We apply state-of-the-art Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering.
Ur-GeoTech is committed providing cost-effective, value engineering and the highest professional consulting services in the field of Finite Element Method applications in Geotechnical Engineering to our clients. Our fundamental business strategy is building long-term client relationships.
Our experience and academic qualifications enable us to technically support our clients achieving their goals. We have experience of more than 35 years in the field of geotechnical and tunnel engineering, leading design teams providing world-class solutions for challenging and prestigious projects in Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East and Australia. We provide our expertise for enhancing the technical capability of our clients’ geotechnical design teams to ensure performing useful finite element analysis for complex geotechnical problems.
Ur-GeoTech offers an extensive range of skills and professional services in the field of geotechnical engineering. Our strength lies in the breadth and depth of our technical expertise which enables us to provide practical solutions to the most complex challenges for our clients.
Our services include Design Analysis of the following:
- Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis,
- Piled-Raft Foundations assessing vertical spring stiffness of piles,
- Retaining Structures & Deep Excavations,
- Tunnel (TBM & NATM) & Micro Tunnelling,
- Geotechnical Forensic Investigation & Root Cause Analysis, and
- Independent Geotechnical Design Review (Second Opinion).
Ziggurat of Ur
The place of the first geotechnical applications on the planet.
The first Geotechnical Applications of Earth Reinforcement can be found at the Ziggurats in ancient Mesopotamia, which were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient IRAQ in about 4500 years ago.
Ziggurat of Ur
The place of the first geotechnical applications
on the planet
The first Geotechnical Applications of Earth Reinforcement can be found at the Ziggurats in ancient Mesopotamia (IRAQ). Large religious towers called ziggurats were built by the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient IRAQ in about 4500 years ago. Ancient civilizations used native material such as straw, tree branches, and plant material to reinforce the earth for centuries.
The ziggurats had walls with buttresses (almost vertical, sloped inwards at a sharp angle) faced with clay bricks in an asphalt mortar with sun dried bricks behind. Layers of reed matting were laid as horizontal reinforcing sheets. They used reed mats to stabilize the foundations and the brick walls as they had already understood that both brickwork and soil had nearly no tensile strength and reinforcement elements were needed to induce tensile forces into their constructions for stabilization.
The Ziggurats were massive pyramid-like structures with the form of terraced steps of successively receding levels. They were constructed of clay bricks varying in the thickness between 13-40 cm, reinforced with woven mats of reed laid horizontally on a layer of sand and gravel at vertical spacings varying between 50 and 200 cm.
One of well-known Ziggurats is the Great Ziggurat of Ur, which was constructed in three layers and the temple was built on the top layer. The lower layer of the Ziggurat was built in a height of about 15 m and its dimensions were approximately 60 * 45 m. The second layer was built with a height of about 6 m and dimensions approximately 35 * 25 m, and the third layer with a height of about 3 m, and dimensions approximately 20 * 10 m.
The three layers of the Great Ziggurat of Ur
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