Soil mechanics principles applied to the stability of ore cargoes
Dr David Hight
AGS QLD is pleased to be kicking off the year with a specialist technical lecture from the 38th Rankine Lecturer – Dr David Hight – who is in Brisbane for a short time as a guest of Golder Associates.
There are many cases of vessels sinking in heavy seas when carrying cargoes of nickel ore, iron ore fines and one case of a vessel carrying bauxite ore. Cargo liquefaction is often cited in the shipping world as the cause of the loss. This supposition will be investigated in the talk, taking into account the potential modes of instability of the cargo heaps, the properties of the unsaturated and uncompacted ores, and the complex stress paths to which they are subjected.
About the speaker
Dr David Hight Senior Consultant and Founding Director, Geotechnical Consulting Group
Dr David Hight is a Senior Consultant and Founding Director of the Geotechnical Consulting Group in London. He has been a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, the National University of Singapore and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published widely on the subjects of soil behaviour, offshore geotechnics, soil sampling, laboratory testing, stability problems, earthworks and foundations. He delivered the 38th Rankine Lecture in 1998. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2001 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016.
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