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Date
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12 FEBRUARY 2013
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Time
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17:30 - 19:30
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Event Type
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Lecture
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Professor Scott W Sloan, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Historically, geotechnical stability analysis has been performed by a variety of approximate methods that are based on the notion of limit equilibrium. Although they appeal to engineering intuition, these techniques have a number of major disadvantages, not the least of which is the need to presuppose an appropriate failure mechanism in advance. This feature can lead to inaccurate predictions of the true failure load, especially for cases involving layered materials, complex loading, or three-dimensional deformation.
This lecture will describe recent advances in stability analysis which avoid these shortcomings.
Please see the attached flyer for full details.
Please RSVP by 5 February to: Jo Conway, transtasman@ice.org.uk
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