[esp-r] Re: Documentation for 3D ground modeling?

[Jon Hand (clcv10)]

A recent question about 3D ground modelling...

And the good news is that ESP-r has several different ways to
represent interactions between a building and the ground
starting from

a) the ground is included in the definition of the slab construction
     (e.g. a number of layers making up ~1.5m thickness)

b) use one of the basement correlations included in the BASESIMP
     method implemented by Natural Resources Canada (there are
     about a hundred different permutations of basements and slab-
    on grade.

c) get truly passionate about 3D conduction and use the method
    from Nakhi A E 1995 and there is both a thesis and appendices
    available on the ESRU web site.

And the word passionate is key for item "c".  This is a niche
topic and the code and interface are not much evolved from
the raw PhD work of all those years ago.  Computers are
much faster now so it should be much less of a wait for the
solution to converge. The thesis should provide quite a bit
of background.  Fair warning should be given that
there might be Dragons lurking in that particular bit of code.

-ESRU