Seminar series
The regular series of seminars given by the postgraduate students and staff in the Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney continues in 2005. The general range of topics include the main areas of research within the department 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, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, (mostly) on Wednesdays, 1.10 - 1.50 pm.
Instructions for presenters
Semester 2 2005
Friday July 15, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
John Hsu - Static Equilibrium Bay Beach for Coastal Management and Protection
Tuesday July 26, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Dennis Lam - Research and Development in Composite Steel – Precast Hollowcore Constructions
Wednesday August 10, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Yaip Telue - Behaviour And Design Of Cold-Formed Steel Wall Frames Lined With Plasterboard Under Axial Compression
Tuesday August 16, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Andrew Abel - The Most Likely Reason for Dropping the Atomic Bomb
Wednesday August 24, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Niphan Yaiaroon - The Reliability-Based Assessment of Existing Bridge Structures – The Introduction
Wednesday August 31, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
John Munro - Pipeline Rehabilitation – A Fast Growing Branch of Civil Engineering
Wednesday September 7, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Derek Avalle - Ground Improvement using Impact Rolling
Wednesday September 14, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Damien Koen - Investigations into the upright capacity of light gauge steel storage racks
Wednesday September 21, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Tim Finnigan - Ocean power conversion - some experiences and future directions
Wednesday September 28, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Gabriel Eccher - Finite Strip Method in Structural Analysis of Thin-Walled Structures containing Openings
Wednesday October 5, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Manh Tran - Installation of suction caisson in dense sand
Wednesday October 12, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Jian Li - A three-dimensional numerical model for wave-induced transient pore pressure around the head of a breakwater
Wednesday October 19, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Undergraduate Thesis Presentations all this week
Wednesday October 26, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Sally Williams - Interfacial Waves over a Poroelastic Seabed
Semester 1 2005
Wednesday March 23, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
All postgrads: "Who am I and what am I doing?"
Wednesday March 30, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Easter break - No Seminar
Friday April 1, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Itai Einav (UWA): Micro-Thermo-Mechanics For Randomly Distributed Elasto-Plastic Materials
Wednesday April 6, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
David Cao: Connections For LiteSteel Beams
Wednesday April 13, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Carol Boyle (The University of Auckland): Long Term Thinking for Sustainability
Wednesday April 13, 2005, 5.30 pm
Emeritus Professor Harry Poulos: Australian Geomechanics Society Terzhagi Lecture - Pile Behaviour – Consequences of Geological and Construction Imperfections
Tuesday April 19, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Gordon Fenton (Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada): Reliability-Based Geotechnical Design
Wednesday April 27, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Rob Wheen: Some Ideas/Inventions I have played with
Tuesday May 3, 2005, 5.30 pm
Dr Saman Fernando (Ajax Fasteners): Australian Steel Institute/Engineers Australia - Bolts - Are you getting what you specify?
Wednesday May 4, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
John Small: Forensic Geotechnics
Wednesday May 11, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Prof Siva Sivakumaran (McMaster University, Canada): Recent Research Studies on Steel Structures at McMaster University, Canada
Wednesday May 18, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Special Video Presentation: Engineering Activities after the Collapse of the World Trade Center
Wednesday May 25, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Jason Surjadinata: Analysis of Effects Of Tunnelling on Single Piles
Wednesday June 1, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Deepankar Choudhury: Earthquake resistant design of retaining structures and foundations
Wednesday June 8, 2005, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Various: Undergraduate Seminar Session - 4th year
