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Tutorials

This section introduces numgeo through a sequence of hands-on examples, progressing from elementary element tests to realistic boundary-value problems and, finally, user-defined extensions. Each tutorial is self-contained and can be completed independently.

  • Element test simulations: The first steps - you'll learn about the numgeo input file format and structure, basic keywords and special features for the simulation of geotechnical lab tests.
  • Strip footing: The first step towards the simulation of more complex boundary value problems. Learn how to create models with more than one body and formulate contact between the two.
  • Unsaturated flow: Some examples gently introducing you to the simulation of flow in unsaturated soils

Element test simulations

Example of using numgeo for the back-calculation of the laboratory tests with different advanced constitutive models. How the individual tests are exactly simulated is described in detail in the following sections.


Strip foundation

Example of a 2D axisymmetric model of a circular, rigid foundation resting on a homogeneous soil layer, subjected to a uniform surface pressure of 500 kN/m².


Unsaturated flow