Jaime Barbosa

Background

About Jaime Barbosa

Highlighted skills: • Strong experience in static and Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) and familiar with design standards including NBR and ABNT. • Laboratory testing: permeability, consolidation test, standard compaction test, triaxial test, DSS, CDSS, Cyclic triaxial test, constant rate of strain consolidation test and suction measurement. • Field testing: CPTU, CPT, Prisma, Shear vane test, piezometer, tensiometer, SCPTU, inclinometer, Self-boring Pressuremeter test, borehole permeability test and dilatometer. • Geotechnical design, dam and stack design, foundation design (also GeoStudio: SLOPE/W, SEEP/W, SIGMA/W, QUAKE/W, TEMP/W, CTRAN/W and AIR/W), retaining wall design, Rocscience: RS2, RS3, Plaxis 2D and 3D, Flac 2D and calibration of constitutive models (hardening soil, hardening soil small, UBCSand, PM4Sand, NorSand, CASM, Soft Soil, Cam Clay and Mohr Coulomb). • Hypothetical Stack and Dam break studies using OpenFOAM, RAMMS (CFD, N-S and Voellmy equation). • Strong experience in soil-atmosphere interaction for unsaturated soil (Barcelona model) using computation analysis and programming language. • Proficient in modeling of the soil-structure interaction (SSI) fill reinforcement, soil-nailing and tailing dam problems for both static and dynamic conditions. • Nonlinear finite element computational plasticity using commercial software Abaqus, available user subroutines for Abaqus/Standard. • Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracturing propagation by the extended finite element method (XFEM) and cohesive elements to soil and rock