Dr. Sarah Chen Instructor

Dr. Sarah Chen

Practitioner-led FEA for tunnels, linings, and underground structures.

Lead Geotechnical Engineer

FEA, Tunnel lining, Groundwater coupling, Slope stability, Peer review

1 Courses
22+ Years
3 Videos
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Introduction

About

Dr. Sarah Chen has spent more than two decades delivering FEA-backed designs for tunnels, open pits, and critical infrastructure. She leads Diana FEA training covering staged construction, lining design, and seepage–stress coupling.

Sarah mentors engineers on mesh quality, load combinations, and documentation that meets owner and regulator expectations.

Teaching in action

Staging excavation and activating lining elements.

Tunnel lining FEA

Staging excavation and activating lining elements.

8 min

When to couple flow and stress — and when to decouple.

Groundwater coupling

When to couple flow and stress — and when to decouple.

13 min

Reading lining forces and presenting capacity checks.

Design review session

Reading lining forces and presenting capacity checks.

18 min

Courses by this instructor

Diana FEA for Tunneling

Finite element analysis for underground structures.

$279.00