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Geotechnical Engineering

Visit our website:  http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/cgr/research.shtml Research in Geotechnical engineering covers a wide range of topics from the movement of pollutants in the ground to investigation of the behaviour of conventional foundations. more...

Supervisor(s):

Small, John (Professor), Airey, David (Associate Professor), Einav, Itai (Associate Professor), El-Zein, Abbas (Associate Professor)

Research Location:

Civil Engineering

Program Type:

Keywords:

Geotechnical Engineering

Behaviour of Piled Raft Foundations

This project involves carrying out research into the behaviour of large piled raft systems, as the inclusion of the raft in the bearing capacity calculations and in the deformation assessment, can mean substantial savings in the cost of the foundation.. more...

Supervisor(s):

Small, John (Professor)

Research Location:

Civil Engineering

Program Type:

Keywords:

geotechnical, geotechnics, piled raft foundations

Investigation of convective patterns in soil foundations of offshore windfarms

The objective of this project is to establish long term cooperation between the Center of Geotechnical Research and BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany) in the simulation of the response to cyclic loading of soil foundations of wind farms. . more...

Supervisor(s):

Alonso-Marroquin, Fernando (Dr)

Research Location:

Civil Engineering

Program Type:

Masters/PHD

Keywords:

Wind energy, cyclic loading, discrete element models, soil-pile interaction

Investigation of granular flow through a bottleneck: When does an obstacle increase the flow rate in an hourglass?

The question of how to improve the granular flow when it passes through a bottleneck has applications to industrial granular flow, traffic flow and escape dynamics under panic. more...

Supervisor(s):

Alonso-Marroquin, Fernando (Dr)

Research Location:

Civil Engineering

Program Type:

Masters/PHD

Keywords:

Traffic flow, silo flow, hopper flow, granular materials

Investigation of the effect of particle shape and contact interaction in the rheology of granular materials

The aim of this project is to contribute with the answer of some fundamental questions of granular materials:  What are the constitutive equations for granular materials?,  How does particle roundness and non-convexity affect the bulky properties of granular soils? Can rolling resistance surrogate grain shape in granular materials? These questions are essential in modeling realistic particulate materials and constructing predictive micromechanical continuum models.. more...

Supervisor(s):

Alonso-Marroquin, Fernando (Dr)

Research Location:

Civil Engineering

Program Type:

Masters/PHD

Keywords:

Continuum Mechanics, granular materials, discrete element methods