Courses & Training
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The Q System – Nick Barton
- February 2-3, 2012 – Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
- Registration Form
Professor Nick Barton has over 40 years experience in rock mechanics in 35 countries. His experience is in the multi-disciplinary characterisation of rock masses for underground mining excavations, civil tunnel support, pre-injection, TBM excavation, large civil cavern design, dam abutments, nuclear waste disposal, fractured reservoirs and 4D seismic interpretation. Rock mass characterisation is based on his own developments including the internationally used Q-system, Barton-Bandis discontinuity shear strength criterion and the Q-TBM model for TBM tunnelling.
He has published over 260 publications and has been involved with numerous consultancy projects. In 2011, the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) awarded him their most prestigious prize, the Muller Award. The award is presented every 4 years in recognition of his distinguished contribution to rock engineering.
If you are involved in the mining or civil engineering industries and are using the Q system or one of its derivatives and have not attended one of Nick Barton’s workshops to find out how the techniques should be applied properly then this workshop will be invaluable.
The workshop is limited to 140 persons to provide plenty of opportunity to ask questions and discuss issues.
The East Australian Ground Control Group, International Society for Rock Mechanics and Australian Geomechanics Society are keeping the cost of this two-day workshop low at $330 to comply with their goals of providing CPD accreditation opportunities to rock engineering and ground control practitioners at the lowest possible prices.
Included in the registration price will be morning and afternoon teas, lunches and a compendium of all lectures.
This event will be fully subscribed early so book now if you wish to attend.
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Laboratory Testing in Geotechnical Engineering
- February 14-15, 2012 – ELT2, Civil & Mechanical Engineering Building, UWA
- Registration Form
The Western Australian Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) provides notice of a course to be held on Laboratory Testing in Geotechnical Engineering. The course describes the various laboratory tests that can be used to obtain design parameters for geotechnical engineering problems; it details advantages and disadvantages of different tests, shows the type and magnitude of errors that can occur and their implications; it discusses, through hands-on computer applications, how to obtain suitable design parameters for a range of applications.
