In this publication, the Subcommittee on “Numerics in Soil Dynamics” of the German Geotechnical Society (DGGT) provides practical recommendations for the numerical modelling of ground vibrations under dynamic loads. Given the growing importance of dynamic considerations in geotechnical planning, these insights are aimed at enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of such calculations.

In addition to developing these recommendations, we were especially pleased to validate our finite element software numgeo successfully against established commercial software packages such as Abaqus, Ansys, and Plaxis. While numgeo excels in the development and provision of new numerical methods, we are committed to integrating practical features relevant to geotechnical FE software. This successful validation is a particularly gratifying milestone, affirming our goal to make numgeo a reliable tool for real-world applications

For further details, please refer to our full paper in geotechnik.