Rankine Day Seminar – From Field and Laboratory Testing to Geotechnical Design – Cancelled

Introduction

From Field and Laboratory Testing to Geotechnical Design: Parameter Derivation

A Half Day Seminar at Imperial College London

Due to the health risks of hosting large events posed by the Coronavirus, this event has been cancelled.

Further details can be found here.

In advance of the 2020 BGA Rankine Lecture, Imperial College London is holding a half day seminar, held at the Skempton Building, Imperial College London and chaired by Professor Lidija Zdravkovic.

The seminar will run from 1:00-4:30pm on the 18th March 2020, in advance of the Rankine lecture at 5:30pm.

Registration is not required and all are welcome to attend.

Venue:

Skempton Building, Imperial College London, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, London SW7 2BU

Main room: LT 164 – ground floor, Skempton Building; Overflow room: LT 201 – first floor, Skempton Building

The event will be divided into 2 sessions with a 30 minute coffee break between sessions.

Session 1

Interpretation of CPT results: insights from experimental research

Prof. Rodrigo Salgado, Purdue University, USA

Application of CPT in the reliability-based assessment of dykes and embankments

Prof. Michael Hicks, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Calibrating design parameters for problem soils from medium-scale field tests

Prof. Richard Jardine, Imperial College London, UK

Session 2

Ground characterisation for the development of nuclear sites

Dr. Iain Tromans, Jacobs, UK

Characterisation of serviceability and stability parameters for infrastructure slopes in stiff plastic clays

Dr. Nebojša Kovačević, Geotechnical Consulting Group, UK

Advanced constitutive models for sands: calibration, pitfalls and application to the design of offshore monopiles

Dr. David Taborda, Imperial College London, UK

For further details, please download the flyer here.

There is no need to register in advance for this event.