During the visit, the collaboration between Katherine Kwa and Gertraud Medicus continued, with a recent journal paper published and another paper submitted to Geotechnique Letters, currently under review. The focus of their collaboration is on using the Hypoplastic constitutive model to analyze embedded anchoring systems for floating offshore renewable energy infrastructure. They employ two numerical approaches, one at an element scale in Matlab and another as a boundary value problem in Plaxis 2D. The visit involved discussions on the design of numerical models and benchmarking for consistency, as well as planning a new workflow between the models for future simulations.
Gertraud Medicus is an expert in Hypoplasticity, and Ms. Kwa expressed pleasure in working with her and learning more about offshore geotechnical applications. A guest lecture was delivered in person, attracting approximately 15 viewers, followed by a Q&A discussion. Katherine Kwas's future plan involves creating 2D-maps of changing soil strength around an anchor to understand the evolving soil response and anchor capacity, leading to another journal paper.
Ms. Kwa highlighted the productivity and value of meeting and discussing in person after two years of virtual collaboration with Gertraud Medicus.
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Gertraud Medicus is an expert in Hypoplasticity, and Ms. Kwa expressed pleasure in working with her and learning more about offshore geotechnical applications. A guest lecture was delivered in person, attracting approximately 15 viewers, followed by a Q&A discussion. Katherine Kwas's future plan involves creating 2D-maps of changing soil strength around an anchor to understand the evolving soil response and anchor capacity, leading to another journal paper.
Ms. Kwa highlighted the productivity and value of meeting and discussing in person after two years of virtual collaboration with Gertraud Medicus.
Read the full report here
