Tasmania Chapter Meetings

Year-end Social, Southern Tasmania

Geotechnical Engineering for a Sustainable Society

Prof. Lidija Zdravković

Riverbank collapse during Australia’s Big Dry

Dr. Elysśa De Carli

Second Piling Works Tour, New Bridgewater Bridge Project

Deep soil mixing tour

Directional Drilling Tour

Piling Works Tour

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

Professor Stephan Jefferis

Geotechnical Data at your fingertips

Colin Mazengarb and Bill Cromer

The Sub-surface Geology of the Hobart CBD

Dr Tony Webster

Understanding Unbound Granular Pavements (UGPs)

Mr Ralph Rallings

Slope Stability Analysis: From Taylor’s Charts to Finite Elements

Professor D.V. Griffiths

AGS Tasmanian Chapter Networking Night

AGS Tasmania Chapter 2022 Symposium

Keynote speakers: Professor Nasser Khalili, Professor Andrew Chan, Ms Delia Sidea, Dr Mohammad Vahab, Dr Hamed Lamei Ramandi and Dr Hongyuan Liu

Tamar Valley landslide field trip and workshop

Paradise Gorge – Rock Removal in Columnar Dolerite

Andrew Tyson and Clint Scott

The Kidston Pumped storage Hydro Project (K2H)

Alistair Schofield

Rock Crushers and Low Speed Sizers: Design and Applications

Robert Whitaker

Anchoring systems for the next generation of floating infrastructures

Associate Professor Yinghui Tian

Multi-phasic Approaches for Modelling Multi-Physics Processes in Complex Rocks

Professor APS Selvadurai

Crushed Waste Glass (CWG) Re-use as a Synthetic Aggregate in Shotcrete Production

Dr. Mehdi Serati

2021 Tasmania International Symposium

Keynote Speakers: Barry Lehane, Yinghui Tian, Conleth O’Loughlin, Leung Chun Fai, Ana Page, David White, Amin Barari and Britta Bienen

Cognitive Dissonance in Geotechnical Engineering

Dr Burt Look

Tasmania Chapter 50th anniversary celebration

Seismic pile design in Australia

Dr Rob May

Tasmania Chapter AGM

Numerical Analysis of Stability and Risk in Highly Variable Soils

Professor Vaughan Griffiths

Design of Foundations Using The Cone Penetration Test

Barry Lehane

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

Rob Day

1st Tasmanian Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics

Dr Ali Tolooiyan, Matthew Ferguson, Joe Booth, Dr Hong Y Liu, Colin Mazengarb, Dr Claire Kain and Mojtaba Mohammadnejad

Ground improvements at Granville Harbour Windfarm

David Raftery

Regional geology and road construction in the Hobart to Oatlands area

Colin Mazengarb and Mike Vicary

Radar interferometry and its application potential in Tasmania

Nick Roberts, PhD

58th Rankine Lecture

Dr Nick O'Riordan

2018 AGM

Rebecca McWatters, PhD, P.Eng

Geotechnical Mapping Course 2018 – Hobart

National Terzaghi lecture

Dr. R. Kerry Rowe

57th Rankine Lecture, Tasmania

Eduardo Alonso

Engineering Geology Of The Derwent River Area

Colin Mazengarb, Michael Vicary and Amara Priyankarage

Optimising Site Investigations Using a Risk-based Approach

Professor Mark Jaksa

Technical Presentations and AGM

Associate Professors Jun-ichi Kodama and Atsushi Sainoki

Insights from the Ballina bypass prediction exercise

Dr Richard Kelly

Mechanics of unsaturated soils and applications

Professor Daichao Sheng

Structural engineering contributions to geotechnical failures

Dr Chris Haberfield

56th Rankine Lecture, Hobart:
Geotechnics and Energy

Professor Richard Jardine, Imperial College London

Geosurveys innovation

Dr Andi Pfaffhuber

Talk: Tunnel face stability and its reinforcement using bolts, and AGM

Professor Henry K.K. Wong

Geotechnical Mapping Course – Hobart

55th Rankine Lecture

Dr Suzanne Lacasse, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)

E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture – Tasmania

Professor Malek Bouazza

Engineering for Australian Earthquakes

Jack Pappin

AS 1726 : 2016 Seminar – Hobart

Members of the SA CE-15 Committee

GIS for Geotechs Short Course – Launceston

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

John Simmons

GIS for Geotechs Short Course – Hobart

AGM and Local Speaker Night

Simplified models for wave-induced dynamic soil response around marine infrastructures.

Professor Dong-Sheng Jeng

Soil and Rock Logging Course – TAS

Dr Fred Baynes

Dynamic saturated soil and pore fluid interaction modelling using FEM and combined DEM-LBM

Professor Andrew Chan

Engineering geological models, slope stability and landslides.

Mark Eggers

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

Professor Guy Houlsby, University of Oxford

14th Glossop Medal Lecture Tour – Hobart

AGS Tasmania 2014 AGM

Introducing Geotechnical Design to Shallow Geothermal Systems

Professor Ian Johnston

52nd Rankine Lecture: Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering

Professor Malcolm Bolton

Management of a Highway Pavement for Subsidence Impacts from Longwall Mining

Henk Buys

Introduction to the engineering geology of Hobart

Various Speakers

2012 AGM

Annual General Meeting and Eminent Speaker Brian Simpson OBE

Dr Brian Simpson

Geotechnical Practitioner of the Year 2010 and Civil Engineer of the Year 2011

Andrew Leventhal

Some Mining Application of Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Prof David Williams

Bogong Power Development – Estimation of ground conditions under severe constraints

Graham Granger, GHD

Probabilities of Failure & Factors of Safety in Geotechnical Engineering

Professor D.V. Griffiths, Colorado School of Mines USA

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

Professor Emeritus Robert D. Holtz, PhD PE D.GE

Concepts & Parameters Related to Ground Improvement Illustrated by Case Histories

Serge Varaskin

AS 2159-2009: A Brief Outline

Slav Tchepak

Construction of the Suez Canal

Prof. Mamdouh Hamza