2nd August - Martin Fahey, Head, Dept Civil & Resource Engineering,
UWA,
Engineering with tailing: some environmental aspects of tailings
management
9th August - Jie Pan, Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering,
UWA,
Acoustics of ancient Chinese music bells
16th August - Mark Cassidy, Lecturer, COFS,
Back-analysis of monitored North Sea jack-ups
23rd August - Byron Byrne, COFS visitor, Oxford University, UK,
Modelling of shallow offshore foundations
30th August - Carl Erbrich, Advanced Geomechanics, WA,
Installation of the Laminaria suction piles - a case history
6th September - Ram Babu, COFS visitor, India,
Scour in cohesive soils - a brief review
13th September - Mahes Rajakaruna, Adjunct Lecturer, Dept Civil &
Resource Engineering, UWA,
New adhesives for glulam
20th September - Antonio Alves, Visitor, COPPE-UFRJ, Brazil,
Dynamic analysis of a model pile driven on a soft clay site in Brazil
27th September - Derek Pennington, Ove Arup, Perth
Installation of the world's first ace skirted gravity based platform
in the West Natuna Sea
11th October - John Wolf, F Mosey Visiting Scholar,
Foundation vibration analysis: a strength-of-materials approach
18th October - George Vlahos, PhD student, COFS,
Spudcan behaviour
25th October - David White, Visitor, Cambridge University, UK,
The application of Particle Imagery Velocimetry (PIV) to geotechnical
imagery
1st November - Manh Tran, Visitor,
The likelihood of failure and caisson response during suction installation
in sand under different operation conditions
15th March - Maria Almeida, COFS visitor from Brazil,
Seismic
analysis of offshore pipelines in Southeast Brazil
22nd March - K K (Muralee) Muraleetharan, COFS visitor, University of
Oklahoma,
Use of centrifuge and numerical modelling in the desing of Port of
Los Angeles’ Pier 400
12th April - Hong Hao, Civil Engineering Lecturer,
19th April - Sebastiano Foti, COFS Research Associate,
Surface
wave methods for soil characterisation
26th April - K K (Muralee) Muraleetharan, COFS visitor, University of
Oklahoma,
Static
and dynamic behaviour of unsaturated soils using the theory of mixtures
with interfaces
3rd May - Chris Dyt, CSIRO,
Stratigraphic
forward modelling : recent innovations
10th May - Liang Cheng, Civil Engineering Lecturer,
Numerical modelling of wave-induced liquefaction around a buried pipe
17th May - Bill Anderson, Civil Engineering visitor, University of Sheffield,
Use
of the Sheffield University Clay Calibration Chamber to study statnamic
pile tests in clay
24th May - Qin Lu, PhD student,
A numerical study of cone penetration in clay
31st May - Carlos Santamarina, COFS visitor, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Wave-based soil characterisation
7th June - Conleth O’Loughlin, COFS Research Associate,
One dimensional creep of organic soils