GEOLAB Blind Prediction Contest - Supporting Documentation

As part of the GEOLAB project, the Institute of Geotechnics of TU Darmstadt called geotechnical engineers from industry and academia to participate in an international Blind Prediction Contest (BPC) on the response of piles under monotonic and cyclic lateral loading. Two separate tests were performed on a hollow open-ended steel pile embedded in dry sand. One test under monotonic loading and the other under quasi-static harmonic loading with more than 10,000 loading cycles.

Contestant teams were allowed to submit predictions for both tests or for the monotonic test only. The predictions were objectively marked based on their discrepancy with the experimental values. The teams with the higher score in the prediction of each test were publicly announced. The rest of the submitted predictions will be anonymised and used for assessing the state of the art and the state of practice by the organiser committee.

This dataset includes the supporting documentation provided to the participants.