CGSE Showcase and Technical Workshops
The CGSE held a Showcase and series of Technical Workshops at the Shangri-la, Sydney on 30 and 31 July 2018.
It is pleasing to report that these events were a resounding success, attracting attendance from approximately 160 people comprising asset owners, academic researchers and practitioners.
The program commenced with a comprehensive overview of the achievements and outcomes of the Centre delivered by the Director, Laureate Professor Scott Sloan as well as presentations from Professor Sue Thomas, CEO of the Australian Research Council, Dr Chris Armstrong, Acting NSW Chief Scientist and Richard Kelly from SMEC who represented Bob Higgins, General Manager of NSW Roads and Maritime Services, who was unable to attend.
The rest of the program was divided within the following themes: Changing Practice, Infrastructure Projects, Transformational Geotechnics and Legacy. Within these themes, the CGSE team presented cutting-edge computational tools, state-of-the-art physical modelling and, laboratory and field-testing techniques that have been developed to optimise the geotechnical design of Australia’s critical energy and transport infrastructure to make it both safer and more cost-efficient.
The second day of the program consisted of a number of 2-hour workshops for practising engineers who wished to learn more about advanced laboratory and in situ testing techniques, the use of probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering and the recent advances in rail geotechnics.
The Centre wishes to thank the Advisory Board for invaluable guidance and advice, as well as the Australian Research Council, the NSW Department of Trade and Industry, the University of Newcastle, the University of Western Australia, the University of Wollongong and industry partners Coffey, Douglas Partners and Fugro for ongoing financial and in-kind support.
Program
Access Showcase Presentations
Welcome and overview – Centre Director Scott Sloan
Perspectives from industry – Harry Poulos
History and applications of penetrometers – Mark Randolph
Use of probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering – Jinsong Huang
Pacific highway what have we learned? – Richard Kelly
Unlocking Australia’s offshore gas – Phil Watson
Novel computational methods in geotechnical engineering – John Carter
Fluid-structure-soil interaction – Scott Draper
Failure of soil and rock masses – Olivier Buzzi
National soft soil test facility – Jubert Pineda
National geotechnical centrifuge facility – Christophe Gaudin
Exporting technologies – James Doherty
Future challenges – Harry Poulos, Richard Kelly, Phil Watson, Will Wright
Access Workshop Presentations
Laboratory Testing of soils – Jubert Pineda
Probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering – Jinsong Huang