Choice 1: Dora Avanidou & Gavin Alexander Dora Avanidou Dora is a Senior Hydrogeologist at Beca Ltd. She is a professional engineer with a wide experience in water resources management, and environmental risk assessments. Dora holds a Master degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from…
Abstract Routine effective stress analyses for failure of geotechnical structures use a linear Mohr-Coulomb envelope and routine analyses for ground movements use linear elasticity with constant Young’s Modulus E’ or one-dimensional modulus M’. Observations of soil behaviour show that strength and stiffness are non-linear and…
Abstract The movement of many landslides is controlled by the force imbalance associated with a reduction in shear resistance caused by a decrease in normal effective stress as pore water pressures increase. This basic premise might lead to an assumption that the movement rate has…
Top left and clockwise: Mike Stannard accepting a life membership; Mike Stannard, Charlie Price and Tony Fairclough working through an MBIE/NZGS module discussion; Some of the EQC funded students: Xiaoyu Chen, Heba Elsaidy, Mark Gray, Thomas Robertson, Romy Ridl, Francesca Spinardi, Jesse Merkle, Katherine Yates,…
Free rapid assessment workshops for geo-professionals Geotechnical professionals who are interested in applying their skills in a civil defence response are invited to attend a free MBIE workshop in early 2018. The workshops will be run in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and provide training on…
The following graphics are some key statistics that may be of interest to NZGD users. The NZGD is co-funded by MBIE and EQC. The makeup of the NZGD users by profession and year is varied, but dominated by geotechnical engineers (Figure 1), as would be…
The closure of 2017 is a celebration of the strength of our society and our members. In this issue we focus on the 20th NZGS Symposium hosted by Napier on 23-26 November 2017. Pierre Malan and the organisation committee put a tremendous amount of work…
It is my great pleasure and honour to be writing my first “Chair’s Corner” report. As most of you will know, Charlie’s term as NZGS Chair ended on 30 September 2017, and, I took the helm on 01 October. Over these past five years, as a…