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HydroGeoLink is an Impact Acceleration Account project. The project PI is Dr Tsiampousi, and the named researcher is Maddah Sadatieh.  This project is supported by prominent industry partners, Sequent Bentley, Geotechnical Observations Limited, and the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), who collectively bring extensive real-world geotechnical expertise to the project.

HydroGeoLink software will integrate AquaCrop, a free hydrological model developed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), with PLAXIS. HydroGeoLink will allow users to input or retrieve meteorological data, choose vegetation types, compute net inflow/outflow, define the geometry, configure the geotechnical analysis, and automatically import the resulting net inflow/outflow as infiltration boundary conditions. The software also allows users to periodically feed back soil moisture conditions to HydroGeoLink to update and reapply the boundary conditions.

The project aims are as follows:

1. Develop, test, and validate HydroGeoLink.
2. Investigate potential routes to commercialisation.
3. Disseminate key findings and outcomes through a dedicated workshop.

HydroGeoLink will provide geotechnical engineers with a rapid, practical, and reliable tool for accounting for the effects of vegetation and weather conditions in their engineering analyses. This will help lower costs across both design and maintenance phases. The goal will be for HydroGeoLink to deliver accurate modelling of Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Interaction (SPAI) while remaining user-friendly and easy to calibrate. Currently, no other software provides automated coupling between hydrological and geotechnical models.