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February 2020
Bay of Plenty and Waikato YGP Symposium
The first Bay of Plenty & Waikato Young Geotechnical Professionals’ Symposium is happening on Thursday 27 February 2020. For further details please refer to the flyer here. Due date for submissions is Friday 24 January 2020 To register you need to provide a 100 to 200 word summary of a geotechnical topic which you can commit to making a 10 minute presentation on at the event. The topic should be something that your peers can learn from. This could be: A…
Find out more »Bay of Plenty and Waikato YGP Symposium
The first Bay of Plenty & Waikato Young Geotechnical Professionals’ Symposium is happening on Thursday 27 February 2020. For further details please refer to the flyer here. Due date for submissions is Friday 24 January 2020 To register you need to provide a 100 to 200 word summary of a geotechnical topic which you can commit to making a 10 minute presentation on at the event. The topic should be something that your peers can learn from. This could be: A…
Find out more »Seismic Earth Pressures on Retaining Walls Based on SSI Principals
Presented by Professor Jonathan P. Stewart Prof. Civil Engineering, UCLA During earthquake ground shaking, earth pressures on retaining structures can cyclically increase and decrease as a result of inertial forces applied to the walls and kinematic interactions between stiff wall elements and surrounding soil. The current state of practice is based on a limit analysis approach in which a pseudostatic inertial force is applied to a soil wedge behind the wall. This approach is a poor analogy for either inertial…
Find out more »March 2020
Use of Controlled Blasting to Evaluate the Deep, In Situ Dynamic Response of Soils
Presented by Dr Armin W. Stuedlein, Associate Professor, Geotechnical Engineering School of Civil & Construction Engineering, Oregon State University RSVP: Here As part of its long-term resilience goals, the Port of Portland has determined that one of its two runways must be hardened against the vertical and lateral deformations anticipated following rupture of the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the nearby Port Hills fault. Both runways lie in close proximity to the Columbia River, which has been dredged to maintain shipping…
Find out more »August 2020
Quake Core Annual Meeting 2020
2020 Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting and aligned workshops Placeholder only at this stage
Find out more »October 2020
21st NZGS National Symposium – Dunedin 2020
Symposium theme The theme of the Symposium is inspired by the profound changes currently experienced internationally and in New Zealand: Natural disasters associated with climate change effects, are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. The learnings from the recent Canterbury and Kaikōura seismic events are shifting our thinking in New Zealand with respect to the way we perceive and address the seismic risk. Increasing urbanism and growth of population around the cities create more needs for capacity and resiliency of lifelines. The…
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