South Australia & Northern Territory Chapter Meetings

2024 AGS SA/NT AGM and Social Evening

Mark Jordan

Geotechnical Engineering for a Sustainable Society

Prof. Lidija Zdravković

UniSA – Mawson Lakes Laboratory Tour

Women in the AGS Catch Up – SA/NT

Student Networking Evening

The Myer Centre Deep Basement

Dr Peter W Mitchell

Non-Linear Response of Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles in Sand

Dr Hongyu Qin

Making Earth Materials Talk

Professor Rob Fitzpatrick

No Kudos for avoiding crises

Richard Herraman and Robert C Frazer

Managing earthworks risk in civil construction

Peter Miller

The Unusual and the Unexpected in Geotechnical Engineering: Observation – Analogy – Experiment

Professor Stephan Jefferis

AGS SA-NT End of Year Social Event

Richard Herraman

AGS Adelaide Symposium 2023

Geotechnical variability: In the ground and throughout a career

Professor Mark Jaksa

AGS Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Student Networking Evening

Design Philosophies in Geotechnics: Thoughts and Practices from Karl Terzaghi

Sergei Terzaghi

Computational Slope Stability Analysis

Professor Vaughan Griffiths

FMG Research and Testing Laboratory Tour and Presentation

Gary Turnbull

Review of pavement construction on expansive soil in Australia

Sagun Shrestha

PFAS – Containing The Problem

Daniel Gibbs

Geomechanics Career Presentation

Kelly Sharrad

SA/NT Chapter Social Event

AGM & Technical Presentation: Rapid Impact Compaction (RIC)

Climate change, TMI and designing on expansive soil

Dr. Rajibul Karim

Inland Rail Project

Mark Drechsler

The dilemma of designing retaining structures and earthworks in clay

Richard Herraman

Geotechnics of Mine Tailings: A 2022 State of the Art

Prof. Andy Fourie

Ovingham Level Crossing Removal Project

Michael Kipreou and Lauren Amato

AGS/ICE Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Student Networking Evening

The Ups and Downs of an Engineering Career

Mr. Richard Herraman

Richard Cavagnaro Award 2021

A thermodynamics-based formulation for coupled hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils for failure analysis using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Dr Gia Dat Phan

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Geotechnical Engineering

Prof Mark Jaksa

Membrane Lined Water Storages

Mr Matthew Duthy

Bio-cementation as an Alternative Ground Improvement Technique

Dr Rajibul Karim

Rolling Dynamic Compaction

Dr Brendan Scott

Static Liquefaction of Soils and Tailings

Dr Mizanur Rahman

AGS SA/NT Celebrates 50 years

SA-NT Chapter AGM

SA-NT Symposium 2020

Designing on soft soils: Finite element modelling of consolidation and creep

Dr. Rajibul Karim

Satellite Based Ground Deformation Monitoring

Eric Audigé

Liquefaction assessment of a thickened tailings deposit in an arid environment using empirical approaches and critical state laboratory testing to calibrate cone penetration tests

Social and networking evening

Water ingress in long hard rock TBM tunnels

David Lees

AGM and Social Night – “Behind the Streets of Adelaide”

Dr Jeff Nicholas

2019 SA-NT Symposium

Michael R. King and Dr Oskar Sigl

Trying to make a difference – and why sometimes we can’t

Rob Day

Kaikōura Earthquake Recovery

Brian Kirtlan

Social and networking evening

Young Geotechnical Professionals and Students Evening

Young Geotechnical Engineers and Researchers

Design of Foundations Using The Cone Penetration Test

Barry Lehane

Optimising Site Investigations using a Risk-Based Approach

Mark Jaksa and Michael Crisp

UniSA Lab and PhD Research Event

UniSA Academics and PhD Students

Oaklands Rail Crossing Site Visit

58th Rankine Lecture

Dr Nick O'Riordan

The Relevance of Public Geotechnical Databases

Timothy Thompson

2018 Annual General Meeting

Janet Leitch, OAM

National Terzaghi lecture

Dr. R. Kerry Rowe

AGS SA-NT Annual Seminar 2018

57th Rankine Lecture, Adelaide

Eduardo Alonso

Site visit: Darlington Upgrade Project

Final year student and post graduate presentation evening

Small Earth Dams

Dr Matthew Duthy, Aurecon Australasia Pty Ltd

Kangaroo Creek Dam Upgrade: An overview of the geotechnical aspects of the project

Seth Tiddy

Geotechnical Design Innovations from the Waikato Expressway project

Mark Argent

Recent transport projects and their geotechnical challenges

Michael Anchor, Tom Hills, Sam Muirhead, Mathew Hodder and Stuart Cowan

AGS SA-NT Seminar 2017

Insights from the Ballina bypass prediction exercise

Dr Richard Kelly

An evening at Broons Centre of Excellence in Rolling Dynamic Compaction

Richard Cavagnaro Award and Young Geotechnical Professional’s Night

Mechanics of unsaturated soils and applications

Professor Daichao Sheng

Barangaroo Headland Project,
Winner 2016 ICE Edmund Hambly Medal

Kieron Little, Lendlease

56th Rankine Lecture, Adelaide:
Geotechnics and Energy

Professor Richard Jardine, Imperial College London

2017 AGS SA-NT Field Trip

Application of Empirical Approaches to Design Rock Slopes in Mining and Civil Engineering Projects

Dr Abbas Taheri

AGS SA-NT 2016 Social Evening

SA-NT AGM, followed by the 55th Rankine Lecture:
Hazard, Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Practice

Dr Suzanne Lacasse, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)

AGS SA-NT Seminar 2016

Risk Management for Onkaparinga Coastal Cliffs

Dr Matthew Duthy

E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture – SA-NT

Professor Malek Bouazza

El Viar Dams In Southern Spain:
Embracing Expansive Clay

Alfonso Perez (Inside Infrastructure Pty Ltd)

Unsaturated soil mechanics and the effective stress in design practice: with application to retaining wall design and CPT interpretation

A/Professor Adrian Russell

Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils

Professor Nasser Khalili

AS 1726 : 2016 Seminar – Adelaide

Members of the SA CE-15 Committee

Engineering for Adelaide Earthquakes

Jack Pappin

Escaping the Golden Cage: Learning to Practise the Art of Observational Geotechnical Engineering

John Simmons

Quiz Night Fundraiser for Nepal

Well, what is the strength of unsaturated clay?

Richard Herraman

Laboratory Testing of Expansive Soils Seminar

Advances in Earthquake Engineering post the 2011 Christchurch Earthquakes

Dr Gary Chapman

Young Geotechnical Professional’s Event

A Systems Approach to Verifying Driven Pile Foundations

Dr. Julian Seidel

54th Rankine Lecture (2014):
Interactions in Offshore Foundation Design

Professor Guy Houlsby, University of Oxford

Seepage, Erosion and Piping.

Matthew Duthy

The design and construction of the 16 hectare basement at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Jack Pappin, Arup Fellow

Feet on the Ground: Engineering Geology, Past Present and Future

Professor Jim Griffiths

A classic Adelaide experience:
Cruising the Torrens on Popeye

The role of testing for pile design in Australia

Professor Barry Lehane

Pile testing at the Superway

Seismic Upgrade of Hindmarsh Valley Dam

Introducing Geotechnical Design to Shallow Geothermal Systems

Professor Ian Johnston

Combined Loading Of Offshore Foundations

Prof Mark J. Cassidy

Rankine Lecture: Performance Based Design In Geotechnical Engineering

Professor Malcolm Bolton

Joint ICE/AGS presentation

Professor Barry Clarke

Soil & Rock Logging Course – AS1726 Geotechnical Site Investigations

Fred Baynes

The Mystery of Unsaturated Soils

Prof David Williams

AS2870 – 2011, Residential Slabs and Footings

Jan Mikucki & Peter Mitchell

Sustainable Aggregates Information Seminar

Various speakers

Quality Assurance of ground improvement using down-hole video techniques

Derek Avalle

Problematic Soils

Prof David Airey

A Window Into Some Of The Challenges And Joys Accompanying Four Decades Of Geomechanics Practice

Andrew Leventhal

Probabalistic Techniques in Geotechnical Modelling – Which one should you use?

Dr William Kaggwa

Field Trip: Adelaide Oval and the Riverbank Precinct

Andrew Gehling

AGS SA/NT Annual Awards and Social Function

Various

Cracking and Movements in Buildings – Design Consideration

Footings Group

Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Ground Anchors and Piling Innovations

Ancorloc & Piling Contractors

POSTPONED Darwin Soil and Rock Logging Course – AS1726 Geotechnical Investigations

Fred Baynes

Fundamental Issues in Developing a Code of Practice for Geotechnical Design – Eurocode 7

Brian Simpson

Young Geotechnical Professionals Evening

Dana Ippolito, Bo Wang, Stephen Carr, Geyashwi Bhowany, Sam Muirhead, Robbie Geodecke, Warren Dowd, Dylan Colsey and Khoi Nguyen

Geotechnical Stability Analysis

Prof Scott Sloan

Piers in Reactive Clay Soils

Dr John D Nelson

Quaking with Fear

Michael Harbison, Mike Griffith, David Love, Lisa Moon and Peter McBean

Seaford Rail Extension

David Bartlett, DPTI Project Director

“Geomechanics and Engineering” Australian Lecture Tour May 2012

Prof Robert Lytton

46th Terzaghi Lecture Downunder – Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil: From the Experimental to the Familiar

Robert Holtz, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, USA

Stability and Risk Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering with Applications to Slopes and Landslides

D. Vaughan Griffiths

Geotechnical Investigation and Design for Foundation Engineering Works

Dr Chris Haberfield

Developments in Transportation Geotechnics

Various Speakers

Design Methods for Driven Piles in Sand and Clay

Dr Fiona Chow

Liquefaction: Christchurch (Darfield) Earthquake 2010, My Experience and Some Issues

Dr Mizanur Rahman

Geotechnical In Situ Testing

George Black

Eastlink Tunnels – From Investigations to Design

Anthony Bennett

Anticipating Engineering Properties and Behaviour from Geological Knowledge

Alan Moon

Jacked Piling in Australia

Dr Peter W Mitchell

Rankine Lecture: Stiffness at Small Strain – Research and Practice

Chris Clayton

Annual General Meeting & Young Geotech Professionals and Students Presentations

Various

Soils, Footing Designs and Climate Change

2009 E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture: Recent Advances in the Application of Vertical Drains and Vacuum Preloading in Soft Soil Stabilization

Professor Buddhima Indraratna

Pizza & Videos Night

In Situ Testing

Allan McConnell

Pavement Design And Construction For Airfields And Container Terminals

Robert Smith

Terzaghi Lecture – Uncertain Geotechnical Truth and Cost-Effective High-Rise Foundation Design

Clyde Baker

YGP Evening: Showcasing young geotechnical professionals and students

Various

Seminar on seismology & earthquakes

Various

Revetment Walls for Unsaturated Clay

Richard Herraman & John Woodburn & Dr William Kaggwa & Chris Ward

The Application of the Total Engineering Geology Approach

Fred Baynes

Design of buried pipes and culverts

Professor Ian Moore

Failure and near Misses in a Geotechnical Career

John Phillips

2007 Jaeger Lecture

Robin Fell

Tall Buildings, Deep Foundations

Harry Poulos

Deep Foundations, Excavations, and Retaining Walls in South Australia

Soil-environment interactions in geotechnical engineering

Showcasing Young Geotechnical Professionals And Students

Various

North Para Flood Control Dam

Geotechnical Aspects Of Railways

Dealing with Fill on Subdivisions

Annual Visitors Night

Professor Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology, University of Adelaide

Golder Associates Night: Soil Nailed Retention Design And Application

Ivan Haustorfer

Screw Pile Anchors

Peter Yttrup & Ron Lochert

What Is Failure And Why Do Failures Occur?

John Atkinson

Annual Field Trip: Bakewell Underpass Project

Richard Herraman, Matthew Duthy, Tim Oborn, Mike Hirons

Seminar: Innovative Technologies for Pavements and Earthworks

Various

Who Needs Constitutive Models?

John P. Carter

Modelling Cover Systems for Waste & Unsaturated Soils Mechanics in Engineering Practice

Del Fredlund, Golder Associates, Canada

Unsaturated Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice

Del Fredlund

Eureka Tower, A Bored Pier Foundation Story

Max Ervin, Golder Associates, Melbourne

Recent Applications of “Square” Impact Roller

Derek Avalle

Geotechnical Aspects of Millbrook Dam

Peter Russell and Dr Ahmed Soliman

The Application Of Innovative Ideas To Solve Challenging Groundwork

Patrick Wong, Senior Principal, Coffey Geosciences

Designing for Unsaturated Clay

Dr G W S Kaggwa, Dr P W Mitchell and Mr R A Herraman

NPER Specific Area Of Practice Landslide Risk Management

SA Geomechanics Society Committee

CRUISING: The Redevelopment of the Port

Jack Rollinson, Richard Herraman, and Peter Mitchell

Half-day Seminar: Geotechnical Aspects of Landfills

Various

Picnic

Richard Cavagnaro

Soil Characterisation: The Importance of Structure and Anisotropy

Prof David Hight

Young Geotechnical Engineers Night and Annual General Meeting

Various Young Geotechnical Engineers and Students

Collapsing Soils from Australia and Thailand

Dr. Don Cameron, Dr. Mark Jaksa, and Dr. Peter Mitchell

Wind Farms and Tall Structures

John McCormack, Greg Perry, Tim Knill, and Dr. Matthew Duthy

Rissa and Pizza

Video Presentation

Flexible uPVC Pipes in Trenches with Stiff Clay Walls Subjected to Construction Traffic

Dr. Don Cameron

Reliability-Based Geotechnical Design

Prof. Gordon Fenton

Geotechnics — The Hidden Face of Civil Engineering

Prof Harry Poulos

Kaiapit Landslide, Papua New Guinea

Mark Drechsler

Visitors Night: History of Waterfall Gully, Annual Visitors Night and AGM

Robert Martin

The Lawrence Hargrave Drive Project, NSW

Alan Moon

Trees and the Built Environment (Half-Day Seminar)

Various

Annual Half-Day Seminar: Developments in Earthworks Technology

Various

Improving the Reliability and Effectiveness of Site Investigations

Dr. Mark Jaksa

2003 E. H. Davis Memorial Lecture: Geotechnical Stability Analysis: New Methods for an Old Problem

Prof Scott Sloan

2002 Rankine Lecture: Numerical Analysis: A Virtual Dream or Practical Reality?

Prof. David Potts

The Maryland Reactive Soil Field Site

Dr Stephen Fityus

Site Visit: Upgrading the Happy Valley Dam

Various

Visitors Night

John Venus

Young Geotechnical Engineers Night and Annual General Meeting

Brendan Scott, Tom Forde and Jason Goldsworthy

Annual Half-Day Seminar: Salinity

Various

Brownfield Britain – Recent Experiences With Contaminated Sites in the UK

Derek Avalle

Slope Stability Forum

Dr Peter Mitchell, Dr Tony Meyers, Dr Ahmed Soliman, Richard Cavagnaro and Richard Herraman

Collapsing Cones, Slippery Slopes, Hot Ground, Titanic Topples, Dams and Development

Dr. Warwick Prebble

Ground Improvement Techniques

Trevor Osborne

Annual Field Trip: Port River Expressway

David Bartlett and Richard Cavagnaro

Visitors Night: Building Faith

Katharine Bartsch

Young Geotechnical Engineers Night and Annual General Meeting

Various

“A Tale of Two Dams” Thorndon Park & Hope Valley

Andy Parsons, Richard Cavagnaro, and Geoff Gosden

Geotechnical Engineering Aspects of the Construction of the Barcoo Outlet

Dr. Peter Mitchell

Annual Half-Day Seminar: Landslide Risk Assessment

Various

Geotechnical Engineering Aspects of the Bath CSO Project, England

Matthew Duthy

E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture: Soil – Structure Interaction

Assoc. Prof. John Small

Artificial Neural Networks For Settlement Prediction Of Shallow Foundations On Granular Soils

Mohamed Shahin

Site Visit: Southern Metropolitan Coastal Stability

Lyn Sanders

Visitors Night

Non-Technical

Young Geotechnical Engineers Night and Annual General Meeting

Various Young Geotechnical Engineers and Students

Latest Advances in Geofabrics and Geogrids

Rod Fyfe

The Use of the Dilatometer Test (DMT) in Soil Investigation and in Geotechnical Design

Prof. Gianfranco Totani

Chek Lap Kok Airport Hong Kong

Craig Covil

Underground Design in the SA Opal Fields

Dr. Tony Meyers

The Lost Art of Engineering Geological Mapping

Dr. Fred Baynes

Linear Landfill or Driver’s Dream – Can We Successfully Use Alternative Aggregates to Make Pavements?

Dr. Andrew Dawson

Thredbo Landslide

Tim Sullivan

Site Visit: Southern Expressway

Stephen Becket and Roger Grounds

Visitors Night, Belair Bhavan Tandoori Indian Restaurant

Mark Elford

International Speaker: Application of Limit State Principles to Geotechnical Problems

Brian Simpson

Young Geotechnical Engineers Night and Annual General Meeting

Various

Annual Half-Day Seminar – Recent Developments in Piling

Various

Case Studies in Geotechnical Engineering (Joint Meeting with the S.A. Footings and Structural Groups)

Various

Application of Pressure Injection

John Adamson

Remediation of Contaminated Sites

Various

Design of Large Underground Excavations

Dr. Tony Meyers

Site Visit: Linwood Quarry

Gus Harvey

Visitors Night – Maylands Hotel – Early Road Building in South Australia

Bill Stacy

Inaugural Young Geotechnical Engineers Night and Annual General Meeting

Various Young Geotechnical Engineers and Students

Construction and Hydrogeological Aspects of Melbourne’s City Link Project

Bruce Hutchison

Engineering Characteristics of Interesting South Australian Soils – Woomera, St Kilda And Glanville Formations (Joint Meeting with the S.A. Footings Group)

Don Richardson, Tony Belperio, and Roger Grounds

1995 E. H. Davis Memorial Lecture Video Presentation

The Late Prof. John Booker

The G-Pile Foundation System

Dr Peter Mitchell

Annual Half-Day Seminar – Ground Engineering Risk

Various

Southern Expressway Stage I – Pavement Design and Construction

Rob Bremert

Site visit

Dr Peter Mitchell and Richard Cavagnaro

Annual visitors night: India – Roads and Life

Bob Andrews

Construction of the Blanchetown Bridge

Dr Peter Mitchell and Richard Herraman

The Response of Reactive Clay Soils to Wetting in the Presence of Active Vegetation

Kevin Mills

Cobblers Creek Retention Dam Project

Brenton Curtis and Andrew Telfer

Southern Expressway Project

Dr Peter Mitchell

Annual Half-Day Seminar – Recent Developments in Pavement Technology*

Various

Enhanced Natural Biodegradation (ENB) of Diesel Contaminants at the Mile End Railyards

Craig Barker

Mt Barker Road Project Visit

Andrew Campbell

Modelling of Offshore Foundations

Professor Mark Randolph

Life on a Commune

Richard Herraman

Landslide Risk Assessment

Alan Moon

Adelaide Airport Runway Extension

Richard Cavagnaro and Roger Grounds

The Holdfast Shores Development at Glenelg – Geotechnical Aspects – Onshore and Offshore

Bob Boorman, Doug Smart, and Dr Peter Mitchell

Art Gallery of SA – Deep Basement Construction

Carlo Muneretto

Melbourne Crown Casino – Geotechnical Issues

Max Ervin

Annual Half-Day Seminar – Environmental Geomechanics

Various

Blanchetown Bridge Replacement – Geotechnical Investigation

Richard Herraman and Matthew Duthy

Tailings Management at Olympic Dam – Current Practises and Future Options

Jeremy Folwell

The Re-Use of Sediment Drained from the Patawalonga

Lyn Sanders and Tony Read