14thBGAYoungGeotechnicalEngineers’Symposium2016 UniversityofStrathclyde Tuesday5thJuly–Thursday7thJuly2016 Tuesday5thJuly(Venue:Technology&InnovationCentre) Start 10.00 10.30 10.40 End 10.30 10.40 12.00 Presenter Organisation Title Registration(Tea&Coffee) Welcome&Introduction Session1:Groundimprovement/experimental MatteoPedrotti Universityof Strathclyde AlfredOpukumo NewcastleUniversity JuanBernal-Sanchez NapierUniversity TingfaLiu ImperialCollege London 12.00 13.00 13.00 13.50 13.50 15.10 Useofcolloidalsilica groutforgroundbarriers indecommissioning ImpactandPotentialof CalcareousSoilson Earthworks Areviewofrubber-soil mixtures(RSM)properties Advancedlaboratory testingforoffshorewind turbinefoundationsunder lateralandmoment loading Lunch KeynoteSpeaker:Prof.AndySloan, DonaldsonAssociates ‘Thedevelopmentofundergroundspaceandurbanisation’ Session2:Claybehaviour ChristopherReid Universityof Strathclyde GiuliaGhiadistri BrunaDeCarvalhoFaria LimaLopes ImperialCollege London Universityof Strathclyde F.J.Ciruela-Ochoa OveArupand Partners InternationalLtd Amechanismfor bentonitebuffererosion fromanaturallyvarying fractureaperture Numericalstudyof bentoniteaxialswelling Alternativereference stateforthestudyofsoil structureofkaolinclay samples. Effectsofregional subsidenceonsoil propertiesandits implicationson foundationdesign.The caseofMexicoCity. 15.10 15.40 15.40 17.00 Tea&Coffee Session3:Constructionin/withclays JignashaPanchal CityUniversity London ZinaHabbi Universityof Manchester MichelaMartini Universityof Strathclyde ObohoEminue Newcastle University 19.00 22.00 Excavationtechniquesto reduceground movementsinsoftsoils Effectofbentoniteand polymerdrillingfluidson theskinfrictionofsoilconcretepileinterface Suctiondrain:low-carbon techniquefortunnelface stabilityinclayformations CrackDevelopment MechanismsinClay Embankments SymposiumDinner Wednesday6thJuly(Venue:Technology&InnovationCentre) Start 09.00 End 10.20 Presenter Organisation Session4:Numericalmodelling EleonoraSailer PaulBailie SadeghNadimi KenichiKawano 10.20 10.50 10.50 11.40 11.40 13.00 ClaraInesCasanovasRevilla KatyOakes RoisinBuckley Title ImperialCollegeLondon Numericalmodellingof thermo-active retainingwalls OveArupandPartners Aload-transfermodel InternationalLtd foraxialcyclicloading ofpiledfoundations CityUniversityLondon Towardsmorerealistic modellingofsoil behaviour ImperialCollegeLondon Numericalevaluation ofinternalinstability duetoseepageflow Tea&Coffee KeynoteSpeaker:Prof.AlessandroTarantino, UniversityofStrathclyde ‘MonitoringsystemstoAssessGeotechnical InfrastructuresubjectedtoClimatichazards’ Session5:Offshoregeotechnics TommasoBizzotto UniversityofDundee Flotationphenomenon inliquefiedfine grainedsoil. UniversityofAberdeen Theinteractionof bottomtrawling groundgearwiththe seabed UniversityofDundee Assessingtheimpactof arupturingseismic faultonajack-uprig usingnovelfinite elementmethodology ImperialCollegeLondon Axialbehaviourof offshorepilesdrivenin Chalk 13.00 14.00 14.00 15.00 Lunch Session6:Slopes HarryPostill Loughborough University MichaelVasileiadis OveArupandPartners InternationalLtd AlessioSavioli ByrneLooby 15.00 15.30 15.40 15.30 15.40 15.50 Climatedrivenslope behaviour:asimplified model SeismicStability AssessmentofSea LeveesDuetoManInducedEarthquakes Hydrogeological Hazardmitigation solutions:asimplified approachtothedesign offlexibleDebrisFlow Barriers Tea&Coffee AwardofBestPresentation ClosingRemarks Thursday7thJuly(Venue:JamesWeirBuilding,RoomJW2.05) Thehalf-dayworkshop(freeofchargetoSymposiumdelegates)showcasingfield instrumentationforsoilmonitoringandinvestigationincludinggeophysical techniquesandlocalinstrumentationwillbeginat08:50andfinishat12.00.