Seminar series - 1999
Semester 2 1999
Wednesday August 4, 1999, 3 - 4 pm
Mohammad Jonaidi: Effects of Differential Settlement on Storage Tank Shells
Mohammed Islam: A constitutive model for carbonate sands and its application to footing problems
Wednesday 1 September 1999, 3 - 4 pm
Special WES/CGR/CASE presentation from some professional officers
Craig Polley: Centre for Advanced Structural Engineering
Tim Hull: Centre for Geotechnical Research
Graeme Wood/Roy Denoon: Wind Engineering Services
Wednesday 15 September 1999, 3 - 4 pm
Honghua Zhang: Laterally loaded piled raft foundations (analysis of piled raft foundations subject to lateral loads)
Weimin Deng: Uplift Behaviour of Suction Caissons
Nagendran Loganathan: Effect of tunnelling adjacent to pile raft found system
Wednesday 29 September 1999
Mid semester break - no seminar
Wednesday 13 October 3 - 4 pm
Ezzat William: Engineering performance of Bringelly shale, Sydney Basin
Behrooz Gahremani: Thermo Mechanical Behaviour of Clay
Wednesday 27 October 1999 3 - 4 pm
Reuben Mubiru: The study on flow and clogging control in beaded emitters through experimentation for trickle irrigation systems
Mohsin: Small-Strain Stiffness of cemented calcareous soil investigation
Viet Nguyen: Land subsidence due to groundwater extraction and its effects on pile foundations
Wednesday 10 November 1999, 3 - 4 pm (stuvac)
Mike Bambach: Thin Walled Sections with Unstiffened Elements under Stress Gradients
Hong Ngoc Bui: Examination the time dependent large deformation behaviour of plastic yield and creep of soft soils
Andrew DeAmbrosis: The design of Shotcrete Facings in Soiled Nailed Excavations
Semester 1 1999
Thursday, April 15, 1999, 3 - 4 pm
Introductory seminar: get a brief introduction to the work of the following students: Michael Bambach, Michel Chaaya, Vijay Gupta, Takashi Itakura, Behrooz Maragheh, Akm Mohsin, Nagendran Loganathan, Jiping Pan, Hossein Taiebat, Anthony Vlasic, Tim Wilkinson, Kenneth Xu, Honghua Zhang, Richard Kelly, Gilbert Wong, Xiaobo Yu, Sukit Thepmongkorn. Refreshments will be available afterwards.
Thursday, April 29, 1999, 3 - 4 pm
Introductory seminar: get a brief introduction to the work of the following students: Hong Bui, Weimen Deng, Mohammed Islam, Kit Manivong, Reuben Mubiru, Viet Nguyen, Bogdan Put, Mauricio Sales, Samia Sedra, Cynthia Wang, Ezzat William, Kan Ding, Kim Khoo, Jan Torka, Andrew De Ambrosis. Refreshments will be available afterwards.
Thursday, May 13, 1999, 3 - 4 pm
Tim Wilkinson: Plastic behaviour of cold-formed rectangular hollow sections
Hossein Taiebat: Behaviour of offshore foundations subjected to cyclic loading
Thursday May 27, 1999, 3 - 4 pm
The regular postgrad seminar will be replaced by the following seminar by a visiting scholar ......
Renato Cunha: Pile Design and Characterization of the Brasilia Porous Clay via In Situ Marchetti Dilatometer Tests
Thursday June 10, 1999, 3 - 4 pm
Sukit Thepmongkorn: Load & response combination of wind excited buildings and the effect of structural eccentricity
Takashi Itakura: The transport of organic contaminants through natural clayey soils
Thursday June 17, 1999, 10 - 11 am
Michel Chaaya: Integration and automatisation of engineering, planning and construction management life cycle processes
Kit Manivong: Simulation and design of information systems for project life cycle management
Anthony Vlasic: Integrating Soft Issues into a Life-Cycle Project Management Model
Tuesday July 20, 1999, 3 - 4 pm
Richard Kelly: Constant Normal Stiffness Ring Shear Tests on Sand-Steel Interfaces
Xiao Bo Yu: Fatigue Crack Propagation under Mixed Mode Loads