Research in Geotechnics and Soil Mechanics
Research in Geotechnical engineering covers a wide range of topics from the movement of pollutants in the ground to investigation of the behaviour of conventional foundations. Work is being carried out on the movement of piles due to excavation and tunnelling, the properties of shales in the Sydney region, the lateral loading of piled rafts, hyperplasticity and its application to soil-structure interaction, numerical modelling of pollution migration, and the inclined loading of footings.
Current Research Projects
- Dynamic effects in soil – Rapid penetration of objects into clays.
- Dynamic effects in soil – Dynamic compaction
- Hydro-mechanical effects associated with geo-sequestration of CO2 in coal
- Studies of interface behaviour between soil and particulate materials and solids
- Degradation of cementation in soil element tests
- Simple shear tests of clay
- Modelling the behaviour of random materials
- Micromechanics of soft particulate materials
- Subbase degradation: permeability and strength reductions by means of breakage soil mechanics
- Image analysis of the kinematics and size reduction of grains in cataclasis
- Leakage through Geomembranes in GCL and CCL Liners
- Carbon Dioxide Geosequestration in Coal
- Stochastic Waste-Management Multi-Criteria Decision-Making
- Development of Soil Pollution Analysis System SPAS
- The Influence of Construction “Side Effects” On Existing Pile Foundations
- The behaviour of piled raft foundations
- Characterisation and modelling of structured soils
- The Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS)