Manuel Hocdé
Team Manager
Joined Terrasol in 2012

Diplomas:
- MSC, Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille (Polytech’Lille), 2010 – Civil engineering & geotechnics
Scientific community:
- Co-writer of AFPS (French Society for Earthquake Engineering) Technical Notebook n°45 (2021): « Assessment of the risk of soil liquefaction under the effect of earthquakes – Practical knowledge and applications to geotechnical projects »
- Teaching: 5th year – Finite element modeling (Plaxis), Institut Polytechnique
- Teaching : Pont Formation Conseil : « Eurocode 7 – retaining walls – soil nailing calculation »
Areas of study:
- Geotechnical design (foundations, retaining walls, slope stability, earthworks)
- Soil improvement and ground improvement
- Design, on-site monitoring and interpretation of geotechnical investigations
- Soil–structure interaction
- Numerical modeling
- Supervision and follow-up of geotechnical works
- Software development contribution (Slake)
Publications:
- “Quelques considérations pratiques autour de l’utilisation de la méthode « NCEER » pour l’étude du risque de liquéfaction des sols” (M. Hocdé, F. Cuira and F. Ropers) – JNGG, Champs-sur-Marne, June 2018
- “Kourou, centre spatial guyanais : nouvel ensemble de lancement pour Ariane 6” (C. Babin, F. Binet and M. Hocdé) – Solscope Mag, April 2019
- “Slake un nouveau logiciel dédié à l’analyse de l’aléa liquéfaction des sols sous sollicitations sismiques” (M. Hocdé and O. Gilles) – Solscope Mag, April 2020
- “Evaluation des tassements post-liquéfaction par la méthode simplifiée à partir des essais in situ SPT et CPT” (E. Javelaud, M. Hocdé, D. Moiriat and P. Miraillet) – JNGG, Lyon, 2020
Previous experience:
- 2010-2011 : Site Engineer – Soletanche Bachy
