- 2024
2024 AGS Victoria AGM and Annual Dinner
Geology Field Trip
Geology Field Trip — Evening Presentation
Geotechnical Engineering for a Sustainable Society
Prof. Lidija Zdravković
AGS Victoria Symposium 2024
AGS Victoria 2024 PhD Research Award
Sejani Mediliye Gedara , Rene Kurniadi and Elissar Mikhael
Mid-Winter Social: IAEG’s 60 Years & Women in AGS Celebration
Ann Williams
Application of Fundamental Geotechnical Testing and FEA in the Development of Design Methods for Unpaved Roads and Platforms
Dr Andrew Lees
Discrete Fracture Network Analyses and Modelling
Michael Munro
Remote Sensing Applications for Geotechnical Engineering
Prof. Richard A. Coffman
Geomechanics at the particle scale: the potential of image-based approaches
Dr Joana Fonseca
Reliability-Based Design for Geotechnical Engineering Practice
Ramtin Tajeddin
The Unusual and the Unexpected in Geotechnical Engineering: Observation – Analogy – Experiment
Professor Stephan Jefferis
- 2023
2023 AGS Victoria AGM and Annual Dinner
Women in Geotechnics: Challenges and Opportunities
Kathryn Jones, Melodie Moya, Michele Clark and Prof Guillermo Narsilio
Fieldtrip: Greenvale Dam Safety Upgrade
Greenvale Dam Safety Upgrade
Mark Arnold, Stephen Chia and Elliot Hannan
AGS Victoria Symposium 2023
Unearthing Potential: Revolutionising Australia’s Infrastructure Through Centralised Geological and Geotechnical Data Management
Dr David Och
2023 Jack Morgan Young Geotechnical Practitioners Award
Toward an understanding of debris flow hazard in Tasmania
Colin Mazengarb
Computational Slope Stability Analysis
Prof. Vaughan Griffiths
An Introduction to the Geology of Geelong and Surrounds
Trevor Smith
Geotechnics and data transfer – AGS 4.1.1 AU1.2 roll out
Stephen Durham, Phil Wade, Tim Swavley and Sven Thorin
D.H. Trollope Medal presentation – Soil arching in piled embankments
Dr. Louis King
- 2022
2022 AGS Victoria AGM and Annual Dinner
A Multi-Technique Solution to Overcome Geotechnical, Structural and Physical Challenges on a Southbank Project
Dr Eric Chong
2022 AGS Victorian Symposium
Happy Soil Mechanics Fathers Day: Celebrating Karl Terzaghi’s Birthday
Sergei Terzaghi
Suburban Rail Loop – Ground Conditions and Tunnelling Challenges
Stefan Hanke and Chris Lyons
The AGS Victoria PhD Research Award
Geotechnics of wind energy – onshore and offshore
David Annan and Dr. Ryan D Beemer
Reimagining the unbound pavement testing, design and construction to get due benefit of digitalisation
Prof. Jayantha Kodikara
Application of Soil Improvement Techniques
Dr Philipp Schober
Victoria Chapter 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner
Generation and propagation of rock blast-induced pore pressures in quick clay
Jörgen Johansson
- 2021
2021 Annual General Meeting and Chair’s Address
Associate Professor Mahdi Disfani
Geology of Melbourne Course 2021 (2nd edition)
Darren Paul, Chris Coulson
Low-carbon energy: essential solutions from international case studies
A/Prof Fleur Loveridge and Michael Chendorain
Cognitive Dissonance in Geotechnical Engineering
Dr Burt Look
2021 AGS Victorian Symposium
Dr Scott Taylor, Professor Jinsong Huang, Dr Julian Seidel and Chris Lyons
Design, Construction and Verification of CFA Piles for Infrastructure and Building Projects
Dr Ben Collingwood
Jack Morgan Young Geotechnical Practitioners Award
Vinamra Gupta, Marvin Bedary, Yu Cherry Zhong and Manuel Joao Niza das Neves
Geotechnical Design for Major Bridge and Elevated Road Infrastructure in West Melbourne
Stephen Gamble
Why is rehabilitating the Latrobe valley brown coal mines so hard?
Emeritus Professor Rae Mackay
Innovative solutions in Geotechnical Engineering Practice through Data-driven and Computational Methods
Dr Negin Yousefpour
Optimisation of Foundation Design – Dubai Case Studies
Dr. Ying Tay
- 2020
2020 Annual General Meeting and Chair’s Address
Chris Coulson
2020 AGS Victorian Symposium
Professor Arul Arulrajah, Patrick Wong and Ross Roberts
Key Observations and Findings on Liquefaction Impacts in the 2010-2011 Christchurch Earthquakes
Professor Misko Cubrinovski
New developments on the Flat Dilatometer (DMT) and Seismic Dilatometer (SDMT) for geotechnical and geophysical in situ testing
Diego Marchetti
Geotechnical Testing Refresher: The Triaxial Test
Dr. Michael Munro
Offshore Wind Turbine Geotechnical Engineering
Dr Nobutaka Yamamoto and Carl Erbrich
Optic Fibre Sensing in Geotechnical Engineering Monitoring
Dr Mahdi Disfani
Seismic Pile Design in Australia
Dr Rob May
Recent progress in predicting the onset and post-failure of geomaterials
Dr Ha Bui
- 2019
Geotechnical Engineering: A Tale of Two Cities
Prof Mark Cassidy
Jack Morgan Young Geotechnical Practitioners Award 2019
AGS Victoria Symposium
Professor Mark Jaksa, Dr Richard Kelly, Peter Kingston and Associate Professor Bill Bamford
Trying to make a difference – and why sometimes we can’t
Rob Day
Water Ingress in Long TBM Tunnels
David Lees
Coal mining in the Latrobe Valley
James Faithful and Dr Rob Gaulton
Latrobe Valley Mine Closure
Sanjive Narendranathan and Nirav Patel
A particulate perspective on soil internal erosion in embankment dams
Dr. Tom Shire
Design of Foundations Using The Cone Penetration Test
Barry Lehane
Mine Tailings Management: An overview
Dr. Behrooz Ghahreman-Nejad and Keith Seddon
58th Rankine Lecture
Dr Nick O'Riordan
Geophysics in Engineering Site Characterisation
Zivko Terzic and Oleg Ermakov
- 2018
Victoria 2018 AGM and Annual Dinner
AGS VIC 2018 Symposium
Dr David Oliveira, Dr George Kouretzis and David Mangan
National Terzaghi lecture
Dr. R. Kerry Rowe
57th Rankine Lecture, Victoria
Eduardo Alonso
New Approaches to Driven Pile Acceptance
Dr Julian Seidel
Improved understanding of Melbourne’s hydrogeology gained from investigations and numerical modelling of large civil infrastructure projects
Irena Krusic-Hrustanpasic – Principal, Golder Associates
Geotechnical Risk – A contractor’s perspective
Vito Trantino, Executive General Manager - Engineering, Technology and Innovation, McConnell Dowell Contractors
Optimising Site Investigations Using a Risk-based Approach
Professor Mark Jaksa
Ground Improvement for International Container Terminal at Webb Dock
Dr Kejing Chen, Associate Director at AECOM
GIS for Geotechs Short Course
Colin Mazengarb, Senior Geologist, Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT)
What does GIS offer Geotechnical Investigations?
Colin Mazengarb, Senior Geologist, Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT)
- 2017
2017 Vic Chapter AGM, Annual Dinner and Guest Speaker
Natural hazards, risk, and the resilience of U.S. transportation infrastructure
Scott Anderson
Jack Morgan Young Geotechnical Practitioners Award 2017
AGS VIC Symposium 2017 – Fully subscribed
Insights from the Ballina bypass prediction exercise
Dr Richard Kelly
Bushfires, Landslides and Geotechnical Challenges
Tony Miner and Stuart Colls
Mechanics of unsaturated soils and applications
Professor Daichao Sheng
AGS Graduate Night 2017
Geotechnical investigation and pile testing for tallest building in the world
Chris Haberfield and Darren Paul, Principals at Golder Associates
56th Rankine Lecture, Melbourne
Professor Richard Jardine, Imperial College London
Managing slope instability in the Dandenongs and Yarra Ranges – Field Trip
Darren Paul
Managing slope instability in the Dandenongs and Yarra Ranges – Technical Presentation
Neville Rosengren and Darren Paul
Groundwater and Deep Excavations
Rob Day
How, where and when buried water pipelines break?
Professor Jayantha Kodikara
- 2016
2016 Vic Chapter AGM, Annual Dinner and Guest Speaker
Max Ervin
AGS VIC Symposium 2016
55th Rankine Lecture
Dr Suzanne Lacasse, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)
Geotechnical Mapping Course – Melbourne
Computational limit analysis: from stability to deformations
Associate Professor Kristian Krabbenhoft
Key learnings from conducting In Situ Testing
Professor Paul Mayne, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cone Penetration Testing (CPT) and Seismic Dilatometer Testing (SDMT) Field Demonstration (fully booked)
Nick Ramsey
E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture – Victoria
Professor Malek Bouazza
Ground Treatment: Taming the Angryman, and other grouting challenges
Joe Evert and Bruce Grant
Energy and Environmental Geomechanics
Associate Professor Marcelo Sanchez
Deconstructing Engineering Geological Models
Dr Fred Baynes
Significant geological sites within urban Melbourne – Field Trip
Neville Rosengren
Significant geological sites within urban Melbourne – Technical Presentation
Neville Rosengren
AS 1726 : 2016 Seminar – Melbourne
Members of the SA CE-15 Committee
Escaping the Golden Cage: Learning to Practise the Art of Observational Geotechnical Engineering
John Simmons
John Jaeger Memorial Award Lecture: Predicting the Mechanical Behaviour of Structured Soils
Professor John Carter
- 2015
AGM, Chair’s Address, Annual Dinner and Guest Speaker
Jeremy Barber & Stephen J. Gallagher
Jack Morgan Young Geotechnical Practitioners Award 2015 Presentations
Energy piles: Developments and common construction practices in Europe
Dr Fleur Loveridge
Landslides, Risk Concepts and Case Studies
Anthony (Tony) Miner, Principal Geotechnical Engineer, A.S. Miner Geotechnical Consulting Engineers
Joint AGS/Structural Meeting:
Residential Slabs on Reactive SoilsDr Don Cameron
Recent developments in earthquake seismology
Gary Gibson
Challenges of New Metro Station and Associated Tunnel Construction in a Mature Urban Environment: New Bugis Station
Peter Longstaff (AFS), Tim Palmer (GFWA) and Joseph Donohue (Arup)
2014 Terzaghi Lecture: Energy Geotechnology:
Enabling New Insights into Soil BehaviourProfessor J. Carlos Santamarina
The Performance Characteristics of Granular Base using a Laboratory Wheel Tracking Device
Dr Didier Bodin
Retaining Structures for Grade Separations
Chandra Chandrasekaran and Bhupatindra G. Vaidya
54th Rankine Lecture (2014):
Interactions in Offshore Foundation DesignProfessor Guy Houlsby, University of Oxford
Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring
Stephen Darmawan and Craig Johnson
Eastern Side of Western Port – Fieldtrip
What’s Happened to the Oysters?Neville Rosengren
Eastern Side of Western Port – Lecture
What’s Happened to the Oysters?Neville Rosengren
14th Glossop Medal Lecture Tour – Melbourne
Professor Jim Griffiths
Introducing Geotechnical Design
to Shallow Geothermal SystemsProfessor Ian Johnston
- 2014
- 2013
AGM Annual Dinner – Geotechnical and Hydrogeological Misadventures I Have Known
Dr Rick Evans
Combined Loading Of Offshore Foundations
Prof Mark J. Cassidy
Performance-Based Design In Geotechnical Engineering
Professor Malcolm Bolton
Advances in Piling Techniques and Design
Slav Tchepak
Retrofitting graded chimney drain using bio-polymer slurry at Hays Creek Dam, New Zealand
Raj Jairaj
Technical Field Trip: Western Port
Neville Rosengren
Evening Technical Meeting: Western Port
Mr Neville Rosengren
Ground Engineering and the Law
Nicolas Gallina
1st monthly lecture
ATS: Tunnelling Under Sydney Opera House
- 2012
AGM & “A 21st Century Perspective on the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, Egypt”
Steve Macklin
Near-surface seismic: More than a problem of scale
Dr Rick Miller
Reinforced Soil Structures and the development of BS8006:1-2010
Steve Corbet
Fundamental issues in developing a code of practice for geotechnical design – Eurocode 7
Dr Brian Simpson
Best Victorian presentations from the 9th Australia and New Zealand Young Geotechnical Practitioners Conference (9ANZYGPC)
Various Speakers
Geotechnical Practitioner of the Year 2010 and Civil Engineer of the Year 2011
Andrew Leventhal
51st Rankine Lecture – Geotechnical Stability Analysis
Professor Scott W Sloan, University of Newcastle
Soil and Rock Logging – AS1726 Geotechnical Site Investigations
Evaluation of Soil Liquification and Post-Earthquake Deformation using CPT
Professor Peter Robertson
Refinement of the Conceptual Ground Model for Melbourne Metro
Anthony Bennett, Stephen Barrett and Darren Paul
From Drought to Deluge: Case studies & Improving Slab Performance
Groundwater Issues Related to Tunnelling
Dr Harry Asche and Mike Dudding
Bogong Power Development Project Geotechnics
Graham Granger
Pavements on Expansive Soils
Prof Robert Lytton
Expansive Soils & Characterization of Expansive Soils for Designs
Prof Robert Lytton
Technical Aspects of Insitu Performance Testing of High Explosives – A History Lesson
John Warkentin
Geology and Geomorphology of Bacchus Marsh Region: Field Trip
Geology and Geomorphology of Bacchus Marsh Region
Neville Rosengren, Honorary Associate, La Trobe University
Design of Columnar-Reinforced Foundations
Professor Mounir Bouassida
Some Lessons From Geotechnical Failures
David Tonks, Coffey Geotechnics UK
Short course: Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering
Professor D. Vaughan Griffiths
Probabilities of Failure and Factors of Safety in Geotechnical Engineering
Professor D. Vaughan Griffiths
46th Terzaghi Lecture – Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil: From the Experimental to the Familiar
R. D. Holtz, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Geotechnical Engineering and the Law
Nicholas Gallina, Senior Associate, Allens Arthur Robinson
- 2011
Annual General Meeting and Annual Dinner
Various speakers
Jack Morgan Award Presentations
Shortlisted presenters
Light Weight Deflectometer – Measuring Dynamic Modulus and CBR on-site Immediately
Robin Power
Geohazards and Large Geographically Distributed Systems
Professor Tom O’Rourke
Foundation design in (dune) sand
Prof. Barry Lehane
From Myth to Reality… Liquefaction in the Canterbury Earthquake
Chris Bauld & Mike Jacka
Soil and Rock Logging AS 1726 Geotechnical Site Investigations
Dr Fred Baynes
Is selecting a TBM a puzzle?
Tony Peach & Andrew Campbell
Geology and geomorphology of Port Phillip Bay
Neville Rosengren
Geotechnical Investigation and Design for Foundation Engineering Works
Ground Anchors – The importance of maintenance and inspections and some recent development
Dr Devon Mothersille, SBMA Ltd
- 2010
Annual General Meeting & Annual Dinner
Chris Boyd & Lt Col Dechlan Ellis (ret.)
Stiffness at Small Strain: Research and Practice
Prof Chris Clayton
The Lessons From The Yallourn Inquiry
Tim Sullivan, Principal, Pells Sullivan Meynink Pty Ltd
Rock mass characterisation: A vehicle to translate Geology into the design of Engineering Structures
Professor Paul Marinos, National Technical University of Athens
Piling Rig Bearing Pressure and Design of Construction Working Platforms
Dr Stephen Buttling
Soil and Rock Logging – AS1726 Geotechnical Site Investigations
Dr Fred Baynes
Concepts & Parameters Related to Ground Improvement Illustrated by Case Histories
Melbourne Geomorphology
Dr Neville Rosengren
2009 E.H. Davis Lecture: Recent Advances in the Application of Vertical Drains and Vacuum Preloading in Soft Soil Stabilization
Buddhima Indraratna, PhD, FIEAust, FASCE, FGS, CEng, CPEng.
March 2010 edition of Australian Geomechanics ‘Geotechnology of Victoria’
Various Speakers
A Case Study of Abandoned Mine Subsidence at Dominion, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2002-2003
Dave Forrester PhD, PEng
New Piling Code AS 2159-2009
Slav Tchepak & Tom George
- 2009
- 2008
- 2005
- 2003
- 2000
- 1998
Collapsing Soils
Dr Peter Mitchell
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