useful tool to investigate toarcian pyritic black shales able to induce swell
- Sihem Louati, Nesrine Baba, Najla Bouden Romdhane – Evaluation du risque de liquéfaction dans un bassin sédimentaire par la confrontation des paramètres pressiométriques, SPT, CPT et dynamiques
- Erol Guler, Arshiya Abadkon – Correlations between shear wave velocity obtained from PS Logging and pressuremeter test data
Parallel session 5A – Site Characterization and parameter determination
- Julien Habert, Jean-Pierre Baud, Philippe Reiffsteck – Pressuremeter tests: status of EN and ISO standardization
- Stephane Brule – L’utilisation du pressiomètre par l’entreprise MENARD spécialisée en renforcement et d’amélioration de sol
- Guilherme De Oliveira Souza, Philippe Reiffsteck, Arnaud Finiasz, et al – Complementarity of PMT and MWD tests
- Marjorie Gregoire, Arnaud Finiasz, Catherine Jacquard, et al – Assessing the influence of the slotted tube on modulus calculations, from theory to field tests
- Seyedmohsen Miraei, Ba-Phu Nguyen, Roberto Cudmani, et al – Comparison of Various Pressuremeter Tests for Characterizing Sensitive Lacustrine Clays
- Rafael Martinez, Max Jara, Fernando Mantaras, et al – The use of Artificial Intelligence, Finite Element Modelling and Pressuremeter tests for geotechnical characterisation