Seminar series
The regular series of seminars given by the postgraduate students and staff in the School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney continues in 2008. The general range of topics include the main areas of research within the School of Civil Engineering: geotechnical, structures, project management, fluids, and materials. Closer to the date of each seminar, synopses will be available on the Internet. Click on the title to get the abstract.
Lectures will be held in Lecture Room 3, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, (mostly) on Wednesdays, 1.10 - 1.50 pm.
Instructions for presenters
Semester 2 2008
Wednesday 30 July 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
James Schneider - Analysis of soil classification using normalized piezocone parameters
Wednesday 13 August 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Safat Al-Deen - Long-term behaviour of composite steel-concrete floor beams
Thursday 21 August 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Prof Miles Rubin (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering -
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) - A Generalised Cosserat Point Element (CPE) for Isotropic Nonlinear Elastic Materials Including Irregular 3-D Brick and Thin Structures
Friday 22 August 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Bhushan Karihaloo (Cardiff University) - CARDIFRC – From Concept to Industrial Application (Fibre Reinforced Concrete)
Monday 25 August 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Yue Li (Michigan Tech) - Risk Assessment of Light-Frame Residential Construction Subjected to Hurricane and Seismic Hazards
Wednesday 27 August 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Cao Hung Pham - Buckling Studies of Thin-Walled Channel Sections under Combined Bending and Shear
Thursday 28 August 2008, 1.00 - 2.00 pm
Fred Lockwood - Criteria for the Choice of Instructional Media
Wednesday 3 September 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Abbas El-Zein - A Non-Isodimensional Finite-Element Method: Towards a New Type of Adaptivity
Wednesday 10 September 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Ran Chen - The Creep Behaviour of Tunnels in Sydney Basin
Wednesday 17 September 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Welcome to the new PMGP Postgrads
Wednesday 24 September 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Jurgen Becque - The plastic buckling paradox
Wednesday 1 October 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Giang Nguyen - Non-local constitutive modelling using damage and breakage mechanics
Mid-semester break
Wednesday 8 October 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Geng Yue - Time dependent behaviour of concrete-filled steel tubes (CFST)
Wednesday 15 October 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Liaquat Hossain - An Overview of the Centre for Complex Systems Research (CCSR)
Wednesday 22 October 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Andrew Abel - Tales from a Siberian Journey
Wednesday 29 October 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Eric Yao - Non-Linear Analysis and Design of Perforated Thin-walled Steel Strutures
Wednesday 5 November 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Speaker TBA - Topic TBA
Stuvac
Wednesday 12 November 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Speaker TBA - Topic TBA
Semester 2 Exams
Wednesday 19 November 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Speaker TBA - Topic TBA
Semester 2 Exams
Semester 1 2008
Thursday 7 February 2008, 1.00 - 2.00 pm
Luming Shen - Multiscale Model-Based Simulation of Material and Structural Failure
Friday 8 February 2008, 1.00 - 2.00 pm
Hao Zhang - Nondeterministic Linear Static Finite Element Analysis: An Interval Approach
Friday 7 March 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Colin Thornton - (University of Birmingham) - DEM Simulation of Quasi Static Behaviour of Granular Materials
Wednesday 19 March 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Li Liu - Contingent project management-evidence from the field
Wednesday 26 March 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
No seminar - Easter Break
Wednesday 2 April 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Johanna Rosman (Stanford) - From wetsuits and salt spray to labcoats and lasers: Studying the effects of Giant Kelp on nearshore currents
Wednesday 9 April 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Andrew Abel - 5 Unrelated topics
Wednesday 16 April 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Gareth Huxham - Bio-mimicry and its application to a Tidal In-Stream Energy Conversion (TISEC) device
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Mauricio Sales - Compensated Piled Rafts in Clayey Soils: Behaviour, Measurements and Predictions
Wednesday 30 April 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Tim Wilkinson - IT Issues in Civil Engineering (with free pizza!)
Wednesday 7 May 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Ali El Hanandeh - Could Carbon Trading Benefit the Municipal Solid Waste Management System in Sydney?
Wednesday 14 May 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Francois Flocard - An introduction to wave energy
Wednesday 21 May 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Farzad Meysami - Implicit and explicit coupling in transport of salt through liner system
Wednesday 28 May 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Benoit Gilbert - Determination of the base plate stiffness of steel storage racking system and Stiffness tests and load transfer in Drive-in storage racks
Wednesday 4 June 2008, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Shakera Khan - Rectification of Tilted Structures Using Soil Extraction Technique
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 11.00 - 12.00 pm
Michael Ferry - - UNSW Light Alloy Research within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals