Fugro, an international company that specialises in the design of offshore foundations and Partner Organisation of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering (CGSE) (through their consultancy arm Advanced Geomechanics), is to fund the creation of a new chair at The University of Western Australia.
Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering (CGSE), were recognised through two awards presented last week at the annual meeting of the Canadian Geotechnical Society, in Regina Canada. CGSE-authored papers were given the RM Quigley Award for the best paper published in 2013 in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, and an RM Quigley Honourable Mention as runner-up in this competition.
An innovative offshore anchor designed by CGSE researchers at The University of Western Australia has already been snapped up by Dutch anchor specialists Vryhof Anchors.
PhD student S.M. Ali Tasalloti from CGSE and the Centre for Goetechnical Railway Engineering (GRE) won the 2014 Young Professionals Geotechnical Competition open to both industry and academia.
Dr Shanyong Wang awarded ARC Future Fellowship with a value of $761,579.
CGSE researchers Shazzad Hossain, Mark Cassidy and Yuxia Hu were awarded an ARC Linkage Project Grant for their project “Investigation of alternative footing shapes to mitigate instabilities during installation of offshore drilling platforms”.
Mr Hassan Sabetamal, a PhD student in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering, has won the prestigious Australian Geomechanics Society NSW Research Award for research in Geotechnical Engineering or Engineering Geology.
CGSE Partner Investigator Professor Harry Poulos AM FAA FTSE, Senior Principal Coffey Geotechnics has been elected a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering for his work on ‘ understanding foundation structures and ground support interactions’ (Read more)
Professor Andrei Lyamin has been awarded $766,856 for an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship entitled ‘Variational Multiscale Modelling of Granular Materials’. Granular materials play an important role in a wide range of problems related to physical infrastructure. These include landslides and similar catastrophic events which can result in a loss of life and major property […]