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 2009. 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 2009
Thursday 16 July 2009, 10.00 - 11.00 am
Scott Smith - Anchorage of FRP Strengthening Systems
Wednesday 29 July 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Majidreza Nazem (University of Newcastle - Application of Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) Finite Element Method in Geomechanics
Monday 17 August 2009, 2.00 - 2.45 pm
Guillermo Narsilio - Hydraulic and thermal conduction phenomena in soils at the particle-scale - Proof of Principle: 3D imaging and FEM simulations
Monday 17 August 2009, 3.00 - 3.45 pm
Fernando Alonso-Marroquin - Ab-initio Computational Geomechanics
Wednesday 19 August 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Anirban De - Use of a Geotechnical Centrifuge to Study the Effects of Surface Explosions
Tuesday 1 September 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Anirban De - Geotechnical aspects of New Orleans levee failures during Hurricane Katrina
Wednesday 2 September 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Benoit Gilbert - Determination of accidental forklift truck impact forces on drive-in steel storage racks and behaviour of these structures under impact
Wednesday 9 September 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Anirban De - An Engineering Education Perspective from the USA - the ASCE body of knowledge
Wednesday 16 September 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
No Seminar
Tuesday 29 September 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Alvaro Ramirez - Mechanics of particulate solids stored in silos
Wednesday 30 September 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Mid Semester Break
Raphael Blumenfeld - Systematic derivation of structure-property relations in porous and cellular materials
Wednesday 7 October 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Faham Tahmasebinia - Short and long term behaviour of the composite steel-concrete beam systems with the trapezoidal steel-sheeting
Wednesday 14 October 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Jenny Janhager - User involvement for innovation - Involving the “right” user for certain conditions
Wednesday 21 October 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Charles Loo Chin Moy - Identification of multilayer material properties based on the application of an inverse analysis technique
Wednesday 28 October 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Feng Xu - Natural convection in a cavity
Wednesday 4 November 2009, 1.10 - 1.55 pm
Chunshun Zhang - An analysis of grain size reduction during penetration of piles into granular media
Friday 6 November 2009, 11.00 - 12.00 noon
Kerry Rowe - Systems engineering the design and operation of municipal solid waste landfills to minimize contamination of groundwater
Tuesday 24 November 2009, 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Carlos Caceres - Grain Size Hardening in Mg and Mg-Zn Solid Solutions
Semester 1 2009
Friday 13 February 2009, 11.30 - 12.30
Li Guo-Qiang (Tongji University, Shanghai) - Behaviour of Restrained Steel Components in Fire
Monday 23 February 2009, 9.00 - 10.00 am
Federico Maggi (University of California, Berkeley) - Understanding the impact of micro-organisms in ecosystem dynamics
Monday 23 February 2009, 10.30 - 11.30 am
Wenxian Lin (James Cook University, Townsville) - Unsteady flows & convection, particle transport and realistic solar water heating
Monday 23 February 2009, 12.00 noon - 1.00 pm
Steve Cochard (University of British Columbia, Canada) - Avalanches of fluid in the laboratory
Friday 6 March 2009, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Ha Minh (Saitama University, Japan) - Chloride-Induced Corrosion in Post-Tensioned Concrete Beams with Poor Grouting Condition
Friday 8 May 2009, 1.00 - 2.00 pm
Kerry Rowe - Latest research into the service life of HDPE geomembranes used in primary and secondary MSW landfill liners
Wednesday 13 May 2009, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Pierre Rognon - Flow of granular materials
Wednesday 20 May 2009, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Special "Summer Scholars" Presentations
Gerard Taig - Nonlinear response of steel and composite members for structural applications
Daniel Reyes - Application of an Optical Measurement System to develop accurate displacements and strains.
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Special "Summer Scholars" Presentations
Tom Miller - Summer project on force-propagation through granular mixtures: The experience; the research; the results (so far!)
Benjy Marks - Modelling polydisperse size segregation in inclined chute flow with a coupled map lattice
Wednesday 3 June 2009, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Special "Summer Scholars" Presentations
Walid Haidar - Research and development into miniature triaxial apparatus
Guien Miao - Ring Shear Development and Testing
Nathan Hanley - Modelling web crippling of the hollow flange beam
Thursday 25 June 2009, 12.00 - 1.00 pm
John Crawford (Faculty of Agriculture) - Self-organisation in the soil-microbe complex
Thursday 16 July 2009, 10.00 - 11.00 am
Scott Smith - Anchorage of FRP Strengthening Systems