PROGRAM
Program in detail (pdf)
Follow link below to every paper


September 18


13.00 (1 PM)- Registration opens*


Excursion by bus - a visit to the geotechnical world of Göteborg
First bus leaves at 13.30-last bus at 14.30


Hotel check in

Welcoming reception between 18.00-21.00 at the conference venue at Lindholmen

September 19


WELCOME TO THE NORDIC GEOTECHNICAL MEETING 2024

Registration 07:30 - 08:30

08:30 in the Confernence Hall - Welcome and KEYNOTE LECTURES
ISSMGE President Dr Marc Ballouz -
ISSMGE Vice President Europe Prof. Lyesse Lalou - ISSMGE Keynote presentation

10:00 - 10:30 - Swedish fika - coffee break - sponsored by KELLER -Global strength and local focus
In the CONFERENCE HALL during the coffee break: Statistik kortkurs med Prof Göran Sällfors - in Swedish (20 min)


12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break and time to explore the exhibition
In PASCAL 12:30 during the lunch break a presentation and short course - New Eurocode - ENG (50 min)

13:30 in in the Conference Hall - Sustainable Foundations


Coefficient of variation for strength and deformation properties of clay / Göran Sällfors

Unsaturated behavior of stabilized clay: assessment of low-carbon binders in a field study / Anoosheh Iravanian

Three-dimensional effects in temporary excavations in soft clay / Torbjörn Edstam

Design Of 15 Meter High Railway Embankment On Soft Clay / Ibrahim Rashid / Fredrik Clifford

CC-test, clay cutting test / Peter Hedborg

13:30 in Pascal - Challenges in the future

Bringing tech into geotechnics / Kristin Paulsen

Alternative ways of modelling stabilised excavations / Sinem Bozkurt

Effective peak friction angle, stress dependency and plane strain effects  / Niels Mortensen

Generalisation of effective heave pressure considering the effect of small-strain stiffness

/ Johannes Tornborg

A study of saturation in piezocone devices / Alena Zheleova


13:30 in Tesla - Digitalization/Visualization

Early-phase modeling of lime-cement columns for more climate-friendly solutions? / Nikolaj Børner Hansen

Optimization of ground investigations with the value of information analysis / Ivan Depina

Data assimilation in a hydrological landslide model with the ensemble kalman filter method / Amirahmad Vakilinezhad
Nordic Cooperation gives results / Gunilla Franzén
Eurocode 7 a framework for the geotechnical engineer / Gunilla Franzen



13:30 in Kelvin - Challanges in the future

Hujeux-bc: a constitutive model for the cyclic behavior of biocemented soils / Ziad Sahlab

Strength reduction factors on lime-cement treated ribs due to random spatial variability and construction deviation / Yutao Pan

MASWavePy: A Python package for analysis of MASW-data / Elín Ásta Ólafsdóttir

Numerical analysis of soil nail walls combined with prestressed anchors / André Arnold

Challenges in determining ground conditions for design of water reservoir dams in the Aitik mine / Thomas Larsson


15:00 - 15:45 Swedish fika - coffee break - sponsored by Grundläggningsdagen 2025
In PASCAL 15:10 during the coffee break:
Stenungsund the landslide - in English (30 min)

KEYNOTE LECTURES in the Conference Hall

Swedish speaker Prof Minna Karstunen - Is there future for soft clay modelling?

Finnish speaker Prof Leena Korkiala-Tanttu - Recent developments in deep mixing in Finland



END of first day 16:45 and instructions for the banquet!
Korporativet at 19:00



September 20


WELCOME TO THE NORDIC GEOTECHNICAL MEETING 2024 day 2

08:30 - 09:30 KEYNOTE LECTURES in the Conference Hall

Danish speaker: Mr Ole Møller - Verification of adequate rotation capacity for steel sheet pile profiles by lem wall calculations with yield hinges


Norwegian speaker: Mr Magnus Rømoen - Digilitalization in geotechnics


09:30 - 10:00 - Swedish fika - coffee break -
In CONFERENCE HALL during the coffee break:
Statistics short course with Prof Göran Sällfors - in English (20 min)

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch break and time to explore the exhibition

In PASCAL 12:45 during the lunch break: Presentation - Stenungsund the landslide - In Swedish (30 min)

13:30 in in the Conference Hall - Construction in Urban Areas


Excavations in soft soils: review of design approaches / Gregor Portmann

Deep foundation of station sofia - a feat of engineering in Stockholm / Mikael Creütz

Monitoring requirements for large scale excavations in Gothenburg / Matthias Ziegert / Anders Bergström

Complexity of large infrastructure projects - discussion of geotechnical challenges and risk trajectory to extreme cost overruns

/ Kenneth Viking



13:30 in Pascal - Sustainable foundation

Utilizing crushed concrete aggregate in the construction of roads and streets in accordance with Finnish new guidelines and regulation / Suvi Ollikainen

Numerical study of the thermal performance of energy micropiles in nordic region / Melissa Fabiola / Yozy Kepdib

Where and how to execute sustainable soil improvement utilizing vibro replacement (stone columns) in the Nordics / Nejla Yildiz-Helvacioglu

On the effect of injection parameters and techniques towards achieving homogenous soil bio-improvement: insights from a large-scale experiment / Merih Büyüklü / Dimitrios Terzis



13:30 in Tesla - Challenges in the future

Investigating swelling across scales / Irene Rocchi

Soil behavior type classification for the Norwegian total sounding method / Sigurdur Mar Valsson

Methodology for sample preparation for quality control of stabilized dredged sediment / Mohammadhossein Gholampoor


13:30 in Kelvin - Handbooks and guidance

Correlating qnet to Eoed of Paleogene clays of very high plasticity / Nik Okkels

Foundation on organic diatomite / Jan Dannemand Andersen

Assessing undrained shear strength in danish marine gyttja: insights from field vane tests and plate load tests /
Emil S. Brandt


14:45 - 15:00  Conference Hall - Closing of the conference