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 2007. 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 2007
Thursday 9 August 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Gwenaelle Proust - Study and Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior of Hexagonal Metals
Wednesday 15 August 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Thanh Binh Nguyen - Investigating the effect of shrinkage stresses on creep
Wednesday 22 August 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Ian Jones - Commercialising Ocean Nourishment
Wednesday 29 August 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
ACEA DVD Presentation - Engineering: Design Your World
Wednesday 5 September 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Bing Yang - Experimental study upon local scour of a sandy seabed around a submarine pipeline in ocean currents
Wednesday 12 September 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Geoff Xu - Yield line analysis of a tunnel lining element using Monte Carlo Simulation
Wednesday 19 September 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Hongyuan Liu - Effect of tunnelling on existing support systems of adjacent tunnels in the Sydney region
Wednesday 26 September 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Mid semester break - no seminar
Wednesday 3 October 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Tayakorn Chandrangsu - The Development of Scaffold Research
Wednesday 10 October 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Sally Williams - Modelling Interfacial Wave Attenuation
Wednesday 17 October 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
No seminars this week - Undergrad student theses presentations.
Wednesday 24 October 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Bill O'Toole - Ahlan! Consulting in the Gulf : expanding your work horizon
Wednesday 31 October 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Yun Zheng - Interaction of a Coupled Model for an Offshore Pile
Monday 12 October 2007, 1.00 - 2.00 pm
Bee-Lan Oo - Modelling Individual Contractors’ Bid/No-bid Decision
Wednesday 28 November 2007, 11.00 - 12.00 noon
Kerry Rowe - Some recent findings related to the long-term performance of liner systems
Semester 1 2007
Wednesday 17 January 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Mohammed Karim - Impacts of Global Climate Change and Sea-level Rise in the Coastal Regions of Bangladesh
Wednesday 14 February 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Bin Teng - Application of BEM to Wave Interaction with Multi-Bodies & A brief of coastal facilities at DUT
Wednesday 7 March 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
All research postgrads - Who am I & what am I doing
Wednesday 14 March 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Andrew Abel - Global Warming and a Quick Visit to Einstein's 1915 Creations
Wednesday 21 March 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Niphan Yaiaroon - The Reliability-Based Assessment of Existing Bridge Structures: Live Load-Effects Given by Various Australian Design Trucks
Wednesday 28 March 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Itai Einav - Breakage (Soil) Mechanics
Thursday 5 April 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm (note different day)
Oded Ben-Nun - Numerical analysis of evolving gradings in crushable granular materials
Wednesday 11 April 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Easter: Mid-semester break
Wednesday 18 April 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Andrew Chan - Numerical modelling of Earthquake and wave induced liquefaction
Wednesday 25 April 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Anzac Day Public Holiday
Wednesday 2 May 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Alvaro Ramirez - Pressure measurements in full-scale steel silos
Wednesday 9 May 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Zhange Liu - Application of two layered wave system on analysis of progressive liquefaction
Wednesday 16 May 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
David Cao - Shear Lag Failure Mode of Hollow Flange Channel Sections with Web Side Plate Connections
Thursday 17 May 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Jannette B. Frandsen - Water wave predictions with roots in the Lattice Boltzmann Eqn.
Wednesday 23 May 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Cao Hung Pham - Direct Strength Design of Cold-Formed Purlins
Wednesday 30 May 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Feng Fan - State-of-the-art Development of the Reflector Structure of FAST
Thursday 31 May 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Abraham Wang - Stability Analysis of a Beam Structure and its Control with Piezoelectric Layers
Thursday 7 June 2007, 12.10 - 12.50 pm
Sritawat Kitipornchai - Instant Structural Analysis: A Tool for Structural Engineering Students and Engineers
Note that this seminar is part of a visit by several academics and undergraduate students from City University of Hong Kong. The seminar will be followed by a special BBQ for undergraduate students.
Wednesday 13 June 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Stuvac
Wednesday 20 June 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Exams
Wednesday 27 June 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Exams
Wednesday 4, 11, 18 July 2007, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Mid Semester holidays