Australian Geomechanics Society Western Australia – 2009 Meetings
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27-28 March 2009
Soil and Rock Logging Course
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21 April 2009
Structures Panel and Australian Geomechanics Society
Joint presentation between the Structures Panel and the Australian Geomechanics Society
- Arthur Psaltis. Managing Director, Pritchard Francis Pty Ltd
- Ian Smith. Principal, Golder Associates Pty Ltd
- Professor Andrew Deeks. Head of the School of Civil & Resource Engineering at the University of Western Australia
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5 May 2009
Insights into the behaviour of geotechnical structures through field observations
William Powrie
William Powrie - Insights into the behaviour of geotechnical structures through field observations
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9 June 2009
Geohazard Assessment for Critical Infrastructure Engineering
James V. Hengesh, P.G.
This presentation will draw on examples from several major projects to discussdevelopment of seismic source models for seismic hazard assessments and toshow how terrain analysis can help projects avoid major pitfalls.
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14 July 2009
AGS Young Geotechnical Professionals’ Evening Seminar and the 8th Dr Baden Clegg Award
Various Speakers
The Western Australian Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) invites participants for the 2009 Young Geotechnical Professional’s Seminar Evening.Participants must be under 35 years on 31st July 2009 and may be geotechnicalengineers, geologists, mining engineers, hydrogeologists or other geotechnical professionals working in industry or academia.
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11 August 2009
Sources of Geotechnical Risk
Fred Baynes
The geotechnical risks that can impact upon projects result from a range of hazardsassociated with geological conditions and geological processes, but also fromhazards associated with the geo-engineering process.
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4 September 2009
On making the earth move!
Prof Sarah Springham
This seminar will introduce a landslide experiment on a steep instrumented wooded slope along the River Rhine that didn't fail during an extreme artificial rainfall event in October 2008. The reasons why, and actions taken, will be presented together with the successful repeat experiment in March 2009. In this case failure was achieved more or less as predicted, with about 200m2 of land sliding quickly, yet safely, into an instrumented protection net.
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8 September 2009
Geotechnical and Pavement Engineering Aspects of the New Perth Bunbury Highway
Russell Clayton
The New Perth to Bunbury Highway located south of Perth is the largest road project that Main Roads Western Australia has ever undertaken. The project, delivered through an Alliance, comprises 70 km of dual carriageway freeway and highway with 23 bridges, of which 4 were incrementally launched across the larger rivers.
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13 October 2009
GFWA Prize in Geomechanics
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The GFWA Prize in Geomechanics is a prize sponsored by the firm GFWA Pty Ltd and awarded by the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) for the best paper presentation by a final year student in the area of Geomechanics at Universities in Western Australia.
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19 October 2009
Explaining Geotechnical Risks
Tim Chapman
Tim Chapman - The Relevance Of Developer Costs In Geotechnical Risk Management
The talk will explain a little about project developers main pre-occupations and how geotechnical risks can be put into perspective for them. It also explains a little about the relative magnitudes of geotechnical costs and risks in the context of a whole project.
