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Conference Papers
2023, 'Constitutive modelling of instabilities and strengths of an unsaturated tailings', in E3S Web of Conferences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338216010
,2023, 'Estimations of water retention curves for fine-grained soils and tailings using their fractal particle size distributions', in E3S Web of Conferences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338216002
,2023, 'The hydromechanical behaviour of unsaturated loess in slopes, New Zealand', in E3S Web of Conferences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202338224007
,2022, 'The Influence of Partial Saturation on Cone Penetration Tests in a Silty Copper Tailings', in Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Tailings Management, Gecamin, Online, presented at 8th international conference on Tailings Management, Online, 06 July 2022 - 08 July 2022, http://gecaminpublications.com/
,2021, 'Stability Analysis of the Overhanging Slopes', in 13th Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice, ISL
,2021, 'The Shapes of Collapsed Sinkholes at Limiting Equilibrium', in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, pp. 135 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0053-1_17
,2020, 'Field and laboratory investigation of rainfall-triggered slope failure in unsaturated loess soils, New Zealand', in E3S Web of Conferences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019501017
,2019, 'A sample formation procedure to obtain homogeneous post-erosion particle size distribution', in E3S Web of Conferences, Glasgow, presented at 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Glasgow 2019), Glasgow, 26 June 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199202015
,2019, 'Cyclic resistance of a decomposed granite', in E3S Web of Conferences, Glasgow, presented at 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Glasgow 2019), Glasgow, 26 June 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199208009
,2019, 'Drained volumetric behaviour and static liquefaction of very loose sand reinforced with synthetic fibres', in E3S Web of Conferences, Glasgow, presented at 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-Glasgow 2019), Glasgow, 26 June 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199212001
,2019, 'Incorporating suction in to stability charts for unsaturated soil slopes', in 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, AP-UNSAT 2019, pp. 139 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.3208/jgssp.v07.021
,2019, 'Incorporating suction in to the interpretation of plate load tests on unsaturated soils', in 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, AP-UNSAT 2019, pp. 352 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.3208/jgssp.v07.057
,2018, 'Effects of Hydraulic Hysteresis and Drainage Conditions on Bearing Capacity of Unsaturated Soil Shallow Foundations', in Geotechnical Special Publication, pp. 303 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784481707.030
,2017, 'Relating Moisture Content, Suction and Shear Strength of an Ore', in Hoyos LR; McCartney JS; Houston SL; Likos WJ (eds.), PANAM UNSATURATED SOILS 2017: APPLICATIONS, AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS, Dallas, TX, pp. 105 - 114, presented at 2nd Pan-American Conference on Unsaturated Soils (PanAm-UNSAT), Dallas, TX, 12 November 2017 - 15 November 2017, https://ascelibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.1061/9780784481691.011
,2017, 'Rigid Retaining Walls Interacting with Unsaturated Soils in Axial Symmetry', in Hoang-Hung TN; Wong H; Ragueneau F; Ha-Minh C (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Congrès International de Géotechnique - Ouvrages -Structures, Springer, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, pp. 775 - 785, presented at Congrès International de Géotechnique – Ouvrages – Structures, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 26 October 2017 - 27 October 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6713-6_77
,2017, 'Micro-scale anisotropy of contacts and pores in granular media', in Radjai F; Nezamabadi S; Luding S; Delenne JY (eds.), EPJ Web of Conferences, EDP Sciences, Montpellier, France,, pp. 15003, presented at Powders and Grains 2017 – 8th International Conference on Micromechanics on Granular Media, Montpellier, France,, 03 July 2017 - 07 July 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714015003
,2017, 'An Analytical Study of Failure of Transversely Isotropic Rock Discs Subjected to Various Diametrical Loading Configurations', in Konicek P; Soucek K; Konecny P (eds.), Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC, pp. 1194 - 1202, presented at ISRM European Rock Mechanics Symposium (EUROCK), Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC, 20 June 2017 - 22 June 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.05.295
,2016, 'Bearing capacity of strip footings on unsaturated soils by the slip line theory', in Delage P; Cui YJ; Ghabezloo S; Pereira JM; Tang AM (eds.), E3S Web of Conferences, EDP Sciences, Paris, France, pp. 05004, presented at 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Paris, France, 12 September 2016 - 14 September 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160905004
,2016, 'The cone penetration test in unsaturated silty sands', in Delage P; Cui YJ; Ghabezloo S; Pereira JM; Tang AM (eds.), E3S Web of Conferences, EDP Sciences, FRANCE, Paris, pp. 09008, presented at 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT), FRANCE, Paris, 12 September 2016 - 14 September 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160909008
,2016, 'Cavity expansion in unsaturated silty sand exhibiting hydraulic hysteresis for three drainage conditions', in Unsaturated Soil Mechanics from Theory to Practice - Proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils, pp. 765 - 770, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b19248-128
,2015, 'Cavity expansion in unsaturated silty sand exhibiting hydraulic hysteresis for three drainage conditions', in Chen Z; Wei C; Sun D; Xu X (eds.), Proceedings of Sixth Asia-Pacific Conference on unsaturated soils, CRC Pess, Guilin, China, pp. 764 - 770, presented at Sixth Asia-Pacific Conference on unsaturated soils, Guilin, China, 23 October 2015 - 26 October 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nag.2379
,2015, 'Equating pore and particle surface areas with application to soil-water characteristic curve derivations', in Geomechanics from Micro to Macro - Proceedings of the TC105 ISSMGE International Symposium on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro, IS-Cambridge 2014, pp. 815 - 819, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b17395-146
,2015, 'Microstructural pore changes in Gosford sandstone during compressive loading', in Geomechanics from Micro to Macro - Proceedings of the TC105 ISSMGE International Symposium on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro, IS-Cambridge 2014, pp. 1219 - 1224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b17395-220
,2014, 'Cavity expansion in soil of finite radial extent', in Applied Mechanics and Materials, pp. 464 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.553.464
,2014, 'Development of facility and testing procedures to investigate retaining wall-unsaturated soil interactions', in Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, pp. 1715 - 1720
,2014, 'Hydraulic conductivity from soil-water characteristic curves with hysteresis', in Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, pp. 1107 - 1112
,2014, 'Influence of hydraulic hysteresis on spherical cavity expansion results', in Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering - Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, NUMGE 2014, pp. 1055 - 1060
,2014, 'Interpretation of the cone penetration test in unsaturated sands', in Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, pp. 1675 - 1681
,2014, 'Preface', in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/10/1/011001
,2014, 'Slip line theory extended to unsaturated soils and applied to the retaining wall-unsaturated soil interaction problem', in Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, pp. 1807 - 1812
,2014, 'Swelling of compacted expansive clays interpreted in terms of Tezaghi effective stress', in Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, pp. 299 - 305
,2014, 'Voids ratio dependent soil-water characteristic curves: Theoretical derivations using fractals', in Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, pp. 945 - 950, http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b17034-137
,2013, 'Replacing steel in cutter soil mix walls with polypropylene fibres: A field trial, experiments and analysis', in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Foundation Engineering, Singapore, presented at International Symposium on Advances in Foundation Engineering, Singapore, 05 December 2013 - 06 December 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.3850/978-981-07-4623-0_170
,2012, 'Fibre Reinforcement of Prior Stream Sands', in Proceedings of ANZ 2012, Melbourne, Victoria, pp. 229 - 234, presented at 11th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics (ANZ 2012), Melbourne, Victoria, 15 July 2012 - 18 July 2012
,2012, 'Fractal soil-water characteristics with hysteresis', in Unsaturated soils: research and applications, Springer-Verlag, Naples, Italy, pp. 47 - 53, presented at Second European conference on unsaturated soils, Naples, Italy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31343-1
,2011, 'Compression lines for soil derived using fractals and energy balance', in Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, Volume 2, Hanrimwon Co., Ltd, Seoul, Korea, pp. 913 - 918, presented at 5th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, Seoul, Korea, 01 September 2011 - 03 September 2011
,2011, 'Using load distributions in granular assemblies exhibiting particle crushing to study macroscopic mechanical properties', in Computer Methods for Geomechanics: Frontiers and New Applications: Volume 2, Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), Sydeny, pp. 677 - 683, presented at IACMAG2011, Melbourne, 09 May 2011 - 11 May 2011
,2011, 'IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering: Preface', in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
,2010, 'Fractals, double porosity and the soil-water characteristic curve', in Proceedings of the fifth international conference on unsaturated soils, CRC Press/Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 945 - 950, presented at 5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Barcelona, Spain, 06 September 2010 - 08 September 2010
,2010, 'The challenges of performing laboratory controlled cone penetration tests in unsaturated soils', in Proceedings of the fifth international conference on unsaturated soils, CRC Press/Balkema, The Netherlands, pp. 721 - 726, presented at 5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Barcelona, Spain, 06 September 2010 - 08 September 2010
,2010, 'Some observations on the mechanics of fibre reinforced sand', in 9th International Conference on Geosynthetics - Geosynthetics: Advanced Solutions for a Challenging World, ICG 2010, pp. 1993 - 1996
,2009, 'A calibration chamber for unsaturated soils', in Unsaturated soils, CRC Press, Taylor Francis, Netherland, presented at 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Unsaturated soils, pp. 167-172, Newcastle, Australia, 23 November 2009 - 25 November 2009
,2009, 'Failure resistant soils for geotechnical infrastructure', in Australian Geomechanics, Australian Geomechanics Society, Australia, presented at Geosynthetics: New materials for modern infrastructure, Sydney Australia, 21 October 2009
,2009, 'Particle Crushing in Granular Assemblies', in proceedings of Powders and Grains 2009, American Institute of Physics, USA, presented at Powders and Grains 2009, Colorado, USA, 13 July 2009 - 17 July 2009, http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings
,2009, 'Particle Crushing and Deformatin Behaviour', in Prediction and simulation methods for geohazard mitigation, Taylor & Francis Group, London UK, presented at IS-Kyoto 2009: International Symposium on Prediction and Simulation Methods for Geohazard Mitigation, Kyoto, Japan, 25 May 2009 - 27 May 2009
,2009, 'Particle crushing and deformation behaviour', in Prediction and simulation methods for geohazard mitigation, Taylor & Francis Group, London UK, pp. 263 - 268, presented at IS-Kyoto 2009: International Symposium on Prediction and Simulation Methods for Geohazard Mitigation, Kyoto, Japan, 25 May 2009 - 27 May 2009
,2008, 'Effect of sample preparation on the behaviour of fibre reinforced sands', in Deformation Characteristic of Geomaterials, Atlanta USA, presented at 4th International Symposium on deformation characteristic of Geomaterials, IS Atlanta 2008, Atlanta USA, 22 September 2008 - 24 September 2008
,2008, 'Behaviour of reinforced sands: experiments and modelling', in Mahler A; Scharle P; Szepeshazi R (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th European Young Geotechnical Engineers' Conference, Hungary, pp. 126 - 135, presented at 19th European Young Geotechnical Engineers' Conference, Hungary, 03 September 2008 - 06 September 2008
,2007, 'Modelling fibre reinforced sand', in 5th International Symposium on Earth Reinforcement, Fukuoka, Japan, presented at 5th International Symposium on Earth Reinforcement, Fukuoka, Japan, 14 November 2007 - 16 November 2007
,2007, 'Shear tests on fibre reinforced sand', in 5th International Symposium on Earth Reinforcement, Fukuoka, Japan, presented at 5th International Symposium on Earth Reinforcement, Fukuoka, Japan, 14 November 2007 - 16 November 2007
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