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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Annual Report 2010

Faculty of Engineering

A very warm thank you to our co-funders of Academic Positions:

Mr Gary Johnston for the

Gary Johnston Chair of Water

Management

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THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ANNUAL

REPORT 2010

THE BIG PICTURE

OUR PEOPLEOUR RESEARCHTEACHING AND

LEARNINGINDUSTRY AND

COMMUNITYOUR RESEARCH CENTRES

OUR HISTORY

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Annual Report Contents

TEACHING AND LEARNING .......................... 53

Teaching & Learning Overview ....................... 54

Postgraduate Coursework Studies ................... 57

Undergraduate Studies .................................. 58

Undergraduate Student Awards and Prizes ....... 60

Year 4 Honours Theses Topics ........................ 62

Student Prize Winners ................................... 64

Year 4 in Photos 2010 ................................... 65

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Society CEVSOC ........................................... 66

School Teaching And Learning Facilities .......... 68

INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY ........................ 69

Industry Advisory Committee ......................... 70

Primary Maths Prize and Year 10 Bus Tour ....... 73

External Relations ......................................... 76

Alumni ........................................................ 77

Staff Industry & Community Engagement ........ 78

Industry Reports .......................................... 80

OUR RESEARCH CENTRES ............................. 81

Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure .............................................. 82

Connected Waters Initiative ........................... 83

Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety ......................................................... 84

UNSW Water Research Centre ....................... 88

OUR HISTORY ............................................. 93

THE BIG PICTURE ........................................ 4

Foreword from the Head of School .................. 6

Profi le ......................................................... 7

The School Management Group ...................... 8

Overview of School 2010 ............................... 9

Highlights 2010 ............................................ 11

OUR PEOPLE .............................................. 21

Welcome New Staff ...................................... 22

Staff 2010 ................................................... 23

Professional and Technical Staff ...................... 26

Research, Adjunct & Visiting Academic Staff ..... 27

Centres and Research Staff ............................ 28

Ex Head of School Retires ............................. 30

Farewell and thank you also to... .................... 30

In Memory .................................................. 31

Level 3 Workplace Safety Committee ............... 32

OUR RESEARCH .......................................... 33

Research Management .................................. 34

Grants ........................................................ 35

2010 Publications ......................................... 40

Research Students 2010 ................................ 47

Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Student Association ......................... 50

School Research Facilities .............................. 51

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Our mission is to develop well-educated graduates with the essential skills, attributes and knowledge that will enable them to practice as professional civil or environmental engineers; and to conduct research and development of international distinction to meet the needs of the discipline, industry and society both locally and internationally.

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About Us

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering was one of the eight foundation Schools of the University when UNSW was fi rst established in 1949. Today, it is the largest and most successful School of its kind in Australasia and is a dynamic and integral part of the Faculty of Engineering, itself consistently ranked as the best in Australia.

With nearly eighteen hundred students, we play a leading role in the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in civil and environmental engineering. Research activity - which includes both fundamental and applied research - is carried out by our internationally renowned academic and research staff and by postgraduate research students.

School Statistics 2010

Academic Staff 28

Professional & Technical Staff 18

Research Centre Staff 95

Postgraduate Research Students 90

Postgraduate Coursework Students 398

Undergraduates 1307

Equivalent Full-time Students (EFTSU) 1172

Doctoral graduates 19

Postgraduate Coursework Graduates 192

BE Graduates 142

Grant Funding 16.75 mil

Research Publications Refereed 267


Foreword from the Head of School

It is with some pride that I provide a front piece for the 2010 Annual Report and summarise key outcomes for this last year. High on my list of important events was the launch of the School History. While the event itself was memorable, particularly because of the coming together of so many associates and friends of the School, even more so is the train of events represented in the book itself. The energy, creativity and dedication of the many individuals that have made the School the powerhouse that it is today is clear from the History with the characters of the people involved since the School began in 1949 so ably captured by the School historian, Mary O’Connell. It is colleagues such as Ian Gilbert and Francis Tin Loi, who retired during 2010 but remain active participants in the School through award of Emeritus Professorial status, who have truly set the foundation for ongoing strength of the School. It is staff such as Mark Bradford and Ashish Sharma, awardees of an ARC Laureate Professorship and an ARC Future Fellowship respectively in 2010, who will be key contributors in coming years.

As we look forward, it is exciting to see companies such as Evans & Peck contributing to the School through support of the Evans & Peck Chair of Transport Innovation. The appointee to this position, Professor Travis Waller, will join the School in 2011 and, in so doing, strengthen our contribution to research and training in the critical infrastructure area of transport. I expect to see support from industry for other named Chairs this year and would like to encourage other industry partners to consider this approach to supporting the School and, in so doing, obtaining recognition for their own activities in key areas of their business.

It was pleasing to see the School score a “5 out of 5” for research activity in the recent Australian Research Council’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment. This assessment, using research indicators such as number of high quality journal publications and citations of these publications, was based on analysis of 2002-2008 outputs. Pleasingly, the School’s journal publication output in 2010 increased by almost a third over the preceding year which augers well for the next ERA assessment which will be based on outputs up to and including 2010. Key to increasing output is increased funding and, in this regard, 2010 was exceptional with around $17 million awarded to School staff. Much of this was awarded to research being conducted through the UNSW Water Research Centre, the UNSW Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety and the Connected Waters Initiative, all of which are based within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Recognition that civil and environmental engineering are important areas of endeavour and recognition that UNSW provides the strongest education in these areas in Australia is evident from the extremely high demand for our key programmes of civil engineering, environmental engineering and civil engineering with architecture at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. My only concern is the strain the large numbers of students place on our staff. With the ongoing support, however, that is evident from industry, alumni and friends, I believe that the School will continue to deliver education and training, research and service of the highest quality.

T. David Waite


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profi le

In 2010 Head of School Professor T. David Waite was awarded a prestigious UNSW Scientia Professorship which recognised his international eminence in research – in particular in physicochemical transformations of species in natural and engineered systems.

The Scientia Professor Protocol supports what UNSW most values as a University including academic freedom, leadership, innovation, initiative and creativity. The term “Scientia” is drawn from the University’s coat of arms and refl ects the University’s commitment to the promotion of all branches of intellectual and practical scholarship. Appointment to Scientia Professor is therefore a signifi cant achievement and recognition of the outstanding contribution that David has made to the success of UNSW.

David’s stellar research publication performance currently stands at around 220 refereed journal publications and book chapters - about 180 of these since he joined UNSW in 1993. These have greatly assisted in raising the international profi le of the School in his area of environmental research, particularly in water quality issues.

He is especially well known for his publications on iron transformations in both marine and freshwaters and for his studies of aggregation of colloidal oxides and his insights into implications of aggregate size and structure in separation processes such as membrane fi ltration. Recent studies of oxidative processes mediated by nanoparticulate materials have also raised awareness of both the opportunities and dangers associated with nanoparticles.

David has raised over $10 million in grants in the last decade, through 6 ARC Discovery, 14 ARC Linkage, 1 International Linkage and 3 Linkage Infrastructure grants with 3 grants from other government (DEST Australia-France and Australia-China schemes) and non-government (WQRA) sources. Since joining UNSW in mid-1993 he has supervised 35 students to completion of their doctoral programs – by far the largest amount of successful PhDs ever supervised by any academic in the School’s sixty year history. Notwithstanding his many duties as Head of School he is still currently supervising 9 PhD students. David has also raised funds for and supervised 18 Research Associates/Research Fellows since 2000.

His current research projects include: ARC Linkage — Physico-chemical Controls on Growth, Toxicity and Succession of Microcystis and Anabaena (algae) Species in Sydney Water Supply Reservoirs; ARC Discovery — Resolving Critical Knowledge Gaps Relating to Light and Free-Radical Mediated Transformations of Iron and Copper in Oxic Natural Waters; ARC Linkage — Optimisation of nutrient removal, membrane fouling and excess sludge dewatering in hybrid coagulation/submerged membrane bioreactor (C/SMBR) treatment of wastewaters; ARC Linkage — Synthesis of Activated Carbon Supported Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles and Application to Contaminant Degradation in Benthic Sediments; ARC Linkage — Biogeochemical Controls on Effi cacy and Sustainability of Uranium Heap Leaching.

In addition to the studies described above, groundwork is currently underway on two additional research thrusts – the interplay between elemental silver solids exhibiting Surface Plasmon Resonance and oxygen, which research may lead to an exciting breakthrough on global water quality issues, and, in a new synthesis of engineering and scientifi c knowledges – the application of kinetic modelling to iron-dopamine interactions and reactive oxygen species generation under neurological conditions relevant to Parkinson’s Disease.

Scientia Professor T. David Waite


The School Management Group

Head of SchoolProfessor T David Waite

Executive Management GroupProfessor T David Waite (HoS)

Associate Professor Mario Attard (Associate Head - Academic)Ms Karenne Irvine (SAO)

Professor Francis Tin-Loi [to Aug 2011]

School Management GroupProfessor T David Waite (Chair)

Associate Head - AcademicAssociate Professor Mario Attard

Computing ServicesProfessor Francis Tin-Loi [to Aug 2010]

Associate Professor Chongmin Song

Senior Administrative Offi cerMs Karenne Irvine

External Relationships and MarketingAssociate Professor

Ronald J Cox

Research Management Professor R Ian Gilbert

Professor Nasser Khalil [as of May 2010]

Teaching and Learning Associate Professor

Mario Attard

UNSW Water Research CentreDr William Peirson (co Director)

Professor Richard Stuetz (co Director)

Technical Services – -Kensington & Randwick Heavy Structures Lab

Professor Stephen J FosterDr Adrian Russell [as of May 2010]

Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety Director

Professor Mark A BradfordProfessor Stephen Foster [as of May 2010]

ACCARNSIAustralian Climate Change Adaptation Research

Network for Settlements & InfrastructureAssociate Professor Ronald J Cox

UNSW Connected Waters InitiativeProfessor R Ian Acworth (Director)

Occupational Health and Safety Mr Paul Gwynne

The School Management Group represents the peak decision-making body in the School with all key decisions relating to fi nances, staffi ng and overall direction debated and ratifi ed by this group. The SMG is chaired by the Head of School and is made up of the Chairs of the School’s major committees, the Directors of UNSW Centres based within the School, the Associate Head (Academic) and the School’s Senior Administrative Offi cer.

The School Management Group provides a forum for discussion of all aspects of School life and, with the Head of School, charts the future direction of the School.

School Structure

The School is managed by the Head of School, assisted by the School Management Group and by various other management committees as listed. Each committee has a Chair who reports to the Head of School.

Back L-R; A/Prof Chongmin Song, Prof Stephen Foster, Prof Nasser Khalili, Dr Hossein Taiebat, Prof Richard Stuetz, A/Prof Ian Turner. Front L-R: Prof Ian Acworth, Ms Betty Wong, Prof David Waite, Ms Karenne Irvine, A/Prof Mario Attard. Absent: A/Prof Ron Cox, Dr Kurt Douglas, Mr Paul Gwynne, Dr Adrian Russell


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Overview of School 2010In 2010 the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering was the largest and most successful School of its kind in Australasia, with 28 equivalent full-time academic staff, 18 professional, technical and administrative staff, and - within the School Research Centres- over 95 additional research, professional, technical and administrative staff.

In addition to the Civil Engineering Building (H20) and its laboratories in the Vallentine Annexe (H22) on the main UNSW Kensington campus, the School has two major off-campus facilities: the Water Research Laboratory at Manly Vale (part of the Water Research Centre) and the Heavy Structures Laboratory at the Randwick Sub-Campus.

Teaching and Learning Activities

Undergraduate StudiesIn 2010 the School offered three undergraduate degree programs, the Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), the Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental), and the Bachelor of Engineering (Civil with Architecture). The curricula have proved a model for engineering educators and have been widely benchmarked by other academic institutions.

Student undergraduate enrolments continued to increase with 1307 BE students enrolled at the School in 2010, a doubling of student numbers in just fi ve years. The continuing increase in student numbers has been accompanied by a rise in the entry mark. In 2010 the ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) for the BE Civil and the BE Environmental degrees was 91.0 while the BE Civil with Architecture degree had a ATAR of 95.45.

Our programs offer students a comprehensive civil and environmental engineering education and the opportunity to specialise in their fi nal year in a range of sub-disciplines, including geotechnical engineering; structural engineering; transport engineering; water and coastal engineering; project management; water quality and waste engineering.

A range of combined degree programs are also offered, and a third of our students are enrolled in double degree programs, including BE BSc, BE BA, BE LLB, BE BE and BE BCom degrees.

Postgraduate Coursework The School has been Australia’s leading provider of postgraduate engineering education for over fi fty years. Our courses provide essential specialist knowledge, backed by cutting edge research, to enable industry professionals to improve their performances and advance their careers. We train MEngSc students to the top level required nationally in eight specialisations: civil engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology, groundwater resources, project management, structural engineering, water resources (includes coastal engineering), water wastewater and waste engineering.

With 398 coursework students enrolled in 2010, a total of 45 postgraduate courses were offered by School staff either as internal weekly courses, in short course mode or in a distance education format, making the program large even by international standards.

The year also saw the continuance of a specifi cally designed MEngSc in project management, tailored by the School to meet the technical and professional needs of staff at Leighton Holdings, Australia’s largest civil engineering project development and contracting group.

School Research Activities

In the fi rst Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2010 National Report, the Australian Research Council gave the School a 5 Star Ranking for its outstanding performance in research, the highest possible ranking. Using a wide range of research indicators, the School’s research performance is described as ‘well above world standard’. In the fi eld of Civil Engineering, UNSW achieved the only 5 star ranking amongst the Group of Eight Universities. This is refl ective of the heights of research excellence and research leadership that School staff have achieved in their work nationally and internationally.

In 2010 School staff were involved in 33 research projects funded by ARC Discovery and Linkage Grants. Total income from ARC grants in 2010 was nearly $6 million.

The School also continued to attract major funding from industry and government, largely through the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, (CIES) the Water Research Centre, (WRC) the Connected Waters Initiative (CWI) and the Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure. (ACCARNSI). Applied and fundamental research income from industry, business and government sources amounted to $16.75 million in 2010.


In terms of both DEST Publications and nationally competitive research income, the School’s performance is outstanding and leads the way in the Faculty and the wider UNSW. With 5 books or research monographs, 11 chapters in books, 183 papers in refereed journals, 68 refereed conference papers, and numerous research reports and reports to industry in 2010, the published output of the School continues to be at a very high level.

With an increase of 50% in enrolments since 2009, 94 postgraduate research students were enrolled in Semester 2, 2010. The School provides a first class research environment for these students and, in turn, the students make an invaluable contribution to the School’s research effort.

Industry and Community Outreach

The School has a very active Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) with members drawn from major State authorities, and several of Australia’s top engineering companies. Quarterly reports from the Head of School provided IAC members with a detailed insight into School activities and allowed the Head of School to receive industry feedback.

Joint activities by the IAC and the School’s External Relations Committee (ERC) in 2010 included the introduction of a Year 10 work experience bus tour of engineering sites and a new Primary School prize in mathematics; both were significant in raising the profile of the School, the profession and UNSW in the wider community.

Members of the School’s staff continue to make contributions to the profession by engaging in higher level consultancies for international organisations, federal, state and local governments, private sector firms and community groups. Staff also provided their expertise, usually on an honorary basis, to international, national and local committees of various technical associations including Engineers Australia.

Civil History

2010 also saw the publication of the School’s History – commissioned as part of the University’s sixtieth birthday celebrations. The School was one of the eight founding Schools of UNSW, and the resulting history delineates the struggles and successes of staff and students over the six ensuing decades. Filled with photos, memories, statistics and some surprising twists and turns, the History also lists all School alumni, BEs, MEngSc and PhDs. It is a landmark publication in the engineering space.


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Highlights 2010

Five out of Five - Best of the Best: Topping the G8 Universities in Research Excellence

Announcing the outcomes of the first Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2010 National Report, the Australian Research Council gave the School a 5 Star Ranking for its outstanding performance in research (the highest possible ranking). Using a wide range of research indicators, the School’s research performance is described as ‘outstanding performance well above world standard’.

In the field of Civil Engineering, UNSW achieved the only 5 star ranking amongst the Group of Eight Universities. This is reflective of the heights of research excellence and leadership that School staff have achieved in their work nationally and internationally.

The ERA ratings, compiled in 2010 for the first time, are based on a range of indicators, including publications and citations, and expert review. UNSW was ranked as the state’s top performing university over all - with an average ranking of 4.04.

ARC Grant Winners 2010In the highly competitive ARC Discovery and Linkage programs, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has once again been successful – in 2010 securing three new Discovery grants, totalling in excess of $920,000 over three years, and two new Linkage grants of $830,000.

ARC Discovery Projects aim to expand Australia’s knowledge base and research capability and foster the international competitiveness of Australian research.

Discovery Project 110103028 Time-dependent stiffness of cracked reinforced concreteProf Raymond I Gilbert, Dr Gianluca Ranzi ($390,000)

This project will quantify the time-dependent change in stiffness of cracked reinforced concrete and provide a clearer insight into the time-varying load sharing mechanisms at the concrete-reinforcement interface. Analytical models to simulate structural behaviour and reliable procedures for use in structural design will be developed.

Discovery Project 110102124 Source - receptor analysis of lignin and lipid macromolecules in karst to quantify stalagmite biomarker proxies of vegetation and temperature change.Prof Andrew Baker, Dr Stuart J Khan, Dr Alison Blyth (total $320,000)

Cave stalagmites are archives of past climate and environmental changes. This project seeks to develop two novel biomarkers, lignin and bacterial membrane lipids, from which we will generate new records of historic and prehistoric vegetation and temperature change.

Discovery Project 110101176Bed shear stress on beach sediment and coastal structures under wave run-up. Dr Chris Blenkinsopp, A/Prof Ian L Turner, A/Prof Tom E Baldock, Prof Hocine Oumeraci (Total $210,000)

The aim of this work is to obtain critical new information about the way waves interact with the coast and the damage they can cause to beaches and coastal protection structures. This new data will provide the basis for improved predictions of coastal erosion and better coastal engineering design in the face of sea-level rise and climate change.

ARC Linkage Grants are collaborative research grants which fund research on a matching basis with contribution of cash and in-kind support from industry to enable the application of advanced knowledge to current problems.

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ARC Linkage Project 110100389 Erosion of embankment dams and dam spillways.Prof Robin Fell, A/Prof Chongmin Song, Dr William L Peirson, Dr Kurt J Douglas (Total: $480,000)

In excess of $250M is spent annually to maintain, upgrade, improve safety and monitor performance of Australian dams. Improved methods for assessing both spillway and internal erosion, the cause of 50 per cent of embankment dam failures and incidents requiring repairs, will be developed, maximising dam safety and minimising maintenance expenditure.

This project will use Burdekin Falls Dam (pictured) and others to research ways of predicting erosion of rock in unlined spillways and downstream of spillways such as at Burdekin Falls Dam.

Linkage Partners: Actew AGL, GHD Pty Ltd, Goulburn Murray Water, Melbourne Water Corporation, Murray-Darling Basin Authority, NSW Dam Safety Committee, NSW Public Works and Services, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Australia Pty Ltd, SunWater Limited, Water Corporation of WA.

Linkage Project 110100480 Exploiting natural processes to effectively remediate acidified coastal environments.Dr Richard N Collins ($350,000)

Working with local government, industry and communities, this project aims to identify how natural processes can best be manipulated to limit acid sulfate soil discharge in many Australian estuaries. The expected outcomes are systematic remediation of these areas and improvement in estuarine water quality.

Linkage Partners: New South Wales Cane Growers’ Association Inc., New South Wales Sugar Milling Co operative Limited, Tweed Shire Council.

School staff Professor Mark Bradford, Dr Rita Henderson and Professor Ian Gilbert are also involved as collaborators in a further 3 Linkage Grants to the value of over $1 million which are administered by other universities.

Burdekin Falls Dam


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The new Evans & Peck Professor of Transport Innovation

A new Chair, the Evans and Peck Professor for Transport Innovation will lead a new UNSW Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (RCITI) based in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering which, along with industry partner Evans & Peck – an international infrastructure-based advisory company - has championed the new Centre from the beginning.

RCITI will investigate sustainable approaches to transport infrastructure and operations, with extensive liaison with industry and the government. It will combine the cutting edge research of several UNSW Schools for a more integrated approach to transport problems.

The Evans and Peck Professor for Transport Innovation is Dr Travis Waller, previously from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas. Named as one of

the world’s 100 Top Young Innovators in Science and Engineering by MIT’s Technology Magazine in 2003, and an expert in transport systems and planning, Professor Waller also has extensive grounding in the fi elds of electrical and industrial engineering making him an excellent fi t for the new multidisciplinary Centre that he will lead. Professor Waller will take up the position in May 2011.

Head of School, Scientia Professor David Waite believes the opportunities ahead are exciting as well as challenging. ‘Particular scope exists in Sydney to couple the engineering aspects of transport infrastructure with the planning and management aspects of both transport infrastructure construction and operation’ he noted. ‘Applying our cutting edge research in areas such as advanced computational analysis, upper-end technologies and stronger, safer and greener infrastructure materials are all part of the story, as well as taking into account social, economic, and ecological aspects of transport in a more comprehensive manner.’

‘We believe that we have an obligation to help refocus transport planning onto the emerging needs of people in the 21st century,’ commented Evans & Peck Managing Director, Rob Aldis. ‘By funding the creation of this new Chair for Transport Research we hope to play a meaningful part in developing research, strategies and innovative solutions appropriate to the establishment and ongoing development of integrated, effi cient and sustainable transport systems.’

Ian McIntyre, Evans & Peck Principal, will provide ongoing support to the initiative on behalf of Evans & Peck. Other fi nancial supporters of the new Centre include NICTA and the Faculty of Engineering.

L-R Executives from Evans & Peck, Peter Byford, Director Australia & Asia, Ian McIntyre, Principal, and Rob Aldis, Managing Director, with Prof Graham Davies, Dean of Engineering and Prof David Waite, HoS.


Scientia Professor Mark Bradford ARC Laureate Fellow

The Australian Laureates Fellowship Scheme, administered by the Australian Research Council (ARC), refl ects the Australian

Government’s commitment to support excellence in research by attracting world-class researchers and research leaders to key positions in Australia.

The Laureates are Australia’s most keenly sought fellowships and are recognized for their potential to expand Australia’s knowledge base by supporting ground-breaking, internationally competitive research that will result in economic, environmental, social or cultural benefi ts for Australia.

In July 2010 Professor Mark Bradford was awarded a prestigious ARC Laureate Fellowship and like his earlier ARC Fellowships, the Australian Professorial Fellowship (2002-2004) and the Federation Fellowship (2004-2009), Mark’s Laureate Fellowship is the fi rst ever in Structural Engineering and represents an outstanding achievement for Mark and a great bonus for the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering & Safety (CIES).

Professor Ashish Sharma ARC Future Fellow

Mark’s research interests in civil engineering include structures subjected to extreme actions; numerical methods; structural retrofi t; design codes; dynamics and elasto-dynamic buckling. The aim of Professor Bradford’s project will be to develop a “green” sustainable composite steel-concrete building frame system that reduces greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life-cycle of building construction, usage and deconstruction. The project will provide solutions to a major contemporary engineering challenge facing Australia.

In 2007, Professor Mark Bradford established CIES - one of UNSW’s strong research Centres - and was the inaugural Director of the Centre stepping down in 2010. With Professor Stephen Foster as the new CIES Director and, buoyed by Mark’s prestigious Laureate award, the future for the Centre looks bright and the University’s national leadership in the area of Civil Engineering Infrastructure is set to continue.

Mark’s Australian Laureate Fellowship is one of only 3 awarded to UNSW in 2010, with only 15 awarded nationally.

Referring to Mark’s fellowship, UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Les Field said the fellowship demonstrated the University’s research leadership in the key area of sustainable development. “Our researchers are making advances in areas of vital importance to our future and furthering the outstanding record of Australian research in the international arena,” Professor Field said.

This Award follows several years of research by Ashish and his hydroclimatology research group - which includes Dr Matt McCabe, Dr Raj Mehotra and Dr Seth Westra - on understanding the causes of low-frequency variability bias in rainfall and streamfl ow, the prime cause of mis-representation of drought and fl ood events in stochastic generation for use in water resources planning and management.

This research will provide improved models that take into consideration fl ood and drought trends under climate change conditions. The output of these models will enable water resource planners and managers in Australia to more accurately assess future water conditions under a changed climate.

It was a great end of the year for the School’s leading researcher in hydroclimatology. A/Prof Ashish Sharma was promoted to Professor in November 2010 and was then awarded an ARC Future Fellowship. These prestigious fellowships are

awarded to outstanding mid-career researchers for the promotion of research in areas of critical national importance.

Ashish was awarded the fellowship for his work on modelling catchment specifi c rainfall and runoff under climate change conditions. The fellowship will allow Ashish to focus specifi cally on research for a period of four years where he will continue to pursue research on the topic ‘representing low-frequency variability in hydro-climatic simulations for water resources planning and management in a changing climate.’


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9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics

School staff Professor Nasser Khalili, Emeritus Professor Somasundaram Valliappan and Dr Adrian Russell were tireless organisers of the 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and the 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM/APCOM 2010) which was held in Sydney in July 2010 and attracted around 1200 delegates from across the world.

In the early 1980’s, the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) was founded to promote activities related to computational mechanics and has made impressive progress. The use of mathematical models of natural phenomena has underpinned science and engineering for centuries, but until the advent of modern

computers and computational methods, the full utility of most of these models remained outside the reach of the engineering communities. Since World War II, advances in computational methods have transformed the way engineering and science is undertaken throughout the world. Today, theories of mechanics of solids and fluids, electromagnetism, heat transfer, plasma physics, and other scientific disciplines are implemented through computational methods in engineering analysis, design, manufacturing, and in studying broad classes of physical phenomena. The discipline concerned with the application of computational methods is now a key area of research, education, and application throughout the world.

The most important scientific event of IACM is the World Congress on Computational Mechanics. WCCM/APCOM 2010, chaired by Professor Khalili, was organised under the auspices of Australian Association for Computational Mechanics (AACM), Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM) and International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). The WCCM/APCOM 2010 publications consisted of a printed book of abstracts given to delegates, along with 247 full length peer-reviewed papers published with free access online in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering.

Prof G R Liu of the National University of Singapore and Dr Adrian Russell

Dr Adrian Russell, PhD student Arman Khoshghalb, Prof Nasser Khalili, Professor Benjamin Loret (INPG - Grenoble) UNSW PhD students Saman Zargarbashi and Mohammad Pournaghiazar.


The aim of biomimetics is to provide innovative, sustainable solutions to engineering problems, by studying biological modes and systems found in nature. In 2010 School senior lecturer, Dr Zora Vrcelj undertook part of her Special Studies Program at the University of Bath, UK, working with Professor Julian Vincent whose research covers a broad range of biomimetics and natural technologies.

While biomimetics has attracted reasonable attention in the fi elds of mechanical engineering (robotics), materials science (intelligent materials) and biomedical engineering (prosthetics), it still remains a grey area in structural engineering design. By studying how natural structures/systems sustain loads and optimize resources used, existing structural design strategies can be improved or reinvented to achieve more effi cient and sustainable structures. Thus, biomimicry has a great potential to benefi t structural engineering design process.

The research performed with Professor Vincent was on developing an ontology that will enable a systematic technology transfer from biology to engineering. It is well known that solutions to problems move very slowly between different disciplines. This transfer can be greatly speeded up with suitable abstraction and classifi cation of problems. Russian researchers working on the TRIZ (Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch) method for inventive problem solving have identifi ed systematic means of transferring knowledge between different scientifi c and engineering disciplines and this method has been adopted as a transfer tool in the proposed ontology.

Biomimetics

Groundwater Facility Opens

On November 8, 2010 the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) teaching and research facility at Wellington, NSW was offi cially opened. The UNSW-owned 400ha farm at Wellington, about 250km north-west of Sydney, has a 2.5km frontage to the Macquarie River. The School is involved in NCGRT through its Connected Waters Initiative (CWI) – a joint initiative between two UNSW Schools: Civil & Environmental Engineering and Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES)

The Facility includes a 72m2 classroom, break-out rooms and research accommodation equipped with internet capability via satellite, 3-phase power, air-conditioning, toilet, shower, kitchen facilities and will be supplied by a combination of rain water and mains water. In addition to providing fi eld teaching resources for the NCGRT, the Facility will also provide a base for research programs being undertaken.

The School’s Professor Ian Acworth, NCGRT program leader, who offi cially opened the site, said the fi eld of ground water studies would be increasingly critical in the future as the demand for safe, secure water supplies for domestic and agricultural use grew. “Students will be learning to make practical measurements of rainfall

and climate, soil water, river water and ground water,” Prof Acworth said. ‘They will be able to gain a better understanding of the region’s alluvium as well as the connection between surface water and ground water in order to practise better water management.’

The fi rst fi eld training course ran at the site in the opening week. The course provided detailed instruction to 24 participants on the use of geophysical, hydrochemical, groundwater hydraulics and surface water techniques. It involved several School staff, CWI deputy director Dr Andy Baker, Matthew McCabe who specialises in meteorological variables, hydrologist Martin Anderson, and site manager lecturing in geomorphology Peter Graham.


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Global Water Futures

Growing populations, drought and desalination were among urgent issues addressed by a conference of 140 young water researchers and industry practitioners - the future of the global water industry - from around the world held at UNSW in early July.

The 5th International Water Association Young Water Professionals Conference brought together the next generation of water experts who will deal with increasingly pressing issues across all aspects of water supply. The three-day conference included presentations by researchers from Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom, Asia, Africa and the United States and visits to Sydney facilities including the Kurnell desalination plant.

“Australia is at the forefront of sustainable reuse, we have some of the most advanced water treatment and supply projects in the world here so there was a high level of interest among the delegates,” Conference Chair Dr

Rita Henderson, of the School’s UNSW Water Research Centre said. “Water sanitation for developing countries was one of the key points but there was also a common theme that greater education and awareness on water issues is needed,” Dr Henderson said. “There was also a lot of discussion about the importance of lowering the carbon footprint of the water industry for desalination and treatment technologies. There is a lot of effort focused on this area at the moment.”

Dr Henderson, whose own main research interests are in water treatment process science, is a Research Fellow at the UNSW WRC where she manages an Australian Research Council Linkage Project investigating fluorescence as a monitoring tool for recycled water systems. Dr Henderson was later the recipient of the IWA International Young Water Professional Award at the biennial IWA World Water Congress (WWC) in Montreal, in September 2010.


Coonamble Creativity

Coonamble is a vibrant western NSW community of 3,100 people, 550km from Sydney. Each year, for the past 55 years, it has hosted the Coonamble Rodeo held on the June long weekend. The Rodeo is the largest gathering of its nature in the southern hemisphere and is the major event for the community, when the town population trebles. However the crowd currently exceeds seating capacity, and moreover the event is held outdoors, and is therefore subject to the capricious Australian climate. In June 2010 a community forum was held in Coonamble to discuss the building of an indoor multipurpose equine and community facility - in collaboration with a number of engineering organisations and the School.

Five third year students Andrew Emery, Vicky Chen, Xiaojing Lu, Junjiang Liu and Tony Ni, were fi rst involved in late 2010 – their task was to develop a design brief for the Rodeo Arena Roof Facility. The brief included artistic, formal, functional, sitting, loading, sustainability, budgetary and other performance criteria. The students fi rst visited Coonamble for a week in November, inspecting the site and meeting with many locals including representatives from Regional Development Australia – Orana, a federal government agency which is facilitating the project, the Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Corporation (an aboriginal development organisation), EA and Coonamble Shire Council.

Engineering consultants GHD were also involved in the project - providing leadership and engineering expertise; not only for the students, but also as an outreach to this rural community. Also involved in a voluntary capacity was a local civil engineering consultant, Jillian Kilby, an active member of Engineers Australia – currently on the Board of the Sydney Division Committee.

Continuing to work on the project over the summer under the guidance of School academic Dr Nadarajah Gowripalan, the students explored three possible design concepts based on a budget of between $5-7 million, taking into consideration the use of new sustainable construction materials and methods such as modern composites, integrated water collection and solar power.

Their preliminary design report included various conceptual designs for the exterior, discussion of the available internal layout options, detailed site planning including car parks, traffi c movement, toilets, stable, and other necessary features, potential multi-functional designs to enable full usage of the arena, addressed energy and environmental sustainability concerns, water usage, drainage, recycling and cost-effective maintenance plans.

The full report is available online at http://coonamblerodeoarenaunsw.wikispaces.com/

Short videos of the designs are available at http://www.youtube.com/user/CoonambleArenaUNSW

The Coonamble project will continue through 2011 as part of the fourth year design practice course in the BE Civil, BE Environmental and BE Civil with Architecture programs. The whole enterprise is not only about providing School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students with a real-life project to work on; but about building our community. The fl ow on from this initiative will increase employment and encourage more tourism for the Shire, and build stronger relationships between UNSW and the regional communities of Western NSW. Already other Shires are indicating their interest in having our students work with them in the future.

Back L-R : A/Prof Mario Attard, Dr Zora Vrcelj , Professor David Waite. Front L-R : Steve Boss (Brookfield Multiplex), Richard Fechner & Steve Martin (GHD) + Jillian Kilby (Structural & Civil Panel – Engineers Australia)

ABC radio station, Dubbo, 24 NovemberLeft to right: Ni Juner, JunJiang Liu, Nardarajah Gowri, Xiaojing Lu, Vicky Chen, Andrew Emery, Dugald Saunders (ABC radio presenter)


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Towards Sustainable Global Management of Hazardous Substances

m The international fl ow of these substances, largely in concentrates from Australia, to smelters and manufactures of goods in the Asian region, to consumption globally to expand the system boundary of material fl ows beyond the country scale to include international trade related fl ows. This will enable global material fl ows methodologies to be developed.

m The analysis of the decline in stocks of substances in ores, to the accumulation of substances in the stock of urban infrastructure, so that the future mines for these valuable substances can be explored from end of life goods and infrastructure.

m The tracking of hazardous contaminants, including cadmium and arsenic, in concentrates exported from Australia to examine the fi nal sink in the global economy for these hazardous and low or negative value substances.

This will enable the development of more comprehensive UN agreements, beyond the limitations of the Basel Convention on transfrontier movements of hazardous wastes, to more sustainably manage these substances.

In 2010 Stephen Moore, Director of Studies, Environmental Engineering, and a member of the School’s Sustainable Engineering Systems Initiative (SESI), undertook project defi nition studies on sustainable international material fl ow management at National Taiwan University (NTU).

NTU and CTCI Foundation are two members of a new Promotion Centre for Sustainable Resource Management in Taiwan, set up to upgrade resource productivity in Taiwan, and to apply Material Flow Analysis methods to develop sustainable production and consumption policies. The Centre is establishing collaborative associations with universities in China, Japan, Austria, and now UNSW in Australia, to share information and enable comparative and trade linked studies on material fl ows to be undertaken.

Stephen has a well established collaboration with Prof Paul Brunner from TUWien, (Vienna University of Technology) and more recently, with Prof Shinichi Sakai from Kyoto University. Studies will be undertaken for selected substances of copper and zinc related to:

From left: Prof Ma, Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, NTU; Stephen Moore UNSW; Dr Leon Tzou, Director, and Cindy Chen, Group Leader - Environmental Technology Development Center, CTCI Foundation.


A History to be Proud of

The jazz played, the wine fl owed, and Leighton Hall was fi lled with the happy sounds of reunion and recognition as 260 people joined the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in celebrating the launch of its History and over sixty years of hard work and great achievements.

As one of the eight foundation Schools of UNSW, the School can rightfully be proud of the role it has played in establishing UNSW in the forefront of Australian universities. The School was the fi rst in the country to offer a postgraduate coursework masters, the fi rst to design a BE environmental engineering degree, and the fi rst to provide a BE Civil with Architecture degree program. Its publication and research ‘fi rsts’ are just as impressive.

From its humble yet visionary beginnings, the School has grown into the premier centre of civil and environmental engineering education and research in Australasia. It has done this through the efforts, enthusiasm and dedication of generations of academic, professional and technical staff and thousands of hardworking students. The recently published School History is both a record and a celebration of their collective endeavour. Staff and student experiences of each decade are featured, along with departmental histories, PhD students and research topics, BE program outlines over the decades and fascinating vignettes on topics such as student pranks, women in engineering, social justice, the innovative postgraduate coursework degrees and a section devoted entirely to the Future.

Speakers at the launch included Professor Graham Davies, Dean of Engineering, and Head of School, Scientia Professor David Waite. Three illustrious alumni shared their fond memories of the School - Emeritus Professor Bob Warner (BE ’55, ME ’57), Dr Robert Care, CEO Arup Australasia and Chair of RedR (BE ’73, PhD ’78), and Associate Professor Mehreen Faruqi (MEngSc ’94, PhD ’00).

As Robert Care declared, ‘The School has been, is, and will continue to be an excellent place to learn, to research, to fi nd a purpose and to enjoy oneself. I could say it is unique – of course it is. But more to the point it is ours, that’s why we are here! Ours to remember friends and colleagues, and to rejoice – the book will help us do that. Ours to cherish and infl uence for the better – there is plenty of opportunity for that. Ours to continue to help make a difference to our society, and our world.’

All School alumni are listed in the History, which can be ordered online See http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/about/our_history/index.html

L-R: Prof Graham Davies, Dean of Engineering, Prof T David Waite, HoS, Dr Mary O’Connell, Dr Robert Care, Director, ARUP Group.

KMP

He aha te mea nui?He tangata, he tangata, he tangata!

What is the most important thing?It is the people, the people, the people!

(Maori proverb)

our people


Welcome New Staff

Professor Andy Baker, BSc, PhD Bristol, is Deputy Director of the Connected Waters Initiative. His research interests include karst hydrology and geochemistry; the paleoclimate reconstructions from cave stalagmites; isotope geochemistry; the

characterisation of organic matter in rivers, ground waters and engineered systems, including potable and recycled water; and surface and ground water quality monitoring.

Dr Ehab Hamed, BSc MSc PhD - Technion, previously a Research Associate at the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) has now been appointed to the academic staff in the area of structural engineering. His research interests lie in the developing area of lightweight

construction materials, using advanced technology and composite materials to repair, preserve and strengthen existing concrete and masonry structures.

Mr Larry Paice joined the WRL team in 2010 as a specialist craftsperson, assisting both WRL project staff and academic staff with the design and construction of physical models. He is also responsible for assisting students with test structures and the set-up of their instrumentation. Larry comes as a highly experienced carpenter offering 15 years background in high-end residential carpentry and joinery.

Ms Tamara Rouse is the new Coordinator of the Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure (ACCARNSI). Tamara brings a wealth of experience to the role, having worked as an administrator at UNSW since 1993.

Mr Rudino (Rudi) Salleh joined the School as Senior Technical Officer in 2010 – bringing his extensive expertise to the electronics workshop.

Mr Greg Worthing joined the School’s Heavy Structures Laboratory at Randwick in June. Previously a Senior Technical Officer at CSIRO Division of Building Construction and Engineering, Greg has over 20 years experience with research and commercial testing in the fields of masonry, structural assemblies, curtain wall, cladding, safety glazing, earth

wall construction, sandstone preservation, cyclic and impact testing.


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Acworth, R. Ian Director, Connected Waters Initiative Gary Johnston Professor of Water ManagementBSc Leeds, MSc PhD Birm, FGS

Research Interests: Investigation of groundwater dynamics and hydrochemical processes in the coastal zone: Development of field instrumentation and analysis methods in groundwater studies: Electrical methods in the investigation of groundwater and salinity: Relationship between Palaeoclimate and dryland salinity.

Al-Kilidar, HiyamLecturerBSc MEngSc PhD UNSW

Research Interests: Project Management: HR Management: Ethical and Cultural Issues in Management: Quality Management.

Andersen, MartinSenior LecturerMSc in Engineering, PhD at DTU, Denmark

Research Interests: Reactive flow and transport modeling: Investigation of geochemical processes and groundwater dynamics in the coastal zone: Surface water groundwater interactions.

Attard, MarioAssociate ProfessorAssociate Head – AcademicChair, Teaching & Learning CommitteeBE PhD MHEd UNSW, MIEAust, CPEng

Research Interests: Finite Strain Isotropic and Anisotropic Hyperelastic Modeling: Fracture in Concrete and Masonry: Crack Propagation due to Creep: Ductility of High Strength Concrete Columns: Buckling of Sandwich Columns: Lateral Buckling of Thin-Walled Beams.

Baker, AndrewProfessorBSc PhD Bristol

Research interests: climatology and paleoclimatology, karst hydrology; organic matter characterisation in engineered and aquatic systems; and fluorescence technologies.

Bradford, Mark

ARC Laureate Fellow UNSW Scientia Professor BSc BE PhD USyd, DSc UNSW, CPEng, CEng, MASCE, FIEAust, MIStructE

Research Interests: Structures subjected to elevated temperatures, curved members, arches, steel structures, composite steel-concrete structures, concrete structures, numerical methods, stability, viscoelastic effects, non-discretisation techniques, design codes, structural retrofit.

Carmichael, D GProfessorBE MEngSc USyd, PhD Cant, CPEng, FIEAust, MASC

Research Interests: Management, systems applications of optimisation, synthesis: Identification and analysis: Contracts and disputes: Project delivery: Construction operations: Project management and management functional areas including risk, economics, finances, people resources and scope: Construction management: Problem solving and decision making.

Cathers, BruceSenior LecturerBE USyd, DipHE Delft, MEngSc UNSW, PhD Manchester

Research Interests: Numerical Methods: Computational hydraulics: Physical and numerical modeling: Artificial neural networks applied to environmental problems.

Staff 2010


Gao, WeiSenior LecturerBE HDU, ME PhD Xidian, MIIAV, MAAS

Research Interests: Uncertain modelling and uncertain methods: Vehicle-bridge interaction dynamics: Wind and/or seismic induced random vibration: Train-rail-sleeper-foundation-tunnel/bridge system: Stochastic nonlinear system: Vehicle dynamics and vehicle rollover: Structural optimization and control: Smart structures: Stability and reliability analysis.

Gilbert, R Ian

Emeritus ProfessorARC Australian Professorial Fellow Deputry Director, CIES BE PhD UNSW CPEng FIEAust

Research Interests: Reinforced and prestressed concrete structures; including serviceability (deflection and crack control, tension stiffening), time-dependent deformation and the effects of creep and shrinkage on structural behaviour; ductility and the use of low ductility reinforcing materials; and reactive powder concrete. Analytical and numerical modelling of structures.

Gowripalan, NadarajahSenior LecturerBSc(Eng) Moratuwa, MSc PhD Leeds, MIEAust

Research Interests: Influence of micro and macro cracking on service life of HPC: Durability of concrete structures in marine environments. Reactive Powder Concrete (RPC) for very high strength composites (200-800MPa): RPC in prestressed concrete applications: Early age behaviour of concrete slabs: Plastic shrinkage cracking, flatness and levelness. Alternative reinforcements: Synthetic fibre reinforced concrete, FRP Fibre Optics and DIT for health monitoring of structures.

Hamed, EhabLecturerBSc MSc PhD Technion

Research Interests: Viscoelasticity of concrete and composite materials, Creep buckling of concrete domes and shells, Strengthening of concrete and masonry structures with composite materials (FRP), Nonlinear dynamics of concrete structures.

Han, SangwonLecturerBEng WKU, MSc HYU, PhD UIUC

Research Interests: Dynamic Project Management (DPM): Hybrid Simulation Modeling:Lean Construction: Building Information Modeling (BIM): Genetic Algorithm (GA) / Artificial Neural Network (ANN): Green Building / Sustainable Construction.

Khalili, Nasser Professor Chair, Research Management BSc Teh, MSc Birm, PhD UNSW

Research Interests: Mechanics of unsaturated soils: Flow and deformation in double porosity media: Numerical methods applied to geotechnical engineering: Pavement engineering.

McCabe, MatthewSenior LecturerBE, PhD Newcastle

Research Interests: Applying remote sensing approaches to improve knowledge of the Earth System, focusing predominantly on water and energy cycles at the land surface, but broadly interested in all applications encompassing terrestrial, atmospheric and oceanic components.

Moore, StephenSenior LecturerBE UNSW, MEngSc Adel., CPEng, MIEAust

Research Interests: Development of environmental material accounting techniques, such as Material Flux Analysis, for regional and corporate environmental management systems; Simulation and decision analysis applied to waste management systems.

Oeser, MarkusLecturerMEngSc (Univ.Dipl.-Ing) & PhD (Dr-Ing.) Dresden UT

Research Interests: Numerical methods (FEM, BEM): Constitutive models for Pavements (elastic and viscose behaviour): Computational models for Pavement (geometrically and physically non-linear modelling of structural behaviour, thermic modelling, hydraulic modelling): Multi-scaling Methods, Bridging-scale Methods: Testing of Pavement Material (crack propagation, permanent deformation).

Cox, RonAssociate ProfessorCo-Chair, External RelationsConvenor, ACCARNSIBE PhD UNSW, CPEng, FIEAust

Research Interests: Climate change adaptation for settlements and infrastructure: Coastal engineering and coastal zone management: Stability, design and safety of coastal structures: Application of sand filled geo-containers in coastal protection: Environmental monitoring and modeling: Desalination plant brine disposal: Hydraulics of water and wastewater treatment plants: Flood hydraulics and floodplain management: Life safety, emergency warning and evacuation.

Davis, SteveLecturerBE PhD UNSW

Research Interests: Stochastic Systems: Evolutionary Programming: Parallel Computing Applications to Civil Engineering

Douglas, KurtPells Sullivan Meynink Senior Lecturer of Rock MechanicsCo–Chair External RelationsBE USyd, PhD UNSW

My main interests lie in the field of rock mechanics. Predicting strengths of large-scale rock masses (hundreds of meters) continues to be a major challenge. I am attempting to improve our understanding using laboratory tests, field studies and numerical methods.

Foster, StephenProfessorDirector, CIESBE NSWIT, MEngSc PhD UNSW, MIEAustdf

Research Interests: Non-flexural members in Reinforced Concrete: Analysis and design of reinforced concrete deep beams, corbels, and nibs: High strength concrete: Design of high strength concrete columns. Design and analysis methods for non-flexural members of high strength concrete. Design with reactive powder concretes. Numerical modeling: Non-linear finite element modelling of reinforced concrete membrane structures, 3D finite element modeling.

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Peirson, WilliamSenior Lecturer Co-Director, Water Research CentreDirector, Water Research LaboratoryBE BSc MEngSc PhD UNSW

Bill is an international expert in Civil and Environmental Engineering fluid mechanics and undertakes specialist research in the fields of coastal engineering, air-sea and air-water interaction and exchange, fluvial hydraulics, estuarine processes and the hydraulics and mechanical behaviour of turbomachines.

Peters, GregSenior LecturerBE Chemical, PhD USyd

Research Interests: Sustainability of the Australian agricultural sector: Development of sustainability planning tools, including environmental life cycle assessment: Improvement of corporate environmental reporting, including ecological footprint analysis: Nutrient fluxes in natural environments.

Russell, AdrianSenior LecturerChair, Technical ServicesBE, PhD UNSW, PGCert Bristol

Research Interests: Unsaturated soils: Fibre reinforced soils: Particle crushing in granular media: In situ testing of soils: Constitutive modelling of soils: Wind turbine foundations.

Sharma, AshishProfessor ARC Future FellowBE Roorkee, MTech IIT Delhi, PhD Utah Stat

Research Interests: Stochastic hydrology: Synthetic generation of seasonal streamflow; Medium to long-term probabilistic forecasting: Stochastic downscaling of hydrologic variables under climate change scenarios: Radar rainfall estimation: Rainfall runoff model and parameter uncertainty assessment in a Bayesian framework: Water Resources Management: new developments in statistics to solve water problems.

Song, ChongminAssociate ProfessorChair, Computing ServicesBE ME Tsinghua, DEng Tokyo

Research Interests: Scaled Boundary Finite-Element Method: Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction: Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering: Wave Propagation: Fracture Mechanics: Elasto-Plastic-Damage Constitutive Modelling: Finite Element Method, Boundary Element Method.

Stuetz, RichardProfessorCo-Director, Water Research CentreBSc, PhD UNSW

Research Interests: On-line instrumentation for monitoring water and wastewater quality: Biological monitoring for process control: Biotreatment of odours and volatile emissions: Bioprocesses for water and wastewater treatment: Biodegradation of micropollutants.

Taiebat, HosseinState Water Senior Lecturer in Dam EngineeringPhD USyd

Research Interests: Caisson foundations: Vertically loaded anchors: Shallow foundations under combined loading: Numerical modelling and liquefaction analysis.

Tin-Loi, FrancisEmeritus ProfessorBE PhD Monash, CPEng, MIEAust

Research Interests: Identification of quasibrittle fracture parameters: Smoothing of contact mechanics problems: Limit analysis in the presence of constitutive instabilities: Large scale limit and shakedown analyses.

Turner, IanAssociate ProfessorBSc (Hons) USyd, MEnvEngSc UNSW, PhD USyd, MIEAust, MAGU

Research Interests: Coastal Engineering and Coastal Management; Instrument development, analysis and modelling of rapid (wave-by-wave) bed level erosion/accretion at the critical land-ocean beachface boundary; Assessment of coastline adjustment to a changing climate; Analysis of crescentic sand-bar behaviour; Sediment transport mechanisms causing coastal inlet infilling; video-based methods to support coastal engineering and management.

Vandebona, UpaliSenior LecturerBSc (Eng) Ceylon, MEng AIT, PhD Monash

Research Interests: Modelling of Transport Systems: Development of simulation and animation models for light rail train systems and bus services. Facility Location: Environmental considerations related to transport facility location: Demand Modelling: Analysis of public awareness and attitudes related to transport systems: Air Transport: Intelligent Transport Systems: Signage systems.

Vrcelj, ZoraSenior LecturerBE (Hons 1) W’gong, PhD UNSW

Research Interests: Composite Steel-Concrete Structures: Creep and Shrinkage: Innovation in Engineering Education: Structural Stability: Steel Structures, Composite Plates, Biomimetics, Engineering Education.

Waite, T David Scientia Professor Head of SchoolBSc Tas, GradDip RMIT, MAppSc Monash, PhD MIT, FRACI

Research Interests: Separation processes involving colloids and particles in water and wastewater treatment; redox chemistry at the solid-solution interface; photochemistry in aquatic systems; hydrogeochemistry; theoretical and experimental studies on the fate and effects of chemical pollutants; interactions between trace elements and microbiota in aquatic systems.


Professional and technical staff play a vital role at all levels of university life and contribute significantly to a positive student experience. Efficient yet flexible administration, courteous student services and support of teaching and research activities in a variety of ways can bring huge benefits and assist the overall success of a School. The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has several long serving, dedicated and outstanding professional and technical staff working in areas such as student administration, IT support, external relations, finances, and managing and supporting the School’s teaching and research laboratories.

School ManagerKarenne Irvine, BA UNSW

Student Services ManagerJulijana Baric

Administrative Officers

Flora Fan, BA CUHK, MEd HKU, MLib-IM UNSW

Patricia McLaughlin

Angela Spano

Administrative Assistants

Les Brown

Alice Yau

Web/IT Coordinator

Kate Brown, BArch, SU (Thailand), MArch(Comp)

UNSW

Professional and Technical Staff

Personal Assistant to Head of School Betty Wong

External Relations Administrator

Dr Mary O’Connell, BA UNSW PhD CSU

ACCARNSI Coordinator

Tamara Rouse, BA UNSW

Computer Support Officer

Patrick Vuong, BIT

Professional OfficersDr Gautam Chattopadhyay, BE PhD Jadavpur, MS Youngstown

Paul Gwynne, PDMPMR Sheffield Poly

Senior Technical Officers

Anthony Macken

Rudino Salleh

William Terry

Technical Officers

Richard Berndt, BSc Macq

Ron Moncay

Kelvin Chun H Ong, BEng MSciTech UNSW, Grad Dip NUS

Larry Paice

Greg Worthing

Foreperson

John Hart [deceased]

Visiting FellowFrank Scharfe

Former WRL Workshop Supervisor, John Hart, passed away in August 2010. Over the last 19 years John dazzled engineers and research students alike with his ingenious solutions to the difficulties of constructing large-scale measurement facilities and precision instrumentation. John trained as an instrument maker - the highest precision fabrication in industry, and for several PhD students he was able to fabricate sub 0.1mm precision gauges and positioning devices. He also refurbished the 30m tank in Lab 2, the desalination tank in Lab 1 at Manly Vale and built or refurbished all of the teaching tanks at Kensington including the one used to teach first year students about energy from waves.

He will be sadly missed.


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Research, Adjunct & Visiting Academic Staff

Emeritus Professors

John Black, BA, MTCP, PhD, CPEng, FIEAust

Thomas Chapman, BSc Leeds PhD Southampton FIEAust

Robin Fell, BE MEngSc Qld. CPEng, FIEAust

Ian Gilbert, BE PhD UNSW, CPEng, FIEAust

David Pilgrim, AM BE PhD DSc CPEng HonFIEAust

Francis Tin-Loi, BE PhD Monash, CPEng, MIEAust

Somasundaram Valliappan, BE Annam MS Northeastern PhD DSc Wales CPEng FIEAust FASCE FIACM

Visiting Professors

Nicholas Ashbolt, BAgSc PhD Tas MASM

Visiting Associate ProfessorA/Prof Ian Cordery, ME PhD UNSW

Professorial Visiting FellowsDr Robert Care, BE PhD UNSW

Dr Kourosh Kayvani, BSc Teh., MEngSc PhD UNSW, MIEAust, CPEng, MIABSE, MIASS

A/Prof Brian Shackel, BE Sheff, MEngSc PhD UNSW, CPEng FIEAust

Visiting Fellows

Dr Carolin Birk, PhD Dresden UT

Dr Manabu Fujii, BE PhD Tohoku

Dr Peter Hidas, MCEng DipTP PhD Bud

Dr Marion Minouflet, BSc Reunion MSc Metz PhD Geneva

Dr Stephen Samuels, BE MEngSc Monash PhD Newcastle CPEng FIEAust MAAS MASA

Dr Gareth Swarbrick, BE Adel, PhD UNSW GradIEAust

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Dr Sawekchai Tangaramvong, PhD UNSW (pic right)

Research AssociatesDr Hoori Ajami, BSc Isfahan, MSc Tehran, PhD Arizona (pic left)

Dr Chris Blenkinsopp, MEng, PhD

Dr Shikha Garg, BE IIT Kanpur PhD UNSW


Centres and Research Staff

Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements & Infrastructure

ConvenorAssociate Professor Ron Cox

CoordinatorMs Tamara Rouse

Research AssistantsDr Philip BoothLouise GatesEytan Rocheta

Centre for Infrastructure, Engineering and Safety

DirectorProfessor Stephen Foster, BE NSWIT, MEngSc PhD UNSW, MIEAust

Research DirectorScientia Professor Mark Bradford, BSc BE PhDSyd DSc UNSWFTSE PEng CPEng CEng MASCEFIEAust MIStructE MACI

Deputy DirectorsProfessor Ian Gilbert, BE PhD UNSW CPEng FIEAust MACI

Professor Nasser Khalili, BSc Teh MSc Birm PhDUNSW

Administrative OfficerIrene Calaizis, BCom (Marketing) UNSW

AcademicsA/Professor Chongmin Song, BE ME Tsinghua, DEng Tokyo

A/Professor Mario Attard BE PhD MHEd UNSW, MIEAust, CPEng

Dr Kurt Douglas BE Syd. PhD UNSW

Dr Wei Gao BE HDU, ME PhD Xidian, MIIAV, MAAS

Dr Markus Oeser, BE Dresden, PhD, Dresden

Dr Adrian Russell BE(UNSW), PhD(UNSW), PGCert(Bristol)

Dr Hossein Taiebat BSc Isfahan M.E.S. PhD Syd

Dr Zora Vrcelj BE(Hons 1) W’gong, PhD UNSW

Postdoctoral Fellows & Research AssociatesAssociate Professor Yong Lin Pi, BE Tongji ME Wuhan PhD UNSW CPEng MIEAust

Dr Zhen-Tian Chang, BE ME Hunan PhD UNSW

Dr Emre Erkmen, BE MSc PhD Ottawa PEng (Ontario)

Dr Ehab Hamed, BSc MSc PhD Technion

Dr Amin Heidarpour, BSc Isfahan MSc Sharif PhD UNSW

Dr Xiaojing Li, BEng Wuhan PhD UNSW

Dr Mindy Loo, BE PhD UNSW

Dr Zhen Luo

Dr Michael Man, BE Mechatronic Eng, PhD Mechanical Eng

Technical OfficersJohn GilbertGreg Worthing

Emeritus ProfessorSomasundaram Valliappan BE Annam, MS Northeastern, PhD DSc Wales, CPEng, FASCE, FIACM

Don Kelly (School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering)

Professorial Visiting FellowA/Prof Brian Shackel, BE Sheff, MEngSc PhD UNSW, CPEng FIEAust

UNSW MembersProfessor Alan CroskySchool of Materials Science & Engineering

Connected Waters Initiative

The Connected Waters Initiative is a joint initiative between the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the School of Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences (BEES).

DirectorProfessor Ian Acworth

Deputy DirectorProfessor Andy Baker

Super Science ManagerMr Tony Woo

AcademicsAssociate Professor Bryce Kelly

Dr Martin Andersen

Dr Mathew McCabe

Dr Wendy Timms

ResearchersDr Hoori Ajami

Dr Anna Greve

Dr Cath Jex

Mr Joshua Larsen

Mr Andrew McCallum

Dr Gregoire Mariethoz

Mr Gabriel Rau

Mr Gyanendra Regmi

Professional and Technical StaffMs Jodi Adams (Admin Assistant)

Mr Peter Graham (Wellington Farm Manager)

Mr Sam McCulloch (Technical Officer - Geophysics)

Mr Hamish Studholme (Technical Officer – Drilling)

Mr Mark Whelan (Technical Officer – Centrifuge)


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Water Research Centre

Co-DirectorsDr Bill PeirsonProfessor Richard Stuetz

Deputy Director (Manly Vale)Associate Professor Ian Turner

Business ManagersBrett Miller – (Manly Vale)Robert Steel – (Kensington)

AcademicsProfessor David WaiteProfessor Ashish SharmaAssociate Professor Ron CoxDr Bruce CathersDr Matthew McCabe

Senior Research StaffDr Richard CollinsDr Stuart KhanAssociate Professor Sven LundieDr Greg PetersDr David RoserDr Eric Sivret

Senior Project EngineersJames CarleyDr William GlamoreDr Wendy TimmsSteven PellsGrantley Smith

Research StaffDr Hoori AjamiDr Xavier BarthelemyDr Sivakumar BellieDr Chris BlenkinsoppDr Mark BlighLeearna BrownDr Heather ColemanDr Chris DuesterbergDr Beatrice GiambastianiDr Shikha GargDr Aurelie GodrantDr Mitchell Harley

Dr Rita HendersonDr Adele Jones Christine KaucnerDr Andrew KinselaDr Marcus KleinAndrew McCallumDr James McDonaldDr Rajeshwar MehrotraDr Xianhong MengDr Kate MurphyGavin ParcsiDr An Ninh PhamEytan RochetaGabriel RauDr Andrew RoseMatthias SchulzDr Michael ShortDr Josiah StraussTrang TrinhDr Ben Van den AkkerDr Xianguang WangDr Xiaomao WangDr Yuan WangDr Seth Westra

Project EngineersAlexandra BadenhopMatt BlackaIan CoghlanAlessio MarianiSara Mehrabi Melissa Mole Duncan RaynerJames Ruprecht Dr Tom Shand Dr Laurent TarradeConrad Wasko

Technical and AdministrationJodi Adams Anna BlackaBela CarvossoKirra-Lee DeanJohn Hart Patricia KarwanRoss Mathews

Samuel McCulloch Hamish StudholmeJoan TerleckyWendy Thomason-HarperRobert Thompson

LibraryCaroline HedgesJane Fortt

VolunteerLance Bowen

Visiting AcademicsProfessor Nicholas Ashbolt, University of Cincinnati, USA

Associate Professor Ian Cordery, University of New South Wales

Dr Daniel Deere, Water Future, Sydney, Australia

Dr Stuart Dever, GHD, Australia

Associate Professor Jorg Drewes, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA

Dr Manabu Fujii, University of Tohoku University, Japan

Dr Bruce Jefferson, Cranfield University, UK

Dr Marion Minouflet, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Timothy Payne, ANSTO, Australia

A/Prof Andrew Rose, Southern Cross University, Australia

Professor Mel Suffet, UCLA, USA

Dr Gareth Swarbrick, Pells Sullivan & Meynink, Sydney Australia


Ex Head of School Retires

Dr Hiyam al-Kilidar, engineering construction and management lecturer left to take up a position as senior lecturer at UTS.

Dr Bruce Cathers – a popular and respected teacher of hydraulics, water quality and estuarine and coastal engineering took a ridiculously early retirement in 2010. Bruce had been with the Water Research Laboratory since -1996. Research included numerical methods, computational hydraulics, physical and numerical modelling, and artificial neural networks applied to environmental problems.

Robert Hegedus, long time IT guru, joined the School in 1983 as an analyst programmer. Over the decades he assisted the School in managing the many cultural, technical and educational changes wrought by the advance of the new technologies. In 2010 Robert transferred to the new centralised Production Services, IT @ UNSW.

Farewell and thank you also to...

Long serving staff member Professor Ian Gilbert retired in 2010. Ian, a world expert on concrete and composite structures, was Head of School from 1996 – 2005, the second longest serving HoS after the founding head Crawford Munro and the only graduate of the School to serve as its head. As HoS 1996 - 2005, Ian Gilbert oversaw a major change in School focus and priorities, moving from the industry-focussed consulting culture of the early years to one of

Julie O’Keeffe retired in 2010. Julie joined the School in the early 1970s and over the decades she was a quiet, efficient and resourceful administrator, mainly supporting the water engineering group.

Professor Francis tin-Loi retired in July 2010, after joining the school in 1982. He was granted an Emeritus Professorship by UNSW for his distinguished service and contribution to the development of the University.

research excellence. During his academic career of more than 35 years, he has written over 300 publications including several key educational texts. He has also provided expert advice to industry on reinforced and prestressed concrete structures in numerous high profile projects both in Australia and overseas and he has been actively involved in the development of the Australian Standard for Concrete Structures AS3600 for many years. In 1999, he received the Chapman Medal - awarded annually by the Institution of Engineers, Australia for the most significant contribution to the science and practice of structural engineering. In 2005, Ian was awarded a five year research only appointment as an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow within the School. Since 2007, he has also served as Deputy Director of the School’s world class Centre for Infrastructure, Engineering and Safety (CIES). Ian was granted an Emeritus Professorship by UNSW for his distinguished service and contribution to the development of the University.


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Laurie O’Neill, who was a Senior Lecturer at the School from 1962 - 1982, died on 15 January 2010.

O’Neill published his seminal engineering construction management text, Fundamentals of Estimating and Construction Cost Control in 1966. His colleague Vic Summersby called him the most organised lecturer in the School, a man ‘who never wasted a minute’. O’Neill was an entertaining and enlivening lecturer, and many alumni fondly remember both his lectures and his leading student excursions to the Snowy Mountains Hydro project. Kees Ingerman (BE ’71) recalled: ‘By 1969 which was my year, Laurie was fast running out of bus companies who would transport 60 unruly undergraduate engineers. NSW Rail had already banned us. There weren’t too many hotels, motels or lodges within cooey of the Snowy Mountains that would have us either. But somehow Laurie [always] conned some unsuspecting bus company and motel’.

Laurie’s niece Elizabeth was the third woman to graduate from the School with a BE in 1978. She became Pro V-C at CQU.

Alexander Wargon (1926 – 2010) was a structural engineer who left his mark on Sydney with his work on more than 4000 projects, including Centrepoint Tower, the Harbour tunnel, the American Express building (now IAG House) and the Nikko hotels at Potts Point and Darling Harbour. Co-founder of the engineering consultancy firm Wargon Chapman Partners (now Hyder Consulting) Wargon shared his considerable experience with School students - giving occasional lectures at the School for several years.

In 2006 the Alexander Wargon Prize for Academic Achievement in Structural Engineering was instituted.

In Memory

Vale Rupert Vallentine (1917 – 2010)Head of School 1969 – 1974

Rupert Vallentine, a core member of the UNSW School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s founding brotherhood, first director of the Water Research Laboratory in Manly Vale (1959 - 1962) and HoS(1969 – 1974) passed away in September 2010.

Vallentine’s research interest lay specifically in fluid mechanics and hydraulics, a subject which he taught with the utmost clarity and rigour, but his real passion was engineering education. Generations of students fondly recalled Vallentine not just for his ‘tour de force’ lectures, but also for his continual challenging of them to open their minds to matters of history, culture and social justice. Rupert Vallentine was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1978 – 1980, and was Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1981 before his retirement in 1982. In 2010 the School founded the Rupert Vallentine Research Fellowship Scheme in his honour, and to support emerging School researchers.


Level 3 Workplace Safety Committee

Emergency Response Exercise. L-R: Osman Kaddour UNSW Security, Patricia Karwan WRC and Paul Gwynne.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has a Workplace Safety Committee in accordance with the NSW Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000.

As required by the OH&S Regulation 2001, the Committee representation covers all occupational groups within the school, including the Head of School, Academics, Laboratory Managers, IT, Administration, Postgraduates and Undergraduates. Membership also includes Centre Representatives, a First Aid Offi cer, and the Chief Warden (School Emergency Response Team Manager).

The School consults with all staff and students on OH&S issues as they arise, through the School Workplace Committee. Minutes of the meetings are posted on School noticeboards and on the School’s website.

The School continues to implement and use the UNSW OHS Management System which contains six key elements; commitment, planning, consultation, implementation and review, for the continual improvement of safety, both in the School and in the fi eld.

The School system includes ‘RIPA’ (Registration, Induction and Project risk Assessment) documentation, which is a compulsory requirement for all laboratory users and projects, and provides the mechanisms by which safe systems of work can be implemented and monitored. The School’s system is closely integrated with the UNSW OHS Management System.

During 2010, the Committee had full voluntary membership, and met regularly every two months with excellent attendance. Several positions on the Committee are now shared to improve attendance and guarantee prompt feedback to each area. A number of issues were addressed and resolved, including approval for the purchase of essential safety equipment. The Committee organised regular workplace inspections, evacuation drills, funded various training courses for staff and students, and resolved a number of other OH&S issues.

2010 has seen several laboratory and offi ce refurbishments take place, which can raise many OHS issues. We commenced replacement of the old lifts in the tower block, and planning is now underway for the construction of a new gas bottle storage facility. The Committee liaises closely with Facilities Management on these projects.

The provision of a safe work environment for all School staff and students remains the School’s highest priority.

Committee Members and Representation:

David Waite (HoS), Paul Gwynne (pictured) – Chair (Infrastructure Lab and First Aid), Les Brown – Secretary (Admin and IT), Irene Calaizis – Secretary (CIES), Hamish Studholme (WRL), Gautam Chattopadhyay/Kelvin Ong (WQL and First Aid), Steven Davis (Academic and Chief Warden), Ron Moncay/John Gilbert (Heavy Structures Lab), Patricia Karwan (pictured) (WRC), Noore Patwary (Postgraduate Rep) Ahmet Kale/Immanuel Gacis (Undergraduate Rep) and Veronica Mair (Faculty OHS Coordinator).

Somewhere, Something incredible is waiting to be known.

(Carl Sagan, 1934-1996)

our research


The School’s Research Management Committee (RMC) manages and supports research activities within the School, including research undertaken by both the staff and the School’s postgraduate research students, and liaises with and contributes directly to the Faculty’s Research Management Committee. In 2010, the RMC met every month to oversee and progress all research related aspects of the School’s operation.

Postgraduate Research Student Management

An important aspect of the Committee’s work involves the management of the School’s postgraduate research student’s program. In 2010, the School had about 115 postgraduate research students enrolled in either ME or PhD programs. Management of this vital research activity within the School involves the assessment of applications to undertake higher degrees within the School, the formulation of specific research plans for each student accepted into the program, the nomination of a suitable supervisors, reviewing the progress of students at regular intervals, making recommendations on progress to the Faculty’s Higher Degree Committee, and finally nominating examiners when the thesis is completed and, where necessary, following up on the examination process.

Each student is assigned a review committee of three academic staff chaired by a member of the RMC. The review committee meets to interview the student and supervisor(s) at 6 or 12 monthly intervals, depending on the student’s progress, and, at these reviews, the student is invited to present a brief seminar outlining progress since the last review. Most academic staff and several research

only staff participated in the student review panels in 2010. Much of the workload in this area is carried by the School’s Postgraduate Research Student Coordinator, a position filled very ably by Professor Ashish Sharma. The student review process continued relatively smoothly through 2010 with excellent administrative support provided by Pattie McLaughlin.

The RMC provided funds to support each research program (a desk top and up to $1250 for each student for travel and consumables) in 2010,however the bulk of the funding to support research student projects in most cases comes from external scholarships and/or from research grants won by the student’s supervisor.

Research Grants

The RMC also provides input to the preparation and coordination of research grant applications. This includes ranking the School’s applications for internal Faculty Research Grants (FRGs) and UNSW Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative (MREIIs) and reviewing applications for competitive external grants. The School has been very successful in recent years in winning external grant income, particularly from the highly competitive funding schemes of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and from industry through the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, Water Research Centre (WRC) and the Connected Water Initiative (CWI).

The School continues to lead the way nationally in research and its success in attracting external research income confirms the School’s place as one of UNSW’s most successful research schools.

Research Management


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INDUSTRY AND COMMUNITY

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Grants

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Grant Income 2010

In 2010 the School and its Research Centres received $16.75 million in research income from industry, business and government sources. This included $5.9 million in funds from the highly competitive ARC Discovery and ARC Linkage Grant Schemes.

The School continues to lead the way nationally in research and its success in attracting external research income confirms our place as one of UNSW’s most successful research schools. The School has been very successful in recent years in winning external grant income, particularly from the funding schemes of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and from industry through the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety and the Water Research Centre.

ARC Grant Winners 2011. Back L-R: Dr Bill Peirson, Dr Stuart Khan, A/Prof Chongmin Song, Dr Chris Blenkinsopp. Front L-R: A/Prof Ian Turner, Em Prof Ian Gilbert, Dr Rita Henderson. Absent: Prof Andy Baker, Prof Mark Bradford, Dr Richard Collins, Dr Kurt Douglas and Em Prof Robin Fell.

ACCARNSI Research Grant

Research ConvenorsR Cox, R Stuetz, W Peirson (Civil & Env Eng)B Randolph (Faculty Built Environment)R Tomlinson (Griffith Uni)G Hugo (Adelaide Uni)M Taylor (Uni SA)

Research Project/topic Nation wide network to support the coordination of the Australian research community in the field of Climate Change Adaptation – supporting multi-disciplinary research, building research capacity, and promoting and supporting information exchange related to coastal settlements, urban planning, the built environment and infrastructure.

Funding organisationCommonwealth Department of Climate Change (DCC) through the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) plus Industry support from Sydney Water and NSW Dept Commerce.

Amount received in 2010 $ 441, 000


2010 CIES Research Funding Summary

Researcher(s) Research Topic Granting Organisation Value at 2010

E Hamed, MA Bradford Long-term behaviour of thin-walled concrete curved members strengthened with externally bonded composite materials ARC Discovery $62,485

A/Prof C Song, Dr W Gao, Prof W Becker

Non -deterministic fracture analysis of structures by extending the scaled boundary finite -element method ARC Discovery $132,698

Prof MA Bradford, Dr G Ranzi, Dr A Heidarpour

Unified analysis of steel and composite frame structures subjected to static, thermal, earthquake and blast loading

ARC Discovery (incl. Australian Professorial Fellowship) $137,801

Prof N Khalili, Dr RK Niven, Dr M Oeser CO2 sequestration in deformable, chemically interactive, double porosity media ARC Discovery $122,490

N Khalili, AR Russell Erosion of variably saturated soils - a fundamental investigation ARC Discovery $91,868

RI Gilbert Anchorage of reinforcement in concrete structures subjected to loading and environmental extremes ARC Discovery $96,971

N Zhang (UTS), W Gao Quantitative analysis of dynamic performance of vehicles with uncertain system parameters and road inputs ARC Discovery $25,000

N Khalili Experimental investigation and constitutive modelling of thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling effects in unsaturated porous media ARC Discovery $30,000

MA Bradford, B Uy, G Ranzi, A FilonovTime Dependent Response and Deformations of Composite Beams with Innovative Deep Trapezoidal DecksCollaborating/Partner Organisation(s) BlueScope Lysaght

ARC Linkage $106,559

Prof MA Bradford, Prof RI Gilbert, Prof SJ Foster, Mr A Filonov, Mr R Ratcliffe

Strength of two-way steel fibre reinforced composite flooring systemsCollaborating/Partner Organisation(s)BlueScope Lysaght and BOSFA


RI Gilbert, MA Bradford, R Zeuner, GR Brock

Time-dependent in-service behaviour of composite concrete slabs with profiled steel Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s)Fielders Australia Pty Ltd; and Prestressed Concrete Design Consultants Pty Ltd


M Oeser, AR Russell, N Khalili

Enhanced Analysis and Structural Design of Pavements - Virtual Laboratory for Advanced Pavement Design. Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s)ARRB Group Ltd


Markus Oeser, Alan Pearson, Nasser Khalili, Brian Shackel

Permeable Pavements with Concrete Surface Layers- Experimental and Theoretical Basis for Analysis and Design ARC Linkage $74,444

Stephen J Foster, Vute Sirivivatnanon, Mark G Stewart

A Re-evaluation of the Safety and Reliability Indices for Reinforced Concrete Structures ARC Linkage $108,598

L Ge Structural monitoring and modelling CRCSI (Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information) $55,456

CRC Bid: CRC LCBC&C Low Carbon Buildings and Cities CRC DVC Research UNSW $191,302

CRC ACS Advanced composite Structures Faculty of Engineering $12,087

H Taiebat FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering $25,000

Z Vrcelj FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering $25,000

E Erkmen FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering $25,000

M Attard FRG/ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering $15,000

RI Gilbert Goldstar Faculty of Engineering $30,000

MA Bradford UNSW contribution – Fed Fellowship DVC Research UNSW $115,100

MA Bradford Bridging Support – special funding Faculty of Engineering $22,524

MA Bradford CIES Central Funding DVC Research UNSW $27,706

CIES TOTAL RESEARCH FUNDING $2,091,273

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2010 WRC Funding Summary

Senior investigators and advisers Subject area Granting Organisation and/or Industry Sponsors Value at

2010

Michael Banner (UNSW Mathematics), Bill Peirson, Frederic Dias (ENS Cachan, France)

Forecasting wave breaking in directional seas Australian Research Council – Discovery DP0985802 $ 93,728

James Carley, Ron Cox, Ian Turner, Bill Peirson, Matt Blacka, Ian Coghlan, Alessio Mariani, Tom Shand, Melissa Mole

Coastal engineering and management

NSW Department of Lands – Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Group (TRESBP); Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water; ACCARNSI; Warringah Council;NSW Crown Solicitors Office;Geoscience Australia; Clarence City Council; HWL Ebsworth Lawyers acting for Byron Shire Council; NSW Department Of Environment, Climate Change And Water (Hunter/Lower North Coast); Tweed Shire Council; Byron Shire Council; NSW Department of Lands; North Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club; Pitt and Sherry for Crown Land Services, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment, Tasmania; W. H. Parsons & Associates; Frankston City Council; Australian Department of Water, Environment, Heritage and Arts; Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania; Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria), Environmental Policy and Climate Change Division

$363,264

James Carley, Ron Cox, Matt Blacka, Tom Shand, Ian Coghlan, Alessio Mariani, Duncan Rayner, Melissa Mole, Brett Miller

Coastal structures and wave protectionAurecon; Aurecon Hatch; GHD; Parks Victoria; Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water DECCW NSW; Geofabrics Australasia Pty Ltd

$361,492

William Glamore, Grantley Smith, Alessio Mariani, Duncan Rayner, Jamie Ruprecht

Environmental restoration studies

NSW Department of Industry and Innovation; Manildra Group Pty Ltd; Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA); NSW Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries); NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW)

$70,658

Bill Peirson, William Glamore, Brett Miller, Grantley Smith Duncan Rayner, Ian Coghlan, Jamie Ruprecht

Estuarine water quality and environmental flowsHunter Water Corporation; Mid Coast Water; Water and Energy Team, Infrastructure Projects, Department of Planning; Department of Water and Energy

$101,805

Grantley Smith, William Glamore, Steven Pells, Conrad Wasko, Jamie Ruprecht, Ron Cox

Flood modelling and floodplain management

Molino Stewart for Newcastle City Council; Engineers Australia; Australian Rainfall and Runoff – Engineers Australia; Monteath & Powys Pty Ltd; Infigen Energy Development Pty Ltd; Pitt + Sherry; Penrith Lakes Development Corporation

$107,429

Wendy Timms, Martin Andersen, Steven Pells, William Glamore, Brett Miller, Conrad Wasko

Groundwater studies , supply, monitoring, salinity and pollutant transport

EWL Sciences Pty Ltd; Courtney Wong; Macleay Water; JP Environmental; St Vincents Foundation Pty Ltd C/- Tierney Property Services Pty Ltd; Cardno Young; WMA Water (Webb McKeown & Associates); UNSW Faculty of Science; Cotton CRC and Namoi CMA; Canterbury Regional Council; Queensland Dept. Natural Resources and Water; Australian Department of Water, Environment, Heritage and Arts; ORICA; United Group Infrastructure; Vos Group

$288,335

Brett Miller, William Glamore, James Carley, Ian Turner, Bill Peirson, Duncan Rayner, Matt Blacka, Tom Shand, Alessio Mariani, Ian Coghlan, Conrad Wasko, Melissa Mole

Harbours and Sheltered Waterways Ove Arup Dan Rakan-Rakan; NT Department of Planning and Infrastructure; Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority; Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority

$152,700

Brett Miller, William Glamore, Grantley Smith, Bill Peirson, Laurent Tarrade, Conrad Wasko, Duncan Rayner, Jamie Ruprecht

Outfall Design and Sewage Disposal in Coastal Waters

Gunns Ltd; Veolia Water Australia; Christchurch City Council; Parsons Brinckerhoff BECA Joint Venture; Department of Commerce (For Clarence Valley Council); Sydney Water Corporation; Consulting and Expert Opinion Services for NT Power and Water; Veolia Water; URS New Zealand; SKM for John Holland

$612,987

William Glamore, Brett Miller, Grantley Smith, Laurent Tarrade, Jamie Ruprecht

Water Resources Australian Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and The Arts; Department of Environment Water Heritage and the Arts $39,683

Brett Miller, Bill Peirson, Steven Pells, Laurent Tarrade, Grantley Smith, Duncan Rayner, Jamie Ruprecht

Water/Wastewater hydraulics and turbomachinery

SMEC; SMEC Holdings Limited; Parsons Brinckerhoff Beca Joint Venture (via Cardno Lawson Treloar); ATLANTIS; Sydney Water Corporation; Outotec (Australia) Pty Ltd; UNSW Global Consulting and Expert Opinion Services; B A Packer; Australian Department of Water, Environment, Heritage and Arts

$353,184

James Carley, Matt Blacka Small Coastal protection works Various Clients; Mr and Mrs N Samodol, c/- de Soyres Malone Architects $7,421



2010

S Khan, R Stuetz, A Baker, M Storey

Fluorescence as a tool for sensitive detection of failures in recycled water treatment and distribution systems ARC Linkage Project LP0776347

ARC, Sydney Water Corporation, Gold Coast City Council, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, Melbourne Water, Water Corporation, South East Water, City West Water, Yarra Valley Water

$109,607

D Waite, S KhanARC Linkage Project LP0883561 - Physico-Chemical controls on Growth, Toxicity and Succession of microcystis and Anabaena Species in Sydney Water Supply Reservoirs

ARC, WQRA, Sydney Catchment Authority $150,000

R Stuetz Optimal Management of Corrosion and Odour Problems in Sewer Systems - ARC Linkage Project LP0882016 through U.Q ARC/UQ $342,134

D WaiteARC Discovery Project DP0987188 - Resolving Critical Knowledge Gaps relating to Light and Free Radical Mediated Transformation of Iron and Copper in Oxic Natural Waters

ARC $95,000

M McCabeARC Discovery Project DP0987478 - Characterizing the hydrological cycle using water isotopes, land+surface models and satelite observation

ARC $100,000

R Stuetz ARC Linkage Project LP0989365 - Optimising Decentralised Membrane Reactors for Water Reuse

ARC, MidCoast Water, Bega Valley Shire Council, NSW Department of Health, Hunter Water Corporation $175,000

A Sharma Project 4. Continuous Rainfall sequences at point locations NWC through Engineers Australia $100,000

M McCabe Using satellite observation to investigate land surface - atmosphere interaction CSIRO Flagship Postgraduate Scholarships $7,000

A Sharma

Australia-India Strategic Research Fund ST030111 - Managing change in Soil Moisture and Agricultural Productivity under a Global Warming scenario using a Catchment Scale Climate Change Change Assessment Framework

Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research $80,500

R Stuetz Postdoctoral Fellowship for Gavin Parcsi Australian Poultry CRC $14,897

A Sharma

ARC Linkage Partner LP0883296 - Integrated assessment of climate change, climate input errors and land-use change on soil-moisture and carbon-balance in a catchment simulation framework

ARC, NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change $91,000

R Henderson, R Stuetz, V Bulmus, W Peirson, G Newcombe, B Jefferson

ARC Linkage Project Grant 2009 Round 2 - LP0990189 Optimising dissolved air flotation (DAF) for algae removal by bubble modification in drinking water and advanced wastewater systems

ARC, Melbourne Water Corporation, United Water, SEQWater, South Australia Water Company $217,000

R Cox, W Randolph, W PeirsonNational Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. Climate Change Adaptation Research Network - Settlement and Infrastructure

ACCARNSI/NCCARF/DCCEE $72,000

D Waite, R Collins, A Jones Water Quality Research Australia - Scale formation and prevention in small water supplies reliant on groundwater (1019/09)

WQRA $65,426

M McCabeARC Linkage project Shared Grant / Subcontract - A new paradigm for improved water resource management using innovative water modelling techniques

ARC/University of Melbourne $28,690

R Stuetz

RIRDC / Research Priorities Program - PRJ-002342 Artificial olfaction system for on-site odour measurement: Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry analysis for VOC measurements

Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) $3,636

G Peters, W Peirson, N AshboltARC Discovery Grant DP1095722 Interdisciplinary greenhouse gas assessment - nitrous oxide emissions from marine wastewater disposal

ARC $110,000

R Stuetz Olfactory Characterisation of Odours for Optimising Impact Assessment - ARC Discovery DP1096691 includes APDI ARC $99,955

D Waite, R Luthy, S Al-Abed, G Batley

Synthesis of Activated Carbon Supported Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles and Application to Contaminant Degradation in Benthic Sediments. LP100100852

ARC, DECCW, Sydney Ports Corporation, Orica Australia, Maritime Authority of NSW, Sydney Catchment Authority $256,662

S Khan Assessment and optimisation of N-nitrosamine rejection by Reverse Osmosis for planned potable water recycling applications LP0990705

ARC through Uni Wollongong $24,483

D Waite, X Wang, G Leslie, X Huang, H Bustamante, X Wen, J Guan

Optimisation of nutrient removal, membrane fouling and sludge dewatering in hybrid coagulation/submerged membrane bioreactor treatment of wastewaters - ARC Linkage LP100100056

ARC, Beijing Origin Water Technology Co Ltd, Sydney Water Corporation, WQRA $310,000

R Collins Speciation of Arsenic in the roots of non-accumulator Eucalyptus spp. Australian Synchrotron Research Program $3,931

R Collins The effect of silicate on Uranium reduction during the Fe(II)-catalytic crystallisation of ferrihydrite Australian Synchrotron Research Program $995

G Peters Sustainability of water and wastewater treatment chemicalsARC, South Australia Water, Sydney Water Corporation, Melbourne Water, Yarra Valley Water, Water Corporation, Gold Coast City Council

$54,140

S Westra

Project 18 - Interaction of Coastal Processes and severe weather events: Phase 1 Pilot Study into joint probability modelling of extreme rainfall and storm surge in the coastal zone

NWC through Engineers Australia $31,500

> 2010 WRC Funding cont.



2010

S KhanWQRA2002 - A national approach to the health risk assessment, risk communicaiton and management of chemical hazards from recycled water projects

Water Quality Reseasrch Australia $180,000

R HendersonOptimising dissolved air flotation (DAF) for algae removal by bubble modification in drinking water and advanced wastewater systems - Scholarship

Water Quality Reseasrch Australia $10,000

H Coleman Investigation of endocrine disruption in Australian aquatic environments ARC Linkage through Griffith University $82,412

D Waite BioGeoChemical Controls on efficacy and sustainability of uranium heap leaching - LP100200792 ARC Linkage, Energy Resources of Australia $120,000

R Collins AS_IA101_ESRF_3002960 - Cobalt (II) sorption to Mn and Fe Oxides Australian Synchrotron Research Program $7,933

R CollinsAS102/WAS2484 - Quick scanning XAFS to determine Fe-O-Fe bond formation during iron precipitation and iron oxide transformations

Australian Synchrotron Research Program $959

R Collins AS103/XAS/2981 Capacity of uranium incorporation in Fe(II)-transformed Fe(II) oxide Australian Synchrotron Research Program $995

D Waite Australian Synchrotron Postgraduate Award Australian Synchrotron Company $13,000

R Stuetz Fate of Volatile Organo-Sulfur Compounds (VOSCs) in Odour Assessment - Scholarship CRC for Poultry $7,500

R Henderson, R Stuetz YWPC 2010 Conference Various $51,904

M Schulz, S Lundie, G Peters, E Sivret, G Parcsi, X Wang, R Stuetz

Various Workshops – Odour Carbon Footprinting, Water Footprinting. Various $116,056

E Sivret, X Wang, G Parcsi, R Stuetz Odour and atmospheric emissions analysis Various $148,731

A Kinsela, R Collins, D Waite Physical Chemical Processes projects Various $42,727

D Roser, B Van den Akker QMRA Projects Various $104,550

M Schulz, M Short, H Rowley, E Rocheta, G Peters, S Lundie LCA and Carbon Footprinting Projects Various $108,733

R Henderson Analytical Work Various $34,455

S Khan, J McDonald Analytical Work - Micropollutants Various $167,697

Water Research Centre Total Funding $6,293,894

> 2010 WRC Funding cont.

CWI Grants 2010

Researchers/ Investigators Research Topic Granting Organisation Value at 2010

Ian Acworth, Martin Andersen, Andy Baker, Matt McCabe, Wendy Timms SuperScience Groundwater Education Investment Fund DIISR 5,000,000

Ian Acworth, Martin Andersen, Andy Baker, Bryce Kelly, Matt McCabe, Wendy Timms National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training ARC 1,880,000

Ian Acworth NSW Science Leverage Fund NSW Dept State and Regional Development 700,000

Martin Andersen Maules Creek research Investigations Cotton CRC 183,000

Martin Andersen Thermal techniques for groundwater investigations Land and Water 140,00

Connected Waters Initiative Grants Total $7,903,000

Grants outside of the Centres

Researchers Research Topic Granting Organisation Total External Grant

Gangadhara Prusty, Zora Vrcelj, Tim McCarthy, Anne Gardner, Roberto Ojeda, Nadine Marcus, Dror Ben-Naim, Shaowei Ho,

An adaptive e-learning community of practice for Mechanics courses in Engineering

Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Grant

$211,000

Chris Tisdell, Zora Vrcelj, Peter Blennerhassett, John Perram, Norm Wildberger, Chris Daly, John Watson , Craig Roberts, Graeme Bushell, Mark Foster, Tom Cavdarovski,

Engineering Maths Learning and Teaching Development Grant (LTDG), Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science

$16,000

Rita Henderson(Chief investigator)

Advancing water treatment technologies to minimise nitrogenous disinfection by-products in drinking water: understanding the role of organic nitrogen

ARC Linkage Project: LP1101100548Administering Organisation: Curtin University

$680,000

Rita Henderson (Co-Investigator)

Optimising low-pressure membrane pretreatment for desalination

National Centre of Excellence in Desalination – led by UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology

$443,000


2010 PublicationsWith 5 books,n11 chapters in books, 183 refereed and scholarly journal articles, 68 refereed conference papers, 30 non refereed conference papers, 3 editorships of conference proceedings, and 19 completed PhD theses - as well as numerous conference abstracts and presentations =and technical reports, the research publications output of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is at a very high level, meriting the Australian Research Council’s description of ‘outstanding performance well above world standard.’

Book - Scholarly Research Chang, Z (2010) Crack Width and Corrosion Rate of Steel in Concrete, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Germany.

Gilbert, RI, & Ranzi, G (2010) Time-Dependent Behaviour of Concrete Structures, Taylor & Francis, London.

Khan, SJ (2010) Quantitative Chemical Exposure Assessment for Water Recycling Schemes, National Water Commission, Canberra.

Book - Edited Sivakumar, B., & Berndtsson, R (ed) (2010) Advances in Data-Based Approaches for Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore.

Book - Textbook Foster, SJ, Kilpatrick, AE, & Warner, RF (2010) Reinforced Concrete Basics, Pearson, Australia.

Chapter - Scholarly Research Erkmen, RE, & Bradford, MA (2010) Moving load analysis of composite beams curved in-plan, Trends in Computational Structures Technology, pp. 169 – 186. Saxe-Coburg, Kippen, UK.

Foster, SJ (2010) Design of FRC beams for shear using the VEM and the draft Model Code approach, Shear and punching shear in RC and FRC elements, pp. 195 - 210. International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Huda, S, Mehrotra, R, & Sharma, A (2010) Adaptation Strategies in Coping with Climate, Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia, pp.325-342, Springer.

Jury, K, Stuetz, RM, & Khan, SJ (2010) Antibiotic resistance dissemination and sewage treatment plants, Current Research, Technology and Education Topics in Applied Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology, pp. 509-519, Formatex.

Khan, SJ (2010) Chapter 6: Safe management of chemical contaminants for planned potable water recycling, Sustainable Water, 1st edition, pp. 114 - 137. Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Publishing, Cambridge.

Sharma, A, & Mehrotra, R (2010) Rainfall Generation, Rainfall: State of the Science, pp. 215 - 246. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.

Sivakumar, B (2010) Chaos Theory for Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting: Progress and Challenges, Handbook of Research on Hydroinformatics: Technologies, Theories and Applications, 1st edition, pp. 199 – 227. IGI-Global, USA.

Sivakumar, B, & Berndtsson, R (2010) Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Hydrology, Advances in Data-Based Approaches for Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting, 1st edition, pp. 411 – 461. World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore.

Sivakumar, B, & Berndtsson, R (2010) Setting the Stage, Advances in Data-Based Approaches for Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting, 1st edition, pp. 1 - 16. World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore.

Sivakumar, B, & Berndtsson, R (2010) Summary and Future, Advances in Data-Based Approaches for Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting, 1st edition, pp. 463 - 477. World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore.

Sohn, J, Stuetz, RM, & Atzeni, M (2010) Non-specific chemical gas sensor arrays for environmental monitoring of odorous emissions, Chemical Sensors: Properties, Performance and Applications, pp. 147 – 168. Nova Science Publishers.

Journal - Refereed & Scholarly Article Al-Kilidar, H, & Siew, Y (2010) ‘Configurations and Practices across Publicly-Listed Australian and Malaysian Construction Companies’, The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management , 10(1), pp. 385-402.

Alturki, A, Tadkaew, N, McDonald, J, Khan, SJ, Price W & Nghiem LD (2010) ‘Combining MBR and NF/RO membrane filtration for the removal of trace organics in indirect potable water reuse applications’, Journal of Membrane Science , 365, pp. 206 - 215.

Amal, R, Vescovi, T, & Coleman, H (2010) ‘The effect of pH on UV based advanced oxidation technologies- 1,4 Dioxane degradation’, Journal of Hazardous Materials , 182, pp. 75 - 79.

Ashbolt, N.J, Schoen, ME, Soller, JA, & Roser, DJ (2010) ‘Predicting pathogen risks to aid beach management: The real value of quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA)’, Water Research , 44, pp. 4692 - 4703.

Attard, MM (2010) ‘Lateral Buckling of Beams with Shear Deformations - A Hyperelastic Formulation’, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 47, pp. 2825 - 2840.

Atzeni, M, Sohn, J, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Addressing the market demands for artificial olfaction systems.’ Chemical Engineering Transactions , 23, pp. 135 - 140.

Baker, A, Asrat, A, Fairchild, IJ, Leng MJ, Widmann, M, Jex, CN, Dong, B, Van Calsteren, P, Bryant, CJ (2010) ‘Decadal scale rainfall variability in Ethiopia recorded in an annually laminated, Holocene-age, stalagmite’, Holocene , 20, pp. 827 - 836.

Balatbat, MCA, Lin, C, & Carmichael, DG (2010) ‘Australian Construction Growth Ratios: Industry and Company Analyses’, The International Journal of Construction Management, 10, pp. 23 - 43.

Balatbat, MCA, Lin, C, & Carmichael, DG (2010) ‘Comparative Performance of Publicly Listed Construction Companies: Australian Evidence’, Construction Management and Economics , 28, pp. 919 - 932.

Barnes, R, & Ashbolt, N (2010) ‘Development of a planning framework for sustainable rural water supply and sanitation: A case study of a filipino NGO’, International Studies of Management and Organization , 40, pp. 78 - 98.

Behzadan, A, Mani Khezri, & Shodja, HM (2010) ‘A unified approach to the mathematical analysis of generalized RKPM, gradient RKPM, and GMLS’, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering , 200, pp. 540-576.

Bieroza, M Z, Bridgeman J, & Baker, A (2010) ‘Fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool for determination of organic matter removal efficiency at water treatment works’, Drinking Water Engineering Science , 3, pp. 63 - 70.

Birk, C, & Song, C (2010) ‘A local high-order doubly asymptotic open boundary for diffusion in a semi-infinite layer’, Journal of Computational Physics, 229, pp. 6156 - 6179.

Birk, C, & Song, C (2010) ‘An improved non-classical method for the solution of fractional differential equations’, Computational Mechanics , 46, pp. 721 - 734.

Blenkinsopp, CE, & Chaplin, JR (2010) ‘Bubble Size Measurements in Breaking Waves Using Optical Fiber Phase Detection Probes’, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering , 35, pp. 388 - 401.

Blenkinsopp, CE, Mole, MA, Turner, IL, & Peirson, WL (2010) ‘Measurements of the time-varying free-surface profile across the swash zone obtained using an industrial LIDAR’, Coastal Engineering 57, pp. 1059 - 1065.

Blenkinsopp, CE, Turner, IL, Masselink, G, & Russell, PE (2010) ‘Swash Zone Sediment Fluxes: Field Observations’, Coastal Engineering, 58, pp. 28 - 44.

Blenkinsopp, CE, Turner, IL, Masselink, G, & Russell, PE (2010) ‘Validation of volume continuity method for estimation of cross-shore swash flow velocity’, Coastal Engineering, 57, pp. 953 - 958.

Bligh, MW, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Formation, aggregation and reactivity of amorphous ferric oxyhydroxides on dissociation of Fe(III)-organic complexes in dilute aqueous suspensions’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 74, pp. 5746 - 5762.

Bligh, MW, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Role of Heterogeneous Precipitation in Determining the Nature of Products Formed on Oxidation of Fe(II) in Seawater Containing Natural Organic Matter’, Environmental Science and Technology , 44, pp. 6667 - 6673.

Bradford, MA, & Pi, YL (2010) ‘Effects of prebuckling analyses on determining buckling loads of pin-ended circular arches’, Mechanics Research Communications , 37, pp. 545 - 553.

Bradford, MA, Pi, YL, & Liang, S (2010) ‘Energy approach for dynamic buckling of an arch model under step loading with infinite duration’, International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics , 10, pp. 411 - 439.

Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Generic modelling of composite steel-concrete slabs subjected to shrinkage, creep and thermal strains including partial interaction’, Engineering Structures, 32, pp. 1459 - 1465.

Continuing Growth in Research

Publications 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Books 4 4 3 3 4 5 5 2 6 5 5

Chapters in Books 7 8 7 3 3 7 8 11 12 4 11

Refereed Journal Articles

73 77 82 74 76 90 98 113 128 125 183

Refereed Conference Publications

104 115 65 81 94 83 87 100 88 114 68

Total 188 204 157 161 177 185 198 226 234 248 267

Total Research income $4.0M $3.6M $4.9M $6.0M $6.3M $6.9M $7.7M $8.0M $10.7M $13.6M $16.8M


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Bradford, MA, & Heidarpour, A (2010) ‘Nonlinear analysis of composite beams with partial interaction in steel frame structures at elevated temperature’, Journal of Structural Engineering - ASCE , 136, pp. 968 - 977.

Bradley, C, Baker, A, Jex, CN, & Leng MJ (2010) ‘Hydrological uncertainties in the modelling of cave drip-water delta-18O and the implications for stalagmite palaeoclimate reconstructions’, Quaternary Science Reviews , 29, pp. 2201 - 2214.

Bradley, C, & Baker, A (2010) ‘Modern stalagmite delta-180: Instrumental calibration and forward modelling’, Global and Planetary Change, 71, pp. 201 - 206.

Carmichael, DG, & Balatbat, MCA (2010) ‘A Contractor’s Analysis of the Likelihood of Payment of Claims’, Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 15, pp. 102 - 117.

Carmichael, DG, & Balatbat, MCA (2010) ‘A Review and Study of Project Investment Cash Flow Correlations’, International Journal of Project Planning and Finance, Construction Industry Development Institute, Vol.1(1), pp. 1 - 21.

Carstea, E, Baker, A., Bieroza, M Z, & Reynolds, D.M. (2010) ‘Continuous Fluorescence Excitation Emission Matrix Monitoring of River Organic Matter’, Water Research, 44, pp. 5356 - 5366.

Cendan, D I, Larsen, JR, Jones, BG, Nanson, GC, Rickleman, D, Hankin, SI, Pueyo, JJ, Maroulis, J (2010) ‘Freshwater recharge into a shallow saline groundwater system, Cooper Creek fl oodplain, Queensland, Australia’, Journal of Hydrology 392, pp. 150 - 163.

Chang, Z, Bradford, MA, & Gilbert, RI (2010) ‘Limit analysis of local failure of shallow spherical concrete caps subjected to uniform radial pressure’, Thin - Walled Structures , 48, pp. 373 - 378.

Chernicharo, CA, Aquino, S, Sperling, M, Stuetz, RM, Santos, Mabub, M, Moreira, M, Vasconcelos, O, Gloria, R (2010) ‘Conceptual analysis of the UASB/polishing pond system regarding the removal of surfactants, micro pollutants and control of gaseous emissions ‘, Water Science and Technology , 61, pp. 1211 - 1218.

Cohen, TJ, Nanson, GC, Larsen, JR, Jones, BG, Price DM, Coleman M and Pietsch TJ (2010) ‘Late Quaternary aeolian and fl uvial interactions on the Cooper Creek Fan and the association between linear and source-bordering dunes, Strzelecki Desert, Australia’, Quaternary Science Reviews , 29, pp. 455 - 471.

Coleman, H, Le, MN, Khan, SJ, Short M, Chernicharo CA, & Stuetz R (2010) ‘Fate and levels of steroid oestrogens and androgens’, Water Science and Technology, 61, pp. 677 - 684.

Collins, RN, Jones, AM, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Schwertmannite stability in acidifi ed coastal environments’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 74, pp. 482 - 496.

Collins, RN, & Kinsela, AS (2010) ‘The aqueous phase speciation and chemistry of cobalt in terrestrial environments’, Chemosphere , 79, pp. 763 - 771.

Collins, RN, Bakkaus, E, Carriere, M, Khodja, H, Proux, O, Morel J & Gouget B (2010) ‘Uptake, Localization, and Speciation of Cobalt in Triticum aestivum L. (Wheat) and Lycopersicon esculentum M. (Tomato)’, Environmental Science and Technology, 44, pp. 2904 - 2910.

Cortis, A, Puente, CE, & Sivakumar, B (2010) ‘Encoding hydrologic information via a fractal geometric approach and its extensions’, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment , 24, pp. 625 - 632.

Dai, J, Gao, W, Zhang, N, & Liu, N (2010) ‘Seismic random vibration analysis of shear beams with random structural parameters’, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology , 24, pp. 497 - 504.

Davidson, MA, Lewis, RP, & Turner, IL (2010) ‘Forecasting seasonal to multi-year shoreline change’, Coastal Engineering, 57, pp. 620 - 629.

Davis, SR, & Peng, Y (2010) ‘Mathematical Models of Contingency for Errors of Omission’, AACE International Transactions, (2010) pp. EST.12.1 - EST.12.16.

Diambra, A, Ibraim, E, Muir Wood, D, & Russell, AR (2010) ‘Fibre reinforced sands: experiments and modelling’, Geotextiles and Geomembranes , 28, pp. 238 - 250.

Doblin, MD, Murphy, KR, & Ruiz, GM (2010) ‘Developing thresholds for tracing ships ballast water: an Australian case study’, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 408, pp. 19 - 32.

Dominguez-Villar, D, Fairchild, IJ, Carrasco, R, Pedraza, J, & Baker A (2010) ‘The effect of visitors in a touristic cave and the resulting constraints on natural thermal conditions for palaeoclimate studies (Eagle Cave, central Spain)’, ACTA Carsologica, 39, pp. 491 - 502.

Drewes, J, McDonald, J, Trinh, T, Storey, M, & Khan S, (2010) ‘Chemical monitoring strategy for the assessment of advanced water treatment plant performance’, Water Science and Technology : Water Supply , 10, pp. 961 - 968.

Erkmen, RE, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Elimination of slip locking in composite beam-column analysis by using the Element-Free Galerkin Method’, Computational Mechanics, 46, pp. 911 - 924.

Evans, JP, & McCabe, MF (2010) ‘Regional climate simulation over Australia’s Murray-Darling basin: A multitemporal assessment’, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres , 115, pp. 411 - 461.

Fernandez martinez, J, Garcia gonzalo, E, Mariethoz, G, & Mukerji T (2010) ‘International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation’, International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation, 1, pp. 27 - 48.

Fernando, DR, Mizuno, T, Woodrow, IE, Baker, AJ, & Collins R, (2010) ‘Characterisation of foliar Mn in Mn-(hyper)accumulators using X-ray absorption spectroscopy’, New Phytologist , 188, pp. 1014 - 1027.

Fujii, M, Rose, AL, Omura, T, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Effect of Fe(II) and Fe(III) transformation kinetics on iron acquisition by a toxic strain of Microcystis aeruginosa’, Environmental Science and Technology , 44, pp. 1980-1986.

Fujii, M, Rose, AL, Waite, TD, & Omura, T (2010) ‘Oxygen and superoxide-mediated redox kinetics of iron complexed by humic substances in coastal seawater’, Environmental Science and Technology , 44, pp. 9337 9342.

Gao, W, Wang, C, & Zhang, N (2010) ‘Interstory drifts of multi-story buildings under random earthquake excitations’, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 224, pp. 603 - 614.

Gao, W, Song, C, & Tin-Loi, FS (2010) ‘Probabilistic interval analysis for structures with uncertainty’, Structural Safety, 32, pp. 191 - 199.

Ge, L, Li, X, Chang, H, Ng, A., et al, (2010) ‘Impact of ground subsidence on the BeijingTianjin high-speed railway as mapped by radar interferometry’, Annals of GIS, 16, pp. 91 - 102.

Ghorbani, M. A., Ruskeepaa, H, Singh, V. P., & Sivakumar, B. (2010) ‘Flood frequency analysis using Mathematica’, Turkish Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences, 34, pp. 171 - 188.

Ghorbani, M. A., Khatibi, R. H., Sivakumar, B., & Cobb, L. (2010) ‘Study of discontinuities in hydrological data using catastrophe theory’, Hydrological Sciences Journal - Journal Des Sciences Hydrologiques , 55, pp. 1 - 15.

Gilbert, RI, & Ranzi, G (2010) ‘Design of Reinforced Concrete for Defl ection Control’, Concrete in Australia, 36, pp. 20 - 26.

Gilbert, RI, & Sakka, ZI (2010) ‘Strength and ductility of reinforced concrete slabs containing welded wire fabric and subjected to support settlement’, Engineering Structures, 32, pp. 1509 - 1521.

Glastonbury, J, & Fell, R (2010) ‘Geotechnical characteristics of large rapid rock slides’, Canadian Geotechnical Journal , 47, pp. 116 - 132.

Greve, AK, Andersen, MS, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Investigations of soil cracking and preferential fl ow in a weighing lysimeter fi lled with cracking clay soil’, Journal of Hydrology, 393, pp. 105 - 113.

Greve, AK, Acworth, RI, & Kelly, BFJ (2010) ‘Detection of subsurface soil cracks by vertical anisotropy profi les of apparent electrical resistivity’, Geophysics, 75, pp. WA85 - WA93.

Guo, L, Li, X, Xu, XL & Ge, L (2010) Integration of remotely sensed indices for land cover changes caused by the 2009 Victorian bushfi res using Landsat TM imagery. Journal of Coal Science and Engineering, 16(4), pp. 400-407.

Hambly, A, Henderson, RK, Storey, M, Baker, A, Stuetz R & Khan S (2010) ‘Fluorescence monitoring at a recycled water treatment plant and associated dual-distribution system - implications for cross connection detection’, Water Research, 44, pp. 5323 - 5333.

Hambly, A, Henderson, RK, Baker, A, Stuetz, RM, & Khan S (2010) ‘Fluorescence monitoring for cross-connection detection in water reuse systems: Australian case studies’, Water Science and Technology, 61, pp. 155 - 162.

Hambly, A, Henderson, RK, Baker, A, Stuetz, RM, Khan S, (2010) ‘Probabilistic analysis of fl uorescence signals for monitoring dual reticulation water recycling schemes’, Water Science and Technology, 62, pp. 2059 - 2065.

Hamed, E, Bradford, MA, Gilbert, RI, & Chang, Z (2010) ‘Analytical model and experimental study of failure behaviour of thin-walled shallow concrete domes’, Journal of Structural Engineering - ASCE , 137, pp. 125 - 137.

Hamed, E, Bradford, MA, & Gilbert, RI (2010) ‘Creep buckling of imperfect thin-walled shallow concrete domes’, Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures , 5, pp. 107 - 128.

Hamed, E, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Creep in concrete beams strengthened with composite materials’, European Journal of Mechanics A - Solids , 29, pp. 951 - 965.

Hamed, E, & Rabinovitch, O (2010) ‘Failure characteristics of FRP-strengthened masonry walls under out-of-plane loads’, Engineering Structure , 32, pp. 2134 - 2145.

Hamed, E, & Rabinovitch, O (2010) ‘Free Out-of-Plane Vibrations of Masonry Walls Strengthened with Composite Materials’, Journal of Engineering Mechanics - ASCE, 137, pp. 125 - 137.

Hamed, E, & Rabinovitch, O (2010) ‘Lateral Out-of-Plane Strengthening of Masonry Walls with Composite Materials’, Journal of Composites for Construction, 14, pp. 376 - 387.


Hamed, E, Bradford, MA, & Gilbert, RI (2010) ‘Non-linear long-term behaviour of spherical shallow thin-walled concrete shells of revolution’, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 47, pp. 204 - 215.

Hanson, J, Yesiller, N, Swarbrick, GE, & Liu, WL (2010) ‘A new approach for surface and factors’, Journal of Cold Regions Engineering, 24, pp. 19 - 34.

Hardwick-Jones, R, Westra, SP, & Sharma, A (2010) ‘Observed relationships between extreme sub-daily precipitation, surface temperature, and relative humidity’, Geophysical Research Letters, 37(22) Article number L22805 - 1423.

Hartland, A, Fairchild, IJ, Lead JR, & Baker, A (2010) ‘Fluorescent properties of organic carbon in cave drip waters: effects of filtration, temperature and pH’, Science of the Total Environment, 408, pp. 5940 - 5950.

Hartland, A, Wynn, P, et al, (2010) ‘The dripwaters and speleothems of Pooles Cavern: a review of recent and ongoing research’, Cave and Karst Science, 36, pp. 37 - 46.

Hashim, N, & Khan, SJ (2010) ‘Enantiomeric fraction as an indicator of pharmaceutical biotransformation during wastewater treatment and in the environment A review’, Environmental Technology, 31, pp. 1349 - 1370.

Heidarpour, A, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Non-discretisation formulation for the non-linear analysis of semi-rigid steel frames at elevated temperatures’, International Journal of Computers and Structures , 88, pp. 207-222 - 868.

Heidarpour, A, Abdullah AA, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Non-linear thermoelastic analysis of steel arch members subjected to fire’, Fire Safety Journal, 45, pp. 183 - 193.

Heidarpour, A, & Bradford, M.A (2010) ‘Nonlinear analysis of composite beams with partial interaction in steel frame structures at elevated temperature’, Journal of Structural Engineering - ASCE , 136, pp. 968 - 977.

Heidarpour, A, Pham, T.H, & Bradford, M.A (2010) ‘Nonlinear thermoelastic analysis of composite steel-concrete arches including partial interaction and elevated temperature loading’, Engineering Structures, 32, pp. 3248 -3257.

Henderson, RK, Stuetz, RM, & Khan, SJ (2010) ‘Demonstrating ultra-filtration and reverse osmosis performance using size exclusion chromatography’, Water Science and Technology, 62, pp. 2747 - 2753.

Henderson, RK, Parsons, SA, & Jefferson, B (2010) ‘Polymers as bubble surface modifiers in the flotation of algae’, Environmental Technology, 31, pp. 781 - 790.

Henderson, RK, Parsons, SA, & Jefferson, B (2010) ‘The impact of differing cell and algogenic organic matter (AOM) characteristics on the coagulation and flotation of algae’, Water Research , 44, pp. 3617 - 3624.

Holmes, M, Kumar, A, Shareef, A, Doan, H, et al, (2010) ‘Fate of indicator endocrine disrupting chemicals in sewage during treatment and polishing for non-potable reuse’, Water Science and Technology , 62, pp. 1416 - 1423.

Hsia, H-C, YEH, KY, Vandebona, U, & Tsukaguchi, H (2010) ‘Comparison of Walking Image among Different Age Groups in Taiwanese Cities’, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies , 8, pp. 1245 - 1260.

Ibraim, E, Diambra, A, Muir Wood, D, & Russell, AR (2010) ‘Static liquefaction of fibre reinforced sand under monotonic loading’, Geotextiles and Geomembranes , 28, pp. 374 - 385.

Iu, C, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Second order elastic finite element analysis of steel structures using a single element per member’, Engineering Structures, 32, pp. 2606 - 2616.

Jex, CN, Baker, Fairchild, IJ, Eastwood, WJ, Leng MJ, Sloane H, Thomas L & Bekaroa E (2010) ‘Calibration of speleothem delta-18O with instrumental climate records from Turkey’, Global and Planetary Change, 71, pp. 207 - 217.

Johar, K, Carmichael, DG, & Balatbat, MCA (2010) ‘A Study of Correlation Aspects in Probabilistic NPV Analysis’, The Engineering Economist 55, pp. 181 - 199.

Johnson, F, & Sharma, A (2010) ‘A comparison of Australian open water body evaporation trends for current and future climates estimated from class a evaporation pans and general circulation models’, Journal of Hydrometeorology , 11, pp. 105 - 121.

Khalili, N, and Zargarbashi, S, (2010) Influence of Hydraulic hysteresis on effective stress in unsaturated soils, Geotechnique, 2010, 60(9), pp. 729-734.

Khan, SJ, & McDonald, J (2010) ‘Quantifying human exposure to contaminants for multiple-barrier water reuse systems’, Water Science and Technology , 61, pp. 77 - 83.

Khomwan, N, Foster, S.J, & Smith, ST (2010) ‘FE modeling of FRP-repaired planar concrete elements subjected to monotonic and cyclic loading’, Journal of Composites for Construction, 14, pp. 720 - 729.

Khoshghalb, A, & Khalili, N (2010) ‘A stable meshfree method for fully coupled flow-deformation analysis of saturated porous media’, Computers and Geotechnics, 37, pp. 789 - 795.

Kikumoto, M, Muir Wood, D, & Russell, AR (2010) ‘Particle crushing and deformation behaviour’, Soils and Foundations, 50, pp. 547 - 563.

Kinsela, AS, Tjitradjaja, A, Collins, RN, Waite, TD, Payne T, Macdonald NC & White I, (2010) ‘Influence of calcium and silica on hydraulic properties of sodium montmorillonite assemblages under alkaline conditions’, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science , 343, pp. 366 - 373.

Klein, M, Brown, L, Tucker, RW, Ashbolt, NJ (2010) ‘Diversity and abundance of zoonotic pathogens and indicators in manures of feedlot cattle in Australia’, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76, pp. 6947 - 6950.

Klein, M, van den Akker, B, Peters G, Stuetz R & Roser D (2010) ‘Monitoring bacterial indicators and pathogens in cattle feedlot waste by real-time PCR’, Water Research , 44, pp. 1381 - 1388.

Ladd, BM, Larsen, JR, & Bonser, SP (2010) ‘Effect of two types of tree guards (with and withoutweed control) on tree seedling establishment’, Ecological Management and Restoration , 11, pp. 75 - 76.

Le, MN, Khan, SJ, Drewes, J, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Fate of antibiotics during municipal water recycling treatment processes’, Water Research , 44, pp. 4295 - 4320.

Le, MN, Coleman, H, Khan, SJ, Van luer, Y, Trinh T, Watkins G & Stuetz R (2010) ‘The application of membrane bioreactors as decentralised systems for removal of endocrine disrupting chemicals and pharmaceuticals’, Water Science and Technology , 61, pp. 1081 - 1088.

Leng MJ, Baneschi, I, Zanchetta, G, Jex, CN, Wagner B & Vogel H (2010) ‘Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from Lakes Ohrid and Prespa (Macedonia/Albania border) using stable isotopes’, Biogeosciences , 7, pp. 3109 - 3122.

Lenzen, M, & Peters, G (2010) ‘How City dwellers affect their resource Hinterland’, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 14, pp. 73 - 90.

Liu, H, Li, X, Ge, L, Rizos, C, & Wang F (2010) ‘Variable length LMS adaptive filter for carrier phase multipath mitigation’, GPS Solutions, 15, 1, pp. 29 - 38.

Liu, Y, Evans, JP, McCabe, MF, de Jeu, RAM, Van dijk AIJM & Su H (2010) ‘Influence of cracking clays on satellite estimated and model simulated soil moisture’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences , 14, pp. 979 - 990.

Liyanapathirana, DS, Liu, MD, & Carter, J (2010) ‘Numerical simulation of soft ground improved with cement’, Australian Geomechanics , 45, pp. 89 - 98.

Luo, Z, Gao, W, & Song, C (2010) ‘Design of Multi-phase Piezoelectric Actuators’, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures , 21, pp. 1851 - 1865.

Ma, J, Gao, W, Wriggers, P, Wu T & Sahraee S (2010) ‘The analyses of dynamic response and reliability of fuzzy-random truss under stationary stochastic excitation’, Computational Mechanics, 45, pp. 443 - 455.

Malik, AR, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘CFRP Confined RPC Columns - An Experimental Investigation’, ACI Structural Journal, 107, pp. 263 - 271.

Man, HM, & Furukawa, T (2010) ‘Neural network constitutive modelling for non-linear characterization of anisotropic materials’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering , 85, pp. 939 - 957.

Mariethoz, G (2010) ‘A general parallelization strategy for random path based geostatistical simulation methods’, Computers and Geosciences, 36, pp. 953 - 958.

Mariethoz, G, Renard, P, & Caers, J (2010) ‘Bayesian inverse problem and optimization with iterative spatial resampling’, Water Resources Research, 46, pp. Article number W11530 - 88.

Mariethoz, G, & Renard, P. (2010) ‘Reconstruction of Incomplete Data Sets or Images Using Direct Sampling’, Mathematical Geosciences, 42, pp. 245 - 268.

Mariethoz, G, Renard, P, & Straubhaar, J (2010) ‘The direct sampling method to perform multiple-point geostatistical simulations’, Water Resources Research , 46, Article number W11536.

Masselink, G, Blenkinsopp, CE, Turner, IL, & Russell, PE (2010) ‘Swash zone sediment transport, step dynamics and morphological response on a gravel beach’, Marine Geology, 274, pp. 50 - 68.

Mehrotra, R, & Sharma, A (2010) ‘Development and Application of a Multisite Rainfall Stochastic Downscaling Framework for Climate Change Impact Assessment’, Water Resources Research, 46, pp. 1 - 17.

Morris, BD, & Turner, IL (2010) ‘Morphodynamics of intermittently open-closed coastal lagoon entrances: new insights and a conceptual model’, Marine Geology, 271, pp. 55 - 66.

Muller, CL, Kidd, C, Fairchild, IJ, & Baker (2010) ‘Investigation into clouds and precipitation over an urban area using micro rain radars, satellite remote sensing and fluorescence spectrophotometry’, Atmospheric Research, 96, pp. 241 - 255.

Munoz, R, Sivret, EC, Parcsi, GP, Lebrero, R, Wang X, Sufflet IH & Stuetz R (2010) ‘Monitoring Techniques for Odour Abatement Assessment’, Water Research, 44, pp. 5129 - 5149.

Murphy, KR, Butler, KD, Spencer, RGM, Stedmon, C, Beohme J & Aiken GR (2010) ‘The measurement of dissolved organic matter fluorescence in aquatic environments: An interlaboratory comparison’, Environmental Science and Technology, 44, pp. 9405 - 9412.

Mylon, S.E, Sun, Q, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Process optimization in use of zero valent iron nanoparticles for oxidative transformations’, Chemosphere, 81, pp. 127 - 131.

Ng, A, Ge, L, Yan,Y, Li X, Chang H, Zhang K & Rizos C (2010) ‘An approach for mapping accumulated mine subsidence using small stack SAR differential interferograms in the Southern Coalfield of New South Wales, Australia’, Engineering Geology , 115, pp. 1 - 15.

Oeser, M (2010) ‘Pavement Design Model for Enhancing the Innovation Potential and Competitiveness of small and medium-sized Road Construction Companies Part 1, 03/10, pp. 37 - 46.

Oeser, M (2010) ‘Pavement Design Model for Enhancing the Innovation Potential and Competitiveness of small and medium-sized Road Construction Companies Part 2, 04/10, pp. 911 - 924.

Oeser, M (2010) ‘Segmented Concrete Block Pavements’, Betonwerk and Fertigteib Technik , 76, pp. 22 - 36.

Oeser, M (2010) ‘The Influence of Pore-water on the Fatigue Characteristics of Stone Mastic Asphalts, 12/10, pp. 37 - 46.

Peters, G, Wiedemann, SG, Rowley, HV, & Tucker, RW (2010) ‘Accounting for water use in Australian red meat production’, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 15, pp. 311 - 320.

Peters, G, & Lenzen, M (2010) ‘How city dwellers affect their resource hinterland a spatial impact study’, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 14, pp. 73 - 90.

Peters, G, Rowley, HV, Wiedemann, S, Tucker, R, Short M & Schulz M, (2010) ‘Red Meat Production in Australia: Life Cycle Assessment and Comparison with Overseas Studies’, Environmental Science and Technology, 44, pp. 1327 1332.

Pi, Y-L, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Nonlinear in-plane elastic buckling of shallow circular arches under uniform radial and thermal loading’, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 52, pp. 75 - 88.

Pi, Y-L, & Bradford, M.A (2010) ‘Nonlinear thermoelastic buckling of pin-ended shallow arches under temperature gradient’, Journal of Engineering Mechanics - ASCE, 136, pp. 960 - 968.

Pi, YL, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Elastic lateral-torsional buckling of circular arches subjected to a central concentrated load’, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 52, pp. 847 - 862.

Pi, YL, Bradford, MA, & Qu, W (2010) ‘Energy approach for dynamic buckling of shallow fixed arches under step loading with infinite duration’, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 35, pp. 5555 - 5570.

Pi, YL, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘In-plane thermoelastic behaviour and buckling of pin-ended and fixed circular arches’, Engineering Structures , 32, pp. 250 - 350.

Pi, YL, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Nonlinear in-plane elastic buckling of shallow circular arches under uniform radial and thermal loading. ‘, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 52, pp. 75 - 88.

Pi, YL, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Nonlinear thermoelastic buckling of pin-ended arches under temperature gradient’, Journal of Engineering Mechanics - ASCE, 136, pp. 860 - 868.

Pillai, SM, Parcsi, GP, Wang, X, Gallagher, E, Dunlop M & Stuetz R (2010) ‘Assessment of direct headspace analysis of broiler chicken litter odorants’, Chemical Engineering Transactions , 23, pp. 207 - 212.


Rau, G, Andersen, MS, McCallum, A, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Analytical methods that use natural heat as a tracer to quantify surface water groundwater exchange, evaluated using field temperature records’, Hydrogeology Journal , 18, pp. 1093 - 1110.

Rose, AL, Godrant, A, Furnas, MJ, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Dynamics of non-photochemical superoxide production and decay in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon’, Limnology and Oceanography, 55, pp. 1521 - 1536.

Russell, AR, & Muir Wood, D (2010) ‘A comparison of critical state models for sand under conditions of axial symmetry’, Geotechnique, 60, pp. 133 - 140.

Russell, AR (2010) ‘Water retention characteristics of soils with double porosity’, European Journal of Soil Science, 61, pp. 412 - 424.

Sharma, A (2010) ‘An objective multiattribute analysis approach for allocation of scarce irrigation water resources’, Journal of American Water Resources Association , 46, pp. 412 - 428.

Sharma, A (2010) ‘Development of a formal likelihood function for improved Bayesian inference of ephemeral catchments’, Water Resources Research, Vol.46. W12551, 11pp.

Shodja, H. M., Mani Khezri, Hashemian, A, & Behzadan, A (2010) ‘RKPM with Augmented Corrected Collocation Method for Treatment of Material Discontinuities’, CMES: Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 62, pp. 171 - 204.

Short, M, Peters, G, Schulz, M, Peirson, WL, Stuetz R & Cox, RJ (2010) ‘Challenges in adapting Australian water resources and infrastructure to climate change’, Water, 37, pp. 42 - 48.

Short, M, Cromar, NJ, & Fallowfield, HJ (2010) ‘Hydrodynamic performance of pilot-scale duckweed, algal-based, rock filter and attached-growth media reactors used for waste stabilisation pond research’, Ecological Engineering, 36, pp. 1700 - 1708.

Sohn, J, Parcsi, GP, Dunlop, M, Gallagher, E, & Stuetz R (2010) ‘Air quality monitoring and characterisation at two commercial broiler farms’, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 23, pp. 141 - 146.

Song, C, Tin-Loi, FS, & Gao, W (2010) ‘A definition and evaluation procedure of generalized stress intensity factors at cracks and multi-material wedges’, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 77, pp. 2316 - 2336.

Song, C, Tin-Loi, FS, & Gao, W (2010) ‘Transient dynamic analysis of interface cracks in anisotropic bimaterials by the scaled boundary finite-element method’, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 47, pp. 978 - 989.

Spencer, RGM, Hernes P, Ruf R, Baker A, Dyda R, Stubbins A & Six J (2010) ‘Temporal controls on dissolved organic matter and lignin biogeochemistry in a pristine tropical river, Democratic Republic of Congo’, Journal of Geophysical Research , 115, pp. G03013 - 15.

Tadkaew, N, Khan, SJ, McDonald, J & Nghiem LD (2010) ‘Effect of mixed liquor pH on the removal of trace organic contaminants in a membrane bioreactor’, Bioresource Technology , 101, pp. 1494 - 1500.

Taiebat, HA, & Carter, J P (2010) ‘A failure surface for circular footings on cohesive soils’, Geotechnique, 60, pp. 265 - 273.

Tangaramvong, S, & Tin-Loi, FS (2010) ‘A constrained non-linear system approach for the solution of an extended limit analysis problem’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 82, pp. 995 - 1021.

Tangaramvong, S, & Tin-Loi, FS (2010) ‘The influence of geometric effects on the behavior of strain softening frames’, Computational Mechanics , 46, pp. 661 - 678.

Tsukaguchi, H, Vandebona, U, YEH, KY, Hsia, H-C, & Jung HY (2010) ‘Comparative Study of Pedestrian Travel Culture in Different Cities in Japan’, Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, 8, pp. 1164 1178.

Vali Pour Goudarzi, HR, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Finite element modelling of reinforced concrete framed structures including catenary action’, International Journal of Computers and Structures, 88, pp. 529 - 538.

Vali Pour Goudarzi, HR, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Nonlinear reinforced concrete frame element with torsion’, Engineering Structures, 32, pp. 988 - 1002.

Vali Pour Goudarzi, HR, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Nonlinear static and cyclic analysis of concrete-filled steel columns’, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 66, pp. 793 - 802.

Valipour Goudarzi, HR, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘A Reinforced Concrete Frame Element with Shear Effect’, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 36, pp. 57 - 78.

Valipour Goudarzi ,HR, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘A Total secant Flexibility-Based Formulation for Frame Elements with Physical and Geometrical Nonlinearities’, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design , 46, pp. 288 - 297.

Valipour Goudarzi, HR, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Nonlinear analysis of 3D reinforced concrete frames: effect of section torsion on the global response’, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 36, pp. 421 - 445.

Valipour Goudarzi, HR, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Progressive Collapse Analysis of Planar Reinforced Concrete Frames using 1D element with Distributed Non-Linearity’, Australian Journal of Structural Engineering , 10, pp. 263 - 275.

Voo, YL, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Characteristics of ultra-high performance ductile concrete and its impact on sustainable’, Journal of the Institution of Engineers, 3, pp. 168 - 187.

Voo, YL, Poon, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Shear Strength of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Ultrahigh-Performance Concrete Beams without Stirrups’, Journal of Structural Engineering - ASCE , 136, pp. 1393 - 1400.

Vrcelj, Z, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘On using Legendre polynomials and amended spline transformations in the SFSM for buckling and free vibrations of plates and thin-walled beams’, Thin-Walled Structures , 48, pp. 798 - 805.

Wang, J, Guan, J, Santiwong, SR, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Effect of aggregate characteristics under different coagulation mechanisms on microfiltration membrane fouling’, Desalination , 258, pp. 19 - 27.

Wang, X, Song, C.-M, & Jin, F (2010) ‘A discrete high-order Higdon-like transmitting boundary condition’, Gongcheng Lixue/Engineering Mechanics , 27, pp. 12 - 18.

Wang, X, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Iron speciation and iron species transformation in activated sludge membrane bioreactors’, Water Research, 44, pp. 3511 - 3521.

Westra, SP, Varley, I, Jordan, P., Nathan, R & Sharma A (2010) ‘Addressing climatic non-stationarity in the assessment of flood risk’, Australian Journal of Water Resources, 14, pp. 1 - 16.

Westra, SP, & Sharma, A (2010) ‘An Upper Limit to Seasonal Rainfall Predictability?’ Journal of Climate, 23, pp. 3332 - 3351.

Westra, SP, Brown, C, Lall, U, Koch, I, & Sharma A (2010) ‘Interpreting variability in global SST data using independent component analysis and principal component analysis’, International Journal of Climatology, 30, pp. 333 - 346.

Wynn, P, Fairchild, IJ, Frisia S, Spoetl, C, Baker A, Borsato A (2010) ‘High-resolution sulphur isotope analysis of speleothem carbonate by secondary’, Chemical Geology , 271, pp. 101 - 107.

Xia, H, Guo, W.W, Xia, C.Y, Pi, Y.-L, & Bradford MA (2010) ‘Dynamic interaction analysis of a LIM train and elevated bridge system’, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 23, pp. 3257 - 3270.

Yamamoto, A, Short, M. D, van den Akker, B, Cromar, NJ, & Fallowfield HJ (2010) ‘Nitrification potential in waste stabilisation ponds: comparison of a secondary and tertiary pond system’, Water Science and Technology , 61, pp. 781 - 788.

Yigit, CO, Li, X, Inal, C., Ge, L, & Yetkin M (2010) ‘Preliminary evaluation of precise inclination sensor and GPS for monitoring full-scale dynamic response of a tall reinforced concrete building’, Journal of Applied Geodesy , 4, pp. 103 - 113.

van den Akker, B, Holmes, M, Short, M, Cromar, NJ, & Fallowfield HJ (2010) ‘Application of high rate nitrifying trickling filters to remove low concentrations of ammonia from reclaimed municipal wastewater’, Water Science and Technology , 61, pp. 2425 - 2432.

van den Akker, B, Beard, H, Kaeding, U, Giglio, S, & et al, (2010) ‘Exploring the relationship between viscous bulking and ammonia-oxidiser abundance in activated sludge: A comparison of conventional and IFAS systems’, Water Research , 44, pp. 2919 - 2929.

van den Akker, B, Holmes, M, Cromar, NJ, & Fallowfield, HJ (2010) ‘The impact of organic carbon on the performance of a high rate nitrifying trickling filter designed to pre-treat potable water’, Water Science and Technology, 61, pp. 1875 - 1883.

Tucker, R, Ashbolt, NJ, Stuetz R & Roser D (2010) ‘Diversity and Abundance of Zoonotic Pathogens and Indicators in Manures of Feedlot Cattle in Australia triangledown’, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76, pp. 6947 - 6950.

Journal - Other Refereed Article Short, M, Peters, G, Schulz M, Peirson W, Stuetz R & Cox R (2010) ‘Challenges in adapting Australian water resources and water infrastructure to climate change’, Water , 37, pp. 42 - 48.

Sivret, E, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Sewer odour abatement practices - An Australian survey’, Water, 37, pp. 77 - 81.

Wang, X, Sivret, EC, Parcsi, GP, Stuetz, RM, & Cesca J (2010) ‘Olfactory characterisation of NMVOC emissions from WWTP inlet works’, Water , 37, pp. 82 - 86.

Journal - Letter or Note Dorigo, WA, Scipal, K, Parinussa, RM, Liu, YY, Wagner W, de Jeu RAM & Naeimi V (2010) ‘Error characterisation of global active and passive microwave soil moisture datasets’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences , 14, pp. 2605 - 2616.

Conference - Full Paper Refereed Al-Deen, S, Ranzi, G, & Vrcelj, Z (2010) ‘Long Term Experiments on Composite Floor

Systems:Members with Continuous Configuration and Subjected to Hogging Moment

with Composite Connections’, The 5th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region and Australasian Structural Engineering Conference Sydney, 8-12 August (2010).

Al-Deen, S, Ranzi, G, Zona, A, & Vrcelj, Z (2010) ‘Long-Term and Ultimate Experiments on

Composite Steel Concrete Beams Designed with Partial Shear Connection’, The 5th Civil

Engineering Conference in the Asian Region and Australasian Structural Engineering Conference Sydney, 8-12 August (2010).

Attard, MM, & Erkmen, E (2010) ‘In-plane Buckling Analysis of Shear-deformable Arches’, 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, 19 - 23 July (2010).

Attard, MM, & Khajeh samani, A (2010) ‘Size Effect in Confined Concrete’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Numerical modelling of shear connection in steel-concrete composite beams’, 4th International Conference on Steel & Composite Structures , Sydney, Australia, 21 - 23 July (2010).

Chiong, I, & Song, C (2010) ‘Development of polygon elements based on the scaled boundary finite element method’, 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, 19 - 23 July (2010).

Chowdhury, MS, Gao, W, & Song, C (2010) ‘Nondeterministic fracture analyses by the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Davis SR & Peng Y (2010) ‘Mathematical Models of Contingency for errors of Omission’ AACE International Conference, 54th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Cost Engineers International 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 27-30 June 2010, pp. 463 – 477.

Erkmen, RE, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Computational modelling of beams curved in-plan’, Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Valencia, Spain, 14-17 September (2010).

Gao, W, Wu, D, & Tin-Loi, FS (2010) ‘Interval dynamic response of structures with bounded parameters’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Gao, W, Song, C, & Tin-Loi, FS (2010) ‘Static response and reliability analysis of structural systems with random and interval properties’, 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, 19 - 23 July (2010).

Ghahreman nejad, B, Soden, P, Taiebat, HA, & Murphy, S (2010) ‘Seismic Response and Dynamic Deformation Analysis of Shur River Dam’, Seismic Engineering, Design for management of Geohazards, Sydney, 13 October (2010).


Ghahreman nejad, B, Soden, P, Taiebat, HA, & Murphy, S (2010) ‘Seismic Deformation Analysis of a Rockfi ll Dam with a Bituminous Concrete Core’, WCCM/APCOM (2010) Sydney, 19-23, July, (2010).

Gilbert, RI, & Sakka, ZI (2010) ‘Strength and ductility of two-way slabs containing welded wire fabric’, The fourth international conference on structural engineering, mechanics and computations, Cape Town, South Africa, 6-8 September (2010).

Gilbert, RI (2010) ‘Stresses and deformations in reinforced concrete beams and slabs at service loads’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Gilbert, RI, & Wu, HQ (2010) ‘The effects of shrinkage on long-term slab defl ection’, CECAR 5 and ASEC (2010) Sydney, 8 - 12 August (2010).

Gilbert, RI, & Ranzi, G (2010) ‘Time-dependent analysis of reinforced concrete sections subjected to axial compression and biaxial bending’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Glamore, W, Rayner, D, & Miller, BM (2010) ‘Design of an Ebb Tide Release’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16 - 18 September 2009, .

Glamore, W (2010) ‘Restoring Coastal Wetlands: Engineering Nature and Managing Expectations’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16 - 18 September 2009.

Hamed, E, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Challenges in the Creep Buckling Analysis of Thin-Walled Concrete Shells’, 3rd International FIB Congress and Exhibition, Washington DC, USA, 29 May - 2 June (2010).

Hamed, E (2010) ‘Creep Response of Sandwich Beams with a Viscoelastic Core and Composite Laminates’, 14th European Conference on Composite Materials, Budapest, Hungary, 7 - 10 June (2010).

Hamed, E, Bradford, MA, Gilbert, RI, & Chang, Z (2010) ‘Creep testing and analysis of shallow concrete domes’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Hamed, E, Bradford, MA, Gilbert, RI, & Chang, Z (2010) ‘Design life of thin-walled concrete domes’, The fourth international conference on structural engineering, mechanics and computations, Cape Town, South Africa, 6-8 September (2010).

Hamed, E, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘Modelling of Creep in Concrete Structures Strengthened with Externally Bonded Composite Materials: Comparison between Different Mathematical Creep Models’, Structural Faults & Repair, The Thirteen International Conference and Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15 - 17 June (2010).

Horne, S, & Peirson, WL (2010) ‘Interactions between Straight Channels and Their Floodplains’, 32nd Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Newcastle, November 2009.

Htut, TN, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Unifi ed model for mixed mode fracture of steel fi bre reinforced concrete’, 7th International Conference on Fracture Mechanics Concrete and Concrete Structures, Jeju, Korea, 23 - 28 May (2010).

Hu, Z, Ge, L, Li, X, & Rizos, C (2010) ‘Designing an illegal mining detection system based on DInSAR’, 30th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS (2010) Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 July (2010).

Huynh, LC, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Performance of high strength and concrete reactive powder concrete columns subjected to impact’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Islam, K, & Vandebona, U (2010) ‘Reliability Analysis of Public Transit Systems Using Stochastic Simulation’, 33rd Australasian Transport Research Forum, Canberra, 29 September - 1 October (2010).

Khajeh samani, A, & Attard, MM (2010) ‘Modeling Confi ned Concrete’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Khalili, N, Habte, MA, (2010) A fully coupled hysteretic fi nite element model for hydro-mechanical analysis of unsaturated soils, 5th International conference on unsaturated soil, Barcelona, Spain September (2010).

Liu, N, Gao, W, & Zhang, N (2010) ‘Dynamic Response of Bridges under Moving Vehicles with Uncertainty in System Parameters’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Liu, Y, Parinussa, R, Dorigo, W, de Jeu, R.A.M., et al, (2010) ‘Improving Satellite Soil Moisture Estimates by Combining Passive and Active Microwave Observations (1992-2008)’, Remote Sensing and Hydrology (2010) Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, September 27-30,(2010).

Love, P, Yang, G, & Sangwon Han (2010) ‘Rework in Complex Offshore Projects: The Case of Oil and Gas Tension Leg Platforms’, COBRA (2010) RICS Research Conference, Paris, France, 2 - 3 September (2010).

Munter, S, Gilbert, RI, & Patrick, M (2010) ‘New design tables for development and lap splice lengths in accordance with AS 3600-2009’, CECAR 5 and ASEC (2010) Sydney, 8 - 12 August (2010).

Ng, TS, Htut, TN, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Mode I and II fracture behaviour of steel fi bre reinforced high strength geopolymer concrete: an experimental investigation’, 7th International Conference on Fracture Mechanics Concrete and Concrete Structures, Jeju, Korea, 23 - 28 May (2010).

Ng, TS, & Foster, SJ (2010) ‘Shear strength of lightweight fi bre reinforced geopolymer concrete composite beam’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Oeser, M (2010) ‘Adhesion Agents infl uencing the Fatigue Life of Stone Mastic Asphalts’, ISAP, Nagoya, Japan, 1 - 6 August (2010).

Parcsi, GP, Sivret, EC, Wang, X, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Fate of Sulfur Odorants in Odour Assessment’, Odours Specialty Conference, The Citigate Hotel, Sydney, 24 - 25 August (2010).

Perera, S, Davis, SR, & Marosszeky, M (2010) ‘Head contractor role in construction management from a value perspective’, International Group for Lean Construction, Haifa, Israel, 14th-16th July (2010).

Pi, YL, Bradford, MA, & Tong, G (2010) ‘Dynamic stability of a suddenly-loaded arch model’, 3rd International Conference on Dynamics, Vibration and Control, Hangzhou, China, 12 - 14 May (2010).

Pi, YL, Bradford, MA, & Qu, W (2010) ‘In-plane creep behaviour of concrete-fi lled steel tubular arches’, Tubular Structures XIII, Hong Kong, 15-17 December (2010).

Pi, YL, Bradford, MA, & Qu, W (2010) ‘Nonlinear three-dimensional elasto-plastic analysis of slender steel arches’, Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Valencia, Spain, 14-17 September (2010).

Pournaghiazar, M, Russell, AR, & Khalili-Naghadeh, N (2010) ‘The challenges of performing laboratory controlled cone penetration tests in unsaturated soils’, The fi fth international conference on unsaturated soils, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 September (2010).

Prempramote, S, & Song, C (2010) ‘A high-order doubly asymptotic open boundary for scalar waves in semi-infi nite layered systems’, 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacifi c Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, 19 - 23 July (2010).

Ranzi, G, & Gilbert, RI (2010) ‘A practical approach for the analysis of concrete members subjected to temperature gradients’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Rayner, DS, & Glamore, WC (2010) ‘Understanding the Transport and Buffering Dynamics of Acid Plumes in Estuaries’, Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference 2009, Wellington, New Zealand, 16 - 18 September 2009.

Russell, AR (2010) ‘Fractals, double porosity and the soil-water characteristic curve’, The fi fth international conference on unsaturated soils, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 September (2010).

Samali, B, Zahrai , S , Vrcelj, Z, & Abbasi , S (2010) ‘Effectiveness of variably tuned liquid damper in suppressing dynamic’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Shand, TD, Cox, RJ, Smith, GP, & Blacka, MJ (2010) ‘Appropriate Criteria for the Safety and Stability of People in Stormwater Design’, National Conference of the Stormwater Industry Association, Sydney, Australia, 8th -12th November (2010).

Shayan, S, Al-Deen, S, Ranzi, G, & Vrcelj, Z (2010) ‘Long-Term Behaviour of Composite Steel

Concrete Slabs: An Experimental Study’, The 5th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region and Australasian Structural Engineering Conference (2010) Sydney, 8-12 August (2010).

Short, M, Peters, G (2010) ‘Challenges in adapting water resources and water infrastructure to climate changea review’, International Waters Association 5th Young Water Professional Conference, Sydney, 5 - 7 July (2010).

Sivakumar, B. (2010) ‘Hydrologic modeling and forecasting: advances, challenges, and future directions’, Chennai, India, January 5-7, (2010).

Sivret, EC, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Odour Management Practices in Sewer Abatement Monitoring - Australian Survey’, Odours Specialty Conference, The Citigate Hotel, Sydney, 24 - 25 August (2010).

Sivret, EC, Parcsi, GP, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Sampling and Analysis Methodology Concerns for Volatile Organo-Sulfur Compounds (VOSCs)’, Air & Waste Management Association 103rd Annual Conference & Exhibition, Calgary, Canada, June (2010).

Sohn, J, Atzeni, M, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Sensor Array Systems for Odour Assessment: Technology Trends and Issues’, Odours Specialty Conference, The Citigate Hotel, Sydney, 24 - 25 August (2010).

Subhi, N, Henderson, RK, Stuetz, RM & Chen, V(2010) ‘Potential of fl uorescence excitation-emission matrix (FEEM) analysis for foulant characterisation in membrane bioreactors (MBRs)’, 7th International Membrane Science and Technology Conference , Sydney, Australia, 22-26th November.

Surovek, A, Macphedran, I, Palaniswamy, V, & Bradford, MA (2010) ‘A comparison of international design standards for assessing lateral stability of steel beams’, 4th International Conference on Steel & Composite Structures, Sydney, 21-23 July (2010).

Tangaramvong, S, & Tin-Loi, FS (2010) ‘Analysis and plastic synthesis of frames involving frictional contacts’, 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacifi c Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, 19 - 23 July (2010).

Tin-Loi, FS, & Tangaramvong, S (2010) ‘Some engineering mechanics applications of mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints’, The International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (2010) Nottingham, U.K., 30 June - 2 July (2010).

Tsukaguchi, H, & Vandebona, U (2010) ‘Estimation of Pedestrian Circulation Trips in a Tourist Area’, 12th World Conference on Transport Research, Lisbon, 11 July (2010).

Wang, C, Gao, W, & Song, C (2010) ‘Hybrid stochastic and interval analysis of static responses of frame structures’, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December (2010).

Wang, X, Guan, J, Foster, P, Mullett, M, et al, (2010) ‘Odour treatment of high temperature condensate from aluminium processes ‘, Odours Specialty Conference, The Citigate Hotel, Sydney, 24 - 25 August (2010).

Wang, X, Parcsi, GP, Cesca, J, & Sivret, EC (2010) ‘Olfactory characterisation of NMVOC emissions from WWTP inlet works’, Odours Specialty Conference, The Citigate Hotel, Sydney, 24 - 25 August (2010).

Ward, J, Andersen, MS, Appleyard, S, & Clohessy, S (2010) ‘Acidifi cation and trace metal mobility in soil and shallow groundwater on the Gnangara Mound, Western Australia’, World Congress of Soil Science, Soil Solutions for a Changing World, Brisbane, Australia, 1 6 August (2010).

Wu, HQ, & Gilbert, RI (2010) ‘Effect of shrinkage on the time-dependent defl ection of reinforced concrete slabs’, The fourth international conference on structural engineering, mechanics and computations, Cape Town, South Africa, 6-8 September (2010).

van den Akker, Whiffi n, V, Cox, P, & Ashbolt, NJ (2010) ‘Estimating the Relative Risk from Sewage Treatment Plant Effl uent in the Sydney Catchment Area’, International Waters Association 5th Young Water Professional Conference, Sydney, 5 - 7 July (2010).

Zargarbashi, S, Khalili, N, (2010) Experimental Investigation of stress increment direction dependency of plastic fl ow in unsaturated soils, 5th International conference on unsaturated soil, September 2010, Barcelona - Spain Zargarbashi.

Conference - Full Paper, Not Refereed Andersen, MS, McCallum, AM, Meredith, K, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Investigation of recharge pathways and recharge rates using environmental isotopes (2H, 18O, 14C and 3H) in the Maules Creek Catchment, NSW, Australia’, XXXVIII - IAH Congress, , Krakow, Poland. , 12-17 September.


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Bertone, F., Boris, D, Andres, A, Renard, P (2010) ‘Using a stochastic approach to reduce risks in groundwater resources development: a case study in Sur, Oman’, XXXVIII - IAH Congress, Krakow, Poland , 12-17 September.

Beya, JF, Peirson, WL, & Banner, ML (2010) ‘Attenuation of gravity waves by turbulence’, International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Shanghai, China (2010).

Carley, JT, Shand, TD, Coghlan, IR, Blacka, MJ (2010) ‘Beach scraping as a coastal management option’, 19th NSW Coastal Conference (2010) Batemans Bay, NSW, 10-12 November (2010).

Chang, H, Li, X, & Ge, L (2010) ‘Assessment of SRTM, ACE2 and ASTER-GDEM using RTK-GPS’, 15th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf, Alice Springs, 13-17 September.

Cholathat, R, Li, X, Ge, L, & (2010) ‘Hyperspectral remote sensing for geologic carbon sequestration field monitoring’, 31st Asian Conf. on Remote Sensing, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1-5 November (2010).

Coad, P, Kadluczka, R, Cathers, B, Van Senden, D (2010) ‘A telemetric monitoring system for estuarine algal bloom management’, 18th New South Wales Coastal Conference 2009, Ballina NSW, 3 - 6 November 2009.

Fernández martínez, J, Mariethoz, G, Garcia gonzalo, E (2010) ‘Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and model reduction techniques. Application to hydro-geological inverse problems’, IAHR International Groundwater Symposium , Valencia, Spain , 22 - 24 September (2010).

Ge, L, Simmons, E, & Li, X (2010) ‘Integrated remote sensing for monitoring major inland flood events in New South Wales, Australia’, 15th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf, Alice Springs, 13-17 September.

Guo, L, Ge, L, & Li, X (2010) ‘Land cover change detection using Landsat TM imagery of the 2009 Victorian bushfires’, 15th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf, Alice Springs, 13-17 September.

Henderson, RK, & Jefferson, B (2010) ‘Coagulating algae: recent developments for improved removal’, 1st AWA National Operations Conference, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia, 13-15th September, (2010).

Jacqueline Thomas, Storey, M, Thomas, T, Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Diversity of free-living amoebal pathogen hosts in a dual distribution (drinking and recycled) water system’, American Water Works Association - Water Quality Technology Conference, Savannah, Georgia U.S.A, 14 - 18th November (2010).

Li, X, Ge, L, Dong, Y, & Chang, HC (2010) ‘Estimating the greatest dust storm in eastern Australia with MODIS satellite images’, 30th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS (2010) Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 July (2010).

Li, X, Rizos, C, Tamura, Y, Ge, L (2010) ‘Fundamental Bending Mode and Vibration Monitoring with Inclinometer and Accelerometer on High-Rise Buildings Subject to Wind Loads’, 5th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, Tokyo, Japan, 12 - 14 July (2010).

Li, X, Ge, L, Hu , Z, & Chang, H (2010) ‘The 2009 Montara oil spill in the Timor sea as observed by earth observation satellites’, 15th Australia Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference, Alice Springs, Australia, 13 -17 September (2010).

Mariani, A, Carley, JT, & Miller, BM (2010) ‘Infilling and Sand Bypassing of Coastal Structures and Headlands byLittoral Drift’, 19th NSW Coastal Conference, Batemans Bay NSW, 10-12 November.

Mariethoz, G, Caers, J, & Renard, P (2010) ‘Iterative Spatial Resampling for solving inverse problems’, IAHR International Groundwater Symposium, Valencia, Spain, 22 - 24 September (2010).

Mariethoz, G, Renard, P., & Straubhaar, J (2010) ‘MP Simulations without Computing MP Statistics’, ECMOR XII conference, Oxford, UK, 6 - 9 September (2010).

Masoumi, H, & Douglas, KJ (2010) ‘Review of rock slope displacement-time curves and failure prediction models’, Extracting the Science: A Century of Mining Research, SME Annual Meeting , Phoenix, Arizona, February 28 March 3, (2010).

Masoumi, H, Douglas, KJ, & Seyed alizadeh (2010) ‘Yielding in intact rock at different scales’, The 5th International Symposium on In-situ Rock Stress, Beijing, China, August 25-27, (2010).

McCallum, A, Andersen, MS, Rau, G C, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Investigation of surface water-groundwater interactions and temporal variability of streambed hydraulic conductivity using streambed temperature data’, XXXVIII - IAH Congress, Krakow, Poland, 12-17 September .

Rau, G C, Andersen, MS, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Uncertainty of vertical streambed seepage rates under realistic field conditions using diel temperature fluctuations’, 38th IAH Congress, Krakow, Poland, 12-17 Sept (2010).

Renard, P, Mariethoz, G, & Straubhaar, J (2010) ‘3D modeling of geological heterogeneity: the direct sampling multiple-points simulation method’, IAHR International Groundwater Symposium , Valencia, Spain , 22 - 24 September (2010).

Shand, TD, Goodwin, I, Carley, JT, Mole, MA (2010) ‘Coastal Storms and Extreme Waves’, NSW Coastal Conference, Batemans Bay, NSW, (2010).

Shand, TD, Peirson, WL, & Cox, RJ (2010) ‘The Effect of Wave Groupiness on Engineering Design’, International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Shanghai, China, (2010).

Tarbotton, C, Dominey-howes, D, Goff, J, & Turner, IL (2010) ‘Frome source to impact: integrating hydrodynamic models into Tsunami vulnerability assessment models’, Indian Ocean Tsunami Modelling Symposium, Freemantle, WA, 12 - 15 October.

Turner, IL, & Harley, MD (2010) ‘Wave climate variability and coastal change - the value of sustained coastal monitoring around Australia’s coastline’, Australian Wind Waves Research Science Symposium, Gold Coast, Queensland, 19-20 May.

Yigit, C, Li, X, , Ge, L (2010) ‘Analysis of wind-induced response of tall reinforced concrete building based on data collected by GPS and precise inclination sensor’, XXIV FIG Int. Congress ‘Facing the Challenges - Building the Capacity’, Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April, .

Yu, JH, Li, X, Ge, L, & Chang, H (2010) ‘Radargrammetry and interferometry SAR for DEM generation’, 15th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conf, Alice Springs, 13-17 September.

Li, X, Ge, L, & Zhang, K (2010) ‘Monitoring the 2009 Victorian bushfires with multi-temporal and coherence ALOS PALSAR images’, 15th Australasian Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Conference, Alice Springs, 13-17 September.

Conference - Abstract Only Andersen, MS (2010) ‘Geochemical and Water Quality Implications of Changing Dynamics in Surface Water Groundwater Interactions’, Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC), Canberra, 4-8 July.

Andersen, MS, Rau, G C, McCallum, AM, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘On the Temporal Variability of Streambed Hydraulic Conductivity’, Groundwater (2010) Canberra, ATC, Australia, 31st Oct - 4th Nov (2010).

Bligh, MW, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Impact of amorphous ferric oxide reactions during the dissociation of organically complexed Fe(III)’, Goldschmidt, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13 - 18 June (2010).

Boland, DD, Collins, RN, Payne, TE, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘The inhibitory effect of silicate on the Fe(II)-catalysed sequestration of U by Fe(III) oxides’, Goldschmidt, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13 - 18 June (2010).

Boland, DD, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Using X-ray absorption spectroscopy to examine the fate of uranium during iron oxide mineral transformation’, Australian Synchrotron users meeting, Melbourne, Australia, November, (2010).

Collins, RN, Boland, DD, Rose, AL, & Glover, C (2010) ‘Application of quick XAFS to elucidate the ferric iron coordination environment (and evidence for tetrahedral iron) in ferrihydrite’, Australian Synchrotron Users Meeting (2010) Melbourne, Australia, 22 - 24 November (2010).

Collins, RN, Payne, TE, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Is there a link between Fe(III) oxide reactivity, Fe(II)-catalysed crystallisation and U(VI) reduction? ‘ Goldschmidt, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13 - 18 June (2010).

Couriel, E, & Carley, JT (2010) ‘Surfing reefs - dollars and sense’, 7th International Surfing Reef Symposium, Bondi Beach, 19 March (2010).

Dever, SA, Swarbrick, GE, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Performance of passive biofiltration for mitigating methane emissions from landfills’, Conference on Biofiltration for Air Pollution Control, Washington D.C., 28-29 October.

Dore, M, Collins, RN, Payne, TE, & Rose, J (2010) ‘Identification of the mineral phases controlling Co immobilisation in soils and sediments’, Melbourne, Australia, November (2010).

Giambastiani, B, McCallum, AM, Andersen, MS, & Kelly, B.F.J (2010) ‘Using groundwater modelling to enhance the understanding of the Maules Creek alluvial aquifer, Upper Namoi, NSW’, 1st Australia & New Zealand FEFLOW Users Workshop, Sydney, 4 - 6 May (2010).

Henderson, RK, Parsons, SA, & Jefferson, B (2010) ‘The use of positively charged bubbles in DAF for algae removal’, National Japan Water and Environmental Technology conference (WET (2010)), Yokohama, Japan, 25-26th June (2010).

Islam, K, & Vandebona, U (2010) ‘Economic Cost of Public Transit System Reliability’, 31st Conference of the Australian Institutes of Transport Research, Canberra, (2010).

Jeong, C, Mukerji, Z, & Mariethoz, G (2010) ‘Iterative Spatial Resampling for Seismic Subsurface Characterization ‘, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 13 - 17 December (2010).

Jones, AM, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Mineral species controlling the solubility of Al in acid sulfate soil waters’, Goldschmidt, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13 - 18 June (2010).


Jones, AM, Waite, TD, He, D, Garg, S & Collins RN (2010) ‘Production of Reactive Oxygen Species by Silver Nanoparticles - Implications for Bactericidal Activity ‘, AOTs-16: 16th International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Technologies for Water and Air Remediation, San Diego, California, USA, 15-18 November (2010).

Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Speciation and transport of arsenic in an acid sulfate soil-dominated catchment, eastern Australia’, Australian Synchrotron Users Meeting (2010) Melbourne, Australia, 22 - 24 November (2010).

Larsen, JR, Cenden, DI, Nanson, GC, & Jones, BG (2010) ‘Radiocarbon and geochemical constraints on shallow groundwater recharge in a large arid zone river, Cooper Creek, SW Queensland, Australia’, 7th European Geosciences Union General Assembly (2010) Vienna, Austria, 02 - 07 May (2010).

Lin, Y, Munroe, P, Joseph, S, Hook, J & Henderson RK (2010) ‘Formation, structure and stability of biochar-mineral complexes’, International Biochar Initiative, 3rd International Conference, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 12-15th September, (2010).

Linge, K L, Liew, D, Joll, C, Heitz, A, & Henderson RK (2010) ‘Formation of nitrogenous disinfection by-products (N-DBPs) in raw and treated drinking water’, (2010) International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15-20th December (2010).

Mariani, A (2010) ‘Infilling and Sand Bypassing of Coastal Structures and Headlands by Littoral Drift’, Coasts to Coasts, Adelaide, 20-24 September.

Mariethoz, G, Caers, J, & Scheidt, C (2010) ‘Multi-way sensitivity analysis using clustering techniques’, geoENV10, Gent, Belgium, 13 - 15 September (2010).

Mariethoz, G, Renard, P, & Straubhaar, J (2010) ‘The direct sampling method to perform multivariate multiple-points geostatistical simulations’, geoENV10 , Gent, Belgium , 13 - 15 September (2010) .

May, JH, Larsen, JR, Cohen, TJ, & Nanson, GC (2010) ‘Mt. Chambers Creek alluvial fan - a recorder for Late Quaternary flow regime changes along the eastern Flinders Ranges (South Australia)’, 7th European Geosciences Union General Assembly (2010) Vienna, Austria, 02 - 07 May (2010).

Oeser, M (2010) ‘MINISYMPOSIUM on Advanced Modelling and Characterization of Pavement Materials’, WCCM/APCOM (2010) Sydney, 19-23, July, (2010).

Oeser, M (2010) ‘Numerical Models for Segmented Concrete Block Pavements’, WCCM/APCOM (2010) Sydney, 19-23, July (2010).

Parcsi, GP, Wang, X, Sivret, EC, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Are we treating the right odorants in odour abatement processes?’ Conference on Biofiltration for Air Pollution Control, Washington D.C., 28-29 October.

Payne, TE, Cendon, DI, Collins, RN, Dore, M, Hankin. S, Harrison JJ, Hughes, C, Johansen, MP, Thiruvoth, S, Twining, JR & Wilsher K (2010) ‘Assessment of radionuclide distributions at an Australian legacy radioactive waste site’, 11th South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 31 August - 3 September (2010).

Payne, TE, Collins, RN, & Clark, M (2010) ‘EXAFS studies of trace metal immobilisation by a modified red mud’, Australian Synchrotron Users Meeting (2010) Melbourne, Australia, 22 - 24 November (2010).

Payne, TE, Comarmond, J, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) ‘Ligand effects on uranium sorption - key processes and models’, 11th South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 31 August – 3 September (2010).

Shand, TD (2010) ‘The use of physical and numerical models for coastal applications’, NZ Coastal Society Conference, Whitianga, New Zealand, (2010).

Straubhaar, J, Renard, P, Mariethoz, G, Froidevaux, R, & Besson O (2010) ‘List-based algorithm for multiple-point statistics simulation’, geoENV10 , Gent, Belgium , 13 - 15 September (2010).

Timms, WA, Hendry, MJ, Kerrich, R, & Muise, J (2010) ‘Retardation of rare earth metals in clay barriers innovative application of centrifuge modeling and laser ablation ICP-MS’, 10th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference & 3rd Australasian Hydrogeology Research Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 1 - 3 December 2009.

Vandebona, U (2010) ‘Safety of Pedestrians Using Mobile Devices at Road Crossings’, Seminar on Theory and Application of Pedestrian Travel Culture, Busan National University, South Korea, 3 December (2010).

Waite, TD, Jones, AM, & Garg, S (2010) ‘Reactive oxygen species generation by elemental iron and silver nanoparticulates’, Goldschmidt, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 13 - 18 June (2010).

Shiels, S, Short, M, & Peters, G (2010) ‘A state of the Art Sustainability Decision-making Framework’, Life cycle assessment and footprinting, Wellington, New Zealand, 24 - 25 March (2010).

Wang, Y, Collins, RN Doronila & Woodrow I (2010) ‘Arsenic localization and speciation in the roots of Eucalyptus spp’, International Conference on Environmental Pollution And Clean Bio/Phytoremediation, Pisa, Italy, June (2010).

Zargarbashi, S, Khalili, N (2010) Numerical modelling of unsaturated soils subject to cyclic loading, 9th World Congress on computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, 19-23 July 2010, Sydney – Australia.

Conference - Proceedings Editor Coghlan, IR, Peirson, WL, & Greenslade, DJ (2010) ‘Proceedings of the Australian Wind Waves Research Science Symposium’, Australian Wind Waves Research Science Symposium, Gold Coast, Queensland, 19-20 May.

Khalili-Naghadeh, Valliappan, S, Li, Q., & Russell, AR (2010) ‘IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering’.

Khalili-Naghadeh, Valliappan, S, Li, Q., & Russell, AR (2010) ‘Proceedings of the joint 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics’, 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, 19 - 23 July (2010).

Conference - Presentation, not Published Andersen, MS, & Timms, WA (2010) ‘Groundwater Research at Maules Creek & Water Quality in the Namoi Catchment’, Cotton Science Conference, Narrabri, NSW, 26th-28th October, (2010).

Andersen, MS, Acworth, RI, Rau, G C, & McCallum, AM (2010) ‘Investigations of surface water ground-water interactions in a water stressed semi-arid catchment’, Namoi Groundwater Forum, Tamworth, NSW, 3rd of December (2010).

Andersen, MS, Rau, G C, McCallum, AM, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Investigations of surface water groundwater interactions in a water stressed semi-arid catchment’, University of Copenhagen Geocenter seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24th September (2010).

Andersen, MS, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Water quality and ecological implications of changing dynamics in surface water groundwater interactions’, USGS seminar, Menlo Park, CA, USA , 15th July (2010).

Dever, SA, Swarbrick, GE, & Stuetz, RM (2010) ‘Guidelines for the Design, Construction and Operation of a Passive Landfill Gas Drainage and Biofiltration System’, 4th Intercontinental Landfill Research Symposium, Hokkaido, Japan, 9-11 June (2010).

Henderson, RK, Harguindeguy, S, & Jefferson, B (2010) ‘Size, strength and structure of micro-algae flocs during water treatment’, 2nd National Cyanobacterial Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 2-3rd August (2010).

Pells, SE, Timms, WA, Carley, JT, & Andersen, MS (2010) ‘Potential impact of sea-level rise on coastal aquifers’, Groundwater (2010) Canberra, ATC, Australia, 31st Oct - 4th Nov (2010).

Pournaghiazar, M, Russell, AR, & Khalili-Naghadeh, N (2010) ‘CPT in unsaturated soils using a new calibration chamber’, 2nd International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing, Huntington Beach, California, USA, 9-11, May (2010).

Russell, AR, Pournaghiazar, M, & Khalili-Naghadeh, N (2010) ‘Interpreting CPT results in unsaturated sands’, 2nd International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing, Huntington Beach, California, USA, 9-11 May (2010).

Smith, GP (2010) ‘Two Dimensional Flood Modelling Data Requirements’, Flood Management Authorities Conference, Gosford, 26 February (2010).

Timms, WA, Whelan, M, Greve, AK, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Centrifuge permeameter testing, cores, bores and geophysics for characterising aquitards and leaks.’, Groundwater (2010) Canberra, ATC, Australia, 31st Oct - 4th November (2010).

Timms, WA (2010) ‘Connected Waters, Disconnected Waters’, Water Forum Blue Mountains City Council, Katoomba, NSW, 30th October.

Timms, WA, Kelly, BFJ, & Jones, P (2010) ‘Evaluating groundwater quality trends, risks of aquifer salinisation and aquifer connectivity, Namoi catchment, Murray-Darling Basin’, Groundwater (2010) Canberra, ATC, Australia, 31st Oct - 4th Nov (2010).

Timms, WA (2010) ‘Reality bytes - An evolution of numerical groundwater modelling in research and consulting’, 1st Australia & New Zealand FEFLOW Users Workshop, Sydney, 4 - 6 May (2010).

Timms, WA (2010) ‘Where’s the salt gone? Groundwater quality issues in the Namoi catchment’, Groundwater Forum, Tamworth, NSW, 3rd December, (2010).

Wang, X, Guan, J, Chattopadhyay, G, Britton, GB (2010) ‘Odour and Odorant Emission Estimation of Dredged Sediment’, A&WMA International Specialty Conference Leapfrogging Opportunities for Air Quality Improvement, Xian, China, 10 - 14 May (2010).

Yap, R, Jefferson, B, Parsons, SA, & Henderson, RK (2010) ‘Cyanobacteria treatment by a novel DAF process’, 2nd National Cyanobacterial Workshop, Melbourne, Adelaide, 2-3rd August (2010).

McCabe, MF, Liu, Y, Vinukollu, R (2010) ‘Evaluating latent heat flux estimates from land surface models, a regional climate model simulation and a surface energy balance algorithm over Australia’s Murray Darling Basin’, 2nd Hydrology delivers Earth System Science to Society joint meeting for GSWP/GLASS? Tokyo, Japan, 22-25 June (2010).

Evans, JP, & McCabe, MF (2010) ‘Impact of satellite-derived albedo on water cycle simulations over Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model’, The Fourth International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation Conference – Poster presentation.

Andersen, MS, Meredith, K, Timms, WA, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Investigation of d18O and d2H in the Namoi River catchment surface water/groundwater interactions’, 15th Australian Cotton Conference , The Gold Coast, Australia, August 10-12th.

Andersen, MS, Serov, P, & Acworth, RI (2010) ‘Linking Hyporheic Zone Water Chemistry and Streambed Ecology to Groundwater Discharge and Recharge, Maules Creek, NSW, Australia’, 15th Australian Cotton Conference, The Gold Coast, Australia , August 10-12th.

Mehrotra, R, Smith, T, Sharma, A, & Marshall, LA (2010) ‘On Correct Likelihoods and Model Combinations: A Bayesian Multi-Model Conceptual Framework for Structural Uncertainty Assessment’.

Swarbrick, GE (2010) ‘Design of a Passive Landfill Gas Drainage’, 4th Intercontinental Landfill Research Symposium, Hokkaido, Japan, 9-11 June (2010).

Timms, WA, Kelly, B, Badenhop, AM (2010) ‘Groundwater monitoring, evaluation and grower survey, Namoi catchment’, (2010) Australian Cotton Conference, Gold Coast, 10 - 12 August (2010).

Timms, WA (2010) ‘Introducing the NCGRT centrifuge permeameter facility, Sydney, Australia.’, International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (2010) Zurich, Switzerland, 28 June - 1 July (2010).

Technical & Industry Reports please see page 76


Maghrebi, MojtabaThe Variability of Tasks Production Rate in Linear Scheduling by Simulation ApproachSupervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Al-Kilidar

Maheshwar, PradeepOptimisation of coagulant addition to submerged membrane bioreactors using computational and experimental methodsSupervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Collins

Maruthai Pillai, SashikalaHeadspace analysis of chemical odorantsSupervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Moore

Masoumi, HosseinEffect of Scale and Confinement on Rock BehaviourSupervisor: Douglas; Co-supervisor: Russell

Mazumder, Maruful HasanStructural engineering, computational mechanics, dynamic soil-structure interactionSupervisor: Foster, Gilbert

McCallum, Andrew MurrayRiver-aquifer interactions in stressed semi-arid environmentsSupervisor: Andersen, Acworth

Miller, Christopher JamesThe transformation and implication of reactive oxygen species in natural aquatic systemsSupervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Rose

Mohamad Abas, Fairul ZahriPrestressed concrete Bridge StructureSupervisor: Gilbert; Co-supervisor: Foster

Mohammadi, SamanehEffects of unsaturated zone on stability of slopesSupervisor: Taiebat; Co-supervisor: Khalili

Moon, SungkonProductivity improvement using BIMSupervisor: Han

Musharraf, AbdullahRelationship between information redundancy and project qualitySupervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Al-Kilidar

Ng, Tian SingFibre reinforced high performance geopolymer concreteSupervisor: Foster; Co-supervisor: Gilbert

Nur, TanjinaPavement EngineeringSupervisor: Oeser; Co-supervisor: Russell

Parvez, Md. AhsanFibre reinforced concrete structuresSupervisor: Foster

Patwary, Noore AlamUncertainty in project starts and project completionsSupervisor: Carmichael, Davis

Peng, YuanCost contingencySupervisor: Davis; Co-supervisor: Carmichael

Perera, Weebadda Arachchilage SalindaStudy causes of defect occurrence and issuesSupervisor: Davis; Co-supervisor: McIntyre, Marosszeky

Research Students 2010Agarwal, AnkitStrengthening of tubular steel structures using CFRPSupervisor: Foster; Co-supervisors: Vrcelj, Hamed

Aljassmi, Hamad Abdulla MohdDynamic project managementSupervisor: Han

Allis,Michael JamesOcean EngineeringSupervisor: Pearson; Co-supervisor: Banner

Alvarez Gaitan, Juan PabloSustainability AssessmentSupervisor: Peters, Moore; Co-supervisor: Schultz

Azcurra, Cecilia Isotopes in HydrologySupervisor: McCabe; Co-supervisor: Baker

Bai, YunCoupled flow deformation analysis of multiphase multi porous mediaSupervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser

Bernardi, Antonio (ME)Surface water groundwater interconnectivity at a dryland salinity siteSupervisor: Acworth; Co-supervisor: Littleboy

Beya, Jose FranciscoOcean wave dynamicsSupervisor: Peirson; Co-supervisor: Banner

Boland, DanielFate of metal contaminants during iron oxide crystallisationSupervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Collins

Cai, Yingzhe MickIsotope hydrology, water resourcesSupervisors: Evans, McCabe; Co-supervisor: Anderson

Chiong, IreneScaled boundary finite-element shakedown approach for the safety assessment of cracked elastoplastic structures under cyclic loadingSupervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi

Chowdhury, Morsaleen ShehzadStructural EngineeringSupervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Gao

Coad, Peter WilliamEstuarine algal bloom predictionSupervisors: Cathers, VanSenden; Co-supervisor: Ball

Dang, The CuongWaste waterSupervisor: Waite

Do, Anh CuongStability of composite steel concrete T-section beams continuous over one or more supportsSupervisor: Vrcelj; Co-supervisor: Bradford

Elhadayri, FarjConstitutive modelling of lightly cemented unsaturated soilsSupervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Russell

Ershadi Esmaeilabadi, AliRemote sensing hydrologySupervisor: McCabe; Co-supervisors: Walker, Evans

Foerster, JeanNatural resource projectsSupervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Al-Kilidar

Gelet, Rachel MarieHydro-thermo-mechanical coupling in fractured porous mediaSupervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser

Gholamhoseini, AlirezaThe time-dependent behaviour of composite concrete slabs with profiled steel deckingSupervisor: Gilbert; Co-supervisor: Foster

Gui, YilinHydro-thermo-chemo-mechanical coupling effects in double porosity mediaSupervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser

Hambly, Adam ChristopherFluorescence as a tool for detection of failures in recycled water treatmentSupervisors: Stuetz, Khan; Co-supervisor: Henderson

Hao, Pan (ME)Risk management in infrastructure projectSupervisor: Han; Co-supervisor: Davis

Hashim, Nor HaslinaUse of chiral pharmaceutical compounds to characterise sewage treatment processes and sewage contamination in surface waterSupervisors: Khan, Stuetz

He, DiNatural organic matter-mediated generation of reactive oxygen speciesSupervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Garg

Higgins, Rebecca IreneHydrology - Groundwater – ClimateSupervisor: McCabe; Co-supervisors: Ajami, Evans

Hossenian, SeyedmahdiThe principal-agent problem and project delivery methodsSupervisors: Han, Davis, Carmichael

Huang, YueLong-term behaviour of high-strength concrete panelsSupervisor: Hamed; Co-supervisor: Foster

Huynh, Luan ChanhBehaviour of high performance concrete columns subjected to high strain rate loadingSupervisor:Foster; Co-supervisor: Song

Islam, Md KamrulModelling route choice behaviour under uncertaintySupervisor: Vandebona; Co-supervisor: Oeser

James, Edward MalcolmPayment systems for soft soilsSupervisors: Oeser, Russell

Jeremiah, Erwin JoachimHydrologySupervisor: Sharma; Co-supervisors: Marshall, Sisson, Nott

Jury, Karen LillianInvestigation of the role of antibacterial drugs in municipal wastewater as a selective influence on the spread of bacterial resistanceSupervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Ashbolt

Kaboli, Seyed AlirezaLifecycle costs of steel petrochemical structuresSupervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Davis

Khajeh, Samani AliSoftening in reinforced concrete framesSupervisor: Attard; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi

Khan, UroojSemi-distributed modelingSupervisor: Sharma; Co-supervisor: McCabe

Khezei, ManiBuckling and post-buckling behaviour of composite laminated structures with material non-linearitiesSupervisor: Vrcelj; Co-supervisor: Attard

Khoshghalb, ArmanNumerical algorithms of penetration problems in variably saturated mediaSupervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Russell

Kwok, Sei LungComputational hydraulicsSupervisor: Cathers

Lai, ElizabethDevelopment of an integrated sustainability assessment for urban water managementSupervisors: Moore, Lundie; Co-supervisor: Ashbolt, Lu

Le, Hung VietFate of volatile Organo-Sulfur compounds in odour assessmentSupervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Sivret

Le, Minh NhatThe removal of sulphonamides and trimethoprim antibiotics in municipal wastewater by biological treatmentSupervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Khan

Li, ChaoStructural engineeringSupervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Gao

Liu, NengguangUncertain modelling and uncertain methods; Vehicle - bridge interaction dynamics; Wind and/or sersmic induced random vibration; structural stability and reliability analysisSupervisor: Gao

Liu, XinpeiTime-dependent behaviour of composite curved beamsSupervisor: Bradford

Liu, YiHydrology, remote sensing, climate variabilitySupervisor: Evans,McCabe; Co-supervisor: Sharma,Evans

Luu, Trung KienNumerical simulation of the behaviour of composite frames at elevated temperaturesSupervisor: Bradford; Co-supervisor: Vrcelj

Ma, Jianjun (ME)CO

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Ma, TianPhysico-chemical controls on growth, toxicity and succession of cyanobacteriaSupervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Garg


Peterson, Mark AaronGround water resources in fractured rock aquifers using geochemical and isotopic methodsSupervisor: Andersen; Co-supervisor: Acworth

Pournaghiazar, MohammadCone penetration in unsaturated porous mediaSupervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Russell

Prempramote, SuriyonThe coupling of scaled boundary finite-element method and finite-element method for seismic analysis of structuresSupervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi

Pui, Alexander CharlesStochasitc hydrologySupervisor: Sharma; Co-supervisor: Mehrotra

Rancic, Aleksandra SanjaGroundwater levels in fractured rocks - climate and land use impactsSupervisor: Acworth; Co-supervisor: Johnston

Rau, Gabriel ChristopherUsing heat as a tracer to study surface water groundwater and interactionsSupervisor: Anderson; Co-supervisor: Acworth

Rowley, Hazel VictoriaDecision making for sustainabilitySupervisor: Peters; Co-supervisors: Lundie, Moore

Salimzadeh, SaeedNormal simulation of carbon sequestration in geological formationsSupervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Oeser

Singh, SachinFluorescence as an online monitoring tool for water recyclingSupervisor: Khan; Co-supervisors: Stuetz, Henderson

Sriskandarajah, SanchayanReactive powder concrete subjected to high temperature and temperature cyclesSupervisor: Gowripalan; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi

Su, LijuanLateral bucklingSupervisor: Attard; Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi

Thomas, Jacqueline MariePathogen ecology within drinking water biofilmsSupervisors: Ashbolt, Stuetz; Co-supervisors: Kjelleberg, Storey, Thomas

Torbaty, MohammadaliComputational hydraulics and computational fluid mechanicsSupervisor: Cathers, Yeoh; Co-supervisor: Peirson

Tran, Hanh VanAlternative formulations in project managementSupervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Davis

Tran, Thao MinhFouling of anaerobic membrane bioreactorsSupervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: LeClech, Davis

Tran, Trong BinhProject and organisational staffing – cultural issuesSupervisor: Carmichael

Trinh, Trang Thi ThanhDecentralised MBR for Water ReuseSupervisors: Khan, Coleman; Co-supervisor: Stuetz

Vo, Thanh LiemSoil-structure interactionSupervisor: Russell; Co-supervisor: Taiebat

Wang, BeiTreatability of odorants in abatement systemSupervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Parcsi

Wang, ChenComputional mechanics. Structural dynamics structural analysisSupervisor: Gao; Co-supervisor: Song

Wang, LiliRisks associated with trace organics in MBR-treatment of waste watersSupervisor: Khan; Co-supervisor: Waite

Woldemeskei, Fitsum MarkosHydrologySupervisor: Sharma

Xin, YongijaMembrane fouling controlSupervisor: Waite

Yan, XiaEnvironmental EngineeringSupervisor: Peirson; Co-supervisor: Banner

Yang, HongweiIn-situ testing of unsaturated soilsSupervisor: Russell; Co-supervisor: Khalili

Yap, Russell Kong Leng (ME)Water treatmentSupervisors: Peirson, Henderson; Co-supervisor: Whittaker

Yeung, Anna Chi YingFactors influencing the growth and toxicity of cyanobacteria in drinking water suppliesSupervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Neilan

Yuan, XiuLight and free-radical mediated transformation kinetics of iron species in natural watersSupervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Pham

Zargarbashi, SamanInvestigation of cyclic response in unsaturated soils including hydric and mechanical hysteresesSupervisor: Khalili; Co-supervisor: Douglas

Zhang, XinleiAlternative project management practicesSupervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Davis

PhD Students Graduated in 2010

Altavilla, NandaFate and transport of cryptosporidium in the terrestrial environmentSupervisor: Roser, Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Ashbolt, Deere

Beavis, Paul Charles ChristopherUrban freight intermodal transport: an analogue theory using electrical circuitsSupervisor: Moore; Co-supervisor: MacGill

Bligh, Mark WilliamFormation, fate and transformation of products of iron oxidation in coastal watersSupervisor: Waite

Braga, OlgaAnalysis of endocrine disrupters and pharmaceuticalsSupervisor: Smythe; Co-supervisor: Waite

Cheah, Chin HongKinematic wave modelling of surface runoff quantity & quality for small urban catchments in SydneySupervisor: Cox, Ball; Co-supervisor: Peirson

Dasey, Gregory ReginaldGeophysical and hydrogeological assessment of the interaction of saline and fresh groundwater near a tidal creekSupervisor: Acworth; Co-supervisor: Turner

Greve, Anna KatrinDetection of subsurface cracking depth through electrical resistivity anisotropySupervisor: Acworth; Co-supervisor: Kelly

Htut, Trevor Nyan SoeFracture behaviour of steel fibre reinforced concrete in tensionSupervisor: Foster; Co-supervisor: Gowripalan


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Dr Hamid Valipour won the Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence for the best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Engineering in 2010. Criteria for the award includes the quality of the thesis, the ability to convey the excitement of engineering to fellow members of the university and the scientific community as well as raising the profile of engineering in the community at large.

Dr Valipour completed his PhD - ‘Nonlinear dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete frames under extreme loadings’ - under the supervision of Prof Stephen Foster (Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering & Safety - CIES) and is now working as a Research Associate in CIES.

School PhD Research Prizes 2010The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Prize for Research Excellence - OutstandingArman Khoshghalb (pictured top left) and Saman Zargarbashi (pictured top right)

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Prize for Research Excellence - MeritoriousRachel Gelet (pictured), Arman Khoshghalb, Mohammad Pournaghiazar (pictured) and Alexander Pui

Three Minute Thesis

Final year PhD student Alexander Pui came first in the Faculty of Engineering and second across UNSW in the Three Minute Thesis presentation competition in 2010.

Alex’s presentation on his research topic, ‘Flood Risk in a Warming World’ featured a very interesting and at times humorous dialogue between a NSW farmer and a climate scientist, articulating the challenge we face in communicating research outcomes to a lay audience.

Regardless of what some politicians may say, global warming is a scientifically proven concept which may have a further serious impact on the Australian rural economy by intensifying and prolonging the cycles of both flood and drought.

Jakrawatana, NapalAn integrated decision support tool for more sustainable management of biomass resources in agricultural regionsSupervisor: Moore; Co-supervisor: MacGill

Johar, Khalid LutfiA study of uncertainty aspects in venture appraisalSupervisor: Carmichael; Co-supervisor: Balatbat

Johnson, Fiona MichelleHydro ClimatologySupervisor: Sharma; Co-supervisor: CorderyJones, Adele MandaThe transformation and transport of Fe and Al from acid sulphate soils to coastal watersSupervisor: Waite; Co-supervisor: Collins

Loo, Kam Yoke MindyFatigue behaviour of carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP)-repaired corroded reinforced concrete beamsSupervisor: Foster; Co-supervisor: Smith

Morris, Bradley DavidInfilling and sedimentation mechanisms at intermittently open-closed coastal lagoonsSupervisor: Turner; Co-supervisor: Cox

Parcsi, Gavin PeterChemical analysis of odorants from poultry facilitiesSupervisor: Stuetz; Co-supervisor: Khan

Shand, Thomas DuncanThe effect of wave grouping on shoaling and breaking processesSupervisor: Cox; Co-supervisor: Peirson

Tran-Cao, TriCollapse analysis of block structures in frictional contactSupervisor: Tin-Loi; Co-supervisor: Pi

Vu, The SonDevelopment of models to determine impacts of telecommuting on transport systems and environmentSupervisor: Vandebona

Wu, Han QingTension stiffening in reinforced concrete – instantaneous and time-dependent behaviourSupervisor: Gilbert; Co-supervisor: Foster


The committee of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Student Association (CERSA, previously the PRSC) represents postgraduate research students within the school. Committee members sit on various school management meetings in order to provide a voice for students. The committee is also responsible for the buddy system which aims to assist newly-arrived research students settle in whether they are new to UNSW or Australia.

CERSA also aims to facilitate cohesion as well as social and professional relationships amongst research students and school staff. In 2010, a BBQ or morning tea was held at the start of each semester to welcome newly arriving students and to give them the opportunity to meet existing students and staff. Where possible, CERSA also promotes postgraduate study in the School of Environmental Engineering, holding an afternoon tea to farewell Indian Intern Students in July. In October, CERSA was lucky enough to be joined by alumni Dr James Glastonbury, Dr Fiona Johnson, Dr Lange Jorstad who together with staff Dr Matt McCabe and Professor Nasser Khalili contributed to a panel discussion with current students about the options available post-PhD studies and the best way to pursue these.

CERSA looks forward to creating innovative ways to enhance the research experience and social and professional development of postgraduate students within the school in 2011.

2010-2011 CERSA committee

President: Cecilia AzcurraVice-President: Daniel BolandSecretary: Anna Yeung Committee Members:Juan Pablo Alvarez GaitanYun BaiIrene ChiongRussell YapJoyce Yuan

Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Student Association

CERSA Standing (L to R): Daniel Boland and Bai YunSitting (L to R): Anna Yeung, Cecilia Azcurra, Xiu Yuan and Mani Khezri. Absentees: Irene Chiong, Juan Pablo Alvarez Gaitan, Russell Yap


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School Research Facilities

Technical Services Committee Report

The Technical Services Committee supports the research and teaching commitment of the School through excellence in maintaining state-of-the-art physical laboratories. To this end, the committee is responsible for the operation of four physical testing laboratories in water and infrastructure engineering.

The Randwick Heavy Structural Laboratory and the Materials Research Laboratory and Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories, collectively known as the Infrastructure Laboratories, support the research of the School’s Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), while the Water Research and Water Quality Laboratories support key research in the School’s Water Research Centre. The laboratories also provide extensive support for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and learning.

Photo Left: Water Quality Laboratories Manager Dr Gautam Chattopadhyay and WRC Research Dr Ben Van Den Akker

Centrifuge engineer Mr Mark Whelan (right) and postdoc researcher Dr Gyanendra Regmi with the new permeameter and strong box chambers during installation of the new centrifuge equipment at WRL


Infrastructure Laboratories

The structures and materials laboratories support the research of academic staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students involved in experimental research on various aspects of Structural Engineering. The laboratories are equipped with state-of-the-art servo controlled hydraulic actuators and universal testing machines. The laboratories maintain a capacity for high load testing, ranging from 10 kN to 5000 kN. Strength testing is often combined with X-Ray measuring of laboratory specimens under load, pioneered by CIES researchers, enabling improved understanding at the materials level and for the development of refined, mechanically based, structural models.

A few of the projects undertaken in 2010 include creep testing of concrete beams that are strengthened with externally bonded composite materials, viscoelastic behaviour of Epoxy adhesives, examination of the impact response of Geopolymer concrete beams, creep testing of curved composite beams, anchorage length in reinforced concrete slabs, and testing of composite slabs with profiled steel decking.

The Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories within the School contain a diverse range of conventional soil, rock and asphalt testing equipment, along with specialist equipment used primarily to support the School’s research. Notable inclusions are modified triaxial cells, pressure plates and an oedometer for testing unsaturated soils at normal and elevated temperatures, rotating cylinder and a specialist pin-hole apparatus for testing erosion of soils, ring shear apparatus, a large shear box and high pressure triaxial cells for testing gravel, rock and sands undergoing particle crushing, as well as a newly equipped asphalt testing laboratory. A recent addition is the calibration chamber for conducting cone penetration tests in unsaturated soils.

2010 saw the design and construction of a Lateral Earth Pressure testing rig to assist with research on unsaturated soil retaining wall interaction. Also, a new rock triaxial cell was commissioned as part of a study on the scale dependant stress-strain behavior of rock. The equipment permits triaxial tests on samples of different sizes (25, 50 and 100mm diameters) with confining pressures as high as 60MPa.

Water Quality Laboratories

The Water Quality Laboratories (WQL) include specialist laboratories for chemical and microbial analysis, pilot hall facilities for large scale bioreactor studies, radiation laboratory for isotope studies and olfactory laboratory for odour characterisation. They contain a wide range of analytical instruments for the chemical, microbial and physical analysis of environmental samples from water, wastewater, waste and the atmosphere. These include gas chromatograph coupled with a tandem mass spectrometer (GC-MS/MS), high pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometer (HPLC-MS/MS), inductively coupled plasma-atomic emissions spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Specialised equipment include an olfactory-GC-MS for odorant characterisation coupled with thermal desorption (TD) for gas sample pre-concentration and odorant characterisation and UV-VIS and fluorescence spectrophotometers for spectral analysis of samples.

During 2010 a considerable amount of work was undertaken using fluorescence spectroscopy to further develop new analytical tools for the characterisation of water samples. Applications used within the school include the characterisation of marine waters, surface waters, groundwaters, drinking waters, wastewaters and recycled water.

Water Research Laboratory

New offices for the Connected Waters Initiative have been completed at the Water Research Laboratory and the first postdoctoral researchers have moved in. Construction will commence on Stage 2 of these offices and landscaping in early 2011.

The new laboratory for the centrifuge permeameter is also nearing completion, alongside the offices at the Water Research Laboratory. The $0.8 million facility was funded by the ARC and NWC through the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training as part of Program 1B – Innovative Characterisation of Aquitards. The purpose designed laboratory includes a 3 tonne gantry crane, climate control and a re-enforced slab keyed into the underlying sandstone. The centrifuge was delivered to WRL in January 2011, shipped from the Broadbent factory in Yorkshire, UK. This facility will accelerate testing of low permeability sediments and rock and make long term contaminant transport and retardation studies possible under in-situ conditions.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

(SJ Perelman 1904-1979)

teaching & learning


The School delivers both undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs. We are committed to developing well-educated graduates with the skills, attributes and knowledge that will enable them to practice as professional civil or environmental engineers.

In 2010, the School was the largest and most successful School of its type in Australia, with 1307 undergraduate students, 398 coursework masters students and 90 postgraduate research students. We attract local and rural students in New South Wales and also have a signifi cant contingent of overseas students mainly from the South East Asian Region.

The School has active teaching and research programs across the breadth of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with strong academic groups in the sub-disciplines of Coastal Engineering, Engineering Construction and Project Management, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Groundwater, Structural Engineering, Transport Engineering, Water, Wastewater and Waste Engineering, and Water Resources.

Trends In The School Profi le 2000 - 2010Changing trends over the decade in the School’s student profi le and the number of academic and non-academic staff employed within the School are summarised below:

Teaching & Learning Overview

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

STUDENT NUMBERS

Total EFTSU* 648 607 613 581 567 582 592 669 805 985 1172

BE 656 594 593 634 647 615 730 859 1,012 1173 1307

MEngSc/MEnvEngSc 314 295 355 339 292 323 287 322 329 345 358

GradDip/GradCert 51 37 62 72 38 28 32 23 25 30 40

PhD 69 68 78 81 82 79 80 70 72 60 88

ME/MSc 21 19 19 16 17 11 10 6 5 5 2

GRADUATES

PhD 9 9 14 15 8 14 8 23 11 13 19

ME 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 2 2 0

MSc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

MEngSc 93 95 96 117 119 95 114 80 121 119 177

MEnvEngSc 25 21 36 13 13 13 7 8 7 3 8

GradDip/GradCert 4 2 4 6 7 7 13 8 8 6 7

BE (Civil) 71 97 121 64 67 87 80 120 97 99 120

BE (Environmental) 41 41 35 19 28 21 23 23 22 23 22

STAFF (Full-time, tenured)

Academic 32 32 32 32 33 29.5 25 25 28 30.5 28

Technical (School) 18 17 16 15 14 15 13 13 13 12 9

Other Technical (Centres etc) - - - - - - - - - - 18

Administration (School) 10 10 9 8 8 8 7 8 9 10 9

Other Admin (Centres etc) - - - - - - - - - - 13

STUDENT/STAFF RATIO

— EFTSU/ACADEMIC 20.2 19.0 19.2 18.2 17.2 19.7 23.7 26.8 28.8 32.3 39.01* Effective Full-Time Student Unit

The ratio EFTSU/Academic as an indicator of student access to staff as a measure of learning outcomes can be misleading. The ratio is seen to have increased signifi cantly in recent years due to the large increase in student numbers. Certainly most lectures must now be held in the larger theatres at UNSW. But, while the student to staff ratio is 39, the School has maintained the more important student to tutor ratio at less than 20 to preserve quality teaching outcomes.


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The Teaching and Learning Committee

The Teaching and Learning Committee (TLC) of the School is responsible for all academic matters relating to all undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programs; these involve: encouraging teaching quality, providing teaching aids to staff, monitoring courses through student focus group surveys, interaction with student representatives of CEVSOC and research student tutors through CERSA, setting policy regarding academic aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate examinations and enrolments, and providing a focal point for student assistance in undergraduate and postgraduate coursework matters. The major drive behind the Committee’s agenda is to improve the learning experience of students. The members of the committee in 2010 were:

Teaching and Learning Committee 2010

Mario Attard Chair, Assoc Head (Academic) Structures Representative (S2)

Zora Vrcelj (S1) Deputy ChairCivil with Arch Program Director

Stephen Moore Postgrad Coursework CoordinatorEnvironmental Eng Program Director

Hossein Taiebat Year 1 & Peer Mentoring CoordinatorCivil Eng Program Director

Hiyam Al-Kilidar Year 2 Coordinator Upali Vandebona Year 3 Coordinator Chongmin Song Year 4 Coordinator N. Gowripalan Advanced Standing/ExchangeNasser Khalili Geotech/Transport RepresentativeW. Peirson Water RepresentativeD. Carmichael EC&M RepresentativeFrancis Tin Loi Structures Representative (S1)Bruce Cathers Grievance OfficerKarenne Irvine School ManagerJulijana Baric Student Services Manager

CEVSOC PresidentPostgraduate Tutors

The functions and scope of the Committee were expanded in 2010 to include postgraduate coursework matters and the staff teaching allocation. The Committee began the year by assisting new students on enrolment day and attending the student welcome during orientation week. The Committee met formally on seven occasions during the year, including two special meetings to look at requests for special consideration and to review final examination marks for all courses. During the examination meetings, all student examination results are individually reviewed, all applications for special consideration are acted upon and the School policy on supplementary exams is implemented

in a fair and equitable manner. Towards the end of both semesters, it conducted focus group surveys of all undergraduate years. The aims of the focus group surveys are to provide information on the student experience and identify areas which require action and improvement.

2010 highlights:

Design Studio The Design Studio on the 5th floor of the Civil Engineering Building construction and furnishing was completed early in 2009 and the space was made available to students at the start of Semester 1. Throughout the year this facility was used extensively for undergraduate and postgraduate individual and team learning activities, seminars, workshops and School celebrations. Approval was given in 2010 for the 2nd stage of development. Video Conferencing facilities were added, as well as 4 computer screens which could be linked to the main computer or to student laptops, a smartboard, a projector and a drop down screen.

BE METhe Faculty has proposed a new 5 year BE ME with a minor program. The minor would allow students to study an area outside their main discipline for example Music, Design, History etc. The TLC started work on developing a form of BE ME program offering for both the Civil and Environmental programs.

Fourth Year ElectivesWe continue to provide our fourth year students with a large selection of professional specialisation electives covering all discipline areas across the School. A number of these fourth year professional electives are parallel taught with some postgraduate coursework masters courses. The CVEN4701 Planning Sustainable Infrastructure course which is core to the Environmental program is open to the Civil program students as an elective.

Review of the Year 2 of the Environmental Engineering ProgramThe current Environmental program does not include 2nd year Maths. It has been argued that this is a deficiency in the program. Suggestions for changes to the Environmental program to include 2nd year Maths were put forward. One suggestion was that the current 2nd year courses BIOS1301 Ecology Sustainability and Environmental Science and GMAT1110 Engineering Surveying and GIS, be returned to first year as recommended electives, making room for 2nd year Maths and possibly another course such as Mechanics of Solids.


2010 Graduations

A total of 353 students graduated from the School in 2010.

GRADUATES

Doctor of Philosophy 19

Master of Engineering 0

Master of Science 0

Master of Engineering Science 177

Master of Environmental Engineering Science 8

Graduate Diploma 2

Graduate Certifi cate in Civil Engineering 5

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/Bachelor of Commerce 8

BE in Civil Engineering/BE in Environmental Engineering 8

Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental)/Bachelor of Science 1

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/Bachelor of Science 2

Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental)/Bachelor of Arts 0

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/Bachelor of Arts 1

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/ Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) 0

Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental) 13

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) 109

Bachelor of Engineering (Civil with Architecture) 0

Tutor TrainingThe increase in undergraduate student numbers proved a challenge in recruiting large number of qualifi ed tutors. A half-day Tutor Training Workshop, organised and facilitated by Dr Carol Russell (Faculty of Engineering Learning and Teaching Fellow), was held at the start of each semester with a follow-up workshop in the middle of each of the teaching semesters. The Instructions for Tutors in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering document was prepared and distributed to all tutors and academic staff members.

Guest Speaker from Industry Series for Civil with Architecture Students

Presentations by prominent industry speakers, fi rst organised in 2009, were continued in 2010.

Peter Hartigan, a Structural and Façade Engineer who leads the Arup Facade group in Sydney, gave a presentation on “Why is material sustainability important? What are sustainable materials? How should we use them?” on 25th May 2010. His enthusiasm and skills in the strategic and detailed confi guration of façade systems considering overall project considerations such as architecture, building services strategies and occupant comfort, organisation of superstructure, buildability and procurement were highly appreciated by the audience.


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Postgraduate Coursework Studies

Postgraduate coursework teaching and learning has been one of the core activities, and major strengths of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering for over fifty years. With 398 coursework students enrolled in 2010 the School continued to be the leading provider of postgraduate engineering education in Australia. All our courses provide essential specialist knowledge, backed by cutting edge research, to enable industry professionals to improve their performance and advance their careers.

Our Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc) educates students to the top level required nationally in eight specialisations:

m Civil Engineering m Environmental Engineering m Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology m Groundwater Resources m Project Management m Structural Engineering m Water Resources (includes coastal engineering) m Water, Wastewater and Waste Engineering

Courses in construction management and transport engineering are also offered on campus and by distance.

In total forty-five postgraduate courses were offered by School staff in 2010 either as internal weekly courses, in short course mode or in a distance education format, making the program large even by international standards.

Leighton HoldingsIn 2010 the School continued its delivery of a specialized Master of Engineering Science in Project Management specifically designed for Leighton Holdings. With over 9500 operations and engineering staff working across the Leighton group of companies, the MEngSc was established after Leighton identified a need for targeted postgraduate education to develop the management skills of its professional staff, and in particular the need for a corporately identified postgraduate degree programme in project management.

The MEngSc provides Leighton Holdings staff with technical knowledge such as contracts, cost planning, design management, safety, tendering and estimating as well as developing their professional skills such as leadership and team building, negotiation skills and people management.

Postgraduate courses offered include:CVEN9405 Urban Transport Planning PracticeCVEN9414 Transport Systems Part 1CVEN9415 Transport Systems Part 2CVEN9422 Traffic Management & ControlCVEN9511 Geotechnical Models and Site InvestigationCVEN9512 GeomechanicsCVEN9513 Advanced Foundation EngineeringCVEN9514 Numerical Methods in Geotechnical EngineeringCVEN9521 Slope Instability and StabilisationCVEN9522 Rock EngineeringCVEN9523 Pavement Engineering and AnalysisCVEN9524 Geotechnical Engineering of DamsCVEN9525 Fundamentals of GeomechanicsCVEN9610 Surface Water HydrologyCVEN9611 Urban Hydrology & Stormwater ManagementCVEN9612 Catchment and Water Resources Modelling CVEN9620 Channels, Rivers and EstuariesCVEN9630 Groundwater Hydrology and Resources AnalysisCVEN9631 HydrogeochemistryCVEN9640 Waves, Beaches and Coastal InfrastructureCVEN9701 Engineering Economics and Financial ManagementCVEN9702 Project Planning & ControlCVEN9703 Quality & Quality SystemsCVEN9706 Human Resources ManagementCVEN9707 Contracts ManagementCVEN9710 Management of RiskCVEN9712 Dispute Avoidance & ResolutionCVEN9714 Resource ManagementCVEN9717 Marketing in Technology and EngineeringCVEN9718 Strategic Management for EngineeringCVEN9720 Problem Solving & Decision MakingCVEN9723 Design of Construction OperationsCVEN9726 Legal Studies and Professional PracticeCVEN9730 International Project ManagementCVEN9731 Project Management FrameworkCVEN9802 Structural StabilityCVEN9806 Prestressed Concrete DesignCVEN9809 Reinforced Concrete DesignCVEN9820 Computational Structural MechanicsCVEN9822 Steel StructuresCVEN9824 Advanced Materials TechnologyCVEN9855 Water and Wastewater Analysis & Quality

RequirementsCVEN9856 Water TreatmentCVEN9857 Wastewater TreatmentCVEN9872 Solid Waste ManagementCVEN9881 Hazardous Waste ManagementCVEN9884 Environmental Engineering Science 1CVEN9885 Environmental Engineering Science 2CVEN9888 Environmental Management (Materials Risk

Assessment)CVEN9892 Sustainability Assessment & Risk Analysis (in water

and energy systems planning)CVEN9930 Masters Project

Not all courses are on offer each year. For further details please see the School Timetable at http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/general/timetable/index.html


The School’s undergraduate programs offer students the broadest and most comprehensive civil and environmental engineering education with the opportunity to specialise in their final year by majoring in a range of sub-disciplines. The curricula have proved a model for engineering educators and have been widely benchmarked by other academic institutions.

Undergraduate BE student enrolments have more than doubled over the past five years (617 in 2005 to 1307 in 2010). While the student to staff ratio is 39.01, the School has preserved a tutor to student ratio of less than 20 to preserve quality teaching outcomes.

Undergraduate Studies

BE Program Outlines

Disclaimer: Information provided about subjects, units, courses and any arrangements for courses including staffing, are an expression of intent only and are not to be taken as a firm offer or undertaking.

BE Civil Engineering

Year 1 | Semester 1

Course Code Course Name UOC HPW

MATH1131 Maths 1A or 6 6

MATH1141 Higher Maths 1A 6 6

PHYS1121 Physics 1 or 6 6

PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A 6 6

ENGG1000 Engineering Design and Innovation 6 4

ENGG1811 Computing for Engineers 6 5

Year 1 | Semester 2


MATH1231 Maths 1B or 6 6

MATH1241 Higher Maths 1B 6 6

GMAT1110 Engineering Surveying & GIS 6 3

CVEN1300 Engineering Mechanics 6 5

MATS1101 Engineering Materials and Chemistry 6 5

Year 2 | Semester 1


CVEN2301 Mechanics of Solids 6 5

CVEN2501 Principles of Water Engineering 6 5

General Education 6 4

MATH2019 Maths 2E 6 6

Year 2 | Semester 2


CVEN2101 Engineering Construction 6 5

CVEN2201 Soil Mechanics 6 5

CVEN2302 Materials & Structures 6 5

CVEN2002 Engineering Computations for Civil Engineers 6 5

Degree Admisssions in 2010

Total Enrolments

Bachelor of Engineering, BE (Civil) 3620 207 663

Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering with Architecture 3624

45 130

Bachelor of Engineering, BE (Environmental Engineering) 3625 19 61

Bachelor of Engineering/Arts, BE BA (Civil/Arts) 3621 6 28

Bachelor of Engineering/Arts, BE BA (Environmental/Arts) 3626 3 7

Bachelor of Engineering BE BE (Civil & Environmental) 3631 22 74

Bachelor of Engineering BE BE (Civil & Mining) 3146 18 66

Bachelor of Engineering/Science, BE BSc (Civil/Science) 3730 15 49

Bachelor of Engineering/Science, BE BSc (Environmental Engineering/Science) 3735

7 23

Bachelor of Engineering/Law, BE LLB (Civil/Environmental Law) 4775/4776/4777

4 11

Bachelor of Engineering/Commerce, BE BCom (Civil/Environmental Commerce) 3715

45 195

Total 391* 1307

*Does not include Flexible First Year entry students

Year 3 | Semester 1


CVEN3401 Sustainable Transport & Highway Engineering 6 5

CVEN3201 Applied Geotechnics and Engineering Geology 6 5

CVEN3301 Structural Analysis & Modelling 6 5

CVEN3501 Water Resources Engineering 6 5

Year 3 | Semester 2


CVEN3302 Structural Behaviour & Design 6 5

CVEN3101 Engineering Operations & Control 6 5

CVEN3502 Water & Wastewater Engineering 6 5

CVEN3031 Civil Engineering Practice 6 4

Year 4 | Semester 1


CVEN4030 Honours Thesis A or 6 4

CVEN4002 Design Practice A 6 4


Professional Elective 1 6 4


Year 4 | Semester 2


CVEN4031 Honours Thesis B or 6 4

CVEN4003 Design Practice B 6 4




Undergraduate Student Enrolments in 2010

Key: UOC - Units of Credit HPW - Hours per Week

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BE Civil with Architecture

Year 1 | Semester 1







BENV1080 Enabling Skills and Research Practice 6 3

Year 1 | Semester 2





ARCH1142 Architectural Communications 6 4

MATS1101 Engineering Materials and Chemistry 6 6

Year 2 | Semester 1


MATH2019 Maths 2E 6 6

CVEN2301 Mechanics of Solids 6 5

ARCH1121 Architectural History and Theory 1 6 3

ARCH1101 Architectural Design Studio 1 6 5

Year 2 | Semester 2


CVEN2002 Engineering Computations for Civil Engineers 6 5

CVEN2101 Engineering Construction 6 5


CVEN2302 Materials & Structures 6 5

Year 3 | Semester 1



CVEN3201 Applied Geotechnics and Engineering Geology

6 5

CVEN3301 Structural Analysis & Modelling 6 5


Year 3 | Semester 2


CVEN3302 Structural Behaviour & Design 6 5




Year 4 | Semester 1





ARCH1221 Architectural History and Theory 2 6 3


Year 4 | Semester 2


CVEN4031 Honours Thesis B or 6 4

CVEN4003 Design Practice B 6 4




BE Environmental Engineering

Year 1 | Semester 1




CHEM1011 Fundamentals of Chemistry A or 6 6

CHEM1031 Higher Chemistry C 6 6




Year 1 | Semester 2




CVEN1701 Environmental Principles and Systems 6 5


ENGG1811 Computing for Engineers 6 5

Year 2 | Semester 1


BIOS1301 Biology for Environmental Engineers 6 5


CVEN2701 Water & Atmospheric Chemistry 6 5


Year 2 | Semester 2


CEIC2009 Mass & Energy Balances in the Chemical Process Industry

6 5


GMAT1110 Engineering Surveying & GIS 6 3

CVEN2702 Engineering Computations for Environmental Engineers

6 5

Year 3 | Semester 1


CVEN3701 Environmental Frameworks, Law & Economics 6 5

CVEN3201 Applied Geotechnics and Engineering Geology 6 5

CVEN3402 Transport Engineering & Environmental Sustainability

6 5


Year 3 | Semester 2


CVEN3702 Solid Wastes & Contaminant Transport 6 5



CVEN3731 Environmental Engineering Practice 6 4

Year 4 | Semester 1




CVEN4701 Planning Sustainable Infrastructure 6 5



Year 4 | Semester 2


CVEN4003 Design Practice B or 6 4

CVEN4031 Honours Thesis B 6 4





Undergraduate Student Awards and Prizes

Dean’s Awards 2010

The Faculty of Engineering Dean’s Awards recognise students’ outstanding academic achievement. Students ranked in the top 2 per cent in their year receive the honour. The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Professor Graham Davies presented the 2010 awards at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

SCHOOL AWARD WINNERS: Dillon Anderiesz, Daniel Atalla, Alex Blanchard, Benjamin Blumberg, Mathew Chong, Andrew Davis, Thomas Hosking, Bijoy Joseph, Shuang Guo, Nathaniel Ko , Matthew Le, Trung Le, Siu Lee, Kelvin Nguyen, Sahani Pathiraja, Yubo Peng, Edward Robson, Alexander Rogan, Albert Saputra, Rohan Stocker, Adnan Sufi an, Lizhe Sun, Sam Tagliabue, Xian Tan, Chengwei Yang, Sheng Yu.

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering double degree (BE/LLB) student Louise Gates won the Sydney Water Gold Medal in 2010. She impressed the judges with a research project based on her honours thesis investigating how waves will affect our coastline as a result of climate change. Louise also won the Student Research Award at the NSW Coastal Conference in Batemans Bay in 2010 for her research contribution in the fi eld of coastal management.

ITEANZ Student Award for 2010

Fourth year student Kasun Wijayaratna received the prestigious award for his fi nal year thesis project report entitled ‘Reliability of the South-West Sydney Transport Corridor’. The award from ITEANZ (Institution of Transportation

Engineers Australia and New Zealand) was open to students throughout Australia and New Zealand and was accompanied by a $1,000 prize sponsored by GHD.

Kasun evaluated the performance of motorway users as well as train passengers, with a number of interesting fi ndings and policy directions. His work demonstrated a range of skills related to traffi c data collection, data analysis and transport performance evaluation methods. His supervisor was Dr Upali Vandebona. Kasun also won the Schools Year 4 Prize in Transport engineering sponsored by School Industry Supporter AECOM.

Scholarships

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering enjoys an extensive undergraduate prize lists, mainly donated by industry partners and a scholarship list, that provides, also largely from private companies, over $530,000 pa for students. The School gratefully acknowledges the generosity of industry and private donors of prizes and scholarships.

Private Scholarship ProvidersGraham Campbell Family, Bernard W Gould Family, Stan Hall Family

Major Industry Scholarship providers Bilfi nger Berger, Brookfi eld Multiplex, Evans & Peck, GHD, Hatch, Leighton Contractors, Leighton Holdings, MWH, Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), RTA, Sydney Water, Wellington, Blayney and Cabonne Councils


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University Medallist in Civil Engineering

Michael Salcher

Why UNSW?

Civil engineering is a mixture of mathematics, physics, dirt and dust.

This combination makes my job varied and interesting. However I

believe that in the end I chose civil engineering because I wanted to create big and long lasting structures. UNSW was my first choice because of its reputation as the best university for engineering courses.

Most enjoyable:

I appreciated the time that lecturers took to explain concepts to students. It was usually possible to see lecturers during consultation time and discuss difficult topics with them.

Most challenging aspect:

I found the first semester in first year rather difficult. Later on either the courses became easier or I got adjusted to university life. At the beginning I struggled finding enough hours in the day to complete all assignments and tutorial problems, read through lecture notes and prepare for exams.

Future hopes:

My plan for the next few years is to become a good geotechnical engineer and to work on a variety of big, challenging and interesting projects.

Michael is now working for School Industry Partner PSM.

University Medallist in Civil Engineering

Paul Harvey

Why UNSW?

Civil engineering had interested me for a while. I was originally attracted to the technical aspects and this developed into an appreciation of the potential

for problem solving and creativity while working on challenging, large-scale projects. The University of New South Wales came with a good reputation so I decided to study here.

Most enjoyable:

I particularly enjoyed courses from the structural engineering discipline. I liked the chance to consider the advantages and limitations of the concepts I was learning about and the opportunity to put the ideas into practice in a variety of useful ways. That was very satisfying.


I found it most difficult to establish and continually develop my engineering judgement. I have learnt that this is one of the most important abilities an engineer possesses, and also one of the most difficult to master. Despite the challenges I faced, I am hopeful that my judgement will improve with experience and constant re-evaluation.

Future hopes:

I hope to widen and improve my range of engineering skills, work on some challenging and enjoyable projects, and expand the opportunities available to me in the future.

Paul is now working for School Industry Partner TTW.

University Medallist in Civil Engineering with Architecture

Alice Tjitradjaja

Why UNSW?

I was attracted to UNSW’s great reputation in engineering, but had a hard time choosing between Civil Engineering and Architecture

for a long time. The new degree Civil Engineering with Architecture came at the right time, so without hesitation I transferred from a pure Civil Engineering degree.

Most enjoyable:

I enjoyed the teaching and the large variety of subjects. The civil subjects are very relatable and true to life - it made me appreciate the everyday conveniences we take for granted. While allowing us to be practical and analytical in doing the engineering calculations, we could release our creative energy with the architecture subjects. It was great fun.


Time management, especially when juggling engineering assignments with architecture ones, which were often very time-consuming. Prioritising is everything.

Future hopes:

I’m just starting out in the industry, it’s exciting, fast-paced, dynamic. I’m hoping to gain valuable experiences and learn what it takes to be a real, capable engineer. I’m also keeping my eyes open for further education in engineering or maybe architecture in the future.

Alice is now working for School Industry Partner ARUP.


FIRST NAME FAMILY NAME THESIS TOPIC SUPERVISORFaisal Ahmed Stability of Revetment Protection Under Wave Attack Peirson, W.Ali Amin Structural Response of High Performance Fibre Reinforced Geopolymer Beams Foster, S.Michelle Anderson Critical Success Factors in Engineering and Construction Projects: A Company’s Perspective Han, SangwonStacey Atkinson Climate Change Adaptation for the Solomon Islands Cox, RAnthony Barkway Climate Change Adaptation - Beach Erosion Response to Sea Level Rise Cox, R.Anil Basnet Nonlinear finite element analysis of steel-concrete composite beams including partial interactions of

explosion loadingHeidarpour, A & Bradford, M

Adrian Brunetti Settlement of Footings and Sand Taiebat, H.David Busuttil The Role of Adhesion in Enhanced Evaporation Peirson, W.Michael Canagasabey Numerical Investigation of Transcritical Flows Cathers, B.Alex Chandra Interval Dynamic Analysis of Structures under Uncertainties Gao, W.Christina Chiu PPPs Applied to Carbon Projects Carmichael, D.Nguyen Anh Tuan Dang Numerical Modelling of Rock Douglas, K.Saina Sadat Emami Analysis of Pavements Under Dynamic Loading Oeser, M.Emily Findlay A Risk Analysis of Clean Development Mechanisms Carmichael, D.Yang Fan Gao Investigation of Bridge Response Under Moving Vehicle Using Probabilistic Analysis Gao, W.Christopher John Guild Structures - Guidance from Nature Vrcelj, Z.Tian Han Interval Dynamic Analysis of Vehicle - Bridge Interaction System Gao, W.Steven Hare State Water Corporation Tenders – Analysis of Price Competitiveness Carmichael, D.Paul Harvey Numerical Modelling of Stress Concentrations in Structures Song, C.Guangliang He Solving the Single Mode Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with an Efficient Genetic

AlgorithmDavis, S.

Ariel Hersh Real Options Analysis of Project Feasibility Carmichael, D.Matthew Ho Finite element modelling of steel and steel-construction composite beam-to-column connections subjected

to cycle loadingHeidarpour, A

Paul Hovagimian Fatigue and Stability Characteristics of Open-Porous Cemented Base Material Oeser, M.Kavan Illangakoon Analysis of Public Transport Modes Vandebona, U.Paul Ingster Fill the Dams? Peirson, W.Randy Japardy Cost of sustainability in infrastructure project Al-Kilidar, H.Warren Jones Field measurement of rip currents using GPS drifters Turner, I.Ben Jones Comparison of drogue versus swimmer circulation in rip currents Turner, I.Lydia Kadarusman Mitigation of Environmental Impacts of Uranium Solution Mining Waite, D.Benny Kang Behaviour of Fibre Reinforced Soil Russell, A.Pece Karadzovski Bus Priority Analysis – Reliability of Transitway Buses at Transport Interchanges Vandebona, U.Ananta Karki Noise Impacts of Local Area Traffic Management Schemes and Devices Samuels, S.Mandakini Karki Efficient Design of Anchors in Embankments Taiebat, H.Edward Kearney Hydraulic Properties of Clay Aquitards Using Geotechical and Geophysical Methods - Hydraulic Conductivity

Related to Porewater ChemistryTimms, W.

Bo Li The Combined Use of Silica Fume with a Silane Water Repellent for the Treatment of Corroding & Cracked Concrete in a High – Chloride Environment

Vrcelj, Z.

Huan Li The Prediction of Deformation in Cracked Reinforced Concrete Members Gilbert, I.Stephen Ying Lung Li Fibre Reinforced Clay Taiebat, H.Junjiang Liu Behaviour of steel and steel-concrete composite beams curved in plain subjected to cycling loading Heidarpour, A &

Bradford, MDuncan Chyi Yin Liw Effect of Road Surface on Traffic Noises Samuels, S.Pin Hong Loo Evaluation of Commercial Finite Element Packages on Dynamic Analysis of Foundations Song, C.Dean Lord Traffic Noise Barriers Samuels, S.Kathryn Ludowici Management and Climatic Influences on Groundwater Levels in the Lower Namoi Acworth, I./Bryce

KellyLevina Mahandja Financial planning on road pavement Cai, ChenDaniel Marks Incorporation of Managerial Actions into Construction Simulation Han, S.Linn Htet Maung Mix-mode Fracture of Fibre Reinforced Concrete Foster, S. Malinda McDonell Characterisation of Aquitards - Consolidation Timms, W.Dane McIveen Service behaviour of concrete slabs with deep trapezoidal steel decking Gilbert, I.Elizabeth Mendoza Design related construction defects Davis, STania Milinkovich Sustainable Solutions in Design of High Rise Building Vrcelj, Z.John Mirecki Concrete Mix Design Guidelines for Sydney Gowripalan, N.Amir Musthafa Removal of ACCAL Toxins in Drinking Water Treatment Processes Khan, S.

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FIRST NAME FAMILY NAME THESIS TOPIC SUPERVISORKatherine Neilson Recharge sources and water chemistry in the upper Maules creek catchment Anderson, MRobin Keith Netterfield Desiccation cracking in unsaturated soils Khalili, NasserKon Yuan Ng Mimicking Forms in Nature – Beaver Dam Vrcelj, Z.Yu Ho Henry Ng Transport Road Traffic Noise Samuels, S.Tan Nguyen A critical examination of fixing the global financial crisis with government handouts Davis, S.Elliot Nuberg Carbon Emissions and the Concrete Industry’s future Gilbert, I.Ronnie Nunez Relating Fluorescence and size fraction for water analysis Henderson, RJaxon O'Shea Time-dependent deformation of steel-concrete composite beams Gilbert, I.Praneeth Parasu Use of Black-Scholes and Probabilistic Methods to Determine the Value of Options within the Context of

Climate ChangeCarmichael, D.

Sahani Darshika Pathraja Testing Validity of AEP Neutrality in Design Flood Estimation Sharma, A.Si Si Peng Effect at Project Winning on Company Share Prices Carmichael, D.Elias Poulos Hydraulic testing of jointed rocks or concrete in unlined spillways Peirson, W.Priom Rahman Downscaling GCMs for Small Urban Catchments for Assessment at Design Floods & Climate Change

ScenariosSharma, A.

Raiyanur Rashid Rainfall runoff modeling from space McCabe, M.Zac Richards Study and observe rainfall gradient Sharma, A.Michael Salcher Modelling Horizontally Loaded Foundations on Sand Douglas, K.Ronald Sathio Effects of scheduling pressure on worker productivity Han, S.Shalinda Shafie Laboratory –scale Biodegradation of Chiral Pharmaceuticals Khan, S.Justin Sharkey Using industrial LiDAR technology to monitor coastal structures and swash zone morphological change Blenkinsopp, C.E.Shweta Shrestha Water Allocation for Optimum Efficiency Cordery, I.Jared Simmons Systems Reliability Analysis and Progressive Failure Enumeration for Reliability Based Design Optimisation Tin-Loi, F./Gao, W.Johnny Su Stakeholders management and project success Al-Kilidar, HMichael Sugiyanto Persistence in GCM Simulations Sharma, A.Di Sun Analysis on the Cost Risks of Road Rehabilitation Projects Han, SangwonZhi Cheng Sun Fracture analysis using the scaled boundary finite-element method (Extended Honours CVEN4032 -

progress seminar)Song, C.

Felix Taaffe Impacts of 2D model grid and parameter settings on kerb flow representation in a direct rainfall 1d/2d modelling system.

Sharma, A.

Rebecca Temperley Road Traffic Noise Samuels, S.Mei Ling Teoh Open Porous Pavements - Advanced Characterisation and Analysis Oeser, M.Alice Tjitradjaja A study of protein silk and its application to structural engineering Vrcelj, Z.Dane Tucker Analysis of a Road Cutting Russell, A.James Turner Transport over the Hawkesbury Bridge Vandebona, U.Eroni Verevukivuki Environmentally relevant algal cultures: The case of microcystis Henderson, R &

Short, MMinh Vu Investigation into the Structural Design of a Historical Structure Attard, M.Jonathan Walujono Flexural Behaviour of Prestressed Reactive Powder Concrete Beams and Slabs Gilbert, I.Ewam Watson Numerical Modelling of a Brine Outfall Cathers, B.Jessica Wheatley Groundwater Study at University Farm in Wellington, NSW Acworth, I.Roland Wheeler Analysis and Implementation of the CORMIX Mixing Zone Model on Ocean Outfalls Cathers, B.Samuel Widjaja Fracture Behaviours of Fibre-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete Foster, S. Kasun Wijayaratna Travel Time Variability on M5 Corridor Vandebona, U.Ryan Wilkie Are the areas of Safety and Quality sacrificed in Alliance based projects when compared to more

traditional Design and Construct projects?Oeser, M.

Evan Williams Carbon on Construction Projects Carmichael, D.Oscar Wittig Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Trading & The Construction Industry Douglas, K.Jacky King Wong Road Traffic Noise Management Samuels, S.Dickson Wong Continuous prestressed concrete beams Gilbert, I.Andrea Wonomihardjo Structural Response of Lightweight Geopolymer Concrete Beams Foster, S. Di Wu Probabilistic and Internal Analysis of Structures with Uncertainty Gao, W.Tian-Lan Wu Climate Change Impacts on Tropical North Australia McCabe, M.Mark Xerri Design of a High Speed Railway Station Vandebona, U.Guo Wei Xing Iron and Copper Transformations in Natural Aquatic Systems Waite, D.Jiang Wen Xiong Crack Control in Reinforced Concrete Gilbert, I.Zi Qian Yang Optimization of Concrete Hanbar Armor Unit for Breakwater Design Cox, R.Ee Wei Yuen Dynamic Analysis of Truss Structures with Random Parameters Gao, W.Liang Cheng Zeng Numerical Modelling of Stress Concentration in Structures Song, C.Jue April Zhao Dynamic Analysis of Gravity Dams Under Earthquake Actions Song, C.Kai Sheng Zhu Guidance From Nature – Termite Nests Vrcelj, Z.


The University Medal in Civil Engineering Paul Harvey & Michael Salcher

The University Medal in Civil Engineering with Architecture

Alice Tjitradjaja

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Brookfield Multiplex Construction Management Discipline Prize

Steven Hare

The Civil and Environmental Engineering SKM Environmental Discipline Prize

Sahani Pathiraja

The Civil and Environmental Engineering PSM Geotechnical Discipline Prize

Michael Salcher

The Civil Engineering with Architecture ARUP Prize Tania Milinkovich

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Aurecon Structures Discipline Prize

Ali Amin

The Civil and Environmental Engineering AECOM Transport Discipline Prize

Kasun Wijayaratna

Student Prize WinnersThe Civil and Environmental Engineering GHD Water Discipline Prize

Roland Wheeler

The Civil and Environmental Engineering CWI Groundwater Discipline Prize

Malinda McDonell

The Civil Engineering PB Industrial Training Prize Elliot Nuberg

The Environmental Engineering SMEC Industrial Training Prize

Katherine Neilson

The Cardno Civil Engineering Practice Prize Paul Harvey

The Cardno Environmental Engineering Practice Prize Christina Chiu

The Jeffery and Katauskas Prize William Mackebee

The Welding Technology Institute of Australia Prize Sam Tagliabue

The Jacob N Frenkel Prize Matthew Chong

Australian Steel Institute Undergraduate Steel Design Award

Dillon Anderiesz

At the end of a year of hard work, 175 School staff, industry friends and fourth year students celebrated the annual 4th year dinner at the Sheraton on the Park, Sydney.

The dinner was an opportunity for the School community to celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our final year students. Twelve prizes worth $1000 each, kindly sponsored by leading engineering companies, were awarded on the night to high achieving students. Many thanks to the sponsors of the night, and congratulations to the prize winners listed above.


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Congratulations and farewell Year 4 2010


The Civil and Environmental Engineering Society CEVSOC

2010 was a mammoth year for all involved in CEVSOC. We hosted our biggest events to date, attracted lots of industry support, watched over student rights and acquired some nice equipment, rooms and sponsorship.

The office bearers of CEVSOC for 2010 were:

President Elliot NubergVice President Martin BreuerTreasurer Nina HamesSecretary Annika TweddellArc delegate Rebecca TemperleyOH&S coordinator Ahmet Kale (Sem. 1) & Immanuel Gacis (Sem. 2)Sports representative Patrick ShephardAdvertising representative Daniel Morris & Tania MilinkovichWeb authority Wendy Zheng

Social report from CEVSOC for 2010

The entire committee worked tirelessly throughout 2010 to provide students with various social events and networking opportunities with both their fellow peers and industry. 2010 also marked a new era in interaction of CEVSOC with the school, with members of the committee regularly meeting with school management to discuss concerns and to seek support for events. At many of the events, the doors were opened to staff, which allowed students to interact with their educators over a casual chat (or often a beer).

Achievements of 2010

CEVSOC affiliated with ARC in 2010. We also produced jerseys and tees, and worked hard to get students a study room, shared kitchenette, CEVSOC office, noticeboard, trophy cabinet and plenty of school sponsorship.


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BBQs and pizza nights

To help celebrate the start, mid and end of every semester (plus a few in between), we served several thousand beers, soft drinks and snags at our pizza nights and BBQs around campus. 2010 also marked the return of the classic CEVSOC pizza nights in the design studio of Civil Engineering. Over 20 companies attended our events, and it was great to see students take full advantage of these networking opportunities.

Cardno Cup

The inaugural Cardno sponsored staff versus students football match was held in April 2010. With the Sam Cracknell Pavillion full of cheering engineers. The students managed to squeeze out a win in what was a hotly contested battle.

Harbour Cruise

Towards the conclusion of Semester 1, we donned the outfits of our favourite characters, to pack a boat full of 250 bustling partygoers, in what was our largest harbour cruise ever.

Faculty of Engineering Sports Day

The third inter-school sports day was held in early August. Teams from almost all schools fiercely competed. Who knows why though, when CEVSOC continued to dominate for the third year running.

Fourth year dinner

On November 19, the graduating class of 2010 celebrated their time together at university, dancing the night away at the prestigious Sheraton on the Park.

A mixture of students, staff and sponsors composed the 200 guests, who came together to celebrate four years hard work, farewell each other and wish their classmates the very best for the next chapters in their lives.

The future

A new committee was elected at the Oktoberfest BBQ & AGM. The new committee are a combination of 3rd, 4th and 5th year students who are keen to continue current CEVSOC traditions, whilst creating new exciting initiatives to improve student life at the University of New South Wales.

Elliot NubergCEVSOC President 2010


School Teaching And Learning Facilities

Computing Report 2010

UNSW’s IT Change Program affected several of our School’s operations:

m The migration of computers in our two undergraduate labs to Standard Operating Environment (SOE) has been completed successfully.

m Computers of administrative staff have been migrated to SOE.

m Computers of technical staff have been migrated to SOE.

m Computers are provided to every full-time PhD students. Most of the computers are on SOE.

m New Lexmark T656 printers in the two computer labs were installed and put into centrally managed printing services. New Lexmark T656 printers were also installed for staff and research student printing.

m Migration to UNSW File Service has been completed. This centralised file storage service enables the access of files off-campus.

m The network gate to our building has be upgraded 10 Gigabit.

m Our Windows based servers have been moved to IT@UNSW. Our Linux servers namely; Web and Civil Mail servers remain with the School. They are scheduled to be decommissioned in 2011.

m Public pages of our school web site are being moved to a faculty CMS (Content Management System) server. Restricted pages, applications and database driven pages remain with the School’s Web server based on TYPO3 4.0 CMS. We are moving our Web server to a new Linux Virtual Server hosted by IT@UNSW and upgrade to TYPO3 4.4.4.

m Our staff email distribution lists has been migrated to the Majordomo system hosted by IT@UNSW. We will migrate course email lists in Semester 1, 2011.

As a part of UNSW’s shared services model, one of our IT staff, Robert Hegedus, moved to IT@UNSW.

In 2010, there was also a coordinated Faculty-wide approach to computing infrastructure, services and support. All School web sites will be hosted by the Faculty. A PC clusters (1488 compute cores, 3TB memory and 54TB shared disk storage) has been installed to support computationally intensive research.

A summary of the School’s computing facilities in 2010 is:

m 2 WinXP laboratories (Lab 201 and Lab 611) with 80 SOE computers for undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students.

m Networked administrative and technical staff SOE PCs.

m Networked SOE and non-SOE PCs for PhD students.

m Networked laser printers, scanners and other peripherals.

The general opening hours for the undergraduate and coursework postgraduate laboratories are 8 am to 10 pm (weekdays), and 10am to 6pm (Saturdays) during Semester. Four student assistants were employed to man the laboratories after hours (6pm to 10pm) during weekdays and during Saturdays, and also for audiovisual support.

eLearning Report 2010

In 2010 a new online learning system Blackboard 9 (BB9) completely replaced My eLearning VISTA . BB9 contains a variety of teaching tools catering to the needs of a digital classroom, and can be used as a tool for storing essential course material, a multimedia resource library and an online venue for discussions.

In 2010, we had over 100 BB9 Modules with large numbers of academic, visiting, casual teaching staff, and students participating in online learning and teaching.

The management of My eLearning process is carried out within the School, with some support from IT Service Desk and UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit. BB9 modules are automatically created by default along with NSS course catalogue creation by the School’s administrative officer, Flora Fan. The School’s Web/IT coordinator, Kate Brown, administrates and applies appropriate templates to each Module, facilitates staff/teaching assistants enrolment and coordinates training.

A few online courses are run on Moodle which is hosted by the Faculty of Engineering. Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle offers more complex quiz facilities for those who use extensive online assessment. Moodle is supported by the Faculty of Engineering‘s Educational Technologist, John Paul Posada.

Interactive whiteboard, lecture recording and video conferencing facilities have been installed in Room 701 and Room 501 of the Civil and Environmental Engineering building. Staff produced their lecture videos and uploaded them via UNSW TV to enhance their distance teaching. The School’s Computer System Officer, Patrick Vuong assists academic staff with any technical issues that may occur during recording.

industry & community


Industry Advisory Committee

For many years, Heads of School have sought the advice of the civil and environmental engineering industry on the School’s Strategic Plan, on Course content, on enrolment numbers, on the number and quality of graduates, on Engineers Australia accreditation and on changes to academic staffing and School infrastructure. This advice has traditionally come from a group of leading engineers chosen (by the Head of School) from local firms and authorities representative of civil engineering design, construction, operations, research and management.

The present IAC consists of 15 members, a number of whom are school alumni. The group is also representative of the School’s current corporate sponsors and includes two from the list of “Australia’s 100 Most Influential Engineers”.

The IAC meets quarterly and enjoys enthusiastic and regular attendances. At most meetings the Committee reviews:

(1) Progress on School infrastructure projects.

(2) New staff appointments.

(3) Activities of the School’s External Relations group.

(4) Progress on specific briefs (such as Environmental Engineering numbers) from both the IAC and the Head of School.

(5) IAC member’s reports on School functions such as Final Year Thesis presentations, PhD poster presentations and the launching of the School History.

IAC members have also been active in developing joint research projects between School researchers and industry as well as in the funding and the establishment of the new Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation.

During 2010, the IAC and the School have undertaken two important initiatives. They are:

m Bus tours of Sydney region engineering works for Year 10 High School students to introduce civil engineering as a possible career choice.

m Maths Prizes for Primary School students.

The Bus Tours were organised with the NSW Department of Education and Training and High School Careers Advisers. During the July 2010 vacation week, 30 Year 10 students visited sewerage treatment works, highway tunnels, new road works, city building sites and port and coastal infrastructure. Daily reporting requirements ensured that the program met education training obligations and students received a certificate of Attendance from the School. Places on the program were keenly sought and complements were received from both students and career advisers. The School has undertaken to run the program again in 2011.

Awarding prizes for Primary School Maths is an IAC initiative now funded by the School. The awards were presented by School staff and IAC members to 16 local Primary Schools in November 2010. The winners were selected by the staff from the Primary School as an encouragement toward further maths study and possibly even toward an engineering career. It is hoped to expand the number of participating schools next year and to include other alumni amongst the presenters.

Both these initiatives arose from an earlier IAC examination of engineering student numbers and their academic quality and ways of improving both. Over the past five years the Australian economy has wrought a minor miracle with both student numbers and their ATAR improving markedly. The Bus Tours and Maths Prizes are both longer term projects whose results may not become visible for three to six years.

In 2011, the IAC will renew its association with High School Careers Advisers through the Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner.

Overseas appointments and resignation of long serving members may allow the introduction of a system of rotating membership as well as providing opportunities for other corporate sponsors to be more closely involved with the School and activities. This topic has been discussed and agreed by the IAC in both 2009 and 2010.

Donald Macleod Outgoing Chair


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IAC Committee Members 2010

Donald Macleod (Chair)Maunsell (retired)

Deirdre Agnew Student Careers AdvisorSt Aloysius Kirribilli

Stephen BossRegional Director NSW & QLDConstruction + DevelopmentBrookfield Multiplex Limited

Adrian BullSenior Project Manager - Infrastructure Division NSW Transport & Infrastructure

Dr Robert CareCEO Arup AustralasiaChair RedRDeputy Chair, Australian Construction Industry Forum

Dr Kourosh Kayvani Innovation Leader - Asia Pacific Aurecon

David KinniburghSydney Operating Centre ManagerGHD

Ian McIntyre Principal Evans and Peck

Associate Professor Garry Mostyn Principal Pells Sullivan Meynink

Col NicholsonGeneral Manager, Operations DivisionSydney Water

Ken PorterPrincipal Road Pavement and Geotechnical engineer, RTA

Andrew TompsonProperty ConsultantTSA Management

Dave WilsonExecutive General ManagerLeighton Contractors Pty Ltd

Staff profiles IAC

Professor T David Waite Scientia Professor and Head of School

Associate Professor Ron Cox Co-Chair, External Relations CommitteeConvenor, ACCARNSISir John Holland Civil Engineer of the Year 2008

Dr Kurt DouglasCo-Chair, External Relations CommitteePells Sullivan Meynink Senior Lecturer of Rock Mechanics

Dr Mary O’ConnellManager - External Relations & School Historian


Welcome Ian McIntyre

The new Chair of the School’s Industry Advisory Committee is Ian McIntyre - a Principal of Evans & Peck and the Group’s Contract Services Leader. He graduated in Civil Engineering from UNSW in 1974 with First Class Honours. As a consultant for the past 24 years, Ian has advised in relation to project delivery processes on a wide range of infrastructure, systems integration and building projects throughout Australia and Asia, especially Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Assignments include power stations, transmission lines, mineral processing plants, dams, roads, airports, ports, tunnels, factory developments, CBD offi ce buildings, public entertainment and convention facilities, hospitals, schools and ICT system integration projects.

His experience prior to joining Evans & Peck in 1987 was in project management and engineering in construction contracting. This involved major civil engineering and multi disciplinary projects throughout Australia and in Hong Kong.

Ian is frequently retained in “trouble shooting”, independent review, expert witness and due diligence roles and has considerable experience in analysis of the reasons for project delivery problems. As a result, he is particularly interested in promoting awareness of the factors which are typically associated with successful project delivery strategies leading to successful project outcomes.

He is graded as an Arbitrator and is an experienced expert witness in relation to project performance issues. Ian has been involved with the School for a number of years as a generous, supportive industry advisor, and we look forward to continuing to benefi t from his considerable expertise and experience.

Thank you Donald Macleod

After six years as Chair of the Industry Advisory Committee, Donald Macleod stepped down from the role at the end of 2010. In a consulting career at Maunsell Australia (now AECOM) spanning 28 years, Donald worked on environmental management, water developments, environmental impact assessments, freeway, port and rail projects in all Australian states and in 13 overseas countries. He managed Maunsell offi ces in four states and was Chairman of both the Australian operating and the shareholding boards.

During his time as Chair of the IAC Donald not only effectively led the Committee at its quarterly meetings but also generously involved himself in many activities to support and promote the School - including taking part in the planning seminars leading to the fi rst School Strategic Plan; organising, participating and reporting on the 2006 & 2007 engineering skills shortage seminars - held in conjunction with industry, government and other universities; reviewing student numbers and experiences in the BE (environmental); and in urging closer relationships with the world outside of the School. Under his aegis, the School developed closer relationships with school careers advisors, primary schools (Maths Prize), secondary schools (Year 10 Bus Tours) and its own alumni.

He was a major support and a source of wise counsel to the Head of School and the External Relations Committee, and his contribution and leadership will be greatly missed.


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Prize in Mathematics

As part of the IAC brief to assist the School in raising the profi le of the profession amongst school students, a UNSW Civil and Environmental Engineering Prize in Mathematics was offered to a trial number of Sydney primary schools in 2010. The objective of this prize - to the value of $100 - was to encourage a lifelong interest in mathematics, as one of the key requirements for a rewarding and fulfi lling engineering career. Therefore we advised participating schools that the selection criteria should emphasize applications and creativity as well as class projects and test results.

Sixteen Sydney schools participated in the trial, and prizes were given to 45 young students, of whom one third were girls, giving hope for an improvement in our gender balance in the future. Members of our Industry Advisory Committee, School staff and some illustrious alumni presented the awards at School end of year ceremonies, further raising the profi le of the profession, and the University, to hundreds of young people and their families.

Year 10 Bus Tour

In 2010 a Year 10 bus tour was a successful joint School Industry Advisory Committee and External Relations Committee venture. With assistance from the Vocational Training Division of NSW Department of Education and Training – all NSW High Schools were invited to participate in the special tour of selected engineering sites, to be held on 21 – 25 June.

Applications were dealt with by the School, and 30 Year 10 students were selected from many more applications. Students were picked up at from Central Station Bus stop at 9am and returned at 5pm each day. Daily themes were: Water, wastewater and environment: Road, transport and underground: Structures and design: Coastal and port infrastructure: Construction and project management.

Students returned to UNSW each afternoon to produce a 1 page report. Follow up surveys revealed a very positive impact. School careers advisors noted that the ‘overwhelming student response was positive’, that the program was well structured and organised, ‘fun, informative and challenging.’ The IAC felt that the results were very positive and that the process had defi nitely raised the profi le of the profession and of UNSW amongst high school students.

CIES – engaging industry through an ongoing series of informative and industry relevant seminars

The Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety is focused on high-level research in structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, engineering materials and computational mechanics. Specifi cally, we apply our skills to engineering and safety assessments and with the risk management of buildings, bridges, dams, roads and other infrastructure when subjected to both in-service conditions and overload (or limit) conditions, such as may occur in fi re, earthquake, cyclone or blast situations, or when structures are exposed to hostile environments.

Key to our ongoing success will be the task of building a stronger profi le for CIES by engaging with, and further developing links with Industry. As part of this engagement with industry, CIES actively promotes its activities, including industry focussed evenings and its series of free School Seminars presented by visiting a-cademics as well as CIES researchers.

Above Left: Alumnus Melissa Mole (BE ‘10) pictured here with her primary school teacher Tracey Hutcheson, returned to her old school at Mt Colah to present the School’s maths prize.

Above Right: CIES Seminar Presentation on: “Fracture of Concrete and Fibre Reinforced Concrete - fundamental issues and practical implications”.L to R: Dr Adrian Russell (CIES), Nitin Malgaonkar (Project Engineer RTA), Professor Jan van Mier (Guest presenter - ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich), Prof Stephen Foster (Director, CIES). Dec 2010.


Industry Partners & Supporters

The School has strong active links with industry and is very committed to continuing and developing these strong ties.

Our Industry Partnership Program (IPP) allows for the opportunity to further develop the productive relationship between the School, its staff, students and industry. Money raised through the IPP is administered by the School’s External Relations Committee and is used for the purpose of raising the profile of the School and the engineering profession in various ways - as well as developing ways for our current students to interact with industry partners. The School is very active in working with the Faculty of Engineering, Engineers Australia and our own Industry Advisory Committee in promoting the profession to high school and primary school students. As well as continuing our extensive outreach to high schools and high school careers advisers, in 2010 we also worked with primary schools in developing early knowledge and interest in engineering.

Our own students are bright, enthusiastic, ambitious and committed. It is important that they can see a direct path through our education programs into the exciting and challenging world of civil and environmental engineering. The annual Industry Partners Careers Market is therefore an important School activity, where industry representatives meet with Year 3 and Year 4 students. This event has proved of major value to industry in identifying students for industrial training placements or graduate employment.

Industry partners and supporters are also invited to the annual Year 4 dinner where many companies provide prizes for outstanding fourth year students. Other industry supporters provide scholarships for students. Industry Partners are also invited to the School to give technical lectures within various classes and to provide talks and information on various career opportunities for our students.

Acknowledgement of Industry Partners is made through the School website, and in the widely distributed Annual Report. Industry Partner logos are also featured in the Report and were included on

the inside cover of the School History published in December 2010. There is a continual distribution of information about employment opportunities with IP companies on School notice boards. For Industry Partners only, we also directly email career information to all relevant undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Raising their profile with the staff and students of the School is just one beneficial aspect of industry partnership. Industry Partners and Supporters are also invited to School research seminars, honours thesis seminars and postgraduate research poster forums. This provides industry with the opportunity to get current with the frontier of engineering knowledge. In recent years some industry partners have actively invested in extending the reaches and uses of engineering and scientific knowledge and research. Several School academic positions are currently funded through the generosity of industry including:

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) - a public research organisation - provides funding support for Dr Richard Collins –a Senior Research Fellow at the School’s Water Research centre whose work on trace element (metal, metalloid and actinide) environmental chemistry – aims for aquatic and soil remediation.

Garry Johnston provides funding support for the Gary Johnston Professor of Water Management, a joint Chair between the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) in the Faculty of Science, which is held by groundwater expert Professor Ian Acworth.

Pells Sullivan Meynink Pty Ltd, a high profile firm of specialist geotechnical consultants, provide funding support for the position of Pells Sullivan Meynink Senior Lecturer of Rock Mechanics, Dr Kurt Douglas.

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support for the position of State Water Senior Lecturer of Dam Engineering, Dr Hossein Taiebat.

And in 2010 we welcomed the generous contribution of Evans & Peck – an international infrastructure-based advisory company – in the establishment of a new Chair – the Evans & Peck Professor for Transport Innovation. In 2011 Professor Travis Waller will lead a new Faculty–wide Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (RCITI) which will investigate sustainable approaches to transport infrastructure and operations. The Centre will be based in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

New research with industry:

Industry Partners are always very welcome to discuss new research projects with us. In 2010 our industry and government-related research income totaled over $10.8m, involving over one hundred partnering organisations from private industry, public utilities, and all levels of government.

Moreover, in the Australian Research Council’s 2010 final round of research grants, we gained 2 new Linkage grants - totaling $1.75m, with partnering organisations including Actew AGL, GHD Pty Ltd, Goulburn Murray Water, Melbourne Water Corporation, Murray-Darling Basin Authority, New South Wales Cane Growers’ Association Inc., NSW Dam Safety Committee, NSW Public Works and Services, New South Wales Sugar Milling Co-operative Limited, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Australia Pty Ltd (SMEC), SunWater Limited, Tweed Shire Council and Water Corporation of WA.

Thank you to our current Industry Partners & Supporters:

AECOM

ANSTO

ARUP

Aurecon

Brookfield Multiplex Ltd

Cardno

Evans & Peck

GHD

Hyder Consulting Pty Ltd

Laing O’Rourke

Leighton Contractors

Leighton Holdings

Macmahon Contractors

MWH

NSW Water Solutions, NSW Public Works

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Pells Sullivan Meynink Pty Ltd

RTA

Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Ltd

SMEC Australia

State Water

Sydney Water

Taylor Thomson Whitting

Worley Parsons (Patterson Britton & Partners)


External Relations

During 2010, the External Relations Committee (ERC) continued its role in assisting with marketing, student recruitment and further developing the School’s relationship with industry and alumni.

Committee members represent and promote the School at many presentations and functions both on and off campus. These include numerous information days, High School and Engineering Week talks, an innovative introduction to engineering at Loquat Valley Primary School with Year 1 children, the Honeywell Engineering Summer School, National Youth Science Forum, UNSW Open Day and the Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School.

New promotional activities undertaken in 2010 in conjunction with the School’s Industry Advisory Committee included the week long daily bus tour with selected Year 10 students to engineering sites of interest, and the inaugural UNSW School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Primary School Prize in Mathematics. (see accompanying story)

Dr Kurt Douglas coordinated the School’s participation at the UNSW Open Day in September, the biggest day of interaction between UNSW and the community. School staff and undergraduate and postgraduate students provided the face and voice of the School to hundreds of prospective students and their families. School staff also spent many hours interviewing potential students as part of the Faculty of Engineering Admission Scheme (FEAS).

The School Industry Supporters Careers Market held at the end of March provided close interaction between over 250 year 3 and 4 students and industry supporters of the School, with many students fi nding IT placements and/or interviews for employment during the day. Representatives from industry supporters - Arup, Brookfi eld

Multiplex, Cardno, Evans & Peck, GHD, Hyder, Laing O’Rourke, Macmahon Contractors, Parsons Brinckerhoff, SMEC, and Taylor Thomson Whitting- reported back that they too found the day very useful, having enjoyed the opportunity to meet quality students.

The ERC liaised with industry sponsors in order to support the annual Fourth Year Dinner held at the end of the academic year at Sheraton on the Park. Eleven $1000 awards were presented by industry and government for achievement in academic disciplines, industrial training and engineering professional practice. Industry also provided an additional $11,000 in total to subsidise the ticket price for our students.

The Committee also undertook the massive task of organising the School History Booklaunch. Current and past staff, alumni, friends and industry supporters of the School came together for a wonderful few hours on December 2 at Leighton Hall in the Scientia to celebrate over sixty years of hard work and great achievements.

The School continues to develop its relationship with alumni, emailing the School newsletter to over 900 alumni and posting out the Annual Report to all web registered alumni. The inaugural alumni newsletter was produced in March 2010 and mailed out to over 4,000 alumni. Over 130 alumni actively participated in responding to School History questionnaires, and over 150 attended the history book launch. All alumni, undergraduate, postgraduate and PhDs are listed in the History.

For further information on external relations, alumni, the IAC and School Industry Partnership programme contact Dr Mary O’Connell at [email protected]

Co-Chairs, Ron Cox and Kurt Douglas with External Relations Administrator Mary O’Connell. Other Committee members are Steve Davis, Karenne Irvine, Markus Oeser and Ian Turner.


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Alumni

In 1960 25 young and hopeful civil engineers graduated from the School. Fifty years later ten of them returned to campus to celebrate their golden jubilees at a special Faculty Luncheon. As one alumni said, he wasn’t even certain that he would recognise anyone. Recognition of each other, however, turned out to be relatively easy, compared to recognising the transformed built environment of the university. Civil engineering was the last School to move to Kensington so the graduates of 1960 had most of their lectures and laboratories at the old UNSW campus at Ultimo, on the site, that is now occupied by the UTS tower.

Peter Cockerill, BE’60, who gave the address for civil engineering alumni remembered the impact the fi rst Head of School, Professor Crawford Munro had on them all in their fi rst week at Ultimo. ‘We were seated at our desks when the Professor strode in, his trousers held up by his neck-tie which he was using as a belt, and with a booming voice began his welcome with “So these are the new students!” He was quite a character, in many ways larger than life. A considerable infl uence for all of us and a considerable infl uence in the rapid development of the School during those early years.

And of course there were the once a year Civil Engineering Dinners. Perhaps my recollection of these is a little distorted for I can recall that there were only two items on the menu: Sydney rock oysters and beer. A plentiful quantity of both. These days, the cost of the oysters would be prohibitive and the return home for anyone driving could be disastrous, but things were different in those days. I still remember with delight the “boat races” held during these dinners, each of which was commenced by Professor Munro bringing an axe handle down onto the trestle table that separated the two teams.

Interesting how you remember the fun and fi nd it diffi cult to recall the hard work and long hours of study! However, speaking as a former student of the School of Civil Engineering, I am vaguely aware that as a group we were all very much head down and tail up, which is not surprising as in those days there was no general assistance with university fees, and nearly all of us relied on the sponsorship of a company or government department.

In conclusion I would have to say that it was a great time to enter the profession of Civil Engineering. Compared with today: engineering science was certainly more basic and probably more down to earth. Many of the engineering tools and methods that we now take for granted were still being developed or were yet to arrive. We calculated with the aid of slide rules and mathematical tables. In fact it was only during that fi rst year of ours, 1956, that the University acquired its fi rst digital computer.

But our university prepared us with the broadest possible training that defi nitely equipped us well for the rapid developments that took place over the later years and for that I feel I can say with confi dence for all that are here, Thank you University of NSW.’

The online Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Registration is a contact point between the School and its Alumni. The School would like to keep in touch with its graduates so that you can be kept informed of key developments in the School and provide a link between the graduates.

Please let us know where you are by fi lling out the Registration form www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/alumni_industry_relations/alumni/alumni_registration/index.html

Golden Jubilee AlumniBack Row L-R: Mary O’Connell (External Relations), Anthony Norton, Neville Jones, Rahmah Cockerill, Peter Cockerill, Prof David Waite (Head of School), John Simpson, Wallace Whittaker, Ian PittawayFront : l-R: Norman Griffiths, John Hyslop, Theo ten Brummelaar, Donald Brewer.


Staff Industry & Community Engagement

Dr Martin AndersenInvited keynote presentations:

Keynote Presentation: Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) 2010. 4th-8th July 2010, Canberra, Australia. Keynote Presentation (with Wendy Timms) Annual Cotton Science Conference, Narrabri, 26th-28th October, 2010.

Conferences:

XXXVIII - IAH Congress, Krakow, Poland. 12-17 September, 2010.

Groundwater 2010 IAH Australia ‘the challenge of sustainable management’ Canberra, Australia 31 October – 4 November 2010.

Recipient: 1st prize (with Meredith K., Timms, W. & Acworth, R.I). for best science poster at 15th Australian Cotton Conference, The Gold Coast, Australia. August 10-12,2010.

Research visit at the USGS in the South-West US: Four seminar presentations in the US at USGS Menlo Park, CA 15th July 2010; USGS Reno, Nevada, 19th July 2010; USGS Salt Lake City, Utah, 21st July 2010 and USGS Boulder, Colorado, 23rd July 2010.

Research visit at the Geocenter, University of Copenhagen, Denmark:

Invited Presentation at the Namoi Groundwater Forum organised by The Namoi Catchment Management Authority and the Cotton Catchment Communities CRC, Tamworth, NSW, 3 Dec 2010.

Associate Editor of Hydrogeology Journal.

Associate Professor Mario AttardConferences:

21st Australian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Melbourne, 7-10 Dec 2010.

Joint 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia 19- 23 July 2010

Member: Editorial Panel for ISRN Civil Engineering

Professor Andy BakerAssociate Editor, Water Research. Peer review board - UK Royal Society (International Grants Scheme). International Advisor - UK NERC Radiocarbon Steering Committee.

Recipient: ARC Superscience Fellowship

Dr Mark BlighConferences:

Goldschmidt 2010, Knoxville Tennessee, June 13 – 18

AMSA2010 (Australian Marine Science Association), Wollongong, July 4 – 8

James CarleyConferences:

Coast2Coast, National Coastal Management Conference, Adelaide 2010: NSW Coastal Conference, Batemans Bay 2010: Surfing Reef Symposium, Bondi 2010

Member of Engineers Australia’s NSW maritime panel

Member of Sydney Coastal Councils’ sea level rise expert group

Associate Professor Ronald J CoxClimate change adaptation for settlements and infrastructure - providing advice to NSW government via high-level advisory panel and to Commonwealth government as Convenor of ACCARNSI, Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure.

Attendance at Conference and Institutional Visits - 2010

As Convenor ACCARNSI made numerous invited visits to institutions Australia wide for presentations to research groups, government and industry;

Invitee, Murray Darling Basin Authority workshop, Canberra; Convenor of Climate Change Adaptation forums for Early Career Researchers in Gold Coast and Adelaide; Invitee, NSW Infrastructure Adaptation Forum, Sydney; Presenter, QLD Stormwater Industry Conference, Sunshine Coast; Organiser, EIANZ Learning to Adapt Forums, UNSW and Darling Harbour; Participant, 1st International Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Gold Coast; Participant, ICCE2010, International Conference Coastal Engineering, Shanghai; Invitee, Emergency Management and Land Use Planning workshop, Attorney General & EMA, Victoria; Invitee, Sydney Coastal Council Group Coastal Planning workshop, Sydney; Invitee, Climate Change Adaptation workshops, Go8+ Engineering Deans, Canberra and Adelaide; Participant, Coast to Coast conference, Adelaide; Presenter, Responding to Climate Change conference, Engineers Australia, Melbourne; Chair, Engineers Australia Accreditation visit, Uni of Sunshine Coast; Presenter, Australian Industry Group, Climate Change Adaptation, Melbourne; Convenor, Australian and State Local Government Associations, Needs workshop, Adelaide; Geoscience Australia; Griffith University Centre for Coastal Management, Gold Coast, QLD; Queensland University, Brisbane, QLD; Adelaide University SA; University of South Australia, SA; Commonwealth Dept Climate Change and Energy Efficiency DCCEE; Geoscience Australia; NSW Dept Environment, Climate Change and Water DECCW; Sydney Water; Ports Australia; Sydney Ports Corporation; QLD Department Environment & Natural Resource Management DERM.

Consulting and other Activities - 2010

Coastal processes, coastal structures and coastal zone management incorporating climate change adaptation at various sites around Australia; Port development, port operations and environmental issues in relation to various port projects within Australia and overseas; Environmental aspects related to desalination plants.

Completed 2 research reports on life safety (people/vehicles) in floods for new edition of Australian Rainfall & Runoff.

Membership of Committees and Panels - 2010 Member, writing team, National Adaptation Research Plan for Settlements and Infrastructure; Member, Engineers Australia National Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering; Member, Engineers Australia Sydney Maritime Panel; Member, PIANC International Advisory Committee for COPEDEC; Board Member, PIANC Australia; Member, PIANC International Co-operation Commission; Member, International Editorial Board, Coastal Engineering Journal Japan; Member, International Editorial Panel; Maritime Engineering Journal UK; Chair, School External Relations Committee; Member, Water Research Management Committee; Member School Management Group; Member Faculty Standing Committee; Chair, Engineers Australia Accreditation Panel for University of Sunshine Coast; Member Scientific Committee, IAHR International Conference, Brisbane 2011; Member Organising Committee, EIANZ workshops, Sydney 2010; Member, Climate Change Science Review Network advising NSW DECCW; Member, Infrastructure Adaptation Panel, NSW DECCW; Member Coastal Advisory Panel, NSW DECCW.

Visitors - 2010

Dr Andrew Garcia, Waterways Experimental Station, US Army Corps of Engineers , Vicksburg, USA.

Dr Kurt DouglasConferences:

44th US Rock Mechanics Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 27-30 June, 2010

11th International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, 5-10 September, 2010

Dr Wei GaoConferences:

The 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, 19-23 July 2010, Sydney, Australia.

The 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM21), 7-10 December 2010, Melbourne, Australia.

Professor Ian GilbertAttendances at Conferences and National Seminars:

ASEC 2010, Australian Structural Engineering Conference, August, Sydney;

Invited Speaker, SEMC 2010, The Fourth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, September, Cape Town, South Africa.

Keynote Speaker, 21st Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ASMSM21), Victoria University, Melbourne, December 2010;

Serviceability, Design for Deflection and Crack Control, National Seminar, Concrete Institute of Australia, presented in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart, July 2010.

AS3600-2009, What’s New? What’s Different?, National Seminar, Concrete Institute of Australia, presented in Hobart, May, 2010.

Local and International Institutional Visits:

University of Melbourne (July); University of Queensland (July); University of Cape Town (September), Imperial College, London (January and September); Victoria University (December); University of Sydney (numerous visits); and University of Technology Sydney (numerous visits).

Fellow, IEAust; Member of the American Concrete Institute; Member and Academic Principal Representative of Concrete Institute of Australia; Elected member of the National Council, Concrete Institute of Australia; Member, Standards Australia Committees BD-002 Concrete Structures; Chair of Sub-Committee BD-002-06 Serviceability, Member of Sub-Committees BD-002-01 and BD1-002-04;

Dr Rita HendersonConferences :

IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition, Montreal, Canada, 19-24th September, 2010 (Invited to accept IWA YWP AWARD and give presentation in Workforce development workshop): 1st AWA National Operations Conference, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia, 13-15th September, 2010.: 2nd National Cyanobacterial Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 2-3rd August, 2010.: National Japan Water and Environmental Technology conference (WET2010), Yokohama, Japan, 25-26 June, 2010 (Invited Speaker)

Seminars/conferences organised:

MBR 2010 – From fundamentals to future research in Australia, Scientia, UNSW, 13th-14th April 2010 (jointly organised between WRC and UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology)

YWPC 2010 – 5th IWA International Young Water Professional conference, Scientia, UNSW, 5-7th July 2010


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Member:Water Quality Research Australia Education Committee;

YWP Representative on IWA Australia committee

Recipient: IWA Young Water Professional Award 2010

Dr Matt McCabeConferences:

Keynote speaker: Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA IV) international conference, Lhasa, China: Invited Speaker: Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Scientific Steering Committee Meeting, New Delhi, India: Invited Speaker: Pan-GEWEX Meeting, Seattle, USA; Invited Speaker: HESSS-2 International Workshop, Tokyo, Japan

Member:

American Geophysical Union’s Hydrology Section Remote Sensing Technical Committee

Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Radiation Panel

Scientific Co-Lead Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) LandFlux Initiative

Scientific and Organizing Committee, International Workshop on The Roles of Stable Isotopes in Water Cycle Research

Scientific and Organizing Committee, Hydrology delivers Earth Systems Science to Society (HESSS-2), Tokyo, Japan

Other:

Chinese Academy of Sciences Foreign Visiting Expert Scholarship, Center for Agricultural Resources Research

Guest Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes

Stephen J MooreTwo week visit to National Taiwan University and CTCI Foundation in Taipei in July 2010 to initiate research project on extending the scope of national substance flow analysis to include trade related effects. This will be undertaken in late 2011 as part of Stephen Moore’s collaborative research at NTU and Kyoto University.Teaching in Faculty of Built Environment on environmental and waste management.

Member: Technical Group for the Australian Hazardous Waste Act;

Editorial Board member for International Solid Waste Association;

Member Editorial Board Journal Hazardous Materials;

Member Editorial Board Journal Environment, Development and Sustainability

Dr Markus OeserConferences:

The 11th International Conference on Asphalt Pavements, ISAP, August 1 to 6 2010, Nagoya, Japan:

The 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM/APCOM2010, July 19 to 23, 2010, Sydney, Australia

Organized a Mini Symposium on Advanced Modelling and Characterization of Pavement Materials within the WCCM/APCOM2010 Conference.

Dr William PeirsonAdvised the NSW and Victorian governments on environmental flows from major dam storages.

Conferences:

International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Shanghai, CHINA: 30 June to 5 July 2010

The 6th International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces. Kyoto, JAPAN. May 17-21, 2010 –PIC Xia Yan and myself in Kyoto.

Dr Adrian RussellConferences:

The Joint 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sydney, Australia.

The 2nd International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing, Huntington Beach, California, USA.

Secretary and Proceedings Editor, the Joint 9th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics, attracting 1200 delegates.

Professor Ashish SharmaConferences :

American Geophysical Union Western Pacific Meeting (Taipei, Taiwan): International Associate of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Statistical Hydrology working group meeting (STAHY) (Taormina, Italy): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco, USA)

Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology (ERA-A*)

Associate Editor, Water Resources Research (ERA-A*)

Expert review on water balance, State Water Corporation, NSW,

Expert review on reservoir operation, Sydney Catchment Authority,

Recipient: Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2011-2014)

Dr Michael ShortMember: The International Scientific Review Committee for WSP 2011 conference (run by International Water Association).

Reports for EPA Victoria, and OneSteel Ltd

Dr Wendy Timms Conferences:

1st Australian and New Zealand FEFLOW Workshop, 4-6th May,2010, Sydney: Blue Mountains City Council Forum 30th October, 2010: Namoi Groundwater Forum, Tamworth, 3rd December 2010:

International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, 28th June to 1st July, 2010: Groundwater 2010 “The Challenges of sustainable management”, Canberra, 31 October -4th November, 2010.

Vice President, International Association of Hydrogeologists Australia

Chair, NSW Branch International Association of Hydrologeologists

Member: Groundwater Review Panel, Murray Darling Basin Authority: also Groundwater Model Review Panel, Western Australian Department of Water

Recipient: Science Excellence Award with Dr Martin Andersen, Dr Karina Meredith (ANSTO) and Prof Ian Acworth from Cotton Catchment Communities CRC

Grants: NCGRT P1B aquitard research program through CWI mid-2009-mid-2014, $3.4 million

Associate Professor Ian TurnerConferences:

Coast2Coast, National Coastal Management Conference, Adelaide 2010: Wind Waves Research Science Symposium, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Gold Coast:

National Coastal Observation Network Workshop, NSW DECCW, Sydney Institute of Marine Science.

Member: Engineers Australia National Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Dr Upali VandebonaConference:

Seminar on Theory and Application of Pedestrian Travel Culture, 3 December 2010, Busan National University, South Korea.

Dr Zora VrceljConference:

ConnectED Conference – Member of the Organising Committee, 2nd International Conference on Design Education, 28 June – 1 July 2010 Sydney Australia

Presentation: at University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Professor T David Waite2010 Invited Presentations at Conferences

Waite, T.D., Garg, S. and Rose, A.L. Photochemical production of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide from natural organic matter. Keynote lecture at 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, March 22-25.

Waite, T.D. Generation of reactive oxygen species at nanoparticulate surfaces. Plenary lecture at 6th International Conference on Interfaces Against Pollution (IAP2010) Conference, Beijing, May 16-19.

Waite, T.D. Reactive oxygen species generation by elemental iron and silver nanoparticulates. Invited lecture at Goldschmidt 2010 Symposium on Nanoparticles Important to the Environment: Structure, Reactivity, Analysis, Knoxville, Tennessee, June 13-18.

Waite, T.D., Fenton chemistry in homogeneous and heterogeneous environments. Invited lecture at Telluride Workshop on Iron Biogeochemistry, Telluride, West Colorado, July 27-31.

Waite, T.D. Production of reactive oxygen species by silver nanoparticles – implications for bactericidal activity. Invited lecture at 16th Conference on Advanced Oxidation Technologies (AOT-16), San Diego, November 15-18.

Waite, T.D. Reactive oxygen species generation by elemental nanoparticulates, Keynote lecture at Advances in Functional Nanomaterials Conference, Gold Coast, November 25-26

Waite, T.D. Impact of gel layer formation on macromolecule and colloid retention in membrane filtration processes. Invited lecture at Pacifichem 2010 Symposium on Interfacial Chemistry: Fate, Transport, and Adsorption of Nanoparticles, Biocolloids, and Trace Organics in Aquatic Systems, Honolulu, December 15-20.

2010 Conference Committee Roles

Member, Scientific Committee, 9th Conference on Membranes in the Production of Drinking and Industrial Water (MDIW2010), Trondheim, Norway, 27-30 June 2010

Member, International Board, 6th International Conference on Interfaces Against Pollution (IAP2010) Conference, Beijing, May 16-19.

Chairman, Interfaces Against Pollution International Conference Series, 2010-2016.

Member, Organizing Committee, Symposium on Redox Processes on Nanoparticles, Nanomaterials, and Nanostructured Systems in the Environment, Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu December 15-20.


Industry ReportsAttard, MM, Erkmen, E, & Vrcelj, Z (2010) In-Plane Buckling of Shear Deformable Circular Rings and Arches, UNICIV Report R-459.

Blacka, MJ, Carley, JT, & Cox, RJ (2010) Coastal Risk Management Report for the North Palm Beach Surf Live Saving Clubhouse, Palm Beach, WRL Technical Report 2010/22.

Carley, JT, & Cox, RJ (2010) Design Setbacks for Coastal Land, WRL Technical Report 2008/25.

Carley, JT, & Mole, M.A. (2010) Pittwater Estuarine Risk Management Report for Proposed Boatshed at 165 Riverview Road, Clareville, WRL Technical Report 2010/07.

Carley, JT, & Mole, M.A. (2010) Update of Tweed Shire Coastal Hazard Lines, WRL Technical Report 2010/11.

Coghlan, IR, Mole, MA, Shand, TD, Carley, JT, et al, (2010) High Resolution Wave Modelling (HI-WAM) for Batemans Bay Detailed Wave Study, WRL Technical Report 2010/19.

Erkmen, E, & Attard, MM (2010) Nonlinear In-Plane Analysis of Shear Deformable Shallow Circular Arches, UNICIV Report R-458.

Giambastiani, B, McCallum, A, Andersen, MS, & Acworth, RI (2010) Maules Creek Project: A Groundwater Flow Model of the Maules Creek Catchment. Research Report prepared for: Cotton Catchment Communities CRC. Final 15/02 (2010).

Glamore, WC, & Coghlan, IR (2010) Museum Quay Marina, Darling Harbour: 3D Wave Basin Testing of Entrance Conditions, WRL Technical Report 2007/27.

Glamore, W, & Badenhop, AM (2010) Shellharbour Outfall Commissioning: Dilution Testing, December 2006, WRL Technical Report 2007/06.

Glamore, W, & Hawker, K (2010) Shellharbour Outfall Commissioning: Dilution Testing, May 2007, WRL Technical Report 2007/23.

Glamore, W, & Coghlan, IR (2010) Wavescreen Design Testing at Museum Quay Marina, Darling Harbour, WRL Technical Report 2006/16.

Jones, AM, Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) Final Report for Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA) Project 1019 Investigating Scale Formation and Prevention in Small Water Supplies Reliant on Groundwater.

Jones, AM, Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) Interim Report for Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA) Project 1019 Investigating Scale Formation and Prevention in Small Water Supplies Reliant on Groundwater.

Khajeh Samani, A, & Attard MM (2010) A Stress-Strain Model for Uniaxial Compression and Triaxially Confined Plain Concrete Incorporating Size Effect, UNICIV Report- R457.

Kinsela, AS, Collins, RN, & Waite, TD (2010) Sources of problematic contaminants iron & aluminium in Christies Creek, North East NSW - Interim Report.

Mariani, A, & Glamore, WC (2010) Particulate Property Testing Report, Gunns Pulp Mill, WRL Technical Report 2010/10.

Miller, BM, Ruprecht, JE, & Glamore, WC(2010) Christchurch Ocean Outfall Diffuser Trials, WRL Technical Report 2010/14.

Miller, BM, Coghlan, IR, & Cunningham, IL (2010) Three Dimensional Physical Modelling of Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Apron Widening, WRL Technical Report 2006/13.

Pells, SE, & Mehrabi, S (2010) Groundwater Characterisation and Numerical Modelling for Rainbow Beach Estate, WRL Technical Report 2009/32.

Pells, SE (2010) Review of Catchment Processes for the Subcatchment to Flemington Road Pond P2, WRL Technical Report 2009/30.

Pells, SE (2010) Review of Proposed Geothermal Heat Pump Applications Energy Australia Building, Holker Street, Silverwater, WRL Technical Report 2009/29.

Rayner, DS, Wasko, CD, & Miller, BM (2010) Routine Modelling of the Sydney Deepwater Outfalls 2007-2009: Statistical Report, WRL Technical Report 2009/23.

Schulz, M., Peters, G.M. and Short, M.D. (2010) Milestone 10 Report: Sustainability Decision-Making Frameworks (Report to client: EPA Victoria).

Shand, TD, Cox, RJ, Blacka, MJ, & Smith, GP (2010) Appropriate Safety Criteria for Vehicles in Floods, WRL Research Report RR241.

Shand, TD, Carley, JT, & Mole, MA (2010) Mornington Pier Upgrade: 2D Physical Model Testing, WRL Technical Report 2010/08.

Shand, TD, Peirson, B, Banner, ML, & Cox, RJ (2010) Predicting Hazardous Conditions for Rock Fishing - A Physical Model Study, WRL Research Report RR234.

Smith, GP, Glamore, WC, Miller, BM, & Ruprecht, JE (2010) Dye Tracer Testing of the Sydney Desalination Plant Outfall: 26th and 27th August (2010) WRL Technical Report 2010/27.

Tarrade, L, & Miller, BM (2010) Physical Modelling of the Victorian Desalination Plant Outfall, WRL Technical Report 2010/06.

Timms, WA, & (2010) Drilling completion report - Upper Namoi campaign, May.

Timms, WA, Badenhop, AM, Rayner, DS, & Mehrabi, S (2010) Groundwater Monitoring, Evaluation and Grower Survey, Namoi Catchment, Report No. 2, Part A: Results of 2009 Groundwater Monitoring and Recommendations for Future Best Practice Monitoring Framework, Part B: Groundwater User Survey, WRL Technical Report 2009/25.

Timms, WA, Wasko, Pells, SE, & Miller, BM (2010) Ranger Pit No.1 - Groundwater Flow Modelling of Post-closure Conditions, WRL Technical Report (2010)/15.

Wasko, CD, Williams, DF, Miller, BM, & Mehrabi, S (2010) Hydrodynamic and Sedimentation Modelling for the East Arm Port Expansion, Darwin Harbour, WRL Technical Report (2010)/02.

Webb, T, Glamore, WC, & Mariani, A (2010) Particulate Transport Modelling Report, Gunns Pulp Mill, WRL Technical Report 2010/24.

our research centres


Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure

L-R: Dr Philip Booth, Tamara Rouse, Louise Gates, A/Prof Ron Cox

2010 proved to be an extremely busy and productive year for ACCARNSI with the focus set fi rmly on strengthening stakeholder involvement in our climate change adaptation research activities.

ACCARNSI continued to establish contacts Australia-wide, promoting the Network and growing its membership across the wider stakeholder community including Federal, State and Local Government, Research Institutions, Industry, professional organisations and NGOs.

Network Convenor, Associate Professor Ron Cox and Node Leaders, Professor Rodger Tomlinson, Professor Michael Taylor, Professor Graeme Hugo, Dr Peter Graham, Dr Bill Peirson and Professor Richard Stuetz have all been active meeting with stakeholders individually and together as participants and leaders (organisers, facilitators or keynote presenters) at workshops, seminars and across their various areas of expertise, research activity and Network responsibility. The Network played a major role in the successful organisation of various National and International conferences with the Network Convenor and Node Leaders giving invited keynote addresses, leading plenary sessions, participating in workshops and presenting papers.

Of the many workshops and forums organised in 2010, ACCARNSI’s most notable collaboration was with the Environment Institute of Australia New Zealand (EIANZ), a partnership which successfully delivered a ‘Learning to Adapt’ series of professional development on climate change adaptation for business. The fi rst forum ‘Learning to Adapt: The Climate of the Future’ was held at UNSW and was opened by Environmentalist, Ian Kiernan AO. It included an Expert Panel Discussion, Keynote Address, Plenary Sessions and Workshops focussed on the business context for climate change adaptation. To view these sessions a vodcast of the event is available at http://webcast.viostream.com/?viocast=2637&auth=aa0f0dc6-3be3-4d92-862c-a102fd089379. There are plans for further collaboration in 2011.

As one of the eight networks within NCCARF (National Climate

Change Adaptation Research Facility), ACCARNSI was also involved in the 2010 International Climate Change Adaptation Conference “Climate Adaptation Futures’ on the Gold Coast in late June. The conference attracted over 1000 attendees from around the world to inform on issues of climate change adaptation. Keynote speakers included Tim Flannery and the late Stephen Schneider.

The successful organisation of two National Early Career Researcher (ECR) 3 day workshops continued ACCARNSI’s commitment to provide support and capacity building opportunities for young researchers across Australia. The fi rst ECR for 2010 was hosted by Professor Rodger Tomlinson at Griffi th University’s Gold Coast campus in April and attracted 29 early career researchers. The second ECR was hosted by Professor Michael Taylor at the University of South Australia’s Adelaide City East campus in November and brought together 31 researchers from across Australia with presentations covering all areas of research encompassed by the Network. The high quality presentations promoted active discussion with all attendees developing new research relationships and having the opportunity to meet and discuss their research with convenors from all Nodes across the Network.

Further opportunities for young researchers were provided through the ACCARNSI Honours and Masters Research Grant scheme. Grants of up to $7000 were awarded to eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students to undertake research relevant to the area of climate change adaptation for Settlements and Infrastructure. Seven research projects were successfully completed in 2010 and included topics covering Climate Change Adaptation in the Solomon Islands, the Implementation and Adaptation of ‘Green’ Concrete to Infrastructure and Climate Change, and viable Coastal Management Policy dealing with Climate Change Adaptation and Potential Sea Level Rise.

2010 also saw the fi nalisation of our National Baseline Survey ‘Community Attitudes to Climate Change’ the release of a number of Position Papers by the Host and Node Leaders on Climate Change Adaptation, the launch of the ACCARNSI Local Government Initiatives and the establishment and fi rst meetings of our enthusiastic Network Advisory Group, affectionately known as the NAG, comprising representatives from our key stakeholder groups from across Australia.

Like 2010, 2011 promises to be an even busier year, with ACCARNSI working steadily towards its long term goal to support the co-ordination of the Australian research community in the fi eld of Climate Change Adaptation for Settlements and Infrastructure - supporting multi-disciplinary research, building research capacity and promoting and supporting information exchange.

Please see the ACCARNSI website for further details of our 2010 and upcoming 2011 events, activities and opportunities.http://www.nccarf.edu.au/settlements-infrastructure/


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Connected Waters Initiative http://www.connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au/

The last year has seen significant growth in research personnel, research output and research funding. The CWI hosts the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) node at the UNSW. The NCGRT had its first full year in 2010 and the CWI established 5 research streams as a part of the overall NCGRT activity with a budget in 2010 of $1.88 million. In addition to this, the CWI was the Centre agent for a further $5.0 million expenditure of Super Science funding provided by the Federal Government and approximately $0.7 million from the NSW State Government Science Leveraging Fund. The Cotton CRC ($183k) and Land & Water ($140k) projects further boosted the activity level.

Research funds have been used to establish 2 main field areas, one at Wellington and the other on the Namoi. The CWI has worked with UNSW Facilities to establish a field training and research facility on the University Farm at Wellington. The first Field Methods Training course was held there in November and a 4th year elective will be presented there in 2011. The Training Centre comprises air conditioned offices and lecture rooms with internet facilities and major equipment storage facilities. Mr Peter Graham has been appointed to run the Training Centre and to assist with the roll out of equipment provided by the Super Science funds and the NCGRT.

A GEOPROBE unit capable of installing piezometers to 20m was commissioned at the site in December. Work by Andy Baker and the team has established innovative monitoring infrastructure in the caves at Wellington. Matt McCabe has significantly developed the Baldry Site some 50km southwest of Wellington where detailed studies of evaporative flux are under way.

Martin Andersen and Wendy Timms have been involved in establishing research programs on the Liverpool Plains where input by the CWI team to the ongoing debates about water agriculture and mining has been very welcome.

Major development work was also undertaken at the Water Research Laboratory during the year. An $800k centrifuge facility was fabricated in the UK and shipped out for installation at the close of the year. A special building was required at Manly Vale to house this new facility.

Detail of CWI activity can be found at the CWI web pages http://connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au funded by a generous grant from the Centre benefactor Mr Gary Johnston of Jaycar Electronics.


Research into the broad discipline of structural engineering at UNSW is acknowledged as being at the forefront internationally. In particular, the CIES team in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the leading academic group in the disciplines in Australia, and one of the strongest in the region.

The UNSW Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) aims to consolidate the research strengths in structural engineering, geomechanics and in computational mechanics that have evolved and existed at UNSW for many years. In 2010, CIES continues to be a leading research centre in Infrastructure Engineering, both in Australia and internationally, through the leadership of its second director, Professor Stephen Foster.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW has long-established research and teaching programmes in the broad disciplines of structural and geotechnical engineering. The existing research and teaching strengths of the School form the platform for undertaking the research work in the Centre. In addition, cross-School and cross-Faculty projects with input from key research staff in the School of Material Science and Engineering in the Faculty

of Science (notably Professors Ai-Bing Yu and Alan Crosky), staff and facilities from the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems (notably Professor Chris Rizos’ group with cutting-edge research in structural deformation monitoring and experimental sensing), the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (notably Dr. Gangadhara Prusty and Emeritus Professor Don Kelly) and staff from the Faculty of the Built Environment (notably Professor Deo Prasad), the Centre is well placed to undertake further groundbreaking research activity and initiatives such as the involvement in ARC and CRC submissions.

These essential attributes for research are demonstrated by the group’s outstanding research track record and esteem, both in terms of peer-reviewed publications and competitive research funding in the areas of:

(i) structural mechanics and geomechanics;

(ii) advanced computational techniques;

(iii) steel, concrete and composite steel-concrete structures;

(iv) behaviour of structures at elevated temperature and of concrete structures containing low-ductility reinforcement;

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(v) advanced concrete technology; and

(vi) experimental methods.

The bulk of CIES external income to support its research programmes has been and continues to be derived from competitive ARC funding.

In 2010, the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety won six Discovery grants, totalling $2.12 million, along with two Linkage grants, making it one of the University’s most successful centres in this round. This result was a major contributor to the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering being by far the best performing School in UNSW, with almost 10% of the University’s total being won by staff from the School. CIES Research Director, Professor Mark Bradford, won his second Australian Professorial Fellowship, just the 5th ever awarded in the disciplines of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Australia and the 3rd awarded to CIES staff. In addition, Professor Bradford was awarded a prestigious ARC Laureate Fellowship and like his earlier ARC Fellowships, the Australian Professorial Fellowship (2002-2004) and the Federation Fellowship (2004-2009), Mark’s Laureate Fellowship is the first ever in Structural Engineering and represents an outstanding achievement for Mark and a great bonus for CIES.

CIES’s successful new ARC Discovery grants in 2010 were: DP1096454 Prof MA Bradford; Dr G Ranzi; Dr A Heidarpour $750,000 (2010 – 2014) Unified analysis of steel and composite frame structures subjected to static, thermal, earthquake and blast loading

DP1096560 Prof RI Gilbert $280,000 (2010 – 2012)Anchorage of reinforcement in concrete structures subjected to loading and environmental extremes

DP1096480 Prof N Khalili; Dr RK Niven; Dr M Oeser $360,000 (2010 – 2012)CO2 sequestration in deformable, chemically interactive, double porosity media

DP1096497 Prof N Khalili; Dr AR Russell $270,000 (2010 – 2012)Erosion of variably saturated soils - a fundamental investigation

DP1097096 Dr Y Pi $130,000 (2010 – 2012) Interval nonlinear analysis of spatially curved structures with material and geometric uncertainties.

DP1094451 A/Prof C Song; Dr W Gao; Prof W Becker $420,000 (2010 – 2012)Non -deterministic fracture analysis of structures by extending the scaled boundary finite -element method

CIES’s successful ARC Linkage grants in 2010 included:LP100100598 Prof Stephen J Foster, Dr Vute Sirivivatnanon, Prof Mark G Stewart $150,000 A Re-evaluation of the Safety and Reliability Indices for Reinforced Concrete Structures

LP100100806 Dr Markus Oeser, Mr Alan Pearson, Prof Nasser Khalili, Assoc Prof Dr Brian Shackel $160,000 Permeable Pavements with Concrete Surface Layers- Experimental and Theoretical Basis for Analysis and Design

In addition, Dr Xiaojing (Jean) Li who works in CIES was also involved in the following University of Melbourne Linkage Grant: LP100100193 Prof Graham L Hutchinson, Dr Philip A Collier, A/Prof Linlin Ge, Dr Xiaojing Li A new approach to structural design that incorporates the effect of non-structural components

Staff from CIES have also been involved in two successful ARC LIEF Grants for 2010. Professor Nasser Khalili was part of a multi-disciplinary team at UNSW to be awarded $600,000 to establish an “Advanced facility for next generation sustainable energy, biomedical & nano-imaging optical fibre technologies”. The new state-of-the-art equipment will be a custom designed optical fibre draw tower and will be used for developing new photonic technologies for the sensing, energy, biomedical diagnostics and nano-imaging research sectors. It will have significant applications in the field of civil engineering infrastructure as well as environmental engineering. The equipment will be housed in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Professors Mark Bradford, Ian Gilbert and Stephen Foster were part of a multi-disciplinary team from University of Sydney, Monash University and UNSW to be awarded $260,000 to fabricate a Split Hopkinson bar facility for high strain rate testing of materials. The facility will be located at the University of Sydney. The design of both civil structures


that can survive explosions or earthquakes and automobiles that can minimize casualties during crash requires optimum understanding of material response and failure under dynamic loading. As the most commonly used technique for determining material properties under high strain rates, the proposed split Hopkinson bar facility will greatly promote the development of advanced materials for important applications, such as in blast-resistant design and vehicle crashworthiness.

The Centre also continued its strong performance in research publications output with 49 journal papers and 57 conference papers.

As we move to the future, the importance of industry collaboration and funding through industry initiatives is well recognized. To this end, the Centre engaged in the successful Cooperative Research Centre bid for Advanced Composite Structures with Professor Bradford a named key researcher. In further boosting our profile, Professors Gilbert and Foster have been involved in Concrete Institute of Australia (CIA) sponsored courses throughout 2010 with an opportunity to showcase the Centre’s major research activities in the areas of concrete structures and concrete technology, and to strengthen collaboration between the Concrete Institute of Australia (CIA) and the Centre and strengthen the linkages between the Centre and the industry to which it provides benefit. These connections are being utilised to secure industry funding through contributing organisations to CIA and to target future industry Linkage Project collaborations.

Seen here, Professor Mark Bradford, supervising an experimental test for the time dependent in service behaviour of composite concrete slabs with profiled steel – an ARC Linkage funded project (RI Gilbert; MA Bradford; R Zeuner; GR Brock) with Collaborating/Partner Organisations: Fielders Australia Pty Ltd and Prestressed Concrete Design Consultants Pty Ltd.

The Research Plan for the next 5-years is to consolidate areas of strength such as laboratory and computational based research across the fields of structural and geotechnical engineering, with particular focus on Infrastructure Engineering, and grow in the field of developing high-performance sustainable structures.

Around Australia, many ageing post-war bridges and buildings are coming to the end of their usable lives. It is a wave of obsolescence that poses a challenge for engineers and an opportunity for innovative new construction materials – from buildings and bridges to tunnels, dams and roads – to develop vital new knowledge about materials and processes to meet future demands. The continuing pressures of ageing infrastructure, together with tougher environmental standards, means that this issue is a clear imperative for the research direction of the Centre.

New materials have brought about enormous benefits in construction in the past two decades with the biggest change in the concrete construction industry in recent years being the use of higher-performance materials such as high-strength concretes and steels and composites. The current emphasis in the context of the Australian debate on sustainability is how to utilise materials more efficiently and research on higher performance materials remans a research focus. Materials such as geopolymer concretes show immense promise as substitutes for other cementitious materials whose manufacture is associated with a very significant carbon footprint.


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In the structures field, there are three areas where the Centre will focus and these are driven by clear industry needs: (i) new materials and advanced materials in construction; (ii) lowering the carbon footprint of the building construction industry; and (iii) extreme events such as impact, blast, fire and seismic loadings. A significant research driver comes from a lack of information – where there are advantages to be had from both new materials and use of existing materials more efficiently and in new applications.

In the geotechnical engineering field, a key unit within the Infrastructure Centre led by Professor Khalili (Deputy Director), ground breaking research is being undertaken in geo-sequestration and soil erosion and the directions of his team in geotechnical modelling and in road research are world leading. These are seen to remain areas of strength over the 5-year research plan.

Over the next 5-years it is envisaged that CIES will add sustainability to that of its existing directions. This will be championed by Scientia Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow Mark Bradford. Under the umbrella of the Centre, Professor Bradford will lead a new unit on “Sustainable Structures”. This unit will consolidate existing efforts in this direction on new applications of materials such as geopolymer concrete, which offers advantages of high

strength and less energy-intensive manufacture through its innovative use of waste products such as slag from smelting processes and fly ash from coal-fired power stations. Embodied energy looms as a growing issue for construction and materials product industries worldwide. Materials such as geopolymer concrete and ultra-high performance ductile concrete have a significant role to play in making construction more sustainable. New research will also be pursued on combining environmentally friendly materials together with high performance structural systems, such as concrete filled tube technologies and high performance prestressed pre-cast and post-tensioned concrete technologies.

Lastly, industry links are an important characteristic of the Centre. We currently have ARC Linkage Grant projects with Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia, BlueScope, BOSFA, Fielders Australia, PCDC, the RTA and ARRB. All these projects involve research in these and other issues of structural and geotechnical importance. The growth in industry led research collaborations is important to the Centre’s future.

Randwick Heavy Structures Laboratory is a key resource for CIES researchers across a multitude of projects.


UNSW Water Research Centre

The UNSW Water Research Centre (WRC) is an international leading university research centre within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering that provides multidisciplinary research and applied research in water resources, engineering, management and the development of tools for environmental management and sustainability for improving the aquatic and atmospheric environments.

The School has over 60 years’ history of leading development of water engineering and technology in Australia. As well as maintaining the largest postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programmes in water engineering in Australia, the School remains active in Australian fundamental water research:

m Surface and Groundwater Hydrology – ongoing Australian leadership of the quantifying of rainfall, runoff and groundwater flows at catchment scales (This history includes development of the lead Australian design document, Rainfall and Runoff, now published and developed by Engineers Australia).

m Water Quality and Sustainability – fundamental investigations in the fate of chemical and microbial contaminants in engineering and natural systems and application of the risk assessment and life cycle analysis to improving the aquatic and atmospheric environments.

m Civil and Environmental Hydraulics – practical Project-based and theoretical hydraulics research undertaken using the unique large-scale facilities of the UNSW Water Research Laboratory (WRL) at Manly Vale, as well as field-based and numerical modelling investigations.

The Centre interacts and collaborates with many organisations outside this University: with industry, with both State and Federal governments, with individuals and research groups in other universities both in Australia and overseas. The Centre takes a leading role in establishing and contributing to collaborative research projects with these organisations.

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WRC has two primary centre nodes: at Kensington with staff and students accommodated within the Vallentine annex; and at the WRL, located at Manly Vale on Sydney’s northern beaches. Centre activities are grouped into 13 program areas that sit under three dominant research themes:

1. Water SupplyAustralia is a continent of low rainfall and its development and economic robustness is constrained by presently available and potential water supplies.

2. The CoastOver 86% of the Australian community live in the coastal zone with consequent environmental impact and climate vulnerabilities.

3. SustainabilityTo maintain Australia’s current level of population and economic growth, water and contamination management need innovative solutions in terms of environmental, energy and social considerations.

The research strengths of the Centre include a range of core academic disciplines essential to the further development of soundly based technology.

The Centre’s objectives are achieved through the efforts of a group of externally-funded professional and specialist technical personnel, assisted by a wide range of academic and professional colleagues from a variety of Schools, other UNSW centres and laboratories.

WRC Staff Highlights in 2010

Dr Rita HendersonRita Henderson, was the recipient of the IWA International Young Water Professional Award at the biennial IWA World Water Congress (WWC) in Montreal, in September 2010. The award is presented biennially to recognise a young water professional under the age of 35, who has both

an outstanding career achievement (either through their scientific contribution as researchers or working in the water industry) and the potential to play a large and influential role in the water industry in the future.

Dr Kate MurphyKate Murphy commenced an ARC postdoctoral fellowship within an ARC discovery grant that aims to optimize the characterization of odorous emissions using a sensory and chemical analysis. Her fellowship focus is on utilising chemometric approaches to gain a better understanding of key odorant and odour quality characteristics and the relationship between process operations and olfactory annoyance.

Melissa Mole and Jamie RuprechtNew Project Engineers Melissa Mole and Jamie Ruprecht were welcomed in 2010 to the Projects Team based at WRL, having both completed their Bachelor of Engineering degrees with 1st Class Honours within the School in 2009. Jamie and Melissa were joint recipients of the national student prize awarded by the Engineers Australia ‘National Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering’, a prize fittingly named in honour of past Director of the Water Research Laboratory, Associate Professor Doug Foster.


Research Highlights in 2010:

The centre had several new ARC projects commence in 2010:

m Interdisciplinary Greenhouse Gas Assessment – Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Marine Wastewater Disposal led by Dr Greg Peters

m Olfactory Characterisation of Odours for Optimising Impact Assessment led by Prof Richard Stuetz

m Optimisation of Nutrient Removal, Membrane Fouling and excess Sludge Dewatering in Hybrid Coagulation/Submerged Membrane Bioreactor (SMBR) Treatment of Wastewaters led by Prof David Waite

m Synthesis of Activated Carbon Supported Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles and Application to Contaminant Degradation in Benthic Sediments led by Prof David Waite

WRC staff also had considerable success during 2010 in the announcement of new ARC Discovery and Linkage grants to commence 2011. This new research focuses on a broad range of areas including coastal sediment transport and coastal structure stability, erosion of embankment dams and spillways, monitoring and forecasting seasonal to multi-decadal coastal change, monitoring organic matter in drinking water, optimising biochemical control of head leaching, effective remediation of acidified coastal environments and advanced water treatment to minimise disinfection by-products.

Significant knowledge gaps exist in our current understanding of full cycle N2O emissions from wastewater management practices. In 2010 WRC Staff Dr Greg Peters, Dr Bill Pierson and Visiting Prof Nick Ashbolt lead the establishment of a new research effort to improve the current characterisation of this emission source, to enable more accurate assessments of the water industry’s carbon footprint, with the aim to facilitate more environmentally and economically sustainable management of the wastewater treatment.

N2O generation occurs during conventional wastewater treatment during both microbial nitrification and denitrification of the nitrogen-containing compounds present (e.g., urea, ammonia and nitrate). Existing wastewater management practices internationally result in the disposal of large quantities of untreated or primary-level effluent to the marine environment. Sydney sees hundreds of millions of litres of nitrogen-rich primary wastewater discharged to the coastal environment every day. Yet there is little data available to enable the determination of so-called ‘fugitive’ N2O emissions resulting from the disposal of primary treated effluent to coastal waters. For the water sector, this ‘unknown’ represents a significant un-costed liability in its carbon profile and such uncertainty is deemed unacceptable in the emerging business environment of carbon economics.

Algal and cyanobacteria blooms are of particular concern in drinking water resources due to their adverse impact on treatment processes, as well as their potential to release harmful toxins and taste and odour compounds into water supplies. A new research project in 2010 (led by Dr Rita Henderson, Prof Richard Stuetz and Dr Bill Peirson at WRC, Dr Michael Whittaker from the UNSW Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, Dr Bruce Jefferson at Cranfield

Dr Richard Collins (WRC) and Sebastian Garcia-Cuenca (Tweed Shire Council) inspecting the remediation efficacy at Blacks Drain on the NSW north coast, a problematic acid sulfate soil location.


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University, UK and Assoc Prof Gayle Newcombe from the Australia Water Quality Centre) is investigating modifying dissolved air flotation (DAF) by developing a novel polymer that will functionalise the surface of the bubbles generated in DAF such that they are attractive to algae and associated dissolved organic material. DAF is commonly employed for algae removal in Australia but with limited success. The intended outcome of this research is the delivery of a modified-DAF process offering a more robust, sustainable and economical barrier to algae by increasing algal cell removal efficiency while decreasing chemical consumption and sludge production.

Also during 2010 a new Snake Paddle wave generation system was commissioned at WRL, Manly Vale. The Snake Paddle wave was funded by an ARC Discovery led by Dr Bill Peirson. This new system extends wave generation capabilities at WRL to include directionally programmable waves. The system will enable the generation of realistic short-crested ocean waves for which directional effects are important for studying air-sea interaction. Despite the widespread occurrence of breaking waves, which are characteristically three-dimensional in nature, and their central importance in air-sea coupling, the onset and strength of wave breaking has eluded physical understanding and predictive capability. The outcomes of the present research will fill the critical knowledge gaps for directional sea states and thereby address the pressing contemporary demand for more accurate forecast models of sea state, weather and climate.

Applied Research Highlights in 2010 – WRC Engagement with Government and Industry

The recent floods in Queensland and Victoria, have been a timely reminder of how destructive and dangerous these types of natural disasters can be. Ongoing applied research at WRL is working to assist planners and emergency managers to more effectively deal with future floods. The development of two-dimensional numerical computer models are commonly being used to provide baseline data describing flood levels, depths and velocities in flood prone areas. Statistical analysis, of these datasets can be used by planners and managers to define the risk and relative hazard (safety) of flood prone areas. Additionally the data can be used to determine a wide range of planning outcomes from safe evacuation routes out of flooded regions to whether areas are suitable for rebuilding or future development.

A recent research project lead by WRL Project Engineers Grantley Smith and Conrad Wasko with funding from the Federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Engineers Australia (as part of the review of Australian Rainfall and Runoff) is asking “how accurate and reliable are the baseline data from these models?” The team at WRL is using advanced numerical and physical


modelling to review current industry modelling practices. A physical model of an urban floodplain in Merewether, a suburb of Newcastle, NSW has been built at WRL and calibrated to the famous ‘Pasher Bulker’ storm of June 2007. Detailed flow measurements from the physical model have been compared with predictions of the June 2007 flood from various numerical flood software packages commonly used by industry. The research has shown that there are numerous areas where modelling approaches can be improved. The outcome from this research will inform the revision of industry guidelines and be included in the next edition of Australian Rainfall and Runoff. The findings can also be used to provide an improved assessment of building stability on floodplains.

Researchers at WRL, led by Dr William Glamore with staff from the NSW Department of Climate Change and Water, the local Catchment Management Authority and NSW Department of Industry and Investment have been working on a large tidal wetland restoration study being conducted at the Tomago Wetlands within the Hunter Estuary Wetland Ramsar site to understand the role of hydrology, hydraulics and hydrodynamics in wetland rehabilitation. The lower Hunter River estuary in NSW has become a major research ground for investigating tidal wetland rehabilitation and creation. Due to the increasing industrial pressures, the legacy of development and the important environmental values of this estuary, significant on-ground work has been undertake at this site.

A restoration plan has been developed for the site with the primary aim to restore salt marsh habitat for migratory wading birds. Numerical model results combined with on-ground sampling provided the necessary information to understand the existing and

SmartGates to control tidal innundation. Courtesy WRL.

Large Scale Drop Structure Model. Courtesy WRL. WRC Research Bondi Beach 2010. Courtesy WRL.

potentially restored hydrologic regime. Based on these results, on-ground engineering was undertaken to prepare the site, including the design and installation of SmartGates to control tidal inundation. Tidal flushing was restored to the western portion of the site (>200 hectares) in 2008 and innovative techniques have been used to adaptively monitor the progress of the site towards a functioning tidal wetland. Current research at the site is focused on restoring tidal flushing to the western portion of the site (another 350 hectares) and restoration plans and research outcomes are being developed and implemented.


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our history

‘The history of the School reveals an enormously creative problem-solving dynamic organization, which over the decades faced a series of challenges and difficulties, arising from both internal and external sources, and which invariably found solutions to them. The School has not just survived; it has succeeded, as engineering educator and as research explorer. Individually and collectively embarked on a hero’s journey, supported and encouraged by one another, the story of the School – staff and students – is one of hard work, personal and social responsibility and responsiveness, underpinned by a vision of use, and ultimately, service.’

(From the History of the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering)

All our Alumni are listed in our History which is available at www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/about/our_history

History Book Launch

Past and present staff and students joined the school to celebrate 60 years of extraordinary

achievement.

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