Seminar series
The regular series of seminars given by the postgraduate students and staff in the School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney continues in 2006. The general range of topics include the main areas of research within the School 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, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney, (mostly) on Wednesdays, 1.10 - 1.50 pm.
Instructions for presenters
Semester 2 2006
Wednesday 2 August 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
David Blair - Use of one-bit digitisation in underwater acoustic imaging
Wednesday 9 August 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Andrew Caska - Ocean Wave Energy Conversion
Wednesday 16 August 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Frank Zhu - Stub column behaviour of LiteSteel Beams
Wednesday 23 August 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Tim Wilkinson - The new steel roof at Southern Cross Railway Station Melbourne
Wednesday 30 August 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Ian Jones - Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon in the Ocean
Wednesday 6 September 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Frank Lu - A linear dynamic model for a saturated porous medium
Wednesday 13 September 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Tim Finnigan - Overview of Research Activities in Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Ocean Power
Wednesday 20 September 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Guoqiang Yang - How user participation impacts on project success? Revisiting the extant literature
Wednesday 27 September 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Mid-semester break - No seminar
Wednesday 4 October 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Ali Hanandeh - Multi-criteria decision making in solid waste management
Wednesday 11 October 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Dr Christophe Gaudin from COFS/UWA - New insights from model tests of foundation and anchoring systems in offshore geomechanics
Wednesday 18 October 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
No seminar this week - 4th year students are giving their thesis presentations
Wednesday 25 October 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Behnam Shabani - Computational Mechanics of the Wave-Induced Response around Submarine Buried Pipeline
Wednesday 1 November 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Benoit Gilbert - 3D load transfer in Drive-in racks - Full-scale experiment to improve design
Wednesday 15 November 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Doug Rogers - Making wave and tidal power work in the real world
Semester 1 2006
Tuesday February 28, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Jin Ooi (The University of Edinburgh) - Silos and particulate solids: phenomena, measurement and modelling
Wednesday March 8, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Vinh Hua - The behaviour of drive-in storage racks under horizontal load
Wednesday March 15, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Alan Moore - Predicting the Natural Frequencies of Tall Buildings
Wednesday March 22, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Bill O'Toole - Establishing the international Event Management Body of Knowledge (EMBOK)
Wednesday March 29, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Phil Mulhearn - Some Research Topics for Sea-mine Countermeasures
Tuesday April 4, 2006, 5.00 - 6.45 pm
Special Seminar organised by the Concrete Institute of Australia - The Lawrence Hargrave Drive Bridge
Wednesday April 5, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Yi (Frank) Zhu - Finite Element Analysis of Elliptical Hollow Sections
Wednesday April 12, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Nooshin Jabiri - Holistic Asset Management- A new approach to strategic management of asset intensive organizations
Wednesday April 19, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
No seminar - Easter break
Wednesday April 26, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Helen Chow - Finite Layer Analysis of Piled Raft Foundations Subjected to General Loadings
Wednesday May 3, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Learning & Teaching Seminar - eLearning Expo - A Demonstration of Recent Innovations in Civil Engineering eLearning in WebCT
Wednesday May 10, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Kim Rasmussen - Climbing the Alphabet - Special "Promotion to Professor" Seminar
Wednesday May 17, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Matthew Mason - CFD modelling of thunderstorm outflows
Wednesday May 24, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Haijiang Liu - Coastal-related Marine Sediment Movement and Response
Wednesday May 31, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Hongyuan Liu - Numerical Modelling of Rock Fragmentation Process
Wednesday June 7, 2006, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Ryan Chen - Behaviour of Tunnels in Sedimentary Rock of the Sydney Basin
