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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Annual Report 2011

Faculty of Engineering

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The Big Picture ....................................................... 2Mission ...............................................................................................3

Foreword from the Head of School .................................4

The School Management Group .......................................5

School Structure ...........................................................................5

Overview of School 2011 .......................................................6

Teaching and Learning Activities.......................................6

Highlights 2011 ............................................................................8

Our People ................................................................. 17 Welcome New Staff ....................................................................18

Staff 2011 ..........................................................................................20

Professional and Technical Staff ..........................................23

Research, Adjunct & Visiting Academic Staff ..............24

Centres and Research Staff ....................................................25

Awards and Promotions ..........................................................28

Vale .......................................................................................................29

Level 3 Workplace Safety Committee .............................30

Our Research ............................................................ 31Research Management ............................................................32

Postgraduate Research Student Management.........32

Research Grants ............................................................................32

Discovery Projects .......................................................................33

Research Stories ...........................................................................34

Research Funding ......................................................................38

2011 Publications ........................................................................42

Civil and Environmental Engineering Research

Student Association (CERSA) ................................................49

Research Students 2011 ..........................................................50

Annual Research Excellence Awards ..............................53

ME Graduates ................................................................................54

PhD Graduates ..............................................................................54

School Research Facilities .......................................................55

Technical Services Committee Report 2011 ...............55

Teaching and Learning .................................... 57Teaching & Learning Overview ...........................................58

2011Highlights ..............................................................................58

eLearning Report 2011 ............................................................61

Undergraduate Studies ............................................................62

BE Program Outlines ..................................................................62

Social Report from CEVSOC for 2011 ..............................64

Undergraduate Student Awards and Prizes ................66

Dean’s Awards 2011 ...................................................................67

Sports Scholars 2011 ................................................................68

Year 4 Honours Theses Topics ..............................................69

Postgraduate Coursework Studies ....................................72

Leighton Holdings .....................................................................73

School Computing Facilities ................................................74

Industry and Community ................................ 75External Relations Committee Report ............................76

Industry Advisory Committee .............................................78

Maths Prize ......................................................................................80

Scholarships 2011 .......................................................................81

Industry Partners & Supporters ...........................................82

New Research with Industry.................................................83

Alumni ................................................................................................84

Staff Industry & Community Engagement ..................85

Industry Reports ...........................................................................88

Our Research Centres ....................................... 89Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research

Network for Settlements and Infrastructure ...............90

Connected Waters Initiative ..................................................92

Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety....94

CIES Engineering for Sustainable Futures ...................94

CIES Alumnus Dr Yen Yei (Jackie) Voo .............................97

Research Centre for Integrated Transport

Innovation (rCITI) .........................................................................98

UNSW Water Research Centre ............................................100

Contents

2 | 2011 SCHOOL OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING | The Big Picture

The Big Picture | 2011 SCHOOL OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING | 3 The Big Picture | 2011 SCHOOL OF CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING | 3

School Statistics 2011Academic Staff 32

Professional & Technical Staff (School) 24

Research Centre Academic Staff 60

Postgraduate Research Students 105

Postgraduate Coursework Students 426

Undergraduates 1430

Equivalent Full-time Students (EFTSU) 1312

Doctoral Graduates 16

Postgraduate Coursework Graduates 199

BE Graduates 201

Grant Funding 17.35 mil

Research Publications Refereed 357

About UsThe School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the largest

and most successful School of its kind in Australasia and is a

dynamic and integral part of the UNSW Faculty of Engineering,

the pre-eminent centre for engineering studies and research in

Australia.

With nearly two thousand students, we play a leading role

in the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate degree

programs in civil and environmental engineering. From our

foundation in 1949, the School has pursued excellence and

innovation in education, being the fi rst in Australia to off er a

postgraduate coursework masters degree, the fi rst to design a

BE Environmental Engineering degree, and the fi rst to off er a

BE Civil with Architecture degree program. We also off er a wide

range of double degrees, and continually seek to improve the

learning experience of all our students.

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. In the fi rst Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)

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

categorised as ‘well above world standard’.

We continue to forge new links with industry and community

partners to ensure a continuing real-world focus for both our

teaching and our research.

The Big Picture

MissionOur mission is to develop well-educated graduates with the

essential skills, attributes and knowledge that will enable them

to practise 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.


Foreword from the Head of School

Once again, I am thrilled to report on a highly successful

year for the School with consolidation and growth in key

areas of i) demand for our undergraduate and postgraduate

teaching programs, ii) peer-reviewed research output and iii)

external grant income. Each year, I expect these measures of

performance to plateau and each year I have been pleasantly

surprised to see improvement in these indicators. These

achievements would not have been possible if it were not for

the eff orts of our amazing staff .

A number of new academic staff have joined the School

through 2011 including Professor Travis Waller (Evans & Peck

Professor of Transport Innovation), Associate Professor Leonhard

Bernold (Engineering Construction and Management), Dr

Carolin Birk (Structural Engineering), Dr Chris Blenkinsopp

(Water Engineering), Dr Vinayak Dixit (Transport Engineering),

Dr Stuart Khan (Water Engineering), Dr Lauren Gardner

(Transport Engineering) and Dr Gregoire Mariethoz (Water

Engineering). Lauren has joined as a result of support provided

by NICTA while Gregoire has joined as a result of the ARC Future

Fellowship awarded to Professor Ashish Sharma. Sylvia Brohl

has also joined the School in order to provide administrative

support to the newly established UNSW Research Centre for

Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) that is based within

Civil and Environmental Engineering. I welcome all of you

to the School and am confi dent that your input will further

strengthen our operation. While some departures are inevitable,

I am particularly sorry that Dr Markus Oeser, a Lecturer in

Geotechnical Engineering in the School, received an off er too

good to refuse – that of Professor for Pavement Engineering at

the University of Aachen in Germany. I wish Markus all the best

for the future and expect that we will see a strong collaboration

develop with Germany through Markus’ return to his home

country.

The School has performed exceptionally well in raising external

income to support its research activities through 2011 with over

$17 million contributed from Federal and State government

and industry sources. Of particular note is the award of ARC

Future Fellowships to Dr Richard Collins and Dr Sivakumar Bellie

and an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) to

Dr Shikha Garg. This external income and named fellowships

should assist in further consolidation of research excellence by

School staff over coming years.

While the Head of School does need to “captain the ship”, the

management eff ort is very much shared and, in this regard, I

would like to thank the Chairs of School Committees, Directors

of UNSW Research Centres based within the School and the

School Management Group. Staff in these positions carry a huge

load in ensuring day-to-day matters are attended to and, for

this, I am hugely indebted. I would also like to acknowledge the

input of the Industry Advisory Committee to the School. This

Committee not only provides feedback on School programs and

activities but has been proactive in developing a range of highly

successful initiatives including the Primary School Maths Prizes

and Year 10 Work Experience Bus Tour.

I trust you fi nd this 2011 Annual Report informative and

welcome any feedback that you may have on our programs and

activities.

T DAVID WAITE

HEAD OF SCHOOL

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The School Management Group

School Management Group

Head of School

Professor T David Waite

Associate Head - Academic

Associate Professor Mario Attard

Computing Services

Associate Professor Chongmin Song

Senior Administrative Offi cer

Ms Karenne Irvine

External Relationships and Marketing

Associate Professor Ronald J Cox

Dr Kurt Douglas (co Chairs)

Research Management

Professor Nasser Khalil

Teaching and Learning

Dr Hossein Taiebat (Semester 1)

Dr Upali Vandebona (Semester 2)

UNSW Water Research Centre

Dr William Peirson (co Director)

Professor Richard Stuetz (co Director)

Technical Services – Kensington &

Randwick Heavy Structures Lab

Dr Adrian Russell

Centre for Infrastructure

Engineering and Safety

Professor Stephen Foster (Director)

ACCARNSI

Australian Climate Change Adaptation

Research Network for Settlements &

Infrastructure

Associate Professor Ronald J Cox (Convenor)

UNSW Connected Waters Initiative

Professor R Ian Acworth (Director)

Occupational Health and Safety

Mr Paul Gwynne (Chair)

rCITI

Professor Travis Waller (Director)

Executive Assistant

Ms Betty Wong


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.


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 StructureThe 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 Director

who reports to the Head of School.

Back L-R: Prof Travis Waller, Prof Nasser Khalili, Dr Ehab Hamed, Dr Kurt Douglas, Dr Upali Vandebona, A/Prof Chongmin Song

Front L-R: Ms Karenne Irvine, Prof Stephen Foster, Prof David Waite, A/Prof Mario Attard.

Absent: A/Prof Ron Cox, Mr Paul Gwynne, Dr Adrian Russell, Prof Richard Stuetz, Ms Betty Wong


Overview of School 2011

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering is the

largest and most successful School of its kind in Australasia,

with 32 equivalent full-time academic staff , 24 professional,

technical and administrative staff , and - within the School

Research Centres - 60 additional research only academic 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 in King St.

Teaching and Learning Activities

Undergraduate StudiesIn 2011 the School off ered 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 1430 BE students enrolled at the School in 2011, a

doubling of student numbers in fi ve years. The continuing

increase in student numbers has been accompanied by a

rise in the entry mark. In 2011 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 an ATAR of 95.45.

Our programs off er 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 off ered,

and a third of our students are enrolled in double degree

programs, including BE BSc, BE BA, BE LLB, BE BE, BE BCom

and BE MEngSc 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 students to the top level required nationally in seven

specialisations: civil engineering, environmental engineering,

geotechnical engineering and engineering geology, project

management, structural engineering, water resources

(includes coastal engineering), water wastewater and waste

engineering.

With 426 postgraduate coursework students enrolled

in 2011, a total of 42 postgraduate courses were off ered

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 ActivitiesIn the fi rst Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 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 was 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 2011 School staff were involved in winning a record nine

ARC Discovery Grants, totalling $3.26 million, making the

School the best performer in the best performing University

in NSW.

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 ARC, industry, business and other government sources

amounted to $17.35 million in 2011.

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 UNSW.

With 4 books, 9 chapters in books, 196 papers in refereed

journals, 148 refereed conference papers, and numerous

research reports and reports to industry in 2011, the

published output of the School continues to be at a very

high level.

Another record number - 105 postgraduate research

students were enrolled in Semester 2, 2011. The School

provides a fi rst class research environment for these

students and, in turn, the students make an invaluable

contribution to the School’s research eff ort.

Industry and Community OutreachThe 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 2011 included the organisation of a

Year 10 work experience bus tour of engineering sites and

the expansion of a Primary School Prize in mathematics;

both were signifi cant in raising the profi le 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 fi rms 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.


Highlights 2011

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Our congratulations to School researchers Prof Mark Bradford,

Dr Richard Collins, Prof Stephen Foster, Dr Ehab Hamed, Dr Matt

McCabe, Dr Raj Mehrotra, A/Prof Bill Peirson, Prof Ashish Sharma,

A/Prof Chongmin Song, Em Prof Francis Tin Loi and Prof T David

Waite.

Further details (page 33) of CVEN Discovery Projects are in Our

Research section of this report.

Record discoveriesIn the highly competitive annual ARC grants, announced in

November 2011 for funding commencing in 2012, the School

of Civil and Environmental Engineering won a record nine

Discovery Project grants, totalling $3.26M. This was the largest

number of Discovery grants and funds received by any School

at UNSW, which in turn received the most ARC funding of any

university in the State.

Projects carried out through the School’s two main research

centres, the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety

(CIES) and the Water Research Centre (WRC) involve innovative

research in areas of structural engineering, coastal engineering,

computational mechanics, hydrology, water resources, and

environmental engineering. Topics include research into

breaking wave eff ects, the upheaval buckling of concrete

pavements, reinforced concrete framed structures, new

strategies for fl ood design, mapping Australia’s water cycle,

and new research into the use of nanoparticulate silver in

purifi cation of contaminated drinking waters.

School ARC Grant winners: Back L-R: Ehab Hamed, Chongmin Song, Richard Collins Front L-R: Mark Bradford, Ashish Sharma, Stephen Foster, David Waite, Bill Peirson.

Absent: Matt McCabe, Raj Mehrotra, Francis Tin-Loi


November 2011 saw the launch of the UNSW Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)

rCITI is a new UNSW Faculty of Engineering Centre based at

the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering which has

been established to investigate sustainable approaches to

transport infrastructure and operations, with extensive liaison

with industry and government. It will combine the cutting

edge research of several UNSW Schools for a more integrated

and holistic approach to current and future transport problems.

rCITI’s mission is to develop research, strategies and innovative

solutions appropriate to the establishment and ongoing

development of integrated, effi cient and sustainable transport

systems to meet the current and emerging needs of people in

the 21st century.

Director of rCITI, and Evans & Peck Professor of Transport

Innovation, Professor S. Travis Waller spoke about the exciting

new research possibilities, transport planning strategies and

solutions that his new multidisciplinary team will be exploring.

Distinguished guests included Les Wielinga, Director General of

the NSW Government Department of Transport, Mary O’Kane,

NSW Government Chief Scientist and Engineer and Hugh

Durrant-Whyte, Chief Executive Offi cer of NICTA (National ICT

Australia Ltd) Australia’s Information and Communications

Technology Research Centre of Excellence.

Following the launch, guests were invited to a drinks reception

and exhibition highlighting some of the innovative Transport

research which is underway on campus.

Mr Ian McIntyre (Principal, Evans & Peck), Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte (CEO, NICTA), Professor T. David Waite (HoS, Civil and Environmental Engineering), Professor S. Travis Waller (Evans & Peck

Professor of Transport Innovation and Director, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation, rCITI), Professor Mary O’Kane (NSW Government Chief Scientist and Engineer), Professor Les Field

(Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research), Mr Les Wielinga (Director General, Transport for NSW)


Monitoring and forecasting coastal erosion in a changing climate:Australian Coastal Observation NetworkAustralia’s coastline is one of the country’s greatest natural,

economic and cultural resources. The asset value of existing

beach-front infrastructure is immeasurable. Climate change

is driving sea-level rise and changing regional wave climates,

resulting in coastal erosion and increasing threats to coastal

sustainability.

School researchers at the Water Research Laboratory have

therefore begun a project to create the fi rst global tool to

forecast how changes in wave patterns and rising sea levels

will aff ect beach erosion. The three-year project will monitor

10 sites on the NSW coast (Lennox Head, Sawtell, Dixon Park

- Newcastle, Wamberal, Terrigal, Collaroy-Narrabeen, Manly,

Wanda Beach -Cronulla, Thirroul and Shoalhaven) to build a

computer model that will enable prediction of wave and sea

level impacts on beaches anywhere in the world.

This ARC Linkage research project launches a strategic

international collaboration between university, industry, and

government to address the considerable and growing pressure

for solutions to observe and forecast accelerating shoreline

erosion. The initiative is a proactive response to the October

2009 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Climate

Change Report: Managing our Coastal Zone in a Changing

Climate, that identifi ed the urgent need to better understand

the risks of coastal erosion through monitoring and modelling.

Project Leader, Associate Professor Ian

Turner (pictured) notes that scientists

have no accurate predictions at present

of how the combination of changing

wave patterns and rising sea levels will

aff ect beach erosion. Planning decisions

allowing building in the wrong place,

rather than rising sea levels, were

more likely to be the cause of erosion

occurring in some NSW areas at

present. “There is, however, absolutely no question that on the

NSW coast we have experienced rising sea levels because we

have a very good network of tide gauges. There’s been a rise of

9cm in the past 30 years,” he said.

The study will address the knowledge gap between advancing

Climate Change science, and the lagging development of our

ability to quantify, assess and forecast coastal variability and

change.

Complementary to existing water-level and ocean wave

monitoring programs that already exist around much of the

Australian continent, the purpose of this present eff ort is to

initiate and demonstrate the practical capability and value of

sustained, automated and ongoing coastline monitoring (via

surf camera technology) in support of coastal management,

engineering and research.

Intensive RTK-GPS beach surveying, LiDAR, bathymetric

surveying and inshore wave monitoring using aircraft, jetskis,

quadbikes, cameras and buoys, are underway to rigorously

test the applicability of existing and new coastal camera

infrastructure to routinely obtain automated measurements

of local wave climate and shoreline variability. Of particular

importance, is the application of this new data to underpin

new developments in forecasting seasonal to multi-decadal

shoreline variability and change.

School Project Partners:Climate Futures & Department of Environment & Geography

- Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney,

NSW: School of Marine Science & Engineering, University of

Plymouth, UK: CoastalComs Pty Ltd, Burleigh Heads, QLD: NSW

Department of Environment Climate Change & Water, Sydney,

NSW: Warringah Council, Sydney, NSW: Gosford City Council,

Gosford, NSW


Unsaturated soil mechanics research

Safety standards in the civil

engineering industry could be

revolutionised with world-leading

research that is developing ways to

account for soil strength changes

associated with variations in

moisture content. “We’re looking at

particularly complicated aspects of

soil behaviour and its infl uence on

civil infrastructure – what happens when the moisture

content changes – perhaps due to drought or fl ooding,”

says Senior Lecturer Dr Adrian Russell (pictured).

“Conventional design methods in geotechnical

engineering are based on ideas developed many

decades ago for fully saturated soils, eg Terzaghi’s

bearing capacity theory and Rankine’s earth pressure

theory. These are perfectly valid when dealing with

saturated soils and suction is of no interest. However,

never before has the suitability of current procedures

to unsaturated soils been rigorously questioned

and scrutinized. There is a clear need to do this,

and to develop new design procedures relevant to

unsaturated soils.”

For the past 15–20 years UNSW

geotechnical engineers, led

by Professor Nasser Khalili

(pictured), have been developing

an understanding of the basic

mechanics of soil behaviour under

diff erent moisture conditions,

but they are now modelling and

developing practical applications

that will feed into design codes. The work will be useful

in everything from house construction to much larger

projects, including transport infrastructure, dams,

airport runways and slope stability.

The improved design procedures will lead to less

uncertainties, increased safety, and more economical

use of construction materials and space.

Australian Geomechanics Society Research AwardMr Mohammad Pournaghiazar (pictured above), a fi nal year PhD student of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety

within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded the prestigious Australian Geomechanics Society

Research Award in 2011 for his groundbreaking work on cone penetration testing of unsaturated soils.

The cone penetration test is a widely used tool for evaluating the engineering properties of saturated soils while in-situ. Mr

Pournaghiazar’s research specifi cally addresses its use in unsaturated soils where, at present, no reliable methods for cone

penetration test interpretation are available. His supervisors were Professor Nasser Khalili and Dr Adrian Russell.

The Sydney and Newcastle Chapters of the Australian Geomechanics Society off er the award each year for research in

geotechnical engineering or engineering geology. The winner is selected by a review panel based on technical content,

originality and industry relevance of the research communicated through a technical report and two presentations to the Society

membership.


The future of wastewaterSubmerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR) technology for the

treatment of wastewater is now a competitive technology with

a small carbon footprint and a generally high quality of treated

effl uent. Despite this, challenges remain in ensuring low effl uent

nutrient concentrations, minimal membrane fouling and in

the dewatering of the highly gelatinous sludge that is typically

produced in SMBR wastewater treatment.

Addition of iron or aluminium-based coagulant chemicals can

assist but many uncertainties with regard to choice of chemical,

optimal dosing arrangements and membrane bioreactor

operating conditions remain. Experimental and computational

studies targeted at improving understanding and optimising

SMBR performance are being undertaken through collaborative

studies by water researchers at the School of Civil and

Environmental Engineering and a research team at Tsinghua

University (Beijing), through the Australia-China Consortium for

Water Research (ACCWR, 中澳共建水处理研究中心).

Assisted by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant

(LP100100056) Professor David Waite is leading a team working

on experimental examination of the impact of coagulant

addition on SMBR performance and kinetic modelling of key

coagulant transformation processes within the SMBR. Judicious

use of both laboratory-based and pilot-scale experimentation

using both synthetic and real wastewaters coupled with

advanced mineral characterisation techniques (EXAFS, SAED,

HRTEM) combined with systems-based kinetic modelling is

assisting greatly in elucidating the key processes operating in

hybrid coagulation/submerged membrane bioreactor (C/SMBR)

systems.

Since the commencement of the project in July 2010 three

small scale membrane bioreactors have been established in the

UNSW Chemical Sciences Building and one pilot scale MBR at

Sydney Water’s Bondi Sewage Treatment Plant. Full scale testing

will be at Brooklyn Sewage Treatment Plant. Tsinghua University

has been conducting several laboratory scale studies in Beijing.

Beijing Origin Water Technology are providing membranes and

also conducting a pilot plant at Huairou in Beijing. A full scale

study in Miyun in Beijing has already commenced.

As the project proceeds in both Australia and China, results are

being reviewed and compared with the objective of deriving

operating protocols for membrane bioreactors that will allow

the development of cost eff ective operating methods and in

turn reduce the overall operating costs.

Partners: Beijing OriginWater Technology Co Ltd, Sydney Water,

Water Quality Research Australia Ltd, Tsinghua University .

Researchers: Prof T David Waite, Dr Xiaomao Wang, A/Prof

Gregory L Leslie, Dr Xia Huang, Dr Heriberto A Bustamante, Prof

Xianghua Wen, Dr Jing Guan.

About ACCWR: Initiated by UNSW, ACCWR was established

to facilitate interaction and cooperation between Australia

and China in areas related to research and training on water

resources management including: hydrology, riverine, estuarine

and coastal science and engineering, water quality, water

and wastewater treatment, water reuse and sustainable

development of water resources.

L-R: Yu Cheng, Deputy Director of Beijing Centre for Human Resources Research; Qi Wu, Director of Public Relations Department, Beijing Overseas Talents Center; Fang Yuan, Director of Beijing Overseas

Talents Center; Shizhu Li, Administrative Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park; Jing Guan, Deputy Director of R&D, Beijing OriginWater Technology Co. Ltd; Dr Yuan Wang, Research Fellow,

UNSW; Prof David Waite, UNSW; Dr Heri Bustamante, Sydney Water; Miao Yu, Director of Beijing Centre for Human Resources Research; Sophie Liu, PhD student, UNSW


New graduates get industry thumbs-upPeter Hartigan, a Principal at ARUP has found the young

graduates’ knowledge of architectural concepts and principles

greatly enhances their civil engineering capacities. ‘If one

considers the great buildings or projects in the world, they were

not realised by engineers working in their own disciplines – they

were achieved by teams that could understand and challenge

broader concepts and ideas.’

Civil with Architecture graduate Oscar Wittig went to major

engineering, architecture and environmental consulting

company GHD, joining their Urban Development Team. GHD’s

Sydney Operating Centre Manager, David Kinniburgh says

that ‘the services we off er are integrated and as such, having

team members with cross over skills improves our ability to

develop more effi cient and eff ective outcomes for our clients.’

Kinniburgh is very satisfi ed with the new graduates. ‘Put simply,

having engineers that ‘really understand’ what our architects are

trying to achieve on projects makes an enormous diff erence.

When they are approaching their element of the particular

project they are doing so from a wholistic viewpoint, which we

see as extremely valuable and going forward.’

For Alice Tjitradjaja, it was the degree’s ‘big picture’ approach,

which she believes is often downplayed in engineering

education, which ‘turns out to be the most applicable lesson in

the workplace.’

In 2011 the fi rst adventurous graduates of the innovative BE Civil

with Architecture left the shelter of the University and went out

looking for work in the competitive and tough minded world of

industry.

How did they fare?Astonishingly well, by all reports – from the graduates and from

their employers.

Alice Tjitradjaja, who was awarded the University Medal in 2010,

fi nds her new life in industry ‘exciting, fast paced, dynamic.’ She

works with leading structural design company ARUP Australia

in the Building Facades Discipline. ‘The heart of the job’ she

says, ‘is design - not only limited to technical/engineering, but

also strong involvement in coordination and discussion with

architects, builders, contractors and so on. My undergraduate

education has better prepared me for design, a constantly

evolving and iterative process – far from being straightforward.’

Another graduate working at ARUP, Tania Milinkovich

believes the ‘program gives graduates a unique skill set - an

understanding of how the architectural design process is carried

out, an appreciation of complex and beautiful designs, and

the technical capability to approach associated engineering

problems.’

L-R: Civil with Architecture grads Tania Milinkovich and Alice Tjitradjaja with Peter Hartigan, Principal, ARUP


Working with Indigenous Australia

While the Indigenous population makes up 2.5 percent of

Australia’s total population, they make up less than one percent

of all higher education enrolments. In the fi eld of engineering,

national Indigenous enrolments are even lower. In 1999 the

number of Indigenous engineer graduates was fi ve. Ten years

later, in 2008, the number of engineering graduates had risen to

20 across Australia.

In a 2009 address, Tom Calma, then Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights

Commission, noted that engineering and associated industries

have much to off er Indigenous Australia. ‘Across Australia, and

particularly in remote Indigenous communities, there is a need

for engineers to design, develop and advise on drinking water,

roads, hospitals, schools, radio, television and communication

networks and all the fabric of modern society. Encouraging

engineering graduates assists in our self determination –

giving us opportunities to be the drivers in our own social and

economic development.’ According to Calma, some of the

credit for raising the numbers in the last decade must go to the

proactive work of engineering summer schools.

The School, through its External Relations Committee, actively

supports eff orts to raise the participation rates of Indigenous

Australians in engineering through our involvement in the

Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School (IAESS),

the Nura Gili Indigenous programs winter school, and support

of the Nura Gili mentoring program. Through its annual cross

disciplinary ‘Project X’ the School and its Civil with Architecture

students are also involved in working with the Indigenous

Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Corporation of Western NSW.

The IAESS is an annual event, established 14 years ago by

Engineering Aid Australia, a non-profi t organisation founded

by the late Jeff Dobell. It is a fi ve-day live-in Summer School,

featuring a combination of activities that gives Indigenous high

school students in Years 11 and 12 a taste of engineering as a

university course and career. In 2011 the Faculty of Engineering

was recognised by the Australian Engineering Excellence

Awards for its role in hosting and developing IAESS at UNSW for

the last nine years.

Nura Gili, the UNSW centre for Indigenous higher education,

runs a multi disciplinary Winter School designed specifi cally for

Indigenous students in years 10, 11 and 12. Begun ten years

ago as a small program for six students, the 2011 Winter School

saw a record 165 students graduate. (UNSW is committed to

boosting the numbers of Indigenous students from its current

230 to 500 by 2015.) The week long residential program

is designed to provide students with the opportunity to

experience what university life is all about, through participation

in academic lectures and tutorials, presentations, study sessions,

team building, cultural activities and more.

Robert Young from Queensland’s Hervey Bay was one of the

attendees in July 2011. Upon his return home, his mother

Chrissie, who works in Indigenous Development at USQ, was

moved to write to Nura Gili:

I just wanted to inform you that my son Robert Young

returned from your program on Saturday a diff erent boy.

He has always been a good boy, does well in school, plays

representative sport for his school and community and also

holds down a part time job at McDonalds. He has always

aspired to achieve higher education and being his Aboriginal

parent, I have tried to immerse him into his culture as much

as possible. Since his return on Saturday he has not stopped

talking about the program, the friends he has made, how

proud he is to be Aboriginal, how he has decided he defi nitely

wants to get into civil engineering, how awesome it was to be

taught the Hakka, and how he defi nitely wants to return to

your program next year. Your program made such a positive

diff erence in my boy.

This was his fi rst time away from home and his direct family,

but he has said, Mum I now also have another family, my

Nura Gili 2011 family (with the biggest smile on his face).

So THANK YOU to you!! To the organisers, the coordinators,

to all the staff on and behind the scenes, thank you from the

bottom of my heart, from an Aboriginal woman who works

in the education industry and has always supported and

inspired my children to do well and be proud of their identity,

who now has a son that I know is going to do well in life,

thanks to the University of NSW and the Nura Gili Winter

School Program.

Kindest regards

Chrissie Young and Robert Young

Image: Coming home: Robert sharing his Nura Gili experience

with proud mother Chrissie.


School most influentialThe prestigious Engineers Australia annual list of Australia’s Top

100 most infl uential engineers showcases the wide variety of

areas where engineers hold infl uential roles in leadership or

contribute greatly to society through their technical expertise.

Annually updated, the list focuses on present achievements of

Australia’s dynamic engineers.

Six alumni of the UNSW School of Civil and Environmental

Engineering were named in Engineers Australia’s 2011 list, the

largest number listed from any engineering school in Australia.

We congratulate School alumni (L-R top to bottom)

Bruce Buchanan, (BE Civil Hons ’95) Group CEO, Jetstar;

Dr Robert Care, (BE Hons ’73, PhD ’78) Chair, Arup Group UK,

Middle East, Africa;

Grant King (BE Civil ’77), Managing Director, Origin Energy,

Sydney;

Jamie Shelton (BE Civil ’88) National President, Consult

Australia;

Em Prof Elizabeth Taylor (BE Civil ’78) Chair, Board of

Professional Engineers of Queensland;

Les Wielinga, (BE Civil ’77) Director-General, Transport NSW,

Sydney.

We are delighted to have Les Wielinga on our current School

Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) while Dr Robert Care was

also - until his recent promotion to Director | Chair Arup

United Kingdom Middle East Africa (UKMEA) – a very active

and generous member of the IAC.

UNSW had the greatest number of alumni listed – 22 of the Top

100 received their degrees from this university, over twice as

many as from any other university in the country.

Leighton Scholarship Support In December 2011 Leighton CEO Hamish Tyrwhitt and the UNSW Dean of

Engineering, Graham Davies signed a new Leighton Holdings/UNSW Scholarship

agreement. Leighton Holdings, who have a long term relationship with UNSW,

acknowledge that the university has been the training ground for some of

Leighton’s and the nation’s most successful engineers. Leighton’s long-term

strategic alliance with UNSW enables the company to actively support education

and training for future generations of young Australians.

Since 2004 Leighton have off ered two full four-year scholarships which aim to

assist high achieving students from rural or isolated areas to achieve their dreams

in civil or environmental engineering. The company also provide scholarships for

students enrolled in the BE in civil engineering to assist them in their fi nal third

and fourth year of study. Scholarship students are also off ered vacation work and

industrial training through Leighton operating companies.


Primary School Maths Prize

As part of the School’s External Relations and Industry Advisory

Committees’ shared brief to raise the profi le of the profession

amongst school students, a UNSW Civil and Environmental

Engineering Prize in Mathematics was off ered to a trial number

of Sydney primary schools in 2010, and successfully expanded

in 2011. 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.

Selection criteria emphasized applications and creativity as well

as class projects and test results.

Forty-fi ve NSW schools participated in 2011, the second year

of the innovative program, and prizes were given to 120 young

students, of whom one third were girls. Members of the School’s

Industry Advisory Committee, School staff and some illustrious

alumni presented the awards at end of year ceremonies,

further raising the profi le of the profession, and the University,

to hundreds of young people and their families. One alumnus

must get a special mention. Mark Vermeulen (BE Hons ’08) drove

500 kms to present the prize at his old school, in Crescent Head

Mid North Coast NSW.

The Principal, Janice Newton, has written to UNSW to say that

Mark’s ‘passion for engineering and the variety and challenges

of his work has, I am sure, inspired many of our students to

consider engineering as a career... We are a small country school

of 180 students and it is important for our students to realise

they can achieve their dreams.’

Construction Engineering and Project Management – global gathering

The 4th International Conference on Construction Engineering

and Project Management (ICCEPM-2011) held from 16th

to 18th February 2011 was successfully organized by the

School’s Engineering and Construction Management staff led

by Dr Sangwon Han as Conference Secretary - General. The

ICCEPM-2011 provided an arena where construction academics

and professionals could share their ideas and recent fi ndings

on various aspects of construction engineering and project

management.

101 technical papers from 16 countries were presented at

the conference. Topics included Project Management; Project

Delivery Systems; Legal Systems for Construction; Cost, Time,

Quality, and Safety Management; Design and Engineering

Management; Claim and Dispute Resolution; Information

Technology in Construction; Automation and Robotics

in Construction; Construction Productivity Improvement;

Construction Education and Training; International and Global

Issues in Construction Project Management; State-of-the-Art in

Construction Engineering and Management; Sustainability and

the Environment; and Building Information Modelling.

From the 101 papers presented, 10 best papers were selected

and further invited to submit to an international journal

titled “Journal of Construction Engineering and Project

Management”. Professor Peter Love from Curtin University

and Professor Feniosky Pena-Mora from Columbia University

delivered their keynote speech for the conference. Conference

delegates were very satisfi ed with the high standard of the

conference. ICCEPM-2011 was extremely successful in terms

of reinforcing our School’s reputation amongst both domestic

and international conference delegates and in developing close

collaboration networks with them.

Ajay Rix and School Alumnus --Mark Vermuelen Pic: The MacleayArgus Dr Hiyam al-Kilidar (UNSW), Dr Steve Davis (UNSW), Dr Sangwon Han – Conference Secretary

(UNSW), Prof Feniosky Pena-Mora (keynote speaker, Columbia University), David Carmichael

– Conference Chair (UNSW), Prof. Peter Love (keynote speaker, Curtin University), Dr. Xiangyu

Wang (Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW).

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Welcome New Staff

Associate Professor Leonhard

Bernold joined the School

in February 2011. Leonhard

was born in Switzerland and

immigrated to the USA in 1982.

He has taught Construction

Engineering and Management

for 25 years in the US and South

Korea. His extensive work led to

90 journal papers and over 100

presentations at international

conferences. In June 2010

his fi rst textbook, Managing

Performance in Construction, was published by John Wiley &

Sons. His second book, Construction Equipment and Methods

will be published in 2012.

Dr Carolin Birk joined the

School in 2011 as a lecturer

in structural engineering.

She received her doctoral

degree from the Faculty of

Civil Engineering, Technische

Universität Dresden, Germany

in 2004, and worked as a

postdoctoral researcher in

the fi elds of computational

mechanics and structural

dynamics - with particular

emphasis on interaction

problems in structural engineering. As an EU Marie Curie Fellow

she was a Visiting Fellow at UNSW in 2009/2010.

Dr Chris Blenkinsopp, PhD

Southampton, worked as a

coastal scientist for UK and

NZ companies, before joining

the School’s Water Research

Laboratory in 2007 as a Research

Associate. He was appointed as

Lecturer in 2011, teaching in the

area of water engineering. As

well as his expertise in coastal

engineering fi eld, Chris also has

research interests in other areas

of the hydraulics discipline, with a

focus on multiphase fl ow, hydropower and marine renewables.

Ms Sylvia Brohl joined the

School as Manager of the new

Research Centre for Integrated

Transport Innovation (rCITI)

after over a decade within the

international cultural exchange

program industry. She has

held senior positions while

working in diff erent countries

and managed a variety of

business areas including start up

procedures, operations, projects,

administration and fi nances.

Dr Vinayak Dixit joined the

School and rCITI as Senior

Lecturer in 2011, after serving as

the Associate Director of Research

for the Gulf Coast Centre for

Evacuation and Transportation

Resiliency at Louisiana State

University where he founded the

Driving Simulator Laboratory in

collaboration with other faculty in

the department. His key research

interest lies in studying risk in

the transportation infrastructure

system as it relates to highway safety, travel time uncertainty, as

well as natural and man-made disasters.

Dr Stuart Khan, a senior

researcher at the UNSW Water

Research Centre since 2005

with a focus on chemical

contaminants in drinking water,

wastewater and recycled water,

was appointed as senior lecturer.

He has received funding for over

20 major projects from Australian,

US and European agencies

including ARC, the National Water

Commission, the WateReuse

Foundation and the Water

Environment Research Foundation (WERF). Dr Khan has made

signifi cant contributions to Australian National Water Quality

and Water Recycling guidelines.

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Dr Lauren Gardner joined

the School as a lecturer in

transport engineering in 2011,

and as member of the new


Transport Innovation (rCITI).

Lauren completed her PhD at

the University of Texas, and her

major research area concerns

network modelling for multi-

domain integrated systems,

focusing on the relationships

and dependencies between various infrastructure systems and

processes which impact them.

Dr Gregoire Mariethoz’s

previous roles include Research

Assistant at University of

Neuchatel, Switzerland, as well as

Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford

University. He was appointed

as Senior Lecturer in 2011,

with teaching responsibilities

in the areas of water resources

modelling, stochastic hydrology,

hydrogeology and geostatistics.

His research goal is to bring

stochastic methods to maturity

such that they are appealing enough to be routinely used

for describing hydrological processes and quantifying their

uncertainty.

Evans & Peck Professor of

Transport Innovation S Travis

Waller.

Professor Travis Waller, arriving

from the University of Texas at

Austin, heads the new UNSW


Transportation Innovation

(rCITI) established in 2011 at the

School. Travis was named one

of the Top 100 young (under

35) innovators in science and

engineering in the world in 2003

by MIT’s Technology Review magazine, and received the U.S.

Transportation Research Board’s Fred Burggraf research award

in 2009. He has published more than 160 research papers in

journals and proceedings. He is an expert in transport systems

and planning, with extensive research into transportation

network modelling, particularly systems characterized by

dynamics, uncertainty and information; large-scale integrated

transport optimization and planning.

CongratulationsProfessor Nasser Khalili, Chair of the School’s Research

Management Committee, for his promotion to Associate

Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering.

Associate Professor Bill Peirson, co-Director of

the Water Research Centre, and Director of the Water

Research Laboratory at Manly Vale, for his promotion to

Associate Professorship in 2011.

FarewellDr Markus Oeser, a

lecturer in geotechnical

engineering specializing

in pavement engineering,

left the School in 2011,

returning to his native

Germany to take up a

Chair at the University of

Aachen. His many friends

at the School wish him all

the very best in his new

position as Professor for

Pavement Engineering and

Director of the Institute for Pavement Engineering at the

RWTH Aachen University, Germany.


Acworth, R. Ian

Director, Connected Waters

Initiative

Gary Johnston Professor of

Water Management

BSc Leeds, MSc PhD Birm,

FGS

Research Interests: Investigation of groundwater

dynamics and hydrochemical processes

in the coastal zone: Development of fi eld

instrumentation and analysis methods in

groundwater studies: Electrical methods in

the investigation of groundwater and salinity:

Relationship between Palaeoclimate and dryland

salinity.

Andersen, Martin

Senior Lecturer

MSc in Engineering, PhD at

DTU, Denmark

Research Interests: Investigations of physical

and geochemical processes at the surface water

groundwater interface; groundwater dynamics

in the coastal zone; reactive fl ow and transport

modelling; developing methodologies for using

heat as a tracer of groundwater fl ow; karst

hydrology.

Attard, Mario

Associate Professor

Associate Head – Academic

Chair, Teaching & Learning

Committee

BE PhD MHEd UNSW,

MIEAust, CPEng

Research Interests: Finite Strain Isotropic and

Anisotropic Hyperelastic Modelling: 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, Andrew

Professor

BSc PhD Bristol

Research Interests: climatology and

paleoclimatology, karst hydrology; organic matter

characterisation in engineered and aquatic

systems; and fl uorescence technologies.

Academic Staff 2011

Bernold, Leonhard

Associate Professor

Dip Civ Eng, NIT, Switzerland:

PhD Georgia IT, MBA St Gall,

USA, MASCE

Research Interests: Quantitative Assessment of

(Equipment Operator) Skill. Real Time Automated

Process Control in Construction: Development

of prototype hardware tested and evaluated

for their impact on safety, quality, productivity,

and carbon. Engineering Education: Testing of

constructivist teaching and learning, formative

assessment, and engineering sketching

considering personal learning preferences.

Technology Adoption in Construction: Study

of decision making and internal dissemination

procedures of a new technology: Lunar Mining

and Construction.

Birk, Carolin

Lecturer

BEng DEng Dresden

Research Interests: Numerical modelling of wave

propagation in unbounded domains: Soil-

structure interaction, fl uid-structure interaction:

Longitudinal railway track-structure interaction:

Artifi cial boundary conditions for diff usion:

Fractional calculus.

Blenkinsopp, Christopher

Lecturer

MEng(Hons) Nottingham,

PhD Southampton

Research Interests: swash zone sediment

transport and hydrodynamics: wave breaking:

LIDAR measurements of coastal hydrodynamics:

aeration and splash in breaking waves.

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 eff ects, non-

discretisation techniques, design codes, structural

retrofi t.

Carmichael, D G

Professor

BE MEngSc USyd, PhD Cant,

CPEng, FIEAust, MASC

Research Interests: Management, systems

applications of optimisation, synthesis:

Identifi cation and analysis: Contracts and

disputes: Project delivery: Construction

operations: Project management and

management functional areas including risk,

economics, fi nances, people resources and

scope: Construction management: Problem

solving and decision making.

Cox, Ron

Associate Professor

Co-Chair, External Relations

Convenor, ACCARNSI

BE 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 fi lled geo-containers in

coastal protection: Environmental monitoring

and modelling: Desalination plant brine

disposal: Hydraulics of water and wastewater

treatment plants: Flood hydraulics and fl oodplain

management: Life safety, emergency warning

and evacuation.

Davis, Steve

Lecturer

BE PhD UNSW

Research Interests: Stochastic Systems:

Evolutionary Programming: Parallel Computing

Applications to Civil Engineering

Dixit, Vinayak

Senior Lecturer

MT Institute of Technology,

Delhi, PhD University of

Central Florida

Research Interests: Behaviour under Risk

and Uncertainty in Transportation Systems:

Transportation Modelling and Simulation:

Traffi c Flow Theory: Traffi c Safety: Workzone

Management Strategies: Experimental

Economics.


Douglas, Kurt

Pells Sullivan Meynink Senior

Lecturer of Rock Mechanics

Co–Chair External Relations

BE USyd, PhD UNSW

My main interests lie in the fi eld 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, fi eld

studies and numerical methods.

Foster, Stephen

Professor

Director, CIES

BE NSWIT, MEngSc PhD

UNSW, MIEAustdf

Research Interests: Non-fl exural members in

Reinforced Concrete - Analysis and design of

reinforced concrete deep beams, corbels, and

nibs. Strut-and-tie modelling: High strength

concrete -The use of high strength concrete

for civil engineering structures. Design of high

strength concrete columns. Design and analysis

methods for non-fl exural members of high

strength concrete. Design with reactive powder

concretes. Fibre reinforced concrete -Modes I and

II fracture of fi bre reinforced concrete elements.

Design with reactive powder concrete: Repair

and Strengthening using CFRP - Debonding failure

of CFRP strengthened beams. Fatigue in CFRP

strengthened members. Modelling of bond:

Numerical modelling - Non-linear fi nite element

modelling of concrete structures, 3D fi nite

element modelling of reinforced and confi ned

concrete structures. Modelling of fatigue in

concrete structures. Modelling of blast and

impact eff ects in RC framed structures.

Gao, Wei

Senior Lecturer

BE 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.

Gardner, Lauren

Lecturer

BS ArchE, MSE, PhD

University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests: Network modelling for multi-

domain integrated systems: congestion pricing

models accounting for uncertainty, the role

of real-time information and adaptive pricing:

Sustainability models integrating transportation

and electricity systems: developing network-

based optimization models to predict the role

of global transport systems in the spread of

contagious disease.

Gowripalan, Nadarajah

Senior Lecturer

BSc(Eng) Moratuwa, MSc

PhD Leeds, MIEAust

Research Interests: Infl uence 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, fl atness and levelness. Alternative

reinforcements: Synthetic fi bre reinforced

concrete, FRP Fibre Optics and DIT for health

monitoring of structures.

Hamed, Ehab

Lecturer

BSc 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, Sangwon

Lecturer

BEng WKU, MSc HYU, PhD

UIUC

Research Interests: Dynamic Project Management

(DPM): Hybrid Simulation Modelling:Lean

Construction: Building Information Modelling

(BIM): Genetic Algorithm (GA) / Artifi cial 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.

Khan, Stuart

Senior Lecturer

BSc (Hons 1) USyd, PhD

UNSW, MIEAust.

Research Interests: Advanced Water &

Wastewater Treatment & Analysis: Trace

Chemical Contaminants in Water: Chemical Risk

Assessment: Probabilistic Chemical Exposure

Assessment: Water Recycling and Seawater

Desalination: Sustainability Assessment and Risk

Assessment: Environmental Fate Modelling: Water

Quality Impacts of Extreme Weather Conditions.

Mariethoz, Gregoire

Senior Lecturer

MSc, MAS, PhD University of

Neuchatel, Switzerland

Research Interests: Numerical models are the

only tools that allow forecasting the behavior of

complex hydrological systems such as aquifers.

One of my contributions has been to develop

and design numerical methods that off er

improved possibilities to integrate diff erent

kinds of data, especially soft knowledge such as

geological concepts.

McCabe, Matthew

Senior Lecturer

BE, 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, Stephen

Senior Lecturer

BE 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, Markus

Lecturer

MEngSc (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).

Peirson, William

Senior Lecturer

Co-Director, Water Research

Centre

Director, Water Research

Laboratory

BE BSc MEngSc PhD UNSW

Bill is an international expert in Civil and

Environmental Engineering fl uid mechanics

and undertakes specialist research in the fi elds

of coastal engineering, air-sea and air-water

interaction and exchange, fl uvial hydraulics,

estuarine processes and the hydraulics and

mechanical behaviour of turbomachines.

Russell, Adrian

Senior Lecturer

Chair, Technical Services

BE, 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, Ashish

Professor

ARC Future Fellow

BE Roorkee, MTech IIT Delhi,

PhD Utah State

Research Interests: Stochastic hydrology:

Synthetic generation of seasonal streamfl ow;

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, Chongmin

Associate Professor

Chair, Computing Services

BE 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, Richard

Professor

Co-Director, Water Research

Centre

BSc, 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, Hossein

State Water Senior Lecturer

in Dam Engineering

PhD USyd

Research Interests: Caisson foundations: Vertically

loaded anchors: Shallow foundations under

combined loading: Numerical modelling and

liquefaction analysis.

Turner, Ian

Associate Professor

BSc (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 infi lling; video-based methods to support

coastal engineering and management.

Vandebona, Upali

Senior Lecturer

BSc (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, Zora

Senior Lecturer

BE (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 School

BSc 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 eff ects

of chemical pollutants; interactions between

trace elements and microbiota in aquatic

systems.

Waller, S Travis

Evans & Peck Professor of

Transport Innovation

BSc Ohio State, MSc, PhD

Northwestern

Research Interests: Transportation network

modelling, particularly systems characterized

by dynamics, uncertainty and information;

large-scale integrated transport optimization

and planning. Specifi c applications or problem

domains include Dynamic Traffi c Assignment

(DTA), routing algorithm development, network

equilibrium, stochastic optimization, integrated

demand/supply modelling, network design,

adaptive equilibrium, system analysis of public-

private partnerships, and bi-level optimization of

transport networks.


Professional and Technical StaffSchool Manager

Karenne

Irvine

BA UNSW

Student Services Manager

Julijana Baric

Administrative Officers

Flora Fan

BA CUHK, MEd HKU, MLib-IM UNSW

Patricia

McLaughlin

Angela Spano

Administrative Assistants

Les Brown

Alice Yau

Web/IT

Kate Brown

BArch SU Thailand, MArch UNSW

Patrick Vuong

BIT

EA to Head of School

Betty Wong

External Relations Manager

Dr Mary

O’Connell

BA UNSW PhD CSU

Professional Officers

Dr Gautam

Chattopad-

hyay

BE PhD Jadavpur, MS Youngstown

Paul Gwynne

PDMPMR Sheffi eld Poly

Centre Managers

Sylvia Brohl

BCom Bonn

rCITI

Irene Calaizis

BCom UNSW

CIES

Brett Miller

BE, BSc, MEngSc UNSW

WRL Manly Vale

Robert Steel

BSc (Hons) UNSW, BE UQ

WRC Kensington

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

ACCARNSI Coordinator

Tamara Rouse

BA UNSW


Research, Adjunct & Visiting Academic Staff

Emeritus Professors John Andrew Black BA Manc, MTCP USyd, PhD Bradford, CPEng,

FIEAust

Thomas Chapman BSc Leeds, PhD Southampton,FIEAust

Robin Fell BE MEngSc Qld, CPEng, FIEAust

Raymond Ian Gilbert BE PhD UNSW, CPEng, FIEAust

David Pilgrim AM BE PhD DSc UNSW, CPEng HonFIEAust

Francis Shay Khiet 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

Irwin Suff et BS Brooklyn College 1961, M.S. University of Maryland

1964, PhD Rutgers University 1968.

Research Fellows David Kellermann BE PhD UNSW

Sawekchai Tangaramvong PhD UNSW

Senior Research Associate Shikha Garg BE IIT Kanpur PhD UNSW

Research Associate

Christopher Miller BSc BE UNSW

Professorial Visiting Fellows

Wilfred J Becker BSc PhD TH Darmstadt

Robert Care BE PhD UNSW

Jinajun Chen BE ME Xidian

Zhong Lin Chen

Jorg Drewes BS MS PhD Technical University of Berlin

Thomas Geers BS MS PhD MIT

Kourosh Kayvani BSc Tehran, MEngSc PhD UNSW, MIEAust, CPEng,

MIABSE, MIASS

Xiaoqing Li

Haitao Ma BE ME Dalian, DEng AIT Bangkok

Brian Shackel BE Sheff , MEngSc PhD UNSW, CPEng FIEAust

Senior Visiting Fellows

Ian Corderoy BE ME PhD UNSW

Bruce Jeff erson BEng PhD Loughborough

Xin Li

Denis O’Carroll PEng, BASc Ottawa, MS Clarkson, PhD Michigan

Andrew L Rose BE BSc PhD UNSW

Brian Roy Spies BSc UNSW, PhD Macquarie

Andrea Surovek BS MS Purdue, PhD Georgia IT

Visiting Fellows

Soheil Aber BS MS PhD Tabriz

Antonio David Dorado Castano Universitat Politenica de

Catalunya

Bruce Cathers BE Syd, DipHE Delft, MEngSC UNSW, PhD Manc

Youliang Chen BSc Wuhan, MSc Baoding, PhD Shanghai

Manabu Fuji BE PhD Tohoku

Hauke Gravenkamp Dipl.-Phys Hamburg

Xiaoyu Han BSc MSc PhD Chang’an

Juan Ma BE Dalian, ME PhD Xidian

Wencheng Ma

David Masin BSc Charles Uni Prague, MPhil City Uni London, PhD

Prague

Gregory Peters BE PhD USyd

Violeta Roso BSc Split Croatia, MSc PhD UT Gothenburg

Frank Robert Scharfe

Gareth Edward Swarbrick BE Adel, PhD UNSW

Li Wei

Ying Zhao

Dan Zhong


Centres and Research Staff

Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements & Infrastructure (ACCARNSI)Convenor

Associate Professor Ron Cox

Coordinator

Ms Tamara Rouse

Research Assistants

Dr Philip Booth

Louise Gates

Eytan Rocheta

Centre for Infrastructure, Engineering and Safety (CIES)Director

Professor Stephen Foster, BE NSWIT, MEngSc

PhD UNSW, MIEAust

Research Director

Scientia Professor Mark Bradford, BSc BE PhD

Syd DSc UNSW

FTSE PEng CPEng CEng MASCEFIEAust

MIStructE MACI

Deputy Directors

Emeritus Professor Ian Gilbert, BE PhD UNSW

CPEng FIEAust MACI

Professor Nasser Khalili, BSc Teh MSc Birm PhD

UNSW

Administrative Offi cer

Irene Calaizis, BCom (Marketing) UNSW

Other Academics

Professor Yong Lin Pi, BE Tongji ME Wuhan

PhD UNSW CPEng MIEAust

A/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 Ehab Hamed, BSc MSc PhD Technion

Dr Markus Oeser, BE, PhD, Dresden

Dr Adrian Russell BE, PhD UNSW, PGCert

Bristol

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

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

Other Research Staff

Dr Javad Azizi

Dr Zhen-Tian Chang, BE ME Hunan PhD

UNSW

Dr Xiaojing Li, BEng Wuhan PhD UNSW

Dr Mindy Loo, BE PhD UNSW

Dr Michael Man, BE Mechatronic Eng, PhD

Mechanical Eng

Dr Tian Sing Ng, BE PhD UNSW

Dr Jan Novak, BSc MSc TU Brno, PhD CTU

Prague

Dr Ean Tat Ooi, BME UT Malaysia, PhD

Mechanical Eng NTU Singapore

Dr Maziar Ramezani, BSc MSc Mech Eng, PhD

Mech Eng

Dr Ghaofeng Zhao,BSc MSc CUMT, PhD EPFL

Technical Staff

John Gilbert

Ron Moncay

Greg Worthing

Emeritus Professor

Somasundaram Valliappan BE Annam, MS

Northeastern, PhD DSc Wales, CPEng, FASCE,

FIACM

Professorial Visiting Fellow

A/Prof Brian Shackel, BE Sheff , MEngSc PhD

UNSW, CPEng FIEAust

UNSW Members

Professor Alan Crosky

School of Materials Science & Engineering

A/ Professor Gangadhara Prusty

School of Mechanical Engineering

Connected Waters Initiative (CWI)The Connected Waters Initiative is a joint initiative between

the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the

School of Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences (BEES).

Director

Professor Ian Acworth

Deputy Director

Professor Andy Baker

Super Science Manager

Mr Tony Woo

Admin Assistant

Ms Jodi Adams

Academics

Associate Professor Bryce Kelly

Dr Martin Andersen

Dr Stuart Khan

Dr Gregoire Mariethoz Dr Mathew McCabe

Dr Wendy Timms

Researchers

Dr Hoori Ajami

Ms Cecilia Azcurra

Dr Dioni Cendon

Dr Alessandro Comunian

Dr Garces-Corduba

Dr Anna Greve

Dr Adam Hartland

Dr Cath Jex

Mr Joshua Larsen

Mr Andrew McCallum

Mr Gabriel Rau

Mr Gyanendra Regmi

Mr Hamid Roshan

Professional and Technical Staff

Mr Peter Graham

(Wellington Farm Manager)

Mr Sam McCulloch

(Technical Offi cer - Geophysics)

Mr Hamish Studholme

(Technical Offi cer – Drilling)

Mr Mark Whelan

(Technical Offi cer – Centrifuge)


Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)Director

Professor S Travis Waller, Evans & Peck

Professor of Transport Innovation

Academics

Dr Upali Vandebona

Dr Vinayak Dixit

Dr Lauren Gardner

Research Associate

Dr David Fajardo

Administrative Offi cer

Sylvia Brohl

Water Research Centre (WRC)Co-Directors

Professor Richard Stuetz (WRC Kensington)

Associate Professor Bill Peirson (WRL)

Academics

Professor David Waite

Professor Ashish Sharma


Associate Professor Ian Turner

Associate Professor Sven Lundie

Dr Chris Blenkinsopp

Dr Stuart Khan

Dr Matthew McCabe

Dr David Roser

Dr Eric Sivret

Business Manager

Brett Miller (Manly Vale)

Robert Steel (Kensington)

Senior Project Engineers - WRL

James Carley

Dr William Glamore

Steven Pells

Grantley Smith

Dr Wendy Timms

Research Staff

Dr Hoori Ajami

Dr Xavier Barthelemy (WRL)

Dr Sivakumar Bellie

Dr Mark Bligh

Dr Heather Coleman

Dr Richard Collins

Dr Chris Duesterberg

Dr Shikha Garg

Dr Rita Henderson

Dr Adele Jones

Dr Andrew Kinsela

Dr Nhat Le

Dr James McDonald

Dr Rajeshwar Mehrotra

Dr Kate Murphy

Dr Gavin Parcsi

Dr An Ninh Pham

Dr Alex Pui

Eytan Rocheta

Dr Hazel Rowley

Matthias Schulz

Dr Michael Short

Dr Kristen Splinter (WRL)

Dr Josiah Strauss

Dr Jacqueline Stroud

Tiff any Teo

Dr Ben Van den Akker

Dr Lixin Wang

Dr Xianguang Wang

Dr Yuan Wang

Dr Seth Westra

Project Engineers - WRL

Alexandra Badenhop

Matt Blacka

Ian Coghlan

Erica Davey

Francois Flocard

Alessio Mariani

Duncan Rayner

James Ruprecht

Dr Tom Shand

Conrad Wasko

Technical and Administration

Anna Blacka

Bela Carvosso (Kensington)

Patricia Karwan (Kensington)

Ross Mathews

Joan Terlecky

Wendy Thomason-Harper

Robert Thompson

Library - WRL

Caroline Hedges

Jane Fortt

Volunteer - Kensington

Lance Bowen

Visiting Academics

Professor Nicholas Ashbolt, University of

Cincinnati, USA

Dr Bruce Cathers, University of New South

Wales, Australia (WRL)

Professor Youliang Cheng, School of Energy,

Power & Mechanical Engineering, North

China Electric Power University (WRL)

Associate Professor Ian Cordery, University of

New South Wales, Australia

Dr Daniel Deere, Water Future, Sydney,

Australia

Dr Stuart Dever, GHD, Australia

Professor Jorg Drewes, Colorado School of

Mines, Colorado, USA

Dr Manabu Fujii, University of Tohoku, Japan

Dr Bruce Jeff erson, Cranfi eld University, UK

Professor Ian King (WRL)

Associate Professor Andrew Rose, Southern

Cross University, Australia

Professor Mel Suff et, UCLA, USA

Dr Gareth Swarbrick, Pells Sullivan &

Meynink, Sydney Australia

From left to right: WRL’s expert technical staff ,

Sam McCulloch – Field Engineer, Mark Whelan –

Centrifuge Engineer, Rob Thompson – Technical

Offi cer, Larry Paice – Workshop Supervisor,

Hamish Studholme – Drilling Technician


In September 2011 water researchers from the School of Civil

and Environmental Engineering were runners-up at Australia’s

prestigious ‘Oscars of Science’, the Eureka Prizes. The Connected

Waters Initiative (CWI) Team were nominated for the Professor

Peter Cullen Eureka Prize for Water Research and Innovation

that recognises outstanding contribution to water resource

management.

The management of groundwater and surface water interaction is

one of the most serious environmental concerns for Australia. CWI

research refl ects how detailed climate, river fl ow, recharge, irrigation

usage, water chemistry, geological, and geophysical data sets

can be combined to improve our understanding of the processes

surrounding the movement of water through a catchment.

The UNSW Connected Waters Initiative Team obtained new insights

about the interaction between ground and surface water through

the development of a multidisciplinary tool kit, enabling better

management of the combined water resource. Their research

demonstrated that a collaborative eff ort focusing on obtaining

information from in-stream point measurements and small scale

fi eld measurements and deep borehole observations through

to observations on the catchment-scale is required to advance

integrated rural water management.

Presented annually by the Australian Museum, the Eureka Prizes

are a unique partnership between government organisations,

institutions, companies and individuals committed to celebrating

the vitality, originality and excellence of Australian science.

WRL project engineer Alessio Mariani

won a highly sought after 2011 Churchill

Fellowship under the topic of “Investigation

of international innovative coastal

engineering solutions to manage beach

erosion” . -The award will enable Alessio to

travel overseas to investigate and prepare a

report with an international perspective on

his specifi c research area.

Alessio will visit selected key major

international coastal hydraulic laboratories

where innovative engineering approaches

are being developed and tested. He plans

to travel to Japan, USA, Netherlands,

France, Spain and Italy. This will also

allow him to inspect the sites where

alternative coastal protection methods

have been implemented, to document

their performance, and to interview the key

experts in the fi eld.

Alessio’s research will promote the

implementation of these novel

methodologies in the Australian coastal

engineering practice and provide our

coastal planners and policy makers with

alternative coastal management strategies.

Professor Ian Acworth, Dr Wendy Timms, Research Associate Andrew McCallum (standing at back), Dr Anna Greve, Associate Professor Bryce Kelly and Research Associate Gabriel Rau (absent Dr Martin

Andersen)


Awards

On 14th October 2011, Emeritus

Professor Ian Gilbert – Deputy

Director of CIES was bestowed

the prestigious award of Honorary

Membership of the Concrete Institute

of Australia, at its biennial Concrete

2011 Conference in Perth. The citation

for this award was his “Outstanding

Contribution to the Development

and Use of Concrete in Australia”,

recognising sustained contributions

to teaching, research and practice in

concrete structures in Australia. (For full story see Our Centres

section of this Report)

Scientia Professor Mark Bradford,

Research Director of Centre of

Infrastructure, Engineering and Safety

(CIES), was awarded the prestigious

Shortridge Hardesty Award for 2011 by

the American Society of Civil Engineers

(ASCE). The award is given annually

to an individual who has contributed

substantially in applying fundamental

results of research to the solution of

practical engineering problems in the

fi eld of structural stability. Professor

Bradford’s- award citation read “For his signifi cant and infl uential

contributions to the art and science of stability of metal

structures”.

Congratulations to the following staff

ARC Future FellowsDr Richard Collins for the award

of an ARC Future Fellowship in 2011

for his work on investigations into

uranium resource recovery and

pollution response. His project aims to

determine key processes controlling

uranium transport and fate in natural

and engineered environments. This

will result in improved effi ciency in

extracting uranium from tailings and

subsurface deposits, reduced risk of

contamination of water supplies, and

improved management of radioactive waste repositories.

Associate Professor Sivakumar

Bellie for the award of an ARC Future

Fellowship in 2011 for his work on the

development of a generic catchment

classifi cation framework in hydrology.

Hydrologic models play a vital role

in water resource planning and

management, but identifi cation of a

suitable model for a given catchment

remains a basic problem. Sivakumar’s

research develops a generic framework

to classify catchments into groups

and sub-groups, and will off er a signifi cantly better way for

hydrologic model development and application.

ARC Discovery Early CareerDr Shikha Garg for winning an ARC

Discovery Early Career Researcher

Award in 2011 for her work on the

interaction between silver ions, silver

nanoparticles and reactive oxygen

species – and their implications for

reducing toxicity. Shikha’s project

investigates the ability of various

diff erent (supported and stabilised)

types of nanosized silver particles

(SNPs) to oxidatively degrade selected

contaminants and/or kill microorganisms. The project also aims

to determine the eff ect of solution condition (for example pH)

and light on SNP longevity and hence their oxidative capacity.


Vale

BE USyd ’51, ME UNSW ‘57

Foundation Head of Department, Engineering

Construction and Management, 1973 - 1986

Head of School of Civil Engineering 1981 – 1984

Ron Woodhead, the eldest of three boys, grew up in Burwood,

Sydney, in a ‘typical working class family’ of Yorkshire and

Scottish descent. His father Eric was a compositor who worked

for Bushells. Ron won a prize in mathematics at Burwood Public

School and from there went onto Sydney Technical High School.

He enlisted in the Army just after he turned eighteen in early

1945, becoming a sapper in the Royal Australian Engineers and

was involved in immediate post War reconstruction eff orts.

He worked in Singapore and Japan, and in early 1946 saw at

fi rst hand the devastation of Hiroshima. A skirmish with TB

brought him home in a hospital ship and in 1947 under the

Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme, he won a

place in the BE (Civil) at Sydney University, initially with the idea

of becoming a surveyor.

After graduating in 1951 Ron worked fi rst for the Water

Conservation and Irrigation Commission (WCIC) and then

leading consulting engineers GHD. He was attracted to UNSW’s

very fi rst postgraduate courses on structural analysis and design

being held at the new School of Civil Engineering at Ultimo. It

was a revelation. ‘Here I was meeting people who were giving

me the theory on problems that I was meeting in practice, to

which the practitioners didn’t have the answers.’

With a little encouragement from his wife Kathleen, he applied

for and attained a lectureship in structural engineering at

the expanding School in 1953. There he began his early

exploration of the use of computers for engineering research

and practice. He worked with Stan Hall, providing the computer

analysis for the fi rst application of matrix methods to structural

analysis which resulted in their joint publication in 1961 of the

innovative text Frame Analysis.

Later he collaborated with colleague Jim Antill in another

groundbreaking text - Critical Path Methods in Construction

Practice. Very supportive of the humanities component of the

engineering degrees of UNSW, Woodhead also set up, with

colleague Lloyd Edwards, the Great Books Club at the university,

where staff met regularly for decades to read and discuss the

classics of Western literature. Woodhead was always interested

in producing well rounded engineering graduates, ones who

‘not only knew theory but also knew practice, and also knew

how to embed it in the culture.’

As Head of School, Woodhead was hampered by severe

Government budgetary constraints infl icted upon the entire

tertiary sector which prevented any major refurbishment

of laboratory equipment or replacement of retiring staff .

Woodhead prophetically warned about the ‘shortsighted policy

on the part of our political decision makers’, which would

have long lasting and serious implications for ‘the technical

competence of the nation.’

Ron Woodhead retired in 1987. Looking back in 2002 on his

creative, innovative, dynamic and productive career he recalled:

I came to the University when it was clearly in its birth stages,

when it was clearly the underdog, you might say. By the

process of action and interaction of the staff , we transformed

it into the leading university in this country. I have to thank

all the people who I met, many now dead, who provided

the truly university environment that is related to friendship

and interchange of views, rather than positions held. That, I

think, is the greatest thing I have to thank the School and the

University for.

He is survived by his wife Kathleen, 10 children, 22

grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Emeritus Professor Ron Woodhead (1927 – 2011)


Level 3 Workplace Safety Committee

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 Laboratory access

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 2011, 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.

The Committee scheduled regular workplace inspections,

authorised various training courses for staff and students, and

resolved a wide range of OH&S issues.

In 2011 several laboratory and offi ce refurbishments were

completed. The old lifts in the tower block were replaced, and

construction of a new gas bottle storage facility was started. The

Committee liaised closely with Facilities Management on these

projects.

The 1st January 2012 will see the implementation of

Harmonised Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation in NSW

and ACT. The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 expands

on the requirements of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 by

providing details on how certain sections of the Act are to be

implemented. The Committee looks forward to addressing the

challenges that this may pose.

The provision of a safe work environment for all School staff and

students remains the School’s highest priority.

Level 3 Workplace Safety Committee . Back L –R: Larry Paice, Steven Davis, Paul Gwynne, Les Brown. Front L – R: Patricia Karwan, Hamish Studholme, David Waite, Gautam Chattopadhyay.

Absent: Irene Calaizis, Kelvin Ong, Ron Moncay, John Gilbert, Juan Alvarez Gaitan, Jack Zhang, and Veronica Mair (Faculty).

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� our research

Groundwater research is potentially a

dirty business! (photo Sam McCulloch).

CWI Maules Creek project, driller Johnno

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Research ManagementThe School continues to lead the way nationally in research

and its success in attracting external research income confi rms

the School’s place as one of UNSW’s most successful research

schools.

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

2011, the RMC met every month to oversee and progress all

research related aspects of the School’s operation.

Postgraduate Research Student ManagementAn important aspect of the Committee’s work involves the

management of the School’s postgraduate research student’s

program. In 2011, the School had 130 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 specifi c 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 fi nally 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 2011. Much of the work load in this area is carried

by the School’s Postgraduate Research Student Coordinator, a

position fi lled very ably by Professor Ashish Sharma. The student

review process continued relatively smoothly through 2011

with excellent administrative support provided by Ms Pattie

McLaughlin.

In 2011 the RMC provided funds to support each research

program - a desk top and up to $1500 for each student for travel

and consumables. The bulk of the funding to support research

student projects in most cases, however, comes from external

scholarships and/or from research grants won by the student’s

supervisor. In addition, funds to a total amount of $710,000

were granted to staff , based on competitive applications,

to augment and upgrade Schools’ world class experimental

facilities.

Research GrantsThe 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 (CIES), Water

Research Centre (WRC) and the Connected Water Initiative

(CWI). In 2011 nine Category 1 research grants were secured

placing the School as among the best performing in Australia.

See following page for details.


In the highly competitive annual

ARC grants, the School of Civil and

Environmental Engineering won a record

nine Discovery Project grants, totalling

$3.26M. Details of the successful Projects

are:

DP120101701 Project Title: Transitions

in wave breaking from deep to shallow

water.

Banner, Prof Michael L; Peirson, A/Prof

William L; Dias, Prof Frederic

2012 $130,000 /2013 $120,000/ 2014

$110,000 Total $360,000

Project Summary: The predominant

impact on coastal geomorphology,

marine safety and coastal structures is

from breaking waves, especially from

storms. This project will provide the fi rst

unifi ed formulation of breaking wave

eff ects from deep to shallow water,

which will increase wave forecast model

accuracy and hence improve coastal zone

design and safety outcomes.

DP120104554 Project Title: Thermal-

induced unilateral plate buckling

of concrete pavements: design and

evaluation.

Bradford, Prof Mark A

2012 $200,000/ 2013 $120,000/ 2014

$120,000 Total $440,000

Project Summary: The project

addresses the upheaval buckling of

concrete pavements, which is caused

by increasingly frequent heat spells.

It will consider both the vulnerability

assessment of existing pavements, and

the design of new pavements made from

low-carbon geopolymer concretes (which

are lighter than conventional pavements)

against upheaval buckling.

DP120103328 Project Title: Progressive

collapse resistance of reinforced concrete

framed structures with membrane action.

Foster, Prof Stephen J; Valipour, Dr

Hamid

2012 $120,000/ 2013 $100,000 /2014

$100,000 Total $320,000

Project Summary: The past ten years,

or so, has seen increasing emphasis on

extreme event scenarios such as blast,

impact and earthquake and more regular

and intense cyclonic wind events. This

study investigates the reserve of strength

in reinforced concrete framed structures

to withstand such forces.

DP120102762 Project Title: Nonlinear

long-term behaviour and analysis of high

strength concrete panels.

Hamed, Dr Ehab H; Foster, Prof

Stephen J

2012 $110,000/ 2013 $110,000/ 2014

$90,000 Total $310,000

Project Summary: This project investigates

the nonlinear long-term response of

high-strength concrete panels. As these

panels fi nd widespread use in many civil

and industrial engineering applications,

the outcomes of this project will enhance

the understanding of their long-term

behaviour and will provide a theoretical

basis for their analysis and design.

DP120104718 Project Title: Closing the

water cycle using land surface modelling,

remote sensing and an Australian

hydrological observatory.

McCabe, Dr Matthew F; Wood, Prof Eric

2012 $130,000/ 2013 $130,000/ 2014

$120,000 Total $380,000

Project Summary: Australians live in the

driest inhabited continent on Earth.

Water supply and its variability have

been constant problems throughout

our history. This project will use space

based satellites, sophisticated ground

based instruments and advanced

modelling tools to provide a 21st century

characterisation of our nation’s water

resources.

DP120100338 Project Title: A new

strategy for design fl ood estimation in a

nonstationary climate.

Sharma, Prof Ashish; Mehrotra, Dr

Rajeshwar; Westra, Dr Seth

2012 $105,000/ 2013 $110,000/ 2014

$105,000 Total $320,000

Project Summary: Evidence suggests that

global warming will result in an increase

in the frequency and/or magnitude of

heavy rainfall, leading to fl ooding with

potentially devastating consequences.

This study provides a renewed focus

on design fl ood estimation that takes

into account a changing climate where

assumptions that the future climate

will be similar to the past are no longer

tenable.

Discovery Projects

DP120100742 Project Title: Scaled

boundary fi nite-element approach for

safety assessment of plates and shells

under monotonic and shakedown

loadings.

Song, A/Prof Chongmin; Tin-Loi, Em/

Prof Francis; Becker, Prof Wilfred

2012 $120,000/ 2013 $100,000/ 2014

$100,000 Total $320,000

Project Summary: This project develops

an advanced numerical tool for the safety

assessment of plate and shell structures

under practical loading regimes. This

tool permits timely decision making and

is of vital assistance to engineers and

government authorities on safe and cost-

eff ective management of infrastructure

asset.

DP120103234 Project Title:

New perspectives on iron oxide

transformations in oxic and anoxic

aqueous environments: Implications

for iron bioavailability and contaminant

mobility.

Waite, Prof T David; Rose, A/Prof

Andrew L; Collins, Dr Richard N;

Waychunas, Dr Glenn

2012 $170,000/ 2013 $140,000/ 2014

$140,000 Total $450,000

Project Summary: Transformations in

the form and reactivity of iron oxides in

oxic and anoxic aqueous environments

are considerably more dynamic than

previously thought. This project will

examine the nature and extent of these

transformations and elucidate their

impact on supply of iron to organisms

and mobility of uranium and arsenic in

groundwaters.

DP120103222 Project Title: Reactive

oxygen species generation by zerovalent

silver nanoparticles; implications to

toxicity and contaminant degradation.

Waite, Prof T David; Wiesner, Prof Mark R

2012 $130,000/2013 $115,000/2014

$115,000 Total $360,000

Project Summary: Nanoparticulate silver

is now being used for the purifi cation of

drinking water yet many questions remain

concerning its mode of purifying action.

Here we investigate the generation

of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by

nanoparticulate silver and examine the

relationship between ROS generation and

the purifying action of “nano-silver”.


Reducing Surface Mining Operation Emissionswithin coal hauling operations. An increase in tray size results in

longer loading and dumping times, slower travel times in lower

gears, an increase in rolling resistance due to a larger mass and

therefore an increase in fuel use per cycle. With larger capacity,

however, fewer trucks and fewer cycles are required for a given

mine output. Commonly it was assumed the benefi ts will

outweigh any increased fuel use per cycle or road and vehicle

maintenance costs.

Fuel burn data were collected onsite and then converted to

emissions. This was supplemented with an existing emissions

calculation approach based on truck idling and non-idling

fractions. In addition to examining minimum unit cost and

unit emission confi gurations, the research also quantifi ed the

additional cost of emissions using realistic assumptions on the

cost of carbon, whether through a tax or as determined by

carbon markets.

For the particular fi eld study, it was found that the trucks with

smaller payloads performed better, reversing previous concepts

of effi ciency. The analysis concludes that minimum cost and

minimum emissions results are achieved by implementing the

smaller trucks. The results show that in some cases it is better

to use a larger fl eet of smaller payload trucks than a reduced

fl eet of larger payload trucks. Selection of the larger truck leads

to a cost and emissions penalty. It is acknowledged that such a

conclusion is operation-specifi c; in particular the mine studied

is a relatively shallow mine, with short haul road sections. Other

mines with longer and fl atter hauls could be expected to have a

lower fuel burn rate. Nevertheless, the methodology adopted in

the study is general to any mining operation.

The implementation of appropriate practices at an operations

level should lead to emission reductions.

Recent legislation such as the National

Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme

(NGER) Act (2007) and the Energy Effi ciency

Opportunities (EEO) Act (2006) requires

companies to quantify and report their

overall emissions and promote energy

effi cient operations, cutting costs of

wasted energy and in turn benefi ting the

environment. And with the Clean Energy

Act (2011) (carbon tax/carbon price legislation) now in place,

mining companies will be forced to further examine production

emissions because they will directly aff ect the cost per tonne

mined as well as diesel fuel costs.

Traditionally surface mining operations have been run on a

minimum unit cost criterion. However, there is an increasing

awareness for the need to reduce carbon emissions due

to their negative environmental impacts, newly emerging

carbon reporting policies and legislation, public awareness,

and changing company corporate social responsibility and

sustainability strategies. Diesel-powered equipment in surface

mining operations is the major source of operations emissions.

A typical surface mining confi guration includes a fl eet of

off -road trucks cycling between an excavator and stockpile/

crusher/dump point. Fleet size, truck selection, excavator

selection, haul road condition, truck speed, and loading and

dumping times all aff ect production. Thus the nature of the

operation varies from mine to mine, but the confi guration

largely remains the same.

School researchers Professor David G. Carmichael, and students

Beau J. Bartlett and Alireza S. Kaboli, examined the impact on

unit emissions, as well as unit costs, of the current practice

of modifying truck tray sizes in order to carry larger payloads


Developing a System of National Accounts for Materials

The Great Depression of the 1930’s was exacerbated because

governments and corporations did not understand the

fl ow of money in internationally linked economies. Keynes

developed the underlying theory that our current System

of National Accounts is based on, that provides us with key

information every three months that, hopefully, will allow us

to make decisions on the monetary economy that will avoid

repeating the tragedy of the 1930s. But in order to have a

sustainable economy into the future, we also need fundamental

information on the fl ow of materials through our economies so

that the metabolism of modern economies can be satisfi ed with

an ongoing supply of materials to provide goods and services

for an increasing and wealthier global population; and so that

the capacity of the receiving environment to accept material

emissions is not exceeded.

We can already see we are in a condition of peak oil and

possibly peak phosphorus, and that we have exceeded the

carrying capacity of Sydney Harbour for dioxin, that will

prevent commercial fi shing for many decades into the future.

In order to avoid having to create reactive solutions, which

are often not desirable in terms of the quality of human and

ecosystem conditions, we need to have information of the fl ow

of substances through our regional, national and international

economies…a System of National Accounts for Materials. The

UN has commenced work on the development of a System of

Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) that

will produce these broad material fl ow indicators on a routine

basis.

Stephen Moore’s research group, under the initial and ongoing

infl uence and guidance of Prof Brunner from TUWien, is

analyzing the fl ow of important substances such as phosphorus,

copper, lead, cadmium and mercury through the Sydney

and Australian economies to provide information on how

to design economies at regional and national scale that are

more materially sustainable. This will be supplementary to, and

compatible with, the UN SEEA accounts under development.

Stephen’s collaboration with Prof Sakai at Kyoto University,

and Prof Ma at National Taiwan University, will extend the

system boundary to include the tracking of substances such as

cadmium in our mineral concentrate exports, to enable more

comprehensive international controls to be developed for these

toxic bioaccumulative substances.

Rewriting a classicThe work of the brilliant 19th century French mathematician

and mechanician Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789 – 1857) is

known to undergraduate engineering students around the

world. One of the most famous works of the man who it is

said , ‘taught rigorous analysis to all of Europe’ outlined the

linear strain tensor, which is the fundamental measure of

material deformation taught in every fi rst year engineering

program around the world today.

Yet Cauchy himself wrote in a later paper (1850) that: “the

coeffi cients which contained the linear equations given

were presumed to reduce to constant quantities; and, as

I made the remark of it, this assumption is not always in

conformity with reality”. That is, Cauchy cast doubt onto the

validity of his own theory.

Fast forward more than 160 years, and two staff members

of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering have

been developing a new mechanics theory based on the

total elimination of Cauchy’s assumption-in-question.

Research Fellow Dr David Kellermann and Associate

Professor Mario Attard have been looking at anisotropic

materials, which include any medium with directional

properties such as high performance carbon fi bre and

nano composites, and most human tissue such as muscle,

tendons, arterial walls and bone.

Engineering simulation of these materials has come up

against limitations in the otherwise scrupulously developed

theory of classical continuum mechanics. The assumption

surrounding symmetry of the strain tensors is altogether

removed by the use of a new mathematical construct called

Intrinsic-Field Tensors. This ultimately promises improved

modelling for various contemporary engineering challenges

such as composite aircraft design and biomedical

simulation for pre-surgery procedural analysis.

Dr David Kellermann and Associate Professor Mario Attard

Stephen Moore, Prof Sakai, Dr Hirai and research student (on left) at

Kyoto University, Japan Oct 2011


Flood ModellingThe suburb of Merewether in Newcastle is providing engineers

with critical data that will inform emergency personnel on how

to plan better for the fl oods which have wreaked havoc across

Australia in the past few years. A model of the suburb has been

created at the Water Research Laboratory.

The fl oods in Queensland and Victoria in 2011 have been a

timely reminder of how destructive and dangerous these types

of natural disasters can be. While State and Local government

authorities are busy with the important task of restoring

infrastructure for communities in these fl ood aff ected areas,

researchers at the University of New South Wales Water Research

Laboratory (WRL) are working to assist planners and emergency

managers to more eff ectively deal with future fl oods.

Sophisticated, two-dimensional numerical computer models are

commonly being used to provide baseline data describing fl ood

levels, depths and velocities in fl ood prone areas. Statistically

analysed, these data can be used by planners and managers to

defi ne the risk and relative hazard (safety) of fl ood prone areas.

The data can be used to determine a wide range of planning

outcomes from safe evacuation routes out of fl ooded regions to

whether areas are suitable for rebuilding or future development.

A recent research project by Grantley Smith and Conrad Wasko,

using funding from the Federal Department of Climate Change

and Energy Effi ciency and Engineers Australia, as part of the

review of Australian Rainfall and Runoff , has used the advanced

numerical and physical modelling capabilities of WRL to review

current industry modelling practice. A physical model of an

urban fl oodplain in Merewether, a suburb of Newcastle, NSW

has been built at WRL and calibrated to the famous ‘Pasha

Bulker’ storm of June 2007. Detailed fl ow measurements from

the physical model have been compared with predictions of

the June 2007 fl ood from various numerical fl ood software

packages commonly used by industry. The research has shown

that there are numerous areas where modelling approaches can

be improved. WRL’s report will inform the revision of industry

guidelines and be included in the next edition of Australian

Rainfall and Runoff . The fi ndings can also be used to provide an

improved assessment of building stability on fl oodplains.

L-R: A/Prof Bill Peirson, Prof Craig Simmons, Prof Ian Acworth, Ms Clare McLaughlin (Gen

Mgr, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research), Prof Graham Davies, Dean of

Engineering, UNSW.

School Unveils its “Time Machine”Since its opening in 1959, the School’s Water Research

Laboratory has played host to a large variety of research

equipment and facilities, but it now boasts its own time

machine!

On September 7th, 2011 the School celebrated the launch

of its newest facility, the Groundwater Education Investment

Fund (GEIF) headquarters and its star attraction, an $800,000

geotechnical centrifuge which is one of only two of its kind in

the world.

Funded by the Australian Research Council and the National

Water Commission, the centrifuge has been described as a time

machine, since it allows researchers to preview the long-term

eff ects of groundwater abstraction on aquifers and aquitards.

The movement of water contained in the clay allows researchers

to mimic the long-term changes in underground water and

estimate how quickly any contamination caused by a gas well

would spread. In particular, the impacts on aquitards that result

from coal seam gas extraction and longwall mining can be

investigated.

This is achieved by spinning rock samples taken from the

aquitards that typically occur above coal seams at speeds up to

300 x gravity to test their permeability. A single day’s testing can

equal 100 days of fl ow in “real” time and, according to Professor

Ian Acworth, director of the UNSW Connected Waters Initiative

based at WRL, “experiments that would previously take 30

years to complete can now be achieved in a number of days or

weeks.”


Fly me to the moonTwenty nine groups are presently racing to win the $300 million

Google Lunar X-Prize for being fi rst in landing and deploying

a vehicle on the surface of the moon. This will undoubtedly

change the drivers behind exploration of the moon away

from governmental agencies to private enterprise. There are

many incentives for space projects, some scientifi c, some

fi nancial. They include the possibility of energy production

from sunlight that can be beamed to earth; mining of titanium,

oxygen, hydrogen, helium3, nitrogen and rare-earth minerals;

manufacturing in high vacuum, investor-fi nanced commercial

enterprises such as tourism and even movie production.

Whether publicly or privately fi nanced, the engineering

problems related to the construction of structures for short or

long-term habitation, mining and processing of lunar regolith

remain the same. After decades of research in the US and Korea,

funded by space agencies NASA and KARI, new staff member

Associate Professor Leonhard Bernold continues his research

into lunar construction, mining and power supply.

With the help of three honours students Dr Bernold is

experimenting with a new mining technology that he invented

(using a closed cycle suction drilling approach), lunar concrete

made with small amounts of non-liquid polymer and lunar soil,

and solar energy storage and recycling. He found the lunar

soil simulant in Hansons Kulnura Basalt Quarry in NSW, which

recently sent several tons of their fi nest material to UNSW. It is

being sieved and mixed to match the mechanical characteristics

of the regolith that was brought back by the Apollo astronauts

40 years ago. It will be Australia’s fi rst lunar soil simulant: UNSW-

LS-1.


2011 CIES Research Funding SummaryResearcher(s) Research Topic Granting Organisation Value at

2011

MA Bradford An Innovative and Advanced Systems Approach for Full Life-Cycle, Low-

Emissions Composite and Hybrid Building Infrastructure

ARC Laureate Fellowship including Faculty of

Engineering support

430,000

E. Hamed, MA Bradford Long-term behaviour of thin-walled concrete curved members

strengthened with externally bonded composite materials

ARC Discovery 63,500

A/Prof C Song; Dr W Gao ; Prof W Becker Non -deterministic fracture analysis of structures by extending the scaled

boundary fi nite -element method


Prof N Khalili ; Dr RK Niven; Dr M Oeser CO2 sequestration in deformable, chemically interactive, double porosity

media


N Khalili; AR Russell Erosion of variably saturated soils - a fundamental investigation ARC Discovery 93,400

RI Gilbert Anchorage of reinforcement in concrete structures subjected to loading

and environmental extremes


RI Gilbert Time-dependent stiff ness of cracked reinforced concrete ARC Discovery 92,500

N Zhang (UTS), W Gao Quantitative analysis of dynamic performance of vehicles with uncertain

system parameters and road inputs


Y L Pi Interval nonlinear analysis of spatially curved structures with material and

geometric uncertainties


MA Bradford; B Uy; G Ranzi; A Filonov

Time Dependent Response and Deformations of Composite Beams with

Innovative Deep Trapezoidal Decks

ARC Linkage Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s)

BlueScope Lysaght

2,500

Prof MA Bradford; Prof RI Gilbert; Prof SJ

Foster; Mr A Filonov; Mr R Ratcliff e

Strength of two-way steel fi bre reinforced composite fl ooring systems ARC Linkage

Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s)

BlueScope Lysaght and BOSFA

52,000

RI Gilbert; MA Bradford; R Zeuner; GR

Brock

Time-dependent in-service behaviour of composite concrete slabs with

profi led steel

ARC Linkage


Fielders Australia Pty Ltd; and Prestressed Concrete

Design Consultants Pty Ltd

110,300

M Oeser; AR Russell; N Khalili

Enhanced Analysis and Structural Design of Pavements - Virtual Laboratory

for Advanced Pavement Design.

ARC Linkage


ARRB Group Ltd

135,000

Markus Oeser, Alan Pearson, Nasser

Khalili, Brian Shackel

Permeable Pavements with Concrete Surface Layers- Experimental and

Theoretical Basis for Analysis and Design

ARC Linkage

Partner Organisation:

Concrete Masonry Association of Australia

70,500

Stephen J Foster, Vute Sirivivatnanon,

Mark G Stewart

A Re-evaluation of the Safety and Reliability Indices for Reinforced Concrete

Structures

ARC Linkage

Partner Organisation:

Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia

55,700

Dr Gianluca Ranzi, Prof Raymond I

Gilbert, Mr Rodney Mackay-Sim

Behaviour of lifting inserts for precast concrete construction ARC Linkage

Partner/Collaborating Organisation:

Universal Concrete Lifting Systems

26,500

MA Bradford UNSW contribution – Laureate Fellowship DVC Research UNSW 185,000

L. Ge Structural monitoring and modelling CRCSI (Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial

Information)

21,300

CRC Bid: CRC LCBC&C Low Carbon Buildings and Cities CRC DVC Research UNSW 45,000

S Foster Hybrid testing facility for structures under extreme loads (Multi Institutional

agreement)

ARC LIEF Grant 30,000

CRC ACS Advanced composite Structures Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced

Composite Structures Ltd (CRC-ACS)

73,000

CRC ACS Advanced composite Structures Faculty of Engineering 27,100

S Foster Behaviour of geopolymer concrete at elevated temperatures. Faculty of Engineering / ADFA Research

Collaboration Scheme

19,700

Z Vrcelj Silverstar Project Faculty of Engineering 20,000

E Hamed ERC Grant Faculty of Engineering 31,000

N Khalili Hole erosion & ring shear analyses Various 23,700

TOTAL 2,059,900

ACCARNSI Research GrantResearchers/Investigators Research Topic Granting Organisation Value at

2011

R Cox, R Stuetz, W Peirson (CVEN at UNSW):

B Randolph, P Graham (FBE at UNSW); R

Tomlinson (Griffi th Uni); G Hugo (U Adelaide);

M Taylor (Uni SA)

Nationwide network to support the coordination of the Australian

research community in the fi eld of Climate Change Adaptation –

supporting multi-disciplinary research, building research capacity,

and promoting and supporting information exchange relating to

coastal settlements, urban planning, the built environment and

infrastructure.

Commonwealth Department of Climate Change

and Energy Effi ciency (DCCEE) through the

National Climate Change Adaptation Research

Facility (NCCARF) ($406,364): also Griffi th Uni, ($5K)

U South Australia, ($2.5K) U Adelaide – ($2.5K) plus

industry support from Sydney Water (in-kind) and

NSW Dept of Services.

421,364

As above As above UNSW support: including DVC – Research ($150K)

FBE ($5K) and WRC ($5K)

160,000

Total 581,364

Research Funding 2011 Total $17,352,300

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2011 rCITI Funding / Grant SummarySenior Investigator(s) / Advisor(s) /

Researcher(s)

Subject Area / Research Topic Granting Organization(s) / Industry Sponsor(s) Value at 2011

Prof. S. Travis Waller

Adaptive Stochastic Network Behaviour Modelling Approaches

for Representing and Responding to Disrupted Conditions

UNSW Goldstar 40,000

Prof. S. Travis Waller

Federal Highway US DOT, Booz Allen Hamilton $270,000

Dr. Vinayak Dixit

Experimental Economic Methods to Evaluate Impact of Risk

Aversion and Subjective Beliefs on Route Choice

Faculty Research Grant Program / Early Career Researcher

Grants Program

15,000

Dr. Lauren Gardner

Quantifying the Role of International Transport Network

Connectivity in Modelling Australian Epidemiological Risk via

Passenger Travel and Freight Importation

Faculty Research Grant Program / Early Career Researcher

Grants Program

20,000

Total $345,000

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Senior investigators and advisers Subject area Industry Sponsors

Total Industry

Funding

(ex GST)

James Carley, Ron Cox, Ian Turner, Tom

Shand, Matt Blacka, Alessio Mariani, Bill

Peirson, François Flocard, Ian Coghlan,

Conrad Wasko

Coastal engineering and management NSW Department of Lands, Byron Shire Council, Kingborough Council, Clarence

City Council, Local Government Association of Tasmania, Port Arthur Historic Site

Management Authority, Warringah Council, Pitt and Sherry, Manly Hydraulics

Laboratory, Umwelt, Ove Arup Dan Rakan – Rakan, Sydney Water Corporation, US

Army, Manly Council, NSW Department of Lands, NSW Department of Environment,

Climate Change and Water, Australian Institute of Marine Science

$ 496,232

James Carley, Ron Cox, Matt Blacka,

Alessio Mariani, Brett Miller, Tom

Shand, Ian Coghlan, François Flocard,

Duncan Rayner

Coastal structures and wave

protection

Ove Arup Dan Rakan – Rakan, ACCARNSI, Geofabrics, Victorian Department of

Sustainability and Environment, Byron Shire Council, Tweed Shire Council, North

Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation, Parks Victoria, Aurecon, Aurecon Hatch, KBR

$1,202,667

Brett Miller, Grantley Smith, Laurent

Tarrade, Duncan Rayner, Matthew

Blacka, Bill Peirson

Desalination intakes and outfall design

for minimising environmental impacts

Department Of Commerce, Clarence Valley Council, Engineers Australia, Veolia Water

Australia

$131,976

Brett Miller, William Glamore, Duncan

Rayner

Sewage disposal in coastal waters and

environmental impacts

Northern Territory Power and Water, Manly Council, Federal Department of Natural

Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, Sydney Water Corporation

$ 55,703

William Glamore, Duncan Rayner, Brett

Miller, Bill Peirson, Conrad Wasko

Environmental restoration studies NSW Department of Industry and Innovation, NSW National Parks and Wildlife

Service, Qld Dept. Of Environment Resource Management, NSW Department of

Climate Change and Water

$ 191,675

Brett Miller, William Glamore, Laurent

Tarrade, Ian Coghlan, Bill Peirson,

Conrad Wasko, Duncan Rayner, Matt

Blacka

Estuarine water quality and

environmental fl ows

NSW Department of Planning, Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management

Authority, Mid Coast Water, Federal Department Of Environment, Water, Heritage

And The Arts, Hunter Water Corporation

$254,592

Wendy Timms, Steven Pells, Grantley

Smith, Brett Miller, William Glamore,

Ian Acworth, Ian Turner, Alexandra

Badenhop, Matt Blacka, Jamie

Ruprecht

Groundwater studies, supply,

monitoring, salinity and pollutant

transport

United Group Infrastructure, Abigroup, Australian Department of Water,

Environment, Heritage and Arts, St Vincents Foundation, ORICA, Manly Council, JP

Environmental, WA Department of Water, Northern Rivers Catchment Managment

Authority, QER Pty Ltd, Hansen Bailey, Energy Resources of Australia Ltd, HWL

Ebsworth Lawyers, Centennial Coal, Namoi Catchment Management Authority,

Geoscience Australia, Federal Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water

Population and Communities, Namoi CMA

$387,288

Brett Miller, James Carley, Ian Coghlan,

Bill Peirson, Jamie Ruprecht, Bruce

Cathers

Civil Engineering Hydraulics Sydney Water Corporation,

Outotec (Australia) Pty Ltd, NSW Primary Industries

$67,644

William Glamore, Brett Miller, Jamie

Ruprecht, Bill Peirson

Water resources, sedimentation &

environmental fl ows

Hunter Water Corporation, NewSouth Innovations $40,951

Grantley Smith, Brett Miller, Ron Cox,

Conrad Wasko, Bill Peirson

Flood modelling and fl oodplain

management

de Soyres Malone Architects, National Water Commmission, SMEC, Engineers

Australia, NSW Premier's Department, Molino Stewart, Newcastle City Council

$94,390

SUB TOTAL $2,923,118

Funding for fundamental research led by WRL investigators excluding CWI

Michael Banner (UNSW Mathematics),

Bill Peirson, Frederic Dias (ENS Cachan,

France)

Forecasting wave breaking in

directional seas

Australian Research Council –

Discovery DP0985602

$95,204

Chris Blenkinsopp, Ian Turner, Tom

Baldock (Queensland), Hocine

Oumeraci

Bed shear stress on beach sediment

and coastal structures under wave

run-up


Discovery DP110101176

$64,311

Robin Fell, Chongmin Song, Bill

Peirson, Kurt Douglas

Erosion of embankment dams and

dam spillways


Linkage LP110100389 Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s) 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

$ 379,559

Ian Turner, Ian Goodwin (Macquarie),

Mark Davidson (Plymouth), Andrew

Short

Australian Coastal Observation

Network: Monitoring and Forecasting

Coastal Erosion in a Changing Climate

Australian Research Council – Linkage LP100200348

Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s)

CoastalCOMS Pty Ltd, Gosford City Council, NSW Department of Environment,

Climate Change and Water, University of Plymouth, Warringah Council

$225,284

SUB TOTAL $764,358

TOTAL $3,687,476

Industry funded and fundamental research undertaken at WRL


Researchers/

InvestigatorsResearch Topic Granting Organisation Value at 2011

D. Waite; S. Khan ARC 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 $92,369

R. Stuetz Optimal Management of Corrosion and Odour Problems in Sewer Systems - ARC

Linkage Project LP0882016 through U.Q

ARC/UQ $393,913

D.Waite ARC Discovery Project DP0987188 - Resolving Critical Knowledge Gaps relating to Light

and Free Radical Mediated Transformation of Iron and Copper in Oxic Natural Waters

ARC $100,493

M. McCabe ARC Discovery Project DP0987478 - Characterizing the hydrological cycle using water

isotopes, land+surface models and satelite observation

ARC $105,782

R. Stuetz ARC Linkage Project LP0989365 – Optimising Decentralised Membrane Reactors for

Water Reuse

ARC, APAI, MidCoast Water, Bega Valley Shire

Council, NSW Department of Health,

$160,782

M. McCabe Using satellite observation to investigate land surface - atmosphere interaction CSIRO Flagship Postgraduate Scholarships $4,085

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; 0 APAI

$90,000

R. Henderson; R. Stuetz;

V. Bulmus; W. Peirson; G.

Newcombe; B. Jeff erson

Arc Linkage Project Grant 2009 Round 2 - LP0990189Optimising dissolved air fl oatation

(DAF) for algae removal by bubble modifi cation in drinking water and advanced

wastewater systems

ARC ;APAI; Melbourne Water Corporation;

Unitied Water; SEQWater; South Australia Water

Company

$197,393

M. McCabe ARC Linkage project Shared Grant / Subcontract - A new paradigm for improved water

resource management using innovative water modelling techniques

ARC/University of Melbourne $32,822

R. Stuetz RIRDC / Research Priorities Program - PRJ-002342 Artifi cial olfaction system for on-

site odour measurement: Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry analysis for VOC

measurements

Department of Employment, Economic

Development and Innovation (DEEDI)

$3,182

G.Peters; W.Peirson;

N.Ashbolt

ARC Discovery Grant DP1095722 Interdisciplinary greenhouse gas assessment -

nitrous oxide emissions from marine wastewater disposal

ARC $103,683

Stuetz Olfactory Characterisation of Odours for Optimising Impact Assessment - ARC Discovery

DP1096691

ARC; APDI $93,268

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, APAI, DECCW, Sydney Ports Corporation,

Orica Australia, Maritime Authority of NSW,

Sydney Catchment Authority

$384,778

S. Khan Assessment and optimisation of N-nitrosamine rejection by Reverse Osmosis for

planned potable water recycling applications LP0990705

ARC/ Uni Wollongong $44,705

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; APAI ;Beijing Origin Water Technology Co

Ltd; Sydney Water Corporation; WQRA

$283,631

Peters Sustainability of water and wastewater treatment chemicals ARC Linkage; APAI; South Australia Water; Sydney

Water Corporation; Melbourne Water; Yarra

Valley Water; Water Corporation; Gold Coast City

Council

$45,682

Henderson Optimising dissolved air fl otation (DAF) for algae removal by bubble modifi cation in

drinking water and advanced wastewater systems - Scholarship for Russell Yap

Water Quality Reseasrch Australia $7,383

Coleman Investigation of endocrine disruption in Australian aquatic environments ARC Linkage through Griffi th University $43,584

Waite BioGeoChemical Controls on effi cacy and sustainability of uranium heap leaching -

LP100200792

ARC Linkage APAI, Energy Resources of Australia $187,295

Henderson Monitoring organic matter in drinking water systems using fl uorescence spectroscopy:

improved early warning, process optimisation and water quality

ARC Melbourne Water Hunter Water Seqwater

WQRA APAI

$140,754

Waite Physico-chemical controls on growth, toxicity and succession of Microsystis and

Anabaena species in water supply reservoirs. Scholarship for Anna Yeung

WQRA $6,023

Waite Australian Synchrotron Postgraduate Award for Daniel Boland Australian Synchrotron Company $13,000

Stuetz Fate of Volatile Organo-Sulfur Compounds (VOSCs) in Odour Assessment - Scholarship

for Mr Hung Viet Le

CRC for Poultry $30,000

Collins Exploiting natural processes to eff ectively remediate acidifi ed coastal environments

LP110100480

ARC Tweed Shire NSW Cane Growers NSW Sugar

Milling Co-Op Scholarship

$193,471

Sharma Representing low-frequency variability in hydro-climatic simulations for water resources

planning and management in a changing climate FT100100197

ARC $326,010

Westra Eng AustProject 18 - Interacti Engineers Australia $30,000

Khan, Stuart Process robustnes WQRA $6,882

Henderson AusMonitoring o Water Quality Research Australia $2,969

Westra, S CSIRO Analysis Bivariate extremes CSIRO $13,692

Khan,Stuart Water Quality Research Aust. WQRA $32,000

Henderson Advanced water treatment technologies to minimise nitrogenous disinfection by-

products in drinking water: understanding the role of organic nitrogen. LP110100548

ARC through Curtin University $10,000

Roser Bio Amp Proposal Chemsearch $3,048

Roser Treatment requirements for Australian source waters to meet health-based targets WQRA $10,000

Khan Deeper and broader life cycle risk assessment - extending the frontier for hybrid

methodologies LP110200594 APAI

ARC EPA Vic $27,222

Collins Capacity of Uranium incorporation in Fe(II)-transformed Fe(III) oxides ASRP $696

Collins EXAFS study of Cu, Cr, Ni, Mn, & Zn binding environments on bauxite refi nery ” ASRP $4,006

Collins residue (follow-up experiments) AINSE $13,000

WRC Kensington Grant income


Researchers/

InvestigatorsResearch Topic Granting Organisation Value at 2011

Sivret Odour Workshop various $6,800

Rowley Carbon and Water Footprinting Workshop various $11,364

Khan Conference: Micropol 2011 various $135,400

Sivret Activated Carbon Testing Water Infrastructure Group Pty Ltd $7,800

Sivret Testing Services - Odour Analysis UNSW Global Pty Limited $93,100

Stuetz Kelso Biofi lter additional work NSW Dept of Environment and Conservation $6,152

Parcsi Sample analysis University of Sydney $1,415

Wang VOC Sampling Analysis Douglas Partners Pty Ltd $3,125

Wang and Sivret Odour Impact Assessment of Bega Cheese Effl uent Storage Dams BEGA Cheese $69,900

Chattopadhyay & Wang Indoor air assessment Brookfi eld Multiplex Constructions P/L $60,481

Waite and Kovalsky Evaluation of Merit. HVSD - as per proposal 15th April 2011 Jaycar $21,090

Roser and Van den Akker BioAmp Risk Assessment Chemsearch through UNSWGlobal $13,330

Roser and Khan Peer Review Willoughby City Council $12,300

Roser UV Modelling Hunter Water Corporation $37,500

Rowley Dairy Australia - LCA with PE International PE International $58,240

Rowley Workshop Presentations TQA Australia $1,640

Rowley Peer Review of Comparative Lice Cycle Assessment Melbourne Water $7,500

Schulz Comparative Life Cycle Assessment OneSteel $58,116

Schulz Sustainability Covenanat EPA Victoria $73,600

Schulz Presentation for Sustainability Advantages's Manufacturing Excellence Cluster DECCW $1,650

Schulz Workshop Presentations TCO $350

Schulz Presentation to Visiting delegation UNSW Global $1,440

Henderson LC-OCD Analysis RMIT $23,760

Mehrotra Provision of climate change data for the City of Sydney LGA GHD Pty Ltd $6,800

Westra ARR Revision, Preparation of Discussion Paper for Climate Change Workshop & strategy Engineers Australia $15,000

Westra Provision of simulated data for temporal pattern analysis The University of Adelaide $273

Various Internal Research Grants University of New South Wales $179,922

Sub-Total WRC Kensington $4,145,651

Total WRC (Kensington and WRL Manly-Vale) $7,833,127

CWI Grants 2011Researchers/ Investigators Research Topic Granting Organisation Value at 2011

Ian Acworth SuperScience Groundwater education Investment Fund DIISR 4,000,000

Ian Acworth, Martin Andersen, Andy Baker, Bryce

Kelly, Matt McCabe, Wendy Timms National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training ARC 1,661,000

Ian Acworth NSW Science Leverage FundNSW Dept State and Regional

Development17,735

Martin Andersen, Ian Acworth Maules creek research Investigations Cotton CRC 75,447

Martin Andersen, Ian Acworth Thermal techniques for groundwater investigations Land and Water CRDC 150,251

Ian Acworth, Andy Baker Anna Bay projectNSW Dept of Environment,

Climate Change and Water20,000

Andy Baker Source - receptor analysis of lignin and lipid macromolecules ARC DP 110102124 121,890

Andy Baker A mass spectrometer to analyse carbonate isotope records of Australia's

climate, soil and groundwater historyARC LIEF 110100045 370,000

Andy Baker Mass Spectrometer Uni Newcastle & ANSTO 60,000

Andy Baker Numerical modelling river – aquifer 5,000

Andy Baker MREII Major Research Equipment & Infrastructure Initiative UNSW 51,586

Total 2011 6,532,909

Researchers/ Investigators Research Topic Granting Organisation Value at 2011

Sullivan/Banner/Morison/Peirson

Turbulence Simulation of Laboratory Wind-

Wave Interaction in High Winds and Upscaling

to Ocean Conditions. 2011-2013

US Offi ce of Naval Research N000141210184USD90,000

R Brander, IL Turner, D Dominey-Howes,

J Goff , W Shaw, D Drozdzewski, S

Sherker]

Rip currents: an evidence-based approach to

managing the greatest beach hazard

2011 - 2013

Australian Research Council – Linkage LP110200134$68,000 (ARC)

+$105,000

Industry cash

Work Packages and Lead Investigators:

WP1: Barrier Hydrology – IL Turner et alBarrier Dynamics Experiment II (BARDEX II)

European Community’s Sixth Framework Programme (Integrated

Infrastructure Imitative HYDROLAB IV, Contract 261520)

2011 - 2013

250,000 Euro

(group)

Grants outside of centres


2011 Publications

Continuing Growth in ResearchPublications 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

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

Chapters in Books 7 8 7 3 3 7 8 11 12 4 11 9

Refereed Journal

Articles

73 77 82 74 76 90 98 113 128 125 183 196

Refereed

Conference

104 115 65 81 94 83 87 100 88 114 68 148

Total 188 204 157 161 177 185 198 226 234 248 267 357

ARC Grants (year

announced)

- $1.98M $1.05M $1.94M $3.33M $2.13M $1.53M $1.74M $3.06M $4.32M $1.75M $3.26M

Total Research

Income pa

$4.0M $3.6M $4.9M $6.0M $6.3M $6.9M $7.7M $8.0M $10.7M $13.6M $15.1M $17.35M

Book - Scholarly Research Woolcock, S.T., Kitipornchai, S., Bradford,

M.A., Haddad, G. 2011, Design of Portal

Frame Buildings, Australian Institute of Steel

Construction, Sydney.

Book - Edited Oeser, M.,(ed) 2011, Computer Methods

for Geomechanics: Frontiers and New

Applications, Centre for Infrastructure

Engineering and Safety (CIES), Sydney.

Volume 1,pp 167 - 172

Oeser, M., (ed) 2011, Computer Methods

for Geomechanics: Frontiers and New

Applications: Centre for Infrastructure

Engineering and Safety (CIES), Sydney,

Volume 2, pp 129 – 161

Book - Textbook Warner, R., Faulkes, K, Foster, SJ 2011,

‘Prestressed Concrete’, Pearson, Australia,

2011.

Chapter - Scholarly Research Beya, J.F., Peirson, W.L., Banner, M.l.,

2011,’Rainfall-generated, near-surface

turbulence, Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces

(pp. 90 – 103), Kyoto University Press, Japan.

Boyles, S.D., Waller, ST 2011, ‘Traffi c Network

Analysis and Design’, Wiley Encyclopaedia

of Operations Research and Management

Science , John Wiley & Sons, pp 1 – 14.

Davis, S.R., 2011, ‘Approaches to providing

non-trivial assessment for quantitative

engineering using computer aided

assessment, Engineering Education: an

Australian Perspective’ (pp. 351 – 360)., Multi-

Science Publishing C. Ltd, UK.

Doust, Ken and John Black (2011) A

sustainability framework tailored for

transportation and applied to Sydney in

Somayya Ali and Cynthia Rosenzweig (eds)

Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment

Report of the Urban Climate Change

Research Network (ARC3), Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, pp. 166 - 169.

Khan, S.J., Drewes, J 2011, Chapter 16: Water

reuse for drinking water augmentation,

Water Quality Treatment: A Handbook on

Drinking Water, McGraw-Hill Professional,

New York, 6th Edition, pp. 16.1 – 16.48.

McCabe, M., Wood, E., Su, H., Vinukollu,

R., Ferguson, C., Su, Z., 2011, ‘Multisensor

Global Retrievals of Evapotranspiration for

Climate Studies Using the Surface Energy

Budget System’: Land Remote Sensing and

Global Environmental Change, Springer, pp.

747 - 778,

Peirson, W.L., Lee, G., Waite, C., Onesemo,

P., Ninaus, G., 2011, ‘Evaporation mitigation

by storage in rock and sand, Gas Transfer

at Water Surfaces (pp. 545 – 558), Kyoto

University Press, Japan.

Xie, C., Turnquist, M.A., Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘A hybrid Lagrangian relaxation and tabu

search method for interdependent-

choice network design problems’, Hybrid

Algorithms for Service, Computing and

Manufacturing Systems: Routing and

Scheduling Solutions, IGI Global, Hershey, PA,

pp. 294 - 325.

Yan, X., Peirson, W.L., Walker, J.W., Banner,

M.L., ‘On transitions in the Schmidt number

dependency of low solubility gas transfer

across air-water interfaces, Gas Transfer

at Water Surfaces (pp., 333 – 342), Kyoto

University Press, Japan.

Zhao, G.F., Shi, G., Zhao, J 2011, ‘Manifold

and advanced numerical techniques for

discontinuous dynamic computations’,

Advances in Rock Dynamics and

Applications, CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group,

Netherlands, pp. 321 – 341.

Journal - Refereed Scholarly Article Ajami, H., Meixner, T., Maddock III, T., Hogan,

J.F.,Guertin, D.P., 2011, ‘Impact of land-surface

elevation and riparian evapotranspiration

seasonality on groundwater budget in

MODFLOW models’, Hydrogeology Journal,

19(6), pp. 1181 - 1188.

Ajami, H., Troch, P., Maddock III, T., Meixner,

T., Eastoe. C., 2011, ‘Quantifying mountain

block recharge by means of catchment-

scale storage-discharge relationships’, Water

Resources Research, 47(4), art. no. W04504.

Ajami, H., Meixner, T., Dominguez, F., Hogan,

J., Maddock III, T., 2011, ‘Seasonalizing

Mountain System Recharge in Semi-

Arid Basins-Climate Change Impacts’,

Groundwater

Al-Deen, S., Ranzi, G., Vrcelj, Z., 2011, ‘Full-

scale long-term and ultimate experiments

of simply-supported composite beams with

steel deck’, Journal of Constructional Steel

Research, 67, pp. 1658 1676.

Al-Deen, S., Ranzi, G., Vrcelj, Z., 2011, ‘Full-

scale long-term experiments of simply

supported composite beams with solid

slabs’, Journal of Constructional Steel

Research, 67, pp. 308 - 321.

Al-Deen, S., Ranzi, G., Vrcelj, Z., 2011,

‘Shrinkage eff ects on the fl exural stiff ness

of composite beams with solid concrete

slabs: an experimental study’, Engineering

Structures, 33, pp. 1302 - 1315.

Alexova, R., Fujii, M., Birch, D., Cheng, J.,

Waite, T.D., Ferrari, B.C., Neilan, B.A, 2011, ‘Iron

uptake and toxin synthesis in the bloom-

forming Microcystis aeruginosa under iron

limitation’, Environmental Microbiology, 13,

pp. 1064 - 1077.

Attard, M.M., 2011, ‘Global Buckling

Experiments on Sandwich Coluns with Soft

Shear Cores’, Electronic Journal of Structural

Engineering, 11, pp. 28 - 38.

Austin, M.J., Masselink, G., Russell, P.E., Turner,

I.L., Blenkinsopp, C.E, 2011, ‘Alongshore fl uid

motions in the swash zone of a sandy and

gravel beach’, Coastal Engineering, 58, pp.

690 - 705.

Baker, A., Wilson, R., Fairchild, I.J., Franke,

J., Spötl, C., Mattey, D., Trouet, V., Fuller, L.

2011, ‘High resolution d18O and d13C

records from an annually laminated Scottish

stalagmite and relationship with last

millennium climate’, Global and Planetary

Change, 79, pp. 303 - 311.

Baker, A., Gulliver, P., Ascough, P., Roe, J.,

Bridgeman, J. 2011, ‘Assessing the eff ect of

sterilisation on the radiocarbon signature

of freshwater dissolved organic matter’,

Radiocarbon, 53 (4) pp. 659 - 667.

Balatbat, M.C.A., Lin, C., Carmichael, D.G.

2011, ‘Management Effi ciency Performance

of Construction Businesses Australian Data’,

Engineering, Construction and Architectural

Management, 18, pp. 140 - 158.

Barnes, R., Roser, D., Brown, P.F. 2011, ‘Critical

evaluation of planning frameworks for rural

water and sanitation development projects’,

Development in Practice, 21, pp. 168 - 189.

Bieroza, M.Z., Baker, A., Bridgeman J.

2011, ‘Assessment of low pH coagulation

performance using fl uorescence

spectroscopy’, Journal of Environmental

Engineering - ASCE, 137, pp. 596 - 601.

Bieroza, M.Z., Baker, A., Bridgeman J., 2011,

‘Classifi cation and calibration of organic

matter fl uorescence data with multiway

analysis methods and artifi cial neural

networks: an operational tool for improved

drinking water treatment’, Environmetrics,

22, pp. 256 - 270.

Blenkinsopp, C.E., Masselink, G., Turner, I.L.,

Russell, P.E., 2011, ‘Can swash-by-swash

velocity moments be used to predict net

cross-shore sediment fl ux at the beach

face?’, Australian Journal of Civil Engineering,

9, pp. 19 - 34.

Blenkinsopp, C.E., Turner, I.L., Masselink, G.,

Russell, P.E., 2011, ‘Swash zone sediment

fl uxes: Field observations’, Coastal

Engineering, 58, pp. 28 - 44.

Blenkinsopp, C.E., Chaplin, J.R., 2011, ‘Void

fraction measurements and scale eff ects in

breaking waves in freshwater and seawater’,

Coastal Engineering, 58, pp. 417 - 428.

Bligh, M.W., Waite T.D., 2011, ‘Formation,

reactivity, and aging of ferric oxide particles

formed from Fe(II) and Fe(III) sources:

Implications for iron bioavailability in

the marine environment’, Geochimica et

Cosmochimica Acta, 75, pp. 7741 – 7758.

Blyth, A., Baker, A., Thomas, L., van Calsteren,

P., 2011, ‘A 2000 year lipid biomarker record

preserved in a stalagmite from north-west

Scotland’, Journal of Quaternary Science, 26,

pp. 326 - 334.

Boland, D.D., Collins, R.N., Payne, T.E., Waite,

T.D. 2011, ‘Eff ect of amorphous Fe(III) oxide

transformation on the Fe(II)-mediated

reduction of U(VI)’, Environmental Science

and Technology, 45, pp. 1327 - 1333.

Boyles, S.D., Waller, S.T., 2011, ‘Optimal

Information Location for Adaptive routing’,

Networks and Spatial Economics, 11, pp.

233 - 254.

Boyles, S,D., Voruganti, A., Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘Quantifying Distributions of Freeway

Operational Metrics’, Transportation Letters:

The International Journal of Transportation

Research, 3, pp. 21 - 36.


Carmichael, D.G., 2011, ‘An Alternative

Approach to Capital Investment Appraisal’,

The Engineering Economist, 56, pp. 123 -

139.

Carmichael, D.G., 2011, ‘On the Analysis of

Property Unit Sales over Time’, International

Journal of Strategic Property Management,

15, pp. 329 - 339.

Carmichael, D.G., Hersh, A.M., Parasu, P., 2011,

‘Real Options Estimate Using Probabilistic

Present Worth Analysis’, The Engineering

Economist, 56, pp. 295 - 320.

Carmichael, D.G., Balatbat, M.C.A., 2011,

‘Risk Associated with Managed Investment

Primary Production Projects’, International

Journal of Project Organisation and

Management, 3, pp. 273 - 289.

Chang, Z., Bradford, M.A., Gilbert, R.I. 2011,

‘Short-term behaviour of shallow thin-walled

concrete dome under uniform external

pressure’, Thin - Walled Structures, 49, pp.

112 - 120.

Chowdhury, M.S., Song, C., Gao, W., 2011,

‘Probabilistic fracture mechanics by

using Monte Carlo simulation and the

scaled boundary fi nite element method’,

Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 78, pp.

2369 - 2389.

Chowdhury, S.H., Sharma, A., 2011, ‘Global

sea surface temperature forecasts using a

pairwise dynamic combination approach’,

Journal of Climate, 24, pp. 1869 - 1877.

Collins, R.N, Saito, T., Aoyagi, N., Payne, T.E.,

Waite, T.D., 2011, ‘Applications of Time-

Resolved Laser Fluorescence Spectroscopy

to the Environmental Biogeochemistry of

Actinides’, Journal of Environmental Quality,

40(3), pp. 731 - 741.

Collins, R.N., Kinsela, A.S., 2011, ‘Pedogenic

Factors and Measurements of the Plant

Uptake of Cobalt’, Plant and Soil, 339, pp.

499 - 512.

D’Onza, F., Gallipoli, D., Wheeler, S., Casini,

F., Vaunat, J., Khalili, N., Laloui, L., Vassallo, R.,

2011, ‘Benchmark of constitutive models

for unsaturated soils’, Geotechnique, 61, pp.

283 - 302.

Davidson, M., Turner, I.L., Guza, R 2011, ‘Does

temporal averaging impact the performance

of Empirical Shoreline Evolution models?’,

Coastal Engineering, 58(8), pp. 802 - 805.

De Jeu, R., Wagner, W., Dorigo, W., Liu, Y., 2011

‘State of the Climate in 2010: Soil Moisture’,

Bulletin of the American Meteorological

Society, 92, pp. 52 – 53.

De Lemos Chernicharo, C.A., Stuetz,

R.M., Souza, C.L., De Melo, G.C.B., 2011,

‘Alternatives for the control of odorous

emissions in anaerobic reactors treating

domestic wastewater’, Engenharia Sanitaria

E Ambiental, 15, pp. 229 - 236.

Dever, S.A., Swarbrick, G.E., Stuetz, R.M., 2011,

‘Passive drainage and biofi ltration of landfi ll

gas: Results of Australian fi eld trial’, Waste

Management, 31, pp. 1029 - 1048.

Diambra, A., Ibraim, E., Russell, A.R., Muir

Wood, D., 2011, ‘Modelling the undrained

response of fi bre reinforced sands’, Soils and

Foundations, 51, pp. 625 - 636.

Dixit, V. V., Radwan, E 2011, ‘Evacuation

Strategies at Destination Networks’,

Transportation Research Circular, 75 Years of

the Fundamental Diagram for Traffi c Flow

Theory, E-C149, pp. 212 - 235-????

Dixit, V. V., Pande, A., Abdel-Aty, M., Das, A.,

Radwan, E., 2011, ‘Quality of Traffi c Flow on

a Urban Arterial Streets and Its Relationship

With Safety’, Accident Analysis and

Prevention, 43(5), pp. 1610 - 1616.

Dorantes-Aranda, J.J., Waite, T.D., Godrant,

A., Rose, A.L., Tovar, C.D., Woods, G.M.,

Hallegraeff , G.M. 2011, ‘Novel application

of a fi sh gill cell line assay to assess

ichthyotoxicity of harmful marine

microalgae’, Harmful Algae, 10(4), pp. 366

- 373.

Duthie, J.C., Unnikrishnan, A., Waller, S.T.

2011, ‘Infl uence of Demand Uncertainty

and Correlations on Traffi c Predictions and

Decisions’, Computer - Aided Civil and

Infrastructure Engineering, 26, pp. 16 - 29.

Erkmen, R.E., Bradford, M.A. 2011, ‘Coupling

of fi nite element and mesh free methods

for locking-free analysis of shear-

deformable beams and plates’, Engineering

Computations, 28, pp. 1003 - 1027.

Erkmen, R.E., Attard, M.M. 2011,

‘Displacement-based fi nite element

formulations for material-nonlinear analysis

of composite beams and treatment of

locking behaviour’, Finite Elements in

Analysis and Design, 47, pp. 1293 - 1305.

Erkmen, R.E., Bradford, M.A. 2011, ‘Treatment

of slip locking for displacement-based fi nite

element analysis of composite beam-

columns’, International Journal for Numerical

Methods in Engineering, 85, pp. 805 - 826.

Erkmen, R.E., Attard, M.M., 2011, ‘Lateral-

torsional buckling analysis of thin-walled

beams including shear and pre-buckling

deformation eff ects’, International Journal of

Mechanical Sciences, 53, pp. 918 - 925.

Erkmen, R.E., Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘Non-linear

Inelastic Dynamic Analysis of I-beams

Curved In-plan’, Journal of Structural

Engineering, 137, pp. 1373-1380

Erkmen, R.E., Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘Nonlinear

inelastic dynamic analysis of I-beams curved

in-plan’ Journal of Structural Engineering –

ASCE, 137 pp. 1737-1380

Erkmen, R.E., Bradford, M.A., 2011,

‘Nonlinear quasi-viscoelastic behaviour of

composite beams curved in-plan’, Journal of

Engineering Mechanics - ASCE, 137(4), pp.

238 - 247.

Erkmen, R.E., Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘Time-

dependent creep and shrinkage analysis

of composite beams curved in-plan’,

Computers and Structures, 89(1-2), pp.

67 - 77.

Frost, A.J., Charles, S.P., Timbal, B., Chiew,

F.H.S., Mehrotra, R., Nguyen, K.C., Chandler,

R.E., (...), Kent, D.M 2011, ‘A comparison

of multi-site daily rainfall downscaling

techniques under Australian conditions’,

Journal of Hydrology, 408(1-2), pp. 1 - 18.

Fujii, M., Dang, T.C., Rose, A.L., Omura, T.,

Waite, T.D., 2011, ‘Eff ect of light on iron

uptake by the freshwater cyanobacterium

microcystis aeruginosa’, Environmental

Science and Technology, 45(4), pp. 1391

-1398.

Gao, L., Xie, C., Zhang, Z., Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘Integrated Maintenance and Expansion

Planning for Transportation Network

Infrastructure’, Transportation Research

Record, 2225, pp 56 - 64.

Gao, W., Wu, D., Song, C., Tin Loi, F.S., Li, X.,

2011, ‘Hybrid probabilistic interval analysis

of bar structures with uncertainty using a

mixed perturbation Monte-Carlo method’,

Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 47(7),

pp. 643 - 652.

Gardner, L.M., Boyles, S.D., Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘Quantifying the benefi t of responsive

pricing and travel information in the

stochastic congestion pricing problem’,

Transportation Research Part A Policy and

Practice, 45, pp. 204 - 218.

Garg, S., Rose, A., Waite, T.D., 2011,

‘Photochemical production of superoxide

and hydrogen peroxide from natural organic

matter’, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,

75, pp. 4310 - 4320.

Goel, G., O’Carroll, D.M., 2011, ‘Experimental

investigation of non-equilibrium capillarity

eff ects: Fluid viscosity eff ects’, Water

Resources Research, 47(9), Art. No. W09507

Greve, A.K., Acworth, R.I., Kelly, B.F.J., 2011, ‘3D

cross-hole resistivity tomography to monitor

water percolation during irrigation on

cracking soil’, Soil Research, 49, pp. 661 - 669.

Hai, F.I., Tadkaew, N., McDonald, J., Khan,

S.J., Nghiem, L.D., 2011, ‘Is halogen content

the most important factor in removal

of halogenated trace organics by MBR

treatment?’, Bioresource Technology, 102(10),

pp. 6299 - 6303.

Hajibabania, s., Verliefde, a., Drewes, J.,

Nghiem, L.D., McDonald, J., Khan, S.J.,

Le-Clech, P., 2011 ‘Eff ect of fouling on

removal of trace organic compounds by

nanofi ltration’, Drinking Water Engineering

and Science, 4 pp. 71 - 82

Hajibabania, S., Verliefde, A., McDonald, J.A.,

Khan, S.J., Le-Clech, P., 2011, ‘Fate of trace

organic compounds during treatment by

nanofi ltration’, Journal of Membrane Science,

373(1-2), pp. 130 - 139.

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Behavior in East Asian Countries’, Journal of

the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation

Studies, 9, pp. 943 - 955.

Turner, D.S., Evans, W.A., Kumlachew, M.,

Wolshon, B., Dixit, V., Sisiopiku, V.P., Islam,

S., Anderson, M.D., 2011, ‘Issues, Practices,

and Needs for Communicating Evacuation

Information to Vulnerable Populations’,

Journal of the Transportation Research

Board, 2196, pp. 159 - 167.

Uchaipichat, A., Khalili-Naghadeh, N.,

Zargarbashi, S., 2011, ‘A temperature

controlled triaxial apparatus for testing

unsaturated soils’, Geotechnical Testing

Journal 34, No. 5 Paper ID GTJ103586, pp

1 - 9.

Valipour, H.R., Foster, S.J., 2011, ‘Nonlinear

analysis of reinforced concrete frames under

extreme loadings’, Concrete Australia, 37

pp. 48 - 56

van den Akker, B., Whiffi n, V., Cox, P., Beatson,

P., Ashbolt, N.J., Roser, D.J., 2011, ‘Estimating

the risk from sewage treatment plant

effl uent in the Sydney catchment area’,

Water Science and Technology, 63(8), pp.

1707 1715.

van den Akker, B., Holmes, M., Pearce,

P., Cromar, N.J., Fallowfi eld, H.J., 2011,

‘Structure of nitrifying biofi lms in a high-rate

trickling fi lter designed for potable water

pre-treatment’, Water Research, 45(11), pp.

3489 - 3498.

Vorugant, A., Unnikrishnan, A., Waller, S.T.,

2011, ‘Modelling Carrier Collaboration in

Freight Networks’, Transportation Letters:

The International Journal of Transportation

Research, 3, pp. 51 - 61.

Wang, C., Gao, W., Yang, C., Song, C., 2011,

‘Non-Deterministic Structural Response

and Reliability Analysis Using a Hybrid

Perturbation-Based Stochastic Finite

Element and Quasi-Monte Carlo Method’,

Computers, Materials and Continua, 25, pp.

19 - 46.

Wang, L., Good, S., Caylor, K., Cernusak,

L., 2011, ‘Direct quantifi cation of leaf

transpiration isotopic composition’,

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 154-

155, pp. 127 - 135.

Wang, X., Liu, Y., Gao, W., Chen, J., 2011,

‘Mixed piezothermoelastic fi nite element

model for Thunder actuators’, AIAA American

Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Journal, 49, pp. 2100 2108.

Wang, X., Li, X., Waite, T.D., 2011,

‘Quantifi cation of solid pressure in the

concentration polarization (CP) layer

of colloidal particles and its impact on

ultrafi ltration’, Journal of Colloid and

Interface Science, 358, pp. 290 - 300.

Wang, X., Liu, Y., Gao, W., Chen, J., 2011,

‘Robust control of uncertain piezoelectric

laminated plates based on model reduction’,

AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and

Astronautics Journal, 49, pp. 2337 - 2348.

Wang, X., Feng, J., Prempramote, S., Song,

C., 2011, ‘Time-domain analysis of gravity

dam-reservoir interaction using high-

order doubly asymptotic open boundary’,

Computers and Structures, 89, pp. 668 - 680.

Wang, Y., Liu, C., Pi, Y.L., Zhang, S., 2011,

‘In-plane nonlinear stability strength of

circular concrete-fi lled steel tubular arches’,

Journal of Huazhong University of Science

and Technology (Natural Science Edition),

39, pp. 34 - 38.

Westra, SP., Sisson, S.A., 2011, ‘Detection of

non-stationarity in precipitation extremes

using a max-stable process model’, Journal

of Hydrology, 406, pp. 119 - 128.

Wirasinghe, S.C., Vandebona, U., 2011,

‘Route layout analysis for express buses’,

Transportation Research Part C - Emerging

Technologies, 19, pp. 374 - 385.

Xiao, K., Wang, X., Huang, X., Waite, T.D., Wen,

X., 2011, ‘Combined eff ect of membrane and

foulant hydrophobicity and surface charge

on adsorptive fouling during microfi ltration’,

Journal of Membrane Science, 373(1-2), pp.

140 - 151.

Xie, C., Kockelman, K., Waller, S.T., 2011, ‘A

maximum entropy-least squares estimator

for elastic origin-destination trip matrix

estimation’, Transportation Research Part B -

Methodological, 45, pp. 1465 - 1482.

Xie, C., Waller, S.T., Kockelman, K., 2011,

‘Intersection Origin-Destination Flow

Optimization Problem for Evacuation

Network Design’, Transportation Research

Record: Journal of the Transportation

Research Board, p. 105 – 115.

Xiong, Z., Ma, J., Ng, W.J., Waite, T.D., Zhao,

X.S., 2011, ‘Silver-modifi ed mesoporous TiO2

photocatalyst for water purifi cation’, Water

Research, 45(5), pp. 2095 - 2103.

Yang, N., Wen, X., Waite, T.D., Wang, X., Huang,

X., 2011, ‘Natural organic matter fouling

of microfi ltration membranes: Prediction

of constant fl ux behaviour from constant

pressure materials properties determination’,

Journal of Membrane Science, 366(1-2), pp.

192 - 202.

Yuan, L., Xu, T., Zhao, G.F., Yang, Y-F., Chen, G.,

2011, ‘Study of mode II crack propagation of

quasi-brittle material under impact loading’,

Yantu Lixue/Rock and Soil Mechanics, 32, pp.

3155 - 3162.

Zargarbashi, S., Khalili-Naghadeh, N., 2011,

‘Discussion of Shear Strength Equations for

Unsaturated Soil under Drying and Wetting

by Goh Shin Guan, Harianto Rahardjo, and

Leong Eng Choon,’ Journal of Geotechnical

and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 137, pp.

1310 -1313

Zha, X., Dai, Z., Ge, L., Zhang, K., Li, X., Chen,

X., Li, Z., Fu, R., 2011, ‘Fault geometry and slip

distribution of the 2010 Yushu earthquakes

inferred from in SAR measurement’, Bulletin

of the Seismological Society of America,

101(4), pp. 1951 - 1958.

Zhao, L., Xiao, H., Zhou, J., Wang, L., Cheng,

G., Zhou, M., Yin, L., McCabe, M.F., 2011,

‘Detailed assessment of isotope ratio

infrared spectroscopy and isotope ratio

mass spectrometry for the stable isotope

analysis of plant and soil waters’, Rapid

Communications in Mass Spectrometry,

25(20), pp. 3071 - 3082.

Zhao, G.F., Khalili, N., Fang, J., Zhao, J., 2011,

‘A coupled distinct lattice spring model for

rock failure under dynamic loads’, Computers

and Geotechnics, 42, pp. 1 - 20.

Zhu, J., Perino, A., Zhao, G.F., Barla, G.,

Li, J.C., Ma, G.W., Zhao, J., 2011, ‘Seismic

response of a single and a set of fi lled joints

of viscoelastic deformational behaviour’,

Geophysical Journal International, 186, pp.

1315 1330.

Zhu, J.B., Zhao, G.F., Zhao, X.B., Zhao, J., 2011,

‘Validation study of the distinct lattice spring

model (DLSM) on P-wave propagation

across multiple parallel joints’, Computers

and Geotechnics, 38, pp. 298 - 304.

Journal - Non Refereed Article Locke, P., Clifton, C., Westra, S., 2011, ‘Extreme

weather events and the mining industry’,

Engineering and Mining Journal, 212, pp.

58 - 59.

Sivakumar, B., Christakos, G., 2011,

‘Climate: patterns, changes, and impacts’,


Assessment, 25, pp. 443 - 444.

Timms, W.A., 2011, ‘How do major fl oods

aff ect aquifer recharge? ‘, Irrigation Australia

Journal, Summer, pp. 22.

Conference - Full Paper Refereed Al-Kilidar, H., Davis, S.R., Kutay, C.M.,

Killen, C., 2011, ‘Towards Project Portfolio

Management for Sustainable Outcomes

in the Construction Industry’, 8th Annual

Project Management Australia Conference,

Novatel Brighton Beach, Sydney, Australia,

2-5 August.

Al-deen, S., Ranzi, G., Gilbert, R.I., Mackay-

sim, R., 2011, ‘Tensile tests on edge-lifting

anchors inserted in precast concrete panels’,

Concrete 2011 - 25th Biennial Conference

of the Concrete Institute of Australia, Perth,

12-14 October.

Allis, M.J., Peirson, W.L., Banner, M.L., 2011,

‘Application of LiDAR as a measurement tool

for waves’, 21st International Off shore and

Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE-2011,

Maui, HI, United States, 19-24 June.


Alvarez Gaitan, J.P., Schulz, M., Peters, G.,

2011, ‘Sustainability of Water and Wastewater

Treatment Chemicals: Development of

Australian Life Cycle Inventory Data.’, 7th

Australian Life Cycle Assessment Conference,

Melbourne, Australia, 9-10 March.

Barthelemy, X., Peirson, W.L., Banner, M.L.,

Dias, F., Allis, M., 2011, ‘Numerical study

of a breaking wave threshold parameter’,

Australian Coasts and Ports, Perth,

September.

Barthélémy, X., Beyá, J.F., Peirson, W.L.,

Banner, M., Dias, F., 2011, ‘Velocities profi les

and energy beneath near-breaking waves’,

21st International Off shore and Polar

Engineering Conference, ISOPE-2011, Maui,

HI, United states, 19-24 June, pp 245-250.

Blacka, M.J., Nilsen, A., Colleter, G., 2011, ‘An

Overview of the Use of Physical Models to

Assess Wave Loading on Marine Structures’,

Coasts and Ports 2011, Perth, 28-30

September.

Blakers, R., Kelly, B.F.J., Anderssen, R.,

Mariethoz, G., Timms, W.A., 2011, ‘3D

Dendrogram Analysis for Mapping Aquifer

Connectivity and Flow Model Structure’,

MODFLOW and More 2011: Integrated

Hydrologic Modelling’, Colorado School of

Mines, golden, Colorado, 5 – 8 June.

Blenkinsopp, C.E., Turner, I.L., Mole, M.A.,

Sharkey, J., Garden, L., Peirson, W., 2011,

‘Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)

for measurement of coastal processes’,

Australian Coasts and Ports, Perth,

September.

Bradford, M.A., Pi, Y.L., Uy, B., 2011, ‘Ductility

of composite beams with trapezoidal

composite slabs’, 6th International

Conference on Composite Construction in

Steel and Concrete, Tabernash, CO, United

States, 20-24 July..

Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘Local buckling design

of shallow steel parabolic box-section

arches with slender plates’, Eurosteel 2011,

Budapest, Hungary, 31 Aug-2 Sep.

Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘On the interaction

of partial interaction and shrinkage in

composite steel-concrete T-beams’, 12th

East Asia-Pacifi c Conference on Structural

Engineering and Construction (EASEC12),

Hong Kong, 26 - 28 January.

Bradford, M.A., Hamed, E., Gilbert, R.I., Chang,

Z 2011, ‘Short and long-term non-linear

behaviour of thin-walled concrete domes:

theory and experiments’, International

Conference on Thin-Walled Structures,

Timisoara, Romania, 5-7 September.

Bradford, M.A., Gilbert, R.I, Zeuner, R.,

Brock, G., 2011, ‘Shrinkage deformations

of composite slabs with open trapezoidal

sheeting’, 12th East Asia-Pacifi c Conference

on Structural Engineering and Construction

(EASEC12), Hong Kong, 26 - 28 January.

Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘Strength design of

curved monorail beams’, 7th International

conference on steel and aluminium

structures 2011, Sarawak, Malaysia, 13-15

July.

Busuttil, D., Peirson, W.L., Busuttil, D.,

Onesemo, P., Waite, C., 2011, ‘Laboratory

assessment of the performance of porous

coverings in evaporation mitigation’, Coasts

and Ports 2011, Perth, 28-30 September.

Carley, J.T., Coghlan, I.R., Blacka, M.J., Cox,

R.J., Hornsey, W., 2011, ‘Performance of Sand

Filled Geotextile Container (Geocontainer)

Structures in North Queensland during

Tropical Cyclone Yasi’, Australian Coasts and

Ports, Perth, September.

Coghlan, I.R., Mole, M.A., Shand, T.D., Carley,

J.T., Peirson, W., Miller, B.M., Kulmar, M.,

Couriel, E., Modra, B., You, Z-J., 2011, ‘High

Resolution Wave Modelling (HI-WAM) for

Batemans Bay’, Coasts and Ports 2011, Perth,

28-30 September.

Colleter, G., Blacka, M.J., Van staden, A., Louys,

J., 2011, ‘Mackay Breakwater Adaptation’,

Coasts and Ports 2011, Perth, 28-30

September.

Davis, S.R., 2011, ‘Creation of a construction

practice laboratory’, 22nd Annual

Conference for the Australian Association for

Engineering Education, Fremantle - Western

Australia, 5 -7 December.

Dever, S.A., Swarbrick, G.E., Stuetz, R.M., 2011,

‘Longer term performance of a passive

landfi ll gas biofi ltration system in Australia’,

Sardinia 2011, 13th International Waste

Management and Landfi ll Symposium,

Sardinia, Italy, 3-7 October.

Dever, S.A., Swarbrick, G.E., Stuetz, R.M.,

2011, ‘Passive biofi ltration of methane from

landfi lls’, 20th International conference of

the Clean Air Society of Australia and New

Zealand, Auckland, 31 July - 2 August.

Dixit, V.V., Crowe, J., Radwan, E., 2011,

‘Calibration and Validation of Microscopic

Simulation Using Two-Fluid Model’, TRB 90th

Annual Meeting, Washington DC, January.

Dixit, V.V., Harrison, G.W., Rutstroem, E.E.,

2011, ‘Estimation of Subjective Beliefs

of Crash among Drivers’, ITEA Kuhmo

Nectar Conference for Summer School

of Transportation Economics Annual

Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 27 June - 1

July.

Dixit, V.V., Wolshon, B., Montz, T., 2011,

‘Evacuation Traffi c Dynamics and

Development of Maximum Sustainable

Evacuation Traffi c Flow Rates’, TRB 90th


Dixit, V.V., Montz, T., Wolshon, B 2011,

‘Validation Techniques for Region-Level

Microscopic Mass Evacuation Traffi c

Simulations’, TRB 90th Annual Meeting,

Washington DC, January.

Erkmen, R.E., Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘Locking-

Free Analysis of Shear-Deformable Beams

by Coupling Finite Element and Meshfree

Methods’, Thirteenth International

Conference on Civil, Structural and

Environmental Engineering Computing,

Chania, Greece, 6-9 September.

Ershadi, A., McCabe, M.F., Evans, J.P., Walker, J.,

Pipunic, R., 2011, ‘Estimation of evaporation

using the surface energy balance system

(SEBS) and numerical models’, 3rd

International Symposium on Remote

Sensing of Environment, Sydney, Australia,

10-15 April.

Ershadi, A., McCabe, M.F., Evans, J.P., Walker,

J.P., 2011, ‘Evaluation of energy balance,

combination, and complementary schemes

for estimation of evaporation’, XXV IUGG

General Assembly; Earth on the Edge:

Science for a Sustainable Planet, Melbourne,

Australia, 27 June - 7 July.

Esfahani kan, M., Taiebat, H.A., 2011,

‘Reliability of the simplifi ed methods

for evaluation of earthquake-induced

displacement in earth and rockfi ll dams’,

ANCOLD 2011, The future of Dams,

Melbourne, 26 Oct.

Fajardo, D., Au, T-C., Waller, S.T., Stone, P.,

Yang, C.Y., 2011, ‘Automated Intersection

Control: Performance of a Future Innovation

Versus Current Traffi c Signal Control’, TRB

90th Annual Meeting, Washington DC,

January.

Ferguson, E.M., Duthie, J.C., Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘Minimizing Vehicle Emissions Through

Transportation Road Network Design

Incorporating Demand Uncertainty’, TRB


January.

Foster, S.J., Valipour, H.R., 2011, ‘Nonlinear

Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Frames

under Extreme Loadings’, Concrete 2011 -

25th Biennial Conference of the Concrete

Institute of Australia, Perth, 12-14 October.

Gao, L., Xie, C., Zhang, Z., Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘Integrated Transportation Network

Maintenance and Expansion Problem’, TRB


January.

Gardner, L.M., Fajardo, D., Waller, S.T., Wang,

O., Sarkar, S., 2011, ‘Predictive Model for

Air-Travel-Associated Dengue Infections in

United States and Europe’, TRB 90th Annual

Meeting, Washington DC, January.

Gates, L., Dent, J., Peirson, W.L., 2011,

‘Boussingesq Modelling of Shoaling Wave

Groups,’ Coasts and Ports 2011, Perth, 28-30

Sept.

Ghahreman nejad, B., Taiebat, H.A., Dillon,

M., Soden, P., 2011, ‘Numerical Modelling

of Seismic Liquefaction for Bobadil Tailings

Dam’, ANCOLD 2011, The Future of Dams,

Melbourne, 26 Oct.

Ghahreman nejad, B., Noske, C., Murphy,

S., Taiebat, H.A., 2011, ‘Seismic response

and dynamic deformation analysis of Sar-

Cheshmeh tailings dam’, 2nd Int FLAC/DEM

Symposium, Melbourne, 14-16 Feb.

Gilbert, R.I., Mazumder, M., 2011, ‘Anchorage

of reinforcement in concrete structures

subjected to cyclic loading’, Concrete 2011

- 25th Biennial Conference of the Concrete

Institute of Australia, Perth, 12 – 14 October.

Gilbert, R.I., 2011, ‘Creep and shrinkage

induced defl ections in RC beams and slabs’,

Andy Scanlon Symposium - Fall Convention

of the American Concrete Institute,

Cincinnati, 16-18 October.

Gilbert, R.I., Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘Eff ects of

shrinkage on the serviceability of composite

concrete slabs with wave-form steel

decking’, fi b symposium, Prague, 8-10 June.

Gilbert, R.I., Kilpatrick, A., 2011, ‘Improved

prediction of the long-term defl ections

of RC fl exural members’, fi b symposium,

Prague, 8-10 June.

Gilbert, R.I., Ranzi, G., 2011, ‘In-service

deformations of reinforced concrete

columns in biaxial bending’, 12th East Asia-

Pacifi c Conference on Structural Engineering

and Construction, EASEC12, Hong Kong,

26-28 January.

Gilbert, R.I., Bradford, M.A., Gholamhoseini,

A., Chang, Z., 2011, ‘The eff ects of shrinkage

on the long-term deformation of composite

concrete slabs’, Concrete 2011 - 25th Biennial

Conference of the Concrete Institute of

Australia, Perth, 12-14 October.

Gilbert, R.I., 2011, ‘The serviceability limit

states in reinforced concrete design’, 12th

East Asia-Pacifi c Conference on Structural

Engineering and Construction, EASEC12,

Hong Kong, 26-28 January.

Glamore, W., Mariani, A., Webb, A.T., 2011,

‘Fate of Suspended Particulate Discharged

Into Marine Environments from Ocean

Outfalls’, Coastal Sediments 2011, Miami,

Florida USA, 2 – 6 May 2011.

Glamore, W., 2011, ‘The Myth of

Wakeboarding Vessels and Riverbank

Erosion’, Coasts and Ports 2011, Perth, 28-30

Sept 2011.

Greve, A.K., Andersen, M.S., Acworth, R.I.,

2011, ‘Monitoring water migration processes

in cracking clay soil with depth profi les of

square array resistivity measurements’, Near

Surface Geophysics, Leicester UK, 12-14

September.

Hardwick-Jones, R., Westra, S., Sharma, A.,

2011, ‘Observed Relationship Between

Extreme Sub-Daily Rainfall, Surface

Temperature and Relative Humidity’, 34th

IAHR Congress

Harry, M., Zhang, H., Colleter, G., Lemckert,

C., Blenkinsopp, C., 2011, ‘Remote sensing of

water waves: wave fl ume experiments on

regular and irregular waves’, Coasts and Ports

2011, Perth, 28-30 September.

Hausknecht, M., Au, T-C., Stone, P., Fajardo, D.,

Waller, S.T., 2011, ‘Dynamic lane reversal in

traffi c management’, 14th IEEE International

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Conference, ITSC 2011, Washington D.C.,

October 5 – 7, 2011

Heidarpour, A., Bradford, M.A., 2011,

‘Geometric non-linear modelling of partial

interaction in composite T-beams in fi re’,

6th International Conference on Composite

Construction in Steel and Concrete,

Tabernash, CO, United States, 20-24 July.

Hsia, H-C., YEH., K.Y., Vandebona, U.,

Tsukaguchi, H., 2011, ‘Corresponding

Characteristics of Pedestrian awareness and

attitudes in Taiwan’, The 9th International

Conference of the EASTS, Jeju, Korea, 20-23

June.

Huang, Y., Hamed, E., Foster, S.J., 2011, ‘Creep

buckling analysis of high strength concrete

panels’, 9th International Symposium on

High Performance Concrete, Rotorua, Zew

Zealand, 9-11 August.

Huynh, L.C., Foster, S.J., 2011, ‘Behaviour

of reactive powder concrete columns

subjected to impact loading’, fi b Symposium,

Prague, Czech Republic, 8-10 June.

Ishak, E., Rahman, A., Westra, S.P., Sharma,

A., Kuczera, G., 2011, ‘Preliminary Analysis

of Trends in Australian Flood Data’, World

Environmental and Water Resources

Congress, American Society of Civil

Engineering Challenges of Change -

Proceedings of the World Environmental and

Water Resources Congress 2010 Providence,

RI; 16 - 20 May 2010 , pp. 115-124

Jeong, C., Mukerji, T., Mariethoz, G., 2011,

‘Iterative spatial resampling applied to

seismic inverse modelling for lithofacies

prediction’, SEG International Exposition and

81th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 18 - 23

September.

Kearney, E., Turner, I.L., Wyeth, B., Goodwin,

I. 2011, ‘An energy-based empirical model

of storm-induced shoreline erosion, Gold

Coast, Australia’, Coasts and Ports 2011,

Perth, 28-30 September.

Kellermann, D.C., Attard, M.M., 2011,

‘Orthotropic Biot Strain and its 2D

Numerical Solution’, third International

Symposium on Computational Mechanics

in conjunction with the second symposium

on Computational Structural Engineering

(ISCMIII CSEII), National Taiwan University,

Taipei, Taiwan, 5-7 December 5-7.

Khajeh Samani, A., Attard, M.M., 2011,

‘Lateral Behavior of Concrete’, ICESE 2011:

International Conference on Earthquake

and Structural Engineering, Venice, Italy,

November.

Khajeh Samani, A., Attard, M.M., 2011,

‘Modelling the Lateral Behaviour of Confi ned

Concrete’, The 2011 World Congress on

Advances in Structural Engineering and

Mechanics, Seoul Korea, 18-22 September.

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Koerner, M., Schulz, M., Powell, S., Ercolani,

M., 2011, ‘The Life Cycle Assessment of

Clothes Washing Options for City West

Waters Residential Customers’, 7th Australian

Life Cycle Assessment Conference,


Kumar, R., Unnikrishnan, A., Waller, ST 2011,

‘Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with

Backhauls on Trees: Model, Properties,

Formulations, and Algorithm’, TRB 90th


Laugesen, R., Tuteja, N.K., Shin, D., Chia,

T., Khan, U., 2011, ‘Seasonal Streamfl ow

Forecasting with a Workfl ow-based

Dynamic Hydrologic Modelling Approach’,

MODSIM2011, International congress on

Modelling and Simulation, Perth, Australia,

12 – 16 Dec 2011

Lee, J., Chang, B., Leonhard Emil Bernold,

Lee, T.S. 2011, ‘Automation System for

Lunar Landing Pad’, Int. Symposium on

Automation and Robotics in Construction,

Seoul, Korea, June 29-July 2.

Levin, M., Kumar, R., Nezamuddin, N., Ruiz

Juri, N., Wallers, S., 2011, ‘Utilizing a Static-

Based Initial Feasible Solution to Expedite

the Convergence of Dynamic Traffi c

Assignment Problems’, TRB 90th Annual


Ling, M.X., Sedaghatpour, F., Teng, F.Z., Hayes,

P.D., Strauss, J., Sun, W., 2011, ‘Homogeneous

magnesium isotopic composition of

seawater: An excellent geostandard for Mg

isotope analysis.

Liu, N., Gao, W., Song, C., Zhang, N., 2011,

‘Dynamic response of a beam bridge under

a moving vehicle with bounded system

parameters’, The 14th Asia-Pacifi c vibration

conference, Hong Kong, 5-8 December.

Liu, Y.Y., McCabe, M.F., De Jeu, R., Evans,

J.P., 2011, ‘Discriminating between climate

and human-induced land degradation in

Mongolia’, 3rd International Symposium on

Remote Sensing of Environment, Australia,

10-15 April.

Liu, Y.Y., McCabe, M.F., De Jeu, R., Evans,

J.P., Van dijk, A., 2011, ‘Satellite-based

Estimates of Global Change in Vegetation

Moisture over 1988-2008’, XXV IUGG General

Assembly. Earth on the Edge: Science for

a sustainable planet, Melbourne, Australia,

July.

Loo, M., Ahammed, M., Foster, S.J., Stewart,

M., Sirivivatnanon, V., 2011, ‘Safety and

reliability of reinforced concrete structures’,



12-14 October.

Ma, J., Gao, W 2011, ‘Structural Optimal

Design Based on the Dynamic Reliability’,

The 14th Asia-Pacifi c vibration conference,

Hong Kong, 5-8 December.

Man, H.M., Song, C., Gao, W., Tin Loi,

F.S., 2011, ‘3D Consistent Plate Bending

Analysis using Scaled Boundary Finite-

Element Method’, third International

Symposium on Computational Mechanics

in conjunction with the second symposium

on Computational Structural Engineering

(ISCMIII CSEII), National Taiwan University,

Taipei, Taiwan, December 5-7.

Mariani, A., Glamore, W., 2011, ‘Fate and

Transport of Suspended Particulate

Discharged into Marine Environments

via Ocean Outfalls’, Hydrology and Water

resources, 34th IAHR World Congress,

Brisbane, June.

Mariethoz, G., Kelly, B.F., 2011, ‘A New Look at

Multiple-Point Geostatistics for Geological

Modelling’, 35th APCOM symposium,

Wollongong, 24-30 September.

Mariethoz, G., Renard, P., 2011, ‘Simulation of

karstic networks using high order discrete

Markov processes’, H2Karst: 9th Conference

on Limestone Hydrogeology, Besancon, 1-3

September.

Meng, X, Evans, J.P., McCabe, M.F., 2011,

‘Numerical modelling and land-atmosphere

feedback of drought in south-east Australia’,

XXV IUGG General Assembly; Earth on the

Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet,

Melbourne, Australia, 27 June - 7 July.

Mohammadi, S., Taiebat, H.A., 2011, ‘Stability

analysis of slope using updated Lagrangian

FEM’, 13th Int Conf of the Int Association

for Computer Methods and Advances in

Geomechanics, Melbourne, 9-11 May.

Mohammadi, S., Taiebat, H.A., 2011, ‘updated

Lagrangian Analysis of Soil Slopes in Fem’,

14th Pan-American Conference on Soil

Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering,

Toronto, Canada, 2-6 Oct.

Mole, M.A., Turner, I.L., Davidson, M.,

Goodwin, I. 2011, ‘Forecasting seasonal to

multi-year shoreline change on the east

Australian coast’, Coasts and Ports 2011,

Perth, 28-30 September.

Montz, T., Dixit, V.V., Wolshon, B 2011, ‘Best

of Both Worlds: Combining Demand and

Simulation Models for Hurricane Evacuation’,

TRB 90th Annual Meeting, Washington DC,

January.

Montz, T., Dixit, V.V., Wolshon, B., 2011,

‘Integration of Household Decision Making

with Dynamic Transportation Modelling

to Evaluate Hurricane Evacuation’, The

Department of Homeland Security Science

Conference - Fifth Annual University

Network Summit, Washington D. C., USA, 30

March - 1 April.

Moore, SJ., Lawson, J., Santoso, B., Fontana

Giusti, M., 2011, ‘Achieving Diversion

Of Waste From Landfi ll By Mechanical-

Biological Treatment In Sydney’, ISWA World

Conference 2011, Daegu, Korea, 17 - 20

October.

Moore, S.J., Santoso, B., Lawson, J., Fontana

Giusti, M., 2011, ‘Recycling Of Municipal

Waste to Disposal By Mechanical-Biological

Treatment In Sydney’, International

Workshop on 3R and Waste Management

2011, Kitakyusyu, Japan, 21 -23 September.

Moore, S.J., 2011, ‘e-Waste management in

Australia in 2011’, International Workshop

on 3R and Waste Management 2011,

Kitakyusyu, Japan, 21 -23 September.

Mumford, P.J., Nippard, G., Middleton, J.,

Kearney, E., Cooke, C., Turner I.L., Mole, M.A.,

Splinter, K.D., 2011, ‘The Airborne Science

Imitative LiDAR Beach Survey: development

and results’, International Global Navigation

Satellite Systems Society IGNSS Symposium,

Sydney, 15-17 Sept.

Nezamuddin, N., Fajardo, D., Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘A combinatorial algorithm and warm start

method for dynamic traffi c assignment’, 14th

IEEE International Intelligent Transportation

Systems Conference, ITSC 2011, Washington

DC, October 5 – 7, 2011

Nezamuddin, N, Jiang, N, Ma, J., Zhang, T.,

Waller, S.T., 2011, ‘Active Traffi c Management

Strategies: Implications for Freeway

Operations and Traffi c Safety’, TRB 90th


Ng, M., Sathasivan, K, Waller, S.T. 2011,

‘Modelling Human Error and In-Vehicle

Navigation Systems: Model Formulation

and Properties’, TRB 90th Annual Meeting,


Ng, M., Kockelman, K, Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘Review of Correlation Coeffi cient as a

Dependence Modelling Tool’, TRB 90th


Oeser, M., 2011, ‘Visco-elastic modelling

of virgin and aged binders’, IACMAG2011,

Melbourne, 9-11 May.

Parcsi, GP., Pillai, S.M., Sohn, J., Gallagher,

E., Dunlop, M., Atzeni, M., Lobsey, C.,

Murphy, K.R., Stuetz, R.M., 2011, ‘Optimising

Non-specifi c Sensor Arrays for Poultry

Emission Monitoring using GC-MS/O’, 7th

International Conference on Intelligent

Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information

Processing 2011 (ISSNIP 2011), Adelaide, 6-9

December.

Peng, Y., Davis, S.R., 2011, ‘A Proposed

Method for Calculating the Probabilities

Required in BBNs for Cost Contingency

Estimate’, International conference on

Construction and Real Estate Management

(ICCREM), Guangzhou University,

Guangzhou, China, 18-19 November.

Perera, W.A., Davis, S.R., Marosszeky, M., 2011,

‘Interventions in eff ecting change towards

lean for Australian building contractors:

Defect management as a case of reference’,

19th Annual Conference of the International

Group for Lean Construction, Lima, Peru,

13t– 15 July.

Peters, G., Rowley, H.V., Short, M., Schulz,

M., 2011, ‘Getting a Better Reading on Red

Meat’, 7th Australian Life Cycle Assessment

Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 9-10

March.

Pi, YL, Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘A new analytical

solution for lateral-torsional buckling of

arches under a uniform radial load’, The 2011

World Congress on Advances in Structural

Engineering and Mechanics ASEM’11plus,

Seoul, Korea, 18-22 September.

Pi, Y.L., Bradford, M.A., Gao, W., 2011, ‘Creep

Analysis of CFST Arches Accounting for

Uncertainty of Creep and Shrinkage’, 7th

International conference on steel and

aluminium structures 2011, Sarawak,

Malaysia, 13-15 July.

Pi, Y.L., Bradford, M.A., Qu, W.L., 2011,

‘Extremal thermoelastic buckling analysis of

fi xed slender beams’, 12th East Asia-Pacifi c

Conference on Structural Engineering and

Construction, EASEC12, Hong Kong, 26-28

January.

Pi, YL, Bradford, M.A., Gao, W., 2011, ‘Interval

Creep Buckling of CFST Arches’, Eurosteel

2011, Budapest, Hungary, 31 Aug-2 Sep.

Pi, Y.L., Bradford, M.A., Gao, W., 2011, ‘Interval

Thermoelastic Response of Elastically

Restrained Steel Beams’, 12th East Asia-

Pacifi c Conference on Structural Engineering

and Construction, EASEC12, Hong Kong,

26-28 January.

Pi, Y.L., Bradford, M.A., Qu, W. 2011, ‘Interval

long-term analysis of concrete-fi lled steel

tubular arches’, 6 ISEC, Zurich, 21-29 July.

Pi, Y.L., Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘Plastic Torsional

Analysis of Steel Members’, Computational

plasticity XI Fundamentals and Applications,

Barcelona, Spain, 7-9 Sep.

Pillai, S.M., Wang, X, Parcsi, G.P., Gallagher,

E., Gallagher, E., Dunlop, M., 2011, ‘Spatial

and seasonal emission characteristics of

litter from tunnel ventilated broiler sheds’,

20th International conference of the Clean

Air Society of Australia and New Zealand,

Auckland, 31 July - 2 August.

Prusty, B.G., Russell, C., Ford, R., Ben-Naim, D.,

Shaowei, H., Vrcelj, Z., Marcus, N., McCarthy,

T., Goldfi nce, T., Ojeda, R.E., Gardner, A.,

Molyneaux, T., Hadgraft, R., 2011, ‘Adaptive

tutorials to target Threshold Concepts

in Mechanics a community of practice

approach’, 22nd Annual Conference for the

Australasian Association for Engineering

Education (AAEE), Fremantle, 5-7 December.

Qu, WL, Pi, YL, Bradford, MA 2011, ‘Failure

characteristics of transmission towers

subjected to downbursts’, Thirteenth

International Conference on Civil, Structural

and Environmental Engineering Computing,

Chania, Greece, 6-9 September.

Quilliam, L, Cox, R.J., Campbell, P., Wright, M.,

2011, ‘Coastal climate change impacts for

Easter Island in 2100’, Australian Coasts and

Ports, Perth, September.

Rahman, P., rahman, P., Sharma, A., 2011,

‘Estimating design Floods for Gauged

Urban Catchments under Climate Change

Conditions’, 34th IAHR World Congress,

Newcastle

Rayner, D., Glamore, W., Miller, B.M., 2011,

‘Assessing the Health Impacts of Ocean

Outfalls,’ Australian Coasts and Ports, Perth,

Sept 2011

Rowley, H.V., Shiels, S 2011, ‘Valuation in

LCA: Towards a Best-Practice Approach’, 7th

Australian Life Cycle Assessment Conference,


Russell, A.R., Einav, I., 2011, ‘Compression lines

for soil derived using fractals and energy

balance’, 5th International Symposium on

Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials,

Seoul, Korea, 1-3 September.

Russell, A.R., Einav, I, Muir Wood, D.,

Kikumoto, M., 2011, ‘Using load distributions

in granular assemblies exhibiting particle

crushing to study macroscopic mechanical

properties’, IACMAG2011, Melbourne, 9-11

May.

Salimzadeh, S., 2011, ‘Coupling reservoir

simulation in naturally fractured reservoirs:

implicit versus explicit formulation’,

IACMAG2011, Melbourne, 09 – 11 May 2011

Sano, M., Baum, S., Bussey, M., Carter, B.,

Crick, F., Golshani, A., Low-Choy, D., Richards,

R., Roiko, A., Serraro-Neumann, S., Splinter,

K., Smith, T., Tomlinson, R., 2011, ‘Adapting

coasts to climate variability and change’,

Coasts and Ports, Perth, WA, Sept.

Sathasivan, K, Ng, M., Waller, S.T., 2011,

‘Robust Heuristic for Scheduling Truck

Loading and Unloading’, TRB 90th Annual


Schulz, M., Shiels, S., Short, M., Peters,

G., 2011, ‘Developing and applying

sustainable decision frameworks: a

regulators perspective.’, 7th Australian Life

Cycle Assessment Conference, Melbourne,

Australia, 9-10 March.

Shand, T.D., Cox, R.J., Mole, M., Carley, J.T.,

Carley, J.T., Peirson, W.L., 2011, ‘Coastal Storm

Data Analysis: Provision of Extreme Wave

Data for Adaptation Planning’, Australian

Coasts and Ports, Perth, September.

Shand, T.D., Smith, G., Cox, R.J., Blacka, M.J.,

2011, ‘Development of appropriate criteria

for the safety and stability of persons and

vehicles in fl oods’, Hydrology and Water

resources, 34th IAHR World Congress,

Brisbane, June 2011.

Shand, TD., Shand, R., McComb, P.J.,

Johnson DL 2011, ‘Evaluation of empirical

predictors of extreme run-up using fi eld

data’, Australian Coasts and Ports, Perth,

September.

Short, M., Fallowfi eld, H.J., 2011, ‘Temporal

ecology of algae and zooplankton in a

tertiary waste stabilisation pond’, 9th IWA

Specialist Group Conference on Waste

Stabilisation Ponds, Adelaide, South

Australia, 1-3 August.

Siew, Y., Balatbat, M.C., Carmichael, D.G.,

2011, ‘Impact of environmental, social

and governance (ESG) disclosures on

fi rm performance’, Dynamics of Investing

Responsibly Research Forum, University of

Sydney Business School, 25 - 25 November.


Song, C., Chiong, I., Tin Loi, F.S., 2011,

‘Dynamic analysis of generalized stress

intensity factors at multi-material wedges’,

21st Australasian Conference on the

Mechanics of Structures and Materials,

Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December.

Splinter, K., Strauss, D., Tomlinson, R., 2011,

‘Can we reliably estimate dune erosion

without knowing pre-storm bathymetry?’,

Coasts and Ports, Perth, WA, Sept.

Sun, L, Zhao, J., Zhao, G.F., 2011, ‘Contact

description in numerical simulation for rock

mechanics’, ISRM 2011 Congress Beijing,

CHINA, 18-21 October 2011,pp 541-544

Thomas, J., Thomas, T., Stuetz, R.M.,

Ashbolt, N.J., 2011, ‘The risk of Free-living

amoebe interaction bacterial pathogens

in drinking water’, Proceeding 16th

International Symposium on Health-

Related Microbiology, Rotorua, NZ, 18-23

September.

Tran, H., Carmichael, D.G., 2011, ‘Stationarity

of the Transition Probabilities in the Markov

Chain Formulation of Owner Payment

Histories on Projects’, 10th Engineering

Mathematics and Applications Conference,

Sydney, 4-7 December.

Tran, H., Carmichael, D.G., Balatbat, M.C.,

2011, ‘Tree Form Classifi cation of Owner

Payment Behaviour’, Fourth International

Conference on Construction Engineering

and Project Management, Sydney, 16-18

February.

Tran, T.B., Davis, S.R., Carmichael, D.G., 2011,

‘Organisation Staffi ng Optimisation Using

Deterministic Reneging Queuing Model’,

International Conference on Innovation,

Management and Service, ICIMS 2011,

Singapore, 16-18 September.

Trinh, T., van den Akker, B., Coleman, H.,

Stuetz, R.M., Le-Clech, P.L., 2011, ‘Removal

of endocrine disrupting chemicals and

microbial indicators by a membrane

bioreactor for decentralised water reuse’,

8th IWA International Conference on Water

Reclamation and Reuse, Barcelona, Spain,

26-29 September.

Trinh, T., van den Akker, B., Stuetz, R.M.,

Coleman, H., Le-Clech, P.L., Khan, S.J.,

2011, ‘Removal of trace organic chemical

contaminants by a membrane bioreactor’,

7th IWA specialist conference on

assessment and control of micropollutants

/ hazardous substances in water, Sydney,

Australia, 11-13 July.

Tsukaguchi, H., Vandebona, U., Yeh, K.Y.,

Hsia, H-C., Jung, H.Y., Tajima, Y., 2011

‘Eff ect of the Stage of Life and Lifestyle on

Pedestrian Behavior in East Asian Countries’,

The 9th International Conference of the

EASTS, Jeju, Korea, 20 – 23 June 2011.

Tsukaguchi, H., Vandebona, U., Yeh., K.Y.,

Jung, H.Y., Hsia, H.C., Tanaka, Y., 2011,

‘Impact of Ease of Access to Public

Transport on User Expectations’, The 9th

International Conference of the EASTS, Jeju,

Korea, 20-23 June.

Tu, X, G.F. Zhao, Dai, F., Zhao, J., 2011,

‘Mechanism of rock avalanche induced by

earthquake Insight from the discontinuous

numerical modelling approach’, ISRM 2011

Congress, Beijing, CHINA, 18-21 October

2011.

Turner, I.L., Goodwin, I.D., Davidson,

M.A., Short, A.D., Pritchard, T.R., Lane, C.,

Cameron, D.W., MacDonald, T., Middleton,

J., Splinter, K. 2011, ‘Planning for an

Australian National Coastal Observatory

monitoring and forecasting coastal erosion

in a changing climate’, Coast and Ports,

Perth WA, September 27 – 30, 2011.

Valipour, H., Bradford, M.A., 2011, ‘A novel

force-based element for composite

beams in frames’, Thirteenth International

Conference on Civil, Structural and

Environmental Engineering Computing,

Chania, Greece, 6-9 September..

Voo, Y.L., Foster, S.J., 2011, ‘Construction of

a 50 Metre Long Ultra High Performance

Ductile Concrete Composite Road Bridge’,

Austroads 8th Bridge Conference, Sydney,

Australia, 31 October - 5 November 2011.

Vrcelj, Z, Al-Deen, S., Ranzi, G., 2011, ‘Long-

term Experiments of Composite Steel-

Concrete Beams’, 12th East Asia-Pacifi c

Conference on Structural Engineering and

Construction, EASEC12, Hong Kong, 26-28

January.

Wang, C., Gao, W., Song, C., Tin Loi,

F.S., 2011, ‘Investigation on Random

Interval Eigenvalues of Structures with

Uncertainties’, The 14th Asia-Pacifi c

vibration conference, Hong Kong, 5-8

December.

Wang, X, Parcsi, GP., Sivret, EC., Le, H.,

Wang B., Stuetz, R.M., 2011, ‘Odour

Emission Ability (OEA) and its Application

in Assessing Odour Removal Effi ciency’,

4th IWA Conference on Odour and VOCs,

Vitoria, Brazil, 17-21 October.

Watts, T., Foster, S.J., Kayvani, K., 2011,

‘Evaluation of AS3600-2009 Provisions

for Design by Nonlinear Stress Analysis’,



12-14 October.

Webb, T.T., Miller, B.M., Tucker, R., Lord, D.,

Townsend, M., 2011, ‘coastal sustainability

guidelines 2011 update’, Coasts and Ports

2011, Perth, 28 – 30 Sept 2011.

Widagdo, A.,B., Cathers, B., Peirson, W.L.,

2011, ‘Consolidation and response of

cohesive sediment beds exposed to water

waves’, Coasts and Ports 2011, Perth, 28-30

Sept.

Wolshon, B., Dixit, V.V., 2011, ‘Regional-Scale

Multimodal Evacuation Planning and

Analysis’, The Department of Homeland

Security Science Conference - Fifth Annual

University Network Summit, Washington D.

C., USA, 30 March - 1 April.

Xie, C., Kockelman, K., Waller, S.T., 2011, ‘A

maximum entropy-least squares estimator

for elastic origin-destination trip matrix

estimation’, ISTTT 19th International

Symposium on Transportation and Traffi c

Theory, Berkeley, CA, USA, 18 - 20 July.

Xie, C., Waller, S.T., Kockelman, K., 2011,

‘Intersection Origin-Destination Flow

Optimization Problem for Evacuation

Network Design’, TRB 90th Annual Meeting,


Yap, R., Holmes, M., Peirson, W.L., Stuetz,

R.M., Jeff erson, B., Henderson, R., 2011,

‘Optimising DAF treatment of algae-laden

lagoon effl uent using surface charge:

A Bolivar Treatment Plant Case Study’,

9th IWA Specialist Conference on Waste

Stabilisation Ponds, Adelaide, Australia, 1-3

August.

Yarmy, R., Sereno, D., 2011, ‘Port of Long

Beach sustainable design and construction

guidelines,’ 2011 Conference on Coastal

Engineering Practice, San Diego, CA United

States, 21 – 24 August 2011

You, S., Zhao, G.F., Labiouse, V., 2011, ‘Micro-

mechanical study on the failure process

of clay formations during excavation of

galleries’, ISRM 2011 Congress, Beijing,

CHINA, 18-21 October 2011

Zhang, T., Xie, C., Waller, S.T., 2011, ‘An

Integrated Equilibrium Travel Demand

Model with Nested Logit Structure:

Problem Formulation and Uncertainty

Analysis’, TRB 90th Annual Meeting,


Conference - Full Paper, Not Refereed Ershadi, A., McCabe, M.F., Evans, J.P.,

Walker, J., Pipunic, R., 2011, ‘Estimation

of evaporation using the surface energy

balance system (SEBS) and numerical

models’, 3rd International Symposium on

Remote Sensing of Environment, Sydney,

Australia, 10 – 15 April 2011

Golshani, A., Splinter, K, Thurston, W,

Tomlinson, R 2011, ‘Modelling of the

1996 East Coast Low Event in Southeast

Queensland, Australia’, Queensland Coastal

Conference, Cairns, QLD, AU, Oct.

Mariani, A., Carley, J.T., Rayner, D., Miller,

B.M., Cox, R.J., Chin, K.K., Yusof, G., 2011,

‘Stabilization of the Tutong River Entrance,

Brunei’, Conference on Coastal Engineering

Practice, San Diego, August.

Mumford, P.J., Nippard, G., Middleton, J.H.,

Kearney, E.T., Cooke, C., Turner, I.L., Mole,

M.A., Splinter, K.D., 2011, ‘The airborne

science initiative LiDAR beach survey;

development and results’, International

Global Navigation Satellite Systems Society

Symposium, Sydney, 15 – 17 November

2011.

Pritchard, T.R., Turner, I.L., Ian D. Goodwin,

I.D., Davidson, M.A., Short, A.D., Lane, C.,

Cameron, D.W., MacDonald, T., Splinter,

K.D., Mole, M., Kearney, E., Middleton, J.H.,

2011, ‘Prospects for a National Observatory’,

NSW Coastal Conference, Tweed Heads,

NSW, Nov.

Shand, T.D., Wasko, C. D., Goodwin, I. D.,

Carley, J.T., You, Z.J., Kulmar, Z.J., Cox, R.J.,

2011, ‘Long Term Trends in NSW Coastal

Wave Climate and Derivation of Extreme

Design Storms’, NSW Coastal Conference

2011, Tweed Heads, 8 - 11 November.

Splinter, K., Palmsten, M., Holman, R.A.,

Tomlinson, R., 2011, ‘Comparison of

measured and modeled run-up and

resulting dune erosion during a lab

experiment’, Coastal Sediments, Miami, FL,

USA, May 2-7.

Strauss, D., Splinter, K., Tomlinson, R., 2011,

‘Beach nourishment and coastal protection

along the Gold Coast, Australia: A Case

Study at Palm Beach.’, Coastal Sediments,

Miami, 2-7 May.

Conference - Proceedings Editor Han, S.H., Davis, S.R., Wang, X., Kim, J.,

Carmichael, D., 2011, ‘Proceedings of

the 4th International Conference on

Construction Engineering and Project

Management’, Fourth International

Conference on Construction Engineering

and Project Management, Sydney, 16-18

February.

Mariethoz, G., Kelly, B.F., 2011,

‘Parameterizing Training Images Used For

Multiple-Point Simulations’, 1st Conference

on Spatial Statistics, Enschede, The

Netherlands, 23 - 25 March.


The Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Student

Association (CERSA) is made up of all postgraduate research

students of the school. CERSA committee members represent

the postgraduate research students and subsequently attend

various school management meetings.

The 2011 CERSA committee continued to provide opportunities

for school postgraduate research students to develop social and

professional relationships during the year.

As per previous years, BBQs were organised by the committee

at the start of each semester to welcome new research students

to UNSW (and Australia for some!). The Postgraduate Careers

night towards the end of the year was another highly attended

event in 2011. Research students had an opportunity to listen

and talk to Dr. Melissa Webster (CSIRO Materials Science and

Engineering), Associate Professor Mike Manefi eld (UNSW

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences), Dr. Chris

Duesterberg (UNSW Water Research Centre) and Dr. Wendy

Timms (UNSW Water Research Laboratory) about their research

careers so far and any advice they may have had for the School’s

current research students.

A key aim of the 2011 committee was to increase the number of

social events throughout the year in order to provide students

with an opportunity to network with students outside of their

research offi ces, an action that was enthusiastically supported

by School management. Regular Movie & Pizza evenings were

popular with the students, as was the End of Year BBQ held at

Centennial Park.

2011 CERSA

President: Cecilia Azcurra

Vice-President: Daniel Boland

Secretary: Anna Yeung

Committee Members: Juan Pablo Alvarez Gaitan

Yun Bai

Irene Chiong

Russell Yap

Joyce Yuan

Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Student Association (CERSA)


Agarwal, Ankit

Strengthening of tubular steel

structures using CFRP

Supervisor: Foster;

Co-supervisor: Vrcelj, Hamed

Aljassmi , Hamad Abdulla Mohd

Dynamic project management

Supervisor: Han

Allis,Michael James

Ocean Engineering

Supervisor: Peirson;

Co-supervisor: Banner

Alvarez Gaitan, Juan Pablo

Sustainability Assessment

Supervisor: Peters, Moore;

Co-supervisor: Schutz

Amin, Ali

Shear and Tensile Fracture of

Reinforced Concrete with Steel Fibres

Supervisor: Foster;

Co-supervisor: Gilbert

Azcurra, Cecilia

Isotopes in Hydrology

Supervisor: McCabe;

Co-supervisor: Baker

Bai, Yun

Coupled fl ow deformation analysis of

multiphase multi porous media

Supervisor: Khalili;

Co-supervisor: Oeser

Bertuzzi, Robert

Estimating rock mass strength and

stiff ness with particular interest in the

load on a tunnel lining

Supervisor: Douglas;

Co-supervisor: Mostyn

Boland, Daniel

Fate of metal contaminants during

iron oxide crystallisation

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Collins

Cai, Yingzhe Mick

Isotope hydrology, water resources

Supervisor: Evans, McCabe;

Co-supervisor: Andersen

Chai, Chang Neng

Bearing capacity in unsaturated soils

Supervisor: Russell;

Co-supervisor: Taiebat

Chen, Xiaojun

Computational Mechanics

Supervisor: Song;

Co-supervisor: Man

Chiong, Irene

Scaled boundary fi nite-element

shakedown approach for the safety

assessment of cracked elastoplastic

structures under cyclic loading

Supervisor: Song;

Co-supervisor: Tin-Loi

Chong, Yi-Xian

Redox transformations of iron oxides

and their impact on the fate of

radionuclides in the environment

Supervisors: Waite, Collins

Chowdhury, Morsaleen Shehzad

Structural Engineering

Supervisor: Song;

Co-supervisor: Gao

Chung, Jin

Development and application of

cryptosporidium surrogates to

evaluate water treatment

Supervisor: Ashbolt;

Co-supervisor: Vesey

Coad, Peter William

Estuarine algal bloom prediction

Supervisor: Cathers,VanSenden;

Co-supervisor: Ball

Dang, The Cuong

Iron uptake by cyanobacteria

Supervisor: Waite

Do, Anh Cuong

Stability of composite steel concrete

T-section beams continuous over one

or more supports

Supervisor: Vrcelj;

Co-supervisor: Bradford

Duell, Melissa

Network equilibrium models

accounting for the constraints and

considerations of electric vehicles

Supervisor: Waller;

Co-supervisor: Gardner

Elhadayri, Farj

Constitutive modelling of lightly

cemented unsaturated soils


Co-supervisor: Russell

Ershadi Esmaeilabadi, Ali

Remote sensing hydrology

Supervisor: McCabe;

Co-supervisor: Walker, Evans

Esfahani Kan, Mojtaba

Earth and rockfi ll dams, in particular

the earthquake resistance and

liquefaction susceptibility of their

foundations

Supervisor: Taiebat;

Co-supervisor: Al-Kilidar

Foerster,Jean

Natural resource projects

Supervisor: Carmichael;

Co-supervisor: Al-Kilidar

Gharib, Mohammad Mahdi

Shear and tensile fracture of steel fi bre

reinforced concrete

Supervisor: Foster;

Co-supervisor: Gilbert

Gholamhoseini, Alireza

The time-dependent behavior of

composite concrete slabs with profi led

steel decking

Supervisor: Gilbert;

Co-supervisor: Foster

Graham, Peter William

Groundwater, hydrogeology

Supervisor: McCabe;

Co-Supervisor: Evans

Gui, Yilin

Cracking in unsaturated soils



Hambly, Adam Christopher

Fluorescence as a tool for detection of

failures in recycled water treatment

Supervisor: Stuetz, Khan;

Co-supervisor: Henderson

Research Students 2011


Hao, Pan

Risk management in infrastructure

project

Supervisor: Han;

Co-supervisor: Davis

He, Di

Natural organic matter-mediated

generation of reactive oxygen species

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Garg

Ho, Lam

Synthesis of activated carbon

supported zero valent iron

nanoparticles and application for

contaminant degradation in benthic

sediments

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Duesterberg

Hossenian, Seyedmahdi

The principal-agent problem and

project delivery methods

Supervisor: Han, Davis, Carmichael

Huang, Yue

Long-term behaviour of high-strength

concrete panels

Supervisor: Hamed;


Hung, Ju-Pin

Application of info systems to

environmental material accounting

tools

Supervisor: Moore;

Co-supervisor: Low

Islam, Md Kamrul

Modelling route choice behaviour

under uncertainty

Supervisor: Vandebona;


Jeremiah, Erwin Joachim

Hydrology

Supervisor: Sharma;

Co-supervisor: Marshall, Sisson, Nott

Jury, Karen Lillian

Investigation of the role of

antibacterial drugs in municipal

wastewater as a selective infl uence on

the spread of bacterial resistance

Supervisor: Stuetz;

Co-supervisor: Ashbolt

Kaboli, Seyed Alireza

Lifecycle costs of steel petrochemical

structures



Karna, Barun Lai

Characterisation of feedwater for

desalination and its pre-treatment

strategies

Supervisor: Henderson;

Co-supervisor: Le-Clech

Kearney, Edward Tah Dah

Monitoring and Modelling of Storm

Induced Beach Erosion

Supervisor: Turner;

Co-supervisor: Goodwin

Khajeh, Samani Ali

Softening in reinforced concrete frames

Supervisor: Attard;


Khan, Urooj

Semi-distributed modelling

Supervisor: Sharma;

Co-supervisor: McCabe

Khezei, Mani

Buckling and post-buckling behaviour

of composite laminated structures

with material non-linearities

Supervisor: Vrcelj;

Co-supervisor: Attard

Kwok, Sei Lung

Computational hydraulics

Supervisor: Cathers

Le, Hung Viet

Fate of volatile Organo-Sulfur

compounds in odour assessment

Supervisor: Stuetz;

Co-supervisor: Sivret

Li, Chao

Structural engineering

Supervisor: Song;

Co-supervisor: Gao

Liu, Nengguang

Uncertain modelling and uncertain

methods; Vehicle - bridge interaction

dynamics; Wind and/or sersmic

induced random vibration; structural

stability and reliability analysis

Supervisor: Gao

Liu, Xinpei

Time-dependent behaviour of

composite curved beams

Supervisor: Bradford

Liu, Yi

Hydrology, remote sensing, climate

variability

Supervisor: Evans, McCabe;

Co-supervisor: Sharma, Evans

Luo, Kai

Long-term non-linear behaviour and

buckling of CFST arches

Supervisors: Pi, Gao

Luu, Trung Kien

Numerical simulation of the behaviour

of composite frames at elevated

temperatures

Supervisor: Bradford;

Co-supervisor: Vrcelj

Ma, Jianjun

CO2 sequestration in geological

formations



Ma, Tian

Optimisation of nutrient removal,

membrane fouling and excess sludge

dewatering in hybrid coagulation/

submerged membrane bioreactor

(SMBR) treatment of wastewaters

Supervisor: Waite ;

Co-supervisor: Garg

Ma, Xiaoming

Application of nanoparticulate

zero valent iron to remediation of

contaminated bethic sediments

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Duesterberg

Maghrebi, Mojtaba

Study the Variability of Tasks

Production Rate in Linear Scheduling

Supervisor: Bernold;


Maheshwar, Pradeep

Optimisation of coagulant

addition to submerged membrane

bioreactors using computational and

experimental methods

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Collins

Masoumi, Hossein

Investigation of intact rock behaviour

with particular interest on micro-crack

growth and scale eff ects

Supervisor: Douglas;


Mazumder, Maruful Hasan

Structural engineering, computational

mechanics, dynamic soil-structure

interaction

Supervisor: Foster, Gilbert

McCallum, Andrew Murray

River-aquifer interactions in stressed

semi-arid environments

Supervisor: Andersen, Acworth

Miller, Christopher James

The transformation and implication

of reactive oxygen species in natural

aquatic systems

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Rose

Mohamad Abas, Fairul Zahri

Behaviour of fi bre-reinforced concrete

slabs with profi led steel decking

Supervisor: Gilbert;


Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh

Sepasgozar, Samad

Project management of carbon

projects

Supervisor: Carmichael

Mohammadi, Samaneh

Eff ects of unsaturated zone on stability

of slopes

Supervisor: Taiebat;

Co-supervisor: Khalili

Mole, Melissa Anne

Monitoring and forecasting seasonal

to multi-year evolution of sandy

beaches along the South East

Australian coast, including potential

impacts of climate change

Supervisor: Turner

Moon, Sungkon

Productivity improvement using BIM

Supervisor: Han

Parvez, Md. Ahsan

Fibre reinforced concrete structures

Supervisor: Foster

Peng, Yuan

Cost contingency

Supervisor: Davis;

Co-supervisor: Carmichael

Perera, Weebadda Arachchilage

Salinda

Study causes of defect occurrence and

issues

Supervisor: Davis;

Co-supervisor: McIntyre, Marosszeky

Peterson, Mark Aaron

Ground water resources in fractured

rock aquifers using geochemical and

isotopic methods

Supervisor: Andersen;

Co-supervisor: Acworth

Pournaghiazar, Mohammad

Cone penetration in unsaturated

porous media



Rahnamayie Zekavat, Payam

Predicting asset lifetimes

Supervisor: Bernold;


Rancic, Aleksandra Sanja

Groundwater levels in fractured rocks -

climate and land use impacts

Supervisor: Acworth;

Co-supervisor: Johnston

Rau, Gabriel Christopher

Using heat as traces to quantify

surface water groundwater

interactions

Supervisor: Anderson;

Co-supervisor: Acworth


Rocheta, Eytan

Simulating persistence in future

rainfall: correcting GCM bias in

regional climate models

Supervisor: Sharma;

Co-supervisor: Evans

Salimzadeh, Saeed

Normal simulation of carbon

sequestration in geological formations



Scaturro, Salvatore

Fluid Mechanics

Supervisors: Pierson, Cathers

Shi, Xue

Uncertain analysis of engineering

structures. Structural reliability

analysis. Structural dymanics

Supervisor: Gao

Shutova, Yulia

Water Quality

Supervisor: Henderson;

Co-supervisor: Baker

Siew, Yung Jhien Renard

Sustainability Performance Reporting



Singh, Sachin

Fluorescence as an online monitoring

tool for water recycling

Supervisor: Khan;

Co-supervisor: Stuetz, Henderson

Sriskandarajah, Sanchayan

Reactive powder concrete subjected

to high temperature and temperature

cycles

Supervisor: Gowripalan;


Su, Lijuan

Lateral buckling

Supervisor: Attard;


Sun, Zhicheng

Fracture analysis by using the scaled

boundary fi nite element method

Supervisor: Song; Co-supervisor: Gao

Thomas, Jacqueline Marie

Pathogen ecology within drinking

water biofi lms

Supervisor: Ashbolt, Stuetz;

Co-supervisor: Kjelleberg, Storey,

Thomas

Torbaty, Mohammadali

Computational hydraulics and

computational fl uid mechanics

Supervisor: Cathers, Yeoh;

Co-supervisor: Peirson

Tran, Hanh Van

Alternative formulations in project

management



Tran, Thao Minh

Fouling of anaerobic membrane

bioreactors

Supervisor: Stuetz;

Co-supervisor: LeClech, Davis

Tran, Trong Binh

Project and organisational staffi ng –

cultural issues

Supervisor: Carmichael

Trinh, Trang Thi Thanh

Decentralised MBR for Water Reuse

Supervisor: Khan,Coleman;

Co-supervisor: Stuetz

Vazquez Campos, Xabier

Biogeochemistry of uranium heap

leaching

Supervisor: Waite, Neilan;

Co-supervisor: Kinsela, Collins

Vo, Thanh Liem

Soil-structure interaction


Co-supervisor: Taiebat

Wang, Bei

Treatability of odorants in abatement

system

Supervisor: Stuetz;

Co-supervisor: Parcsi

Wang, Chen

Computional mechanics. Structural

dynamics structural analysis

Supervisor: Gao; Co-supervisor: Song

Wang, Lili

Risks associated with trace organics in

MBR-treatment of waste waters

Supervisor: Khan;

Co-supervisor: Stuetz

Woldemeskei, Fitsum Markos

Hydrology

Supervisor: Sharma

Wu, Di

Limit and shake down analysis,

uncertain methods and non-

deterministic analysis, structural

analysis and optimization

Supervisor: Gao;

Co-supervisor: Tin-loi

Xiang, Tingsong

Scaled boundary fi nite element

analysis of plates and shells

Supervisor: Song:

Co-supervisor: Gao, Hou

Xin, Yongija

Membrane fouling control

Supervisor: Waite

Xing, Guowei

Kinetics of copper oxidation in

aqueous solution

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Pham

Yan, Xia

Environmental Engineering

Supervisor: Peirson;

Co-supervisor: Banner

Yang, Hongwei

In-situ testing of unsaturated soils



Yap, Russell Kong Leng

Water treatment

Supervisors: Peirson, Henderson;

Co-supervisor: Whittaker

Yeung, Anna Chi Ying

Factors infl uencing the growth and

toxicity of cyanobacteria in drinking

water supplies

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Neilan

Yin, Peijie

Multiphase fl ow in porous media: a

study on permeability determination

of unsaturated soils

Supervisor: Gaofeng Zhao;


Yu, Huijie

Optimisation of membrane bioreactor

performance

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Leslie

Yuan, Fang

Climate chance impacts on coastal

shoreline processes

Supervisor: Cox;

Co-supervisor: Peirson

Yuan, Xiu

Light and free-radical mediated

transformation kinetics of iron species

in natural waters

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Pham

Yvanes-Giuliani, Yliane Auriane

Morgan

Eff ective remediation of acidifi ed

coastal environments using

biogeochemical processes

Supervisor: Waite, Collins

Zhang, Xinlei

Alternative project management

practices



Zhang, Zhenghua

Optimisation of hybrid coagulation/

submerged membrane bioreactor

treatment of wastewaters

Supervisor: Waite;

Co-supervisor: Leslie

Zhou, Yuening

Impact of information redundancy

in project documentation on project

quality

Supervisor: Davis

Zhu, Jianbei

Elasto-plastic thermal lateral buckling

analysis of submerged oil and gas

pipelines curved in plan

Supervisor Attard;

Co-supervisors: Erkmen, Kellermann


Annual PhD Research Excellence Awards

At the 2011 Research Students Poster Forum higher research

students shared their outstanding work through poster

presentations. The Research Management Committee, chaired

by Professor Nasser Khalili, awarded several prizes.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Prize for

Research Excellence – Outstanding was awarded to two PhD

researchers: Mr Yi Liu and Ms Trang Thi Thanh Trinh.

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Prize for

Research Excellence - Meritorious for the best poster presentation

went to Ms Trang Thi Thanh Trinh and Mr Hongwei Yan.

Yi Liu’s research area is in hydroclimatology, (supervisor Dr Matt

McCabe) with a focus on using satellite observed soil moisture

to improve rainfall estimates over Australia. Using satellite-

based observations to investigate the hydrological cycle, e.g.,

precipitation, evaporation, soil moisture, vegetation water

content and groundwater storage, School researchers aim for

enhanced understanding of interactions between diff erent

components. Currently, Yi Liu is working on developing a

satellite-based global long term (>20 years) soil moisture and

vegetation water content dataset.

Trang Trinh’s work is on the fate of pharmaceuticals

during wastewater treatment by a membrane bioreactor

- decentralised MBR for water reuse (supervisors Dr Stuart

Khan and Dr Heather Coleman). Her research objective is

to investigate the removal of a wide range of trace organic

contaminants including steroidal hormones, xenoestrogens,

pesticides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products through

membrane bioreactors (MBRs) under normal operational

conditions and under “hazardous events” conditions, and to

assess the risks associated with these events to public health

and surrounding environments.

Poster Prize winner Hongwei Yan’s research is in geotechnical

engineering, (supervisor Dr Adrian Russell). His topic ‘Cone

Penetration Test (CPT) in unsaturated cohesive soil, in-situ

testing of unsaturated soils’ focuses on the in-situ testing

method -- Cone Penetration Test (CPT) - a very cost-effi cient

site investigation method. It can provide the shear strength

parameters - which are of great importance to design the slope,

dam and foundations of buildings - of the soil layers at the site

through semi-theoretical or empirical correlations. Hongwei’s

objectives are to enlarge our knowledge about the CPT tests

conducted in unsaturated soils.

L-R: Ms Trang Thi Thanh Trinh, Prof David Waite HoS, Mr Yi Liu, Mr Hongwei Yan, Prof Nasser Khalili


ME Graduates

Asghar, Kamran

Water access issues for expanding urban

areas: a case study of Quetta, Pakistan

Supervisors: Ian Cordery, Ashish Sharma,

Wendy Shaw

Beyá, José Francisco

On the interaction of ocean waves and

turbulence

Supervisor: William Peirson;

Co-supervisor: Michael Banner

PhD Graduates

Gelet, Rachael Marie

Hydro-thermal-mechanical coupling in

fractured porous media

Supervisor: Nasser Khalili;

Co-supervisor: Stephen Foster

Hashim, Nor Haslina

Use of chiral pharmaceutical compounds

to characterise sewage treatment processes

and sewage contamination in surface

water

Supervisors: Stuart Khan, Richard Stuetz

Huynh, Luan Chanh

Behaviour of high strength and reactive

powder reinforced concrete columns

subjected to impact

Supervisor: Stephen Foster;

Co-supervisor: Chongmin Song

Khoshghalb, Arman

Numerical algorithms of penetration

problems in variably saturated media


Co-supervisor: Adrian Russell

Lai, Elizabeth Hio Wa

Development of a decision support

approach for sustainable urban water

management

Supervisor: Stephen Moore, Sven Lundie;

Co-supervisor: Nick Ashbolt, Jingrang Lu

Le, Minh Nhat

The removal of sulphonamides and

trimethoprim antibiotics in municipal

wastewater by biological treatment

processes

Supervisor: Richard Stuetz;

Co-supervisor: Stuart Khan

Liu, Xinpei

Nonlinear in-plane behaviour of fi xed

arches under thermal loading

Supervisor: Mark Bradford

Liu, Yi

Using satellite based microwave

observations to characterize land surface

hydrology

Supervisors: Jason Evans, Matt McCabe;

Co-supervisors: Ashish Sharma, Jason

Evans

The Malcolm Chaikin Prize for the best

PhD thesis in 2011 in Engineering

was awarded to Dr Fiona Johnson of

the School of Civil and Environmental

Engineering. This prestigious prize

carries with it a Medal and $10,000

in recognition for the excellence

demonstrated by a doctoral student in

any fi eld of Engineering.

Fiona is a Civil Engineering graduate

and a University Medallist from

UNSW, who returned after a stint in

consulting to pursue a PhD under

Professor Ashish Sharma’s supervision,

funded by an ARC Linkage project

to develop options for dealing with

one of the biggest challenges we

face currently – global warming.

Fiona’s PhD research focused on

developing tools for assessing

climate change impacts on water,

and more importantly, improving the

simulations of sustained anomalies

such as droughts in climate model

simulations of the future.

Fiona now works as a hydrologist with

the Australian Bureau of Meteorology,

developing design storm estimation

guidelines for Australia for specifying

design fl ood values.

Maruthai Pillai, Sashikala

Intercomparison of headspace sampling

methods coupled to TD-GC_MS/O to

characterise key odorants from broiler

chicken litter

Supervisor: Richard Stuetz;

Co-supervisor: Stephen Moore

Ng, Tian Sing

Fibre reinforced high performance

geopolymer concrete

Supervisor: Stephen Foster;

Co-supervisor: R Ian Gilbert

Prempramote, Suriyon

Development of high-order doubly

asymptotic open boundaries for wave

propagation in unbounded domains

by extending the scaled boundary fi nite

element method

Supervisor: Chongmin Song;

Co-supervisor: Francis Tin-Loi

Pui, Alexander Charles

Stochastic hydrology

Supervisor: Ashish Sharma;

Co-supervisor: Raj Mehrotra

Rowley, Hazel Victoria

Improved methods for aggregating multi-

criteria environmental performance data

Supervisor: Greg Peters:

Co-supervisors: Sven Lundie, Stephen

Moore

Zargarbashi, Saman

Investigation of cyclic response in

unsaturated soils: including hydraulic and

mechanical hysteresis


Co-supervisor: Kurt Douglas


School Research Facilities

Technical Services Committee Report 2011The 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.

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 refi ned, mechanically based, structural models.

A few of the projects undertaken in 2011 as parts of successful

ARC Discovery and Linkage projects include creep testing

of reinforced concrete beams to investigate the infl uence

of shrinkage and curing conditions on the fl exural stiff ness,

investigating the development length and the lap-spliced

length of reinforcing bars in reinforced concrete slabs under

static and cyclic loading, creep testing of reinforced concrete

beams that are strengthened with externally bonded composite

materials, testing of fi bre reinforced composite slabs with

profi led steel decking under static and sustained loading,

and cyclic fatigue testing of Geopolymer and fi bre reinforced

concrete beams.

The Geotechnical Engineering LaboratoriesThe 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 modifi ed 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 an asphalt testing

laboratory. Recent additions are the calibration chamber for

conducting cone penetration tests in unsaturated soils and

the design and construction of a Lateral Earth Pressure testing

rig to assist with research on unsaturated soil retaining wall

interaction. 2011 saw the acquisition of a high performance

thermal imaging camera to research progressive development

of instability and failure in soil and rock samples. 2011 also

saw the completion of world-fi rst experimental research into

the stress path dependant behavior of unsaturated soils, the

in situ characterization of unsaturated sands using the CPT,

and the scale dependant stress-strain behavior of Hawkesbury

sandstone under confi ning stress ranging from 1MPa to 40MPa.

Water Quality LaboratoriesThe 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 fl uorescence spectrophotometers for spectral

analysis of samples.

Water Research LaboratoryThe Water Research Laboratory is equipped with a suite of

large scale water research facilities as well as the specialist

Water Reference Library. These facilities support the research

of academic staff , postgraduate and undergraduate students

involved in experimental research in the fi elds of Environmental

Fluid Mechanics, Coastal Engineering and Groundwater.

2011 has seen an increase in the activities. Notably the design

and construction of in-fl ight instrumentation for the NCGRT

geotechnical centrifuge has been completed, capable of

operating at up to 500g. Instrumentation includes equipment

for measurement of permeameter effl uent volumes, and

automated control of infl uent level. In other areas of the

laboratory numerous experimental rigs have been custom built,

including a state-of-the-art snake paddle capable of generating

three-dimensional waves.

Groundwater infrastructureMuch activity by WRL groundwater researchers and technical

staff in 2011 was devoted to developing groundwater

infrastructure at several fi eld sites (yes this is where the

groundwater is). Much of the groundwater infrastructure

development was funded by the Department of Innovation

Industry Science and Research (DIISR) which established the

Groundwater Education Investment Fund (GEIF).

2011 was an extremely busy year of new developments but also

old infrastructure for groundwater research was revived. In 2011

the well tank facility at WRL (https://www.connectedwaters.unsw.

edu.au/resources/articles/forgottenresearch.html ) constructed

in the late 1960s by Colin Dudgeon, Peter Huyakorn and Ron Cox

for groundwater experimentation was refurbished and prepared

for future experimentation of fl ow and solute transport in

heterogeneous media using heat and solute sensors.

Also at WRL, the NCGRT centrifuge permeameter facility

was commissioned during 2011, and has now logged over

2500 hours of research and contract testing. Led by Dr

Wendy Timms, the CWI and WRL team is using the unique

permeameter module to characterize the hydraulic properties

of low permeability drill core. Advanced instrumentation

and data systems for accelerated gravity conditions are being

developed by Mark Whelan to extend experimental capabilities.

A strong box module is also available for physical modelling

of heterogeneity and engineering designs and a 20 year old

benchtop centrifuge was replaced with a safer and upgraded

unit for fl uid-solid separation.

On the Breeza plains along the Namoi River Dr Wendy Timms

and her research team have developed a site to study the crucial

role that clay aquitards play for groundwater recharge and fl ow

and transport of contaminants. At the Breeza site a range of

installations have been established for groundwater monitoring

as well as a range of surface and subsurface geophysical

techniques, including resistivity, gravity and cross-borehole

seismics.

At the UNSW owned groundwater research station at

Wellington Professor Ian Acworth and team are currently

drilling observation wells to facilitate research into groundwater

resources in fractured rocks. Characterisation of groundwater

resources in fractured rock aquifers are particularly challenging

due to the extremely variable nature of the subsurface. And

many research questions remain regarding water resources in

fractured rock aquifers.

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Teaching & Learning Overview

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 PRSC, 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 2011 were:

Teaching and Learning Committee 2011

Mario AttardAssoc Head (Academic)

Structures Representative

Julijana Baric Student Services Manager

Leonhard Bernold Year 2 Coordinator

Daniel Boland PG Tutors Representative

David Carmichael EC&M Representative

Karenne Irvine School Manager

Nasser Khalili Geotech/Transport Representative

Stephen MoorePostgrad Coursework Coordinator

Environmental Eng Program Director

Bill Peirson Water Representative (Semester 1)

Hossein Taiebat

Chair (Semester 1)

Year 1 Coordinator

Peer Mentoring Coordinator

Chongmin Song Year 4 Coordinator

Upali VandebonaChair (Semester 2)

Year 3 Coordinator

Zora Vrcelj Civil with Arch Program Director

CEVSOC President

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 eight

occasions during the year, including two special meetings to

look at requests for special consideration and to review fi nal

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

undergraduate year 2 to year 4. The aims of the focus group

surveys are to provide information on the student experience

and identify areas which require action and improvement. In

almost all meetings diff erent aspects of the newly developed BE

ME programs have been discussed.

2011 Highlights:

BE ME programsThe 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 developed the BE ME program off ering for

Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Civil with

Architecture programs, with minimal eff ect on the core subjects

off ered in each disciplines. The Programs have been presented

to the Academic Board for approval.

EA AccreditationThe Engineers Australia accreditation process, held in May 2011,

was a success. There were some comments made by the EA

panel which have been taken into account. All our programs are

now fully accredited.

Fourth Year ElectivesWe continue to provide our fourth year students with a large

selection of professional specialization electives covering all

discipline areas across the School. A new course, CVEN4308

Structural Dynamic, was added to the Civil Engineering program

students as an elective.

Review of the Environmental Engineering Program The current Environmental program does not include the

2nd year Maths course MATH2019 taken by most of the other

engineering programs in the Faculty. It has been argued

that this is a defi ciency in the Environmental program. The

Environmental program was changed to include MATH2019 by

removing the GMAT1110 Engineering Surveying and GIS course.

Several fourth year professional electives in GIS were introduced

to off set the loss of GMAT from the program.


2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

STUDENT NUMBERS

Total EFTSU* 648 607 613 581 567 582 592 669 805 985 1172 1312

BE 656 594 593 634 647 615 730 859 1,012 1173 1307 1430

MEngSc/MEnvEngSc 314 295 355 339 292 323 287 322 329 345 358 391

GradDip/GradCert 51 37 62 72 38 28 32 23 25 30 40 35

PhD 69 68 78 81 82 79 80 70 72 60 88 102

ME/MSc 21 19 19 16 17 11 10 6 5 5 2 3

GRADUATES

PhD 9 9 14 15 8 14 8 23 11 13 19 14

ME 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 1 2 2 0 2

MSc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

MEngSc 93 95 96 117 119 95 114 80 121 119 177 192

MEnvEngSc 25 21 36 13 13 13 7 8 7 3 8 n/a

GradDip/GradCert 4 2 4 6 7 7 13 8 8 6 7 7

BE (Civil) 71 97 121 64 67 87 80 120 97 99 120 166

BE (Environmental) 41 41 35 19 28 21 23 23 22 23 22 14

BE (Civil with Architecture) - - - - - - - - - - - 21

STAFF (Full-time, tenured)

Academic 32 32 32 32 33 29.5 25 25 28 30.5 28 32

Technical (School) 18 17 16 15 14 15 13 13 13 12 9 12

Administration (School) 10 10 9 8 8 8 7 8 9 10 9 12

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 41.0

* Eff ective 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 1:41, the School has maintained the more

important student to tutor ratio at less than 1:20 to preserve quality teaching

outcomes.

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.

Curriculum ReviewThe last curriculum review was in 2005 and implemented

in 2006, mainly to move from 3 uoc courses to 6 uoc,

accommodate fl exible entry, elements of a common fi rst

year across the Faculty and to provide more electives and

free elective choices. There is a sense that now it is necessary

for a review of the curriculum, both at undergraduate and

postgraduate levels. The Head of School called a meeting to

discuss the objectives and approaches. It was agreed that

all academic staff should be consulted fi rst and input from

the wider community, existing- and ex-students, industry

partners, etc should be sought. A survey has been prepared

for distribution to all academic staff for their concerns and

comments.

Undergraduate Student Enrolments in 2011

Degree Admisssions

in 2011

Total

Enrolments

Graduations

Bachelor of Engineering, BE (Civil) 3620 194 715 139

Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering with

Architecture 3624

60 163 21

Bachelor of Engineering, BE (Environmental

Engineering) 3625

16 66 9

Bachelor of Engineering/Arts, BE BA (Civil/Arts) 3621 1 21 0

Bachelor of Engineering/Arts, BE BA (Environmental/

Arts) 3626

0 8 0

Bachelor of Engineering BE BE (Civil &

Environmental) 3631

19 82 3

Bachelor of Engineering BE BE (Civil & Mining) 3146 26 73 4

Bachelor of Engineering/Science, BE BSc (Civil/

Science) 3730

15 57 6

Bachelor of Engineering/Science,

BE BSc (Environmental Engineering/Science) 3735

3 20 2

Bachelor of Engineering/Law,

BE LLB (Civil/Environmental Law) 4775/4776/4777

4 14 0

Bachelor of Engineering/Commerce,

BE BCom (Civil/Environmental Commerce) 3715

48 194 17

Bachelor of Engineering/Arts,

BE BA (Engineering/Arts) 3703

16 17 0

Total 402* 1430 201

*Does not include Flexible First Year entry students

Trends in the School Profile


The Two of Us

Edward Kearney & Jacob Hyland

Nura Gili mentoring programJacob Hyland is a second year BE civil student, one of the

handful of indigenous engineering students at UNSW. Ed

Kearney graduated with a fi rst class honours in civil engineering

in 2010. He is currently embarked on a PhD in the area of coastal

engineering at the School.

As part of the Nura Gili mentoring program Ed and Jacob meet

twice a week for a couple of hours to pore over the mysteries

of the principles of water engineering and the mechanics of

solids. They use study rooms at Nura Gili or at New College

where Jacob stays, and each weekend begins with a good study

session.

With Ed as his mentor, Jacob says he is enjoying the BE program

a lot more. For a start, second year studies means he is starting

to get into the ‘real civil stuff which is good, it gets more

interesting. Ed helps me with key concepts, that previously went

a little bit over my head. He helps me frame the material and

gives it more context.’

Ed fi rst got involved in tutoring as an undergraduate, an

experience he enjoyed, if challenging at times. ‘I learned,’ he

said, ‘that it’s one thing to be able to study and pass a course,

it’s another thing entirely to try to pass on that knowledge to

others. You can’t just have an inkling of what the subject entails,

you have to understand it in its entirety.’

Schools Careers MarketThe annual School Industry Supporters Careers Market held at

the end of March provided close interaction between over 250

year 3 and 4 students and ten industry supporters of the School,

with many students fi nding IT placements and/or interviews for

employment during the day.

Representatives from industry supporters - Brookfi eld Multiplex,

Cardno, Evans & Peck, GHD, Hyder, Macmahon Contractors,

Parsons Brinckerhoff , SKM and Taylor Thomson Whitting -

reported back that they too found the day very useful, having

enjoyed the opportunity to meet quality students.

Jacob is from Maryborough in Queensland. Encouraged by his

school maths teacher, Mr Kruger, and inspired by Ben Lange,

Australia’s fi rst indigenous electrical engineer, Jacob attended

an Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School (IAESS)

in Newcastle Uni in 2008, and that’s when he got his fi rst taste

of civil engineering. He was drawn to structures, to how things

hold together, moving away from his initial idea of becoming

a mining engineer. After visiting several universities in several

states to check them out, he fi nally chose UNSW – because ‘it

was the best for me.’

Ed got into the Nura Gili mentor program through being

asked by a School staff member to apply to do so. He said,

‘I don’t want to sound too worthy but I do enjoy sharing the

gift of knowledge.’ Jacob who is on an RTA scholarship went to

Tamworth to work over the holidays and very much enjoyed

the camaraderie of the RTA engineering offi ce there. He would

like to be a civil engineer outside of the city. “I was born in the

country and I want to get back out there. To be part of building

new things.’


Hands on Learning

Year 4 Groundwater Resource Investigation students spent

3 days at the UNSW Farm at Wellington, NSW in April where

they had hands on experience with various hydrogeological

investigation techniques including, geophysical methods

(electrical resistivity, seismic refraction, gravity and borehole

logging); hydrochemical methods (including sampling from one

of the multi-level piezometers) and hydrogeological methods

(including pump testing, preparation of fl ow nets and drilling

techniques). Student groups were each led by a qualifi ed

instructor and the numbers in each group were limited to 15.

Groundwater Resource Investigation (CVEN4503) is a 4th year

elective in the Civil and Environmental Engineering programs.

The fi rst half of the course began with 6 weeks of classroom

tuition on the Kensington Campus. The second half moved to

the fi eld to make use of the newly installed Field Station facilities

on the UNSW Farm at Wellington. These facilities have been

provided by a NSW State Government Grant of approximately

$800k and include classroom facilities, a groundwater

abstraction bore and a suite of observation bores.

Additional investment at the site has been provided as a part of

the Groundwater Environmental Investment Fund (GEIF) from

the Federal Government. The fi nal morning of the course was

taken by Prof Andy Baker who showed the students around the

Wellington Caves and demonstrated some of the GEIF project

investment at the site. A suite of drip loggers has been installed

that record the time each stalactite drips. This can then be

related back to surface rainfall to reveal the fl ow paths through

the limestone.

This new combination of classroom teaching and direct

fi eldwork experience helps to diff erentiate UNSW from other

institutions and is attractive to students who want to get real

experience before graduating.

eLearning Report 2011The School continued to use Blackboard 9 (BB9) as the primary

teaching platform catering to the needs of a digital classroom,

storing essential course material, multimedia resource library

and an online venue for discussions. BB9 is also used for

delivering marks and communicating with students.

In 2011, 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 the My eLearning process is carried out

within the School, with some support from the IT Service

Desk and UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit. BB9 modules

are automatically created along width NSS course catalogue

creation by the School’s administrative offi cer, Flora Fan. The

School’s Web/IT coordinator, Kate Brown, administers and

applies appropriate templates to each Module, facilitates staff /

teaching assistants enrolment and also coordinates their

training.

A few online courses are run on Moodle which is hosted by the

Faculty of Engineering. Moodle is supported by the Faculty of

Engineering‘s Educational Technologist, John Paul Posada. Other

tools such as PoleEverywhere, used for enhancing classroom

activities were also tested by new Associate Professor Leonhard

Bernold for his construction course.

Staff continued to produce their lecture videos and upload

them via UNSW TV to enhance their distance teaching from our

Interactive whiteboard (known as Smartboard), lecture recording

and video conferencing facilities. The School’s Computer

Systems Offi cer, Patrick Vuong assists academic staff with

technical issues that may occur during recording.

In August 2011 we also conducted training sessions for staff on

how to use the Smartboard eff ectively. A number of staff from

within the School and elsewhere in the Faculty participated.


The School’s undergraduate programs

off er students the broadest and most

comprehensive civil and environmental

engineering education with the opportunity

to specialise in their fi nal 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 six years

(617 in 2005 to 1430 in 2011). While the

student to staff ratio is 1:41, the School has

preserved a tutor to student ratio of less than

1:20 to preserve quality teaching outcomes.

Undergraduate Studies

BE Program OutlinesDisclaimer: Information provided about subjects, units, courses and any

arrangements for courses including staffi ng, are an expression of intent

only and are not to be taken as a fi rm off er 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 for Civil Engineers 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

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




Key:

UOC - Units of Credit

HPW - Hours per Week


BE Civil with Architecture as in 2012

Year 1 | Semester 1







BENV1080 Enabling Skills and Research Practice 6 3

Year 1 | Semester 2




CVEN1300 Engineering Mechanics for Civil Engineers 6 5

ARCH1121 Architectural History and Theory 1 6 4

MATS1101 Engineering Materials and Chemistry 6 6

Year 2 | Semester 1



CVEN2301 Mechanics of Solids 6 5

ARCH1142 Architectural Communications 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






CVEN 4002 Design Practice A or 6 4

Professional Elective 2 (if doing Hons) 6 4

Year 4 | Semester 2


CVEN4031 Honours Thesis B or 6 4




CVEN4003 Design Practice B or 6 4

Professional Elective 2 (if doing Hons) 6 4

BE Environmental EngineeringYear 1 | Semester 1




CHEM1011 Chemistry A or 6 6

CHEM1031 Higher Chemistry A 6 6




Year 1 | Semester 2




CVEN1701 Environmental Principles and Systems 6 5

CVEN1300 Engineering Mechanics 6 5

ENGG1811 Computing for Engineers 6 5

Year 2 | Semester 1


BIOS1301 Ecology Sustainability & Environmental Science 6 5


CVEN2701 Water & Atmospheric Chemistry 6 5


Year 2 | Semester 2


CEIC2009 Mass & Energy Balances in the Chemical

Process Industry

6 5



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



CVEN4002 Design Practice A 6 4

CVEN4701 Planning Sustainable Infrastructure 6 5



Year 4 | Semester 2


CVEN4003 Design Practice B or 6 4

CVEN4031 Honours Thesis B 6 4





The Civil and Environmental Engineering Society CEVSOCFirst Year CampThe idea of a camp for fi rst year Civil and Environmental

Students was fi rst fl oated seriously in late 2010, but was not

properly developed until the two third year representatives on

the CEVSOC committee, Alissa Colafella and Lindsay Collier really

took the reins and ran with it. The purpose of this camp is to

improve the interaction and activity of fi rst year students at our

events, and help students settle into University life.

Thanks to the eff orts of the third year reps and unprecedented

co-operation with the School, the groundwork for a fi rst year

camp in 2012 was laid, going as far as the selection of a venue

and camp leaders. When this goes ahead it will be one of our

largest and best events.

Engineering Society Co-operationCEVSOC was a founding member of the umbrella engineering

co-operation, ENGSOC, created to help run large events that

one society would be unable to alone. As part of this co-

operation in 2011, we helped run the Engineering Charity Ball

and the Engineering Sports Day, two successful events with

great student turnout.

The Engineering Sports Day was again held in early August,

where teams from all Schools of Engineering competed to

become champions. Once again CEVSOC proved that it does

want to be the very best like no one ever was, continuing its

unbeaten streak for the fourth year running.

Fourth Year DinnerThe end of the year is the perfect time to look back and

celebrate the achievements of our members, and on November

13, the graduating class of 2011 refl ected on their time at the

university at the Sheraton on the Park. There students, staff and

sponsors, who made up the 200 guests, celebrated the high

achievers and we wish the graduating class the absolute best

for the next chapter in their lives.

2012 and BeyondCEVSOC was able to build a lot of momentum in 2011, which

will give the new committee a running start on events in 2012.

The new committee consists of a mix of students who bring a

huge amount of experience to CEVSOC, both from within the

society and without. This will produce an exciting number of

new ideas, while maintaining the favourite events from the past

few years to improve the experience of our members in 2012

and beyond.

Daniel Morris

CEVSOC Vice President 2011

Throughout 2011 CEVSOC continued its commitment to

its members, helping to represent student interests, attract

industry support and providing popular merchandise. We ran

very successful events of our own and in co-operation with the

School and other societies on campus.

The offi ce bearers of CEVSOC for 2011 were:

President Annika Tweddell (Sem.1) &

Martin Breuer (Sem.2)

Vice President Daniel Morris

Treasurer Christopher Drummond

Secretary Wendy Zheng

Arc Delegate Erica Davey

OH&S Coordinator Jack Zhang

Sports Representative Immanuel Gacis

Social Report from CEVSOC for 2011In 2011 CEVSOC endeavoured to develop the goals and purpose

of the society as well as improve member experience of our

events and activities. This included providing students with the

opportunities to meet industry and their peers at numerous

social events. We also enjoyed a continuation of the excellent

relationship with the school developed in 2010 and as a result

welcomed staff again to many of our events. We also produced

CEVSOC hoodies for our members for the fi rst time since 2009,

which proved extremely popular.

Cardno CupThe second annual Staff versus Students soccer match was held

in May 2011. Following a great turnout in 2010, Cardno returned

to sponsor the event where both the staff and student teams

put on a spectacular show despite the slightly wet weather.

A good turnout of spectators fi lling Sam Cracknell Pavillion

cheered the student team to victory against the staff in what

was a closely contested match.

On the wall (left to right): Erica Davey and Rebecca Temperley

Middle Row (left to right): Jack Zhang, Lindsay Collier, Wendy Zheng, Brendan Walton,

Juilen Parent. Front Row (left to right): Daniel Morris, Christopher Drummond



Undergraduate Student Awards and Prizes

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Construction Management Discipline Prize

(donated by Brookfi eld Multiplex)

Beau Bartlett

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental Discipline Prize (donated by SKM) Laurena Basutu

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Geotechnical Discipline Prize (donated by PSM) Adnan Sufi an

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Structures Discipline Prize (donated by Aurecon) Chengwei Yang

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Transport Discipline Prize (donated by AECOM) Rebecca Temperley

The Civil and Environmental Engineering Water Discipline Prize (donated by GHD) Alexander Rogan

The Civil Engineering Industrial Training Prize (donated by URS) Blake Bambrook

The Environmental Engineering Industrial Training Prize (donated by the School ) Zoe Southwell

The Civil Engineering Practice Prize (donated by Cardno) Maree Riley

The Environmental Engineering Practice Prize (donated by Cardno) Erica Davey

The Civil Engineering with Architecture Prize (donated by ARUP) Hannah Mahony-Hayes

The Jeff ery and Katauskas Prize Chao Jiang

The Welding Technology Institute of Australia Prize Alison Goddard

The Alexander Wargon Prize Ali Amin

Engineers Australia Civil and Structural Engineering Prize Andrew Emery

Australian Steel Institute Undergraduate Steel Design Award Shuang Quo

The Jacob N Frenkel Prize Sarah Hayes

University Medallists (pictured above) Civil Engineering

Ali Amin

Alexander Rogan


Sahani Pathiraja

Uni Medallists 2011A University Medal is awarded to a student in an

undergraduate program who has shown highly

distinguished merit in completing her or his program of

study. The University Medal Committee takes into account

the whole academic record of the student. The award of

a Medal indicates outstanding academic performance -

as in the case of a degree awarded with Honours - the

recipient is expected to achieve signifi cantly above the

minimum requirements for Honours Class 1.

In 2011 the University Medal was awarded to Ali Amin

(civil engineering), Sahani Pathiraja (environmental

engineering) and Alexander Rogan (civil engineering),

pictured with the Head of School Professor David Waite.


Dean’s Awards 2011The 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.

Deans awards 2012 for studies completed in 2011Stage 1: Timothy Cheung, Jarrah Duckhs, Anthony Ignatius

Ferraro, Sarah Elizabeth Hayes, Kyudong Kim, Austin Kong, Han

Su, Kelly Tang.

Stage 2: Benjamin Mark Blumberg, Mathew Chong, Alison

Katrina Goddard, Alice Harrison, Anna Hong An Nguyen, Kelvin

Nguyen, Rohan Taff y Stocker, Binhua Wu.

Stage 3: Andrew William Davis, Shuang Guo, Siu Man Vincent

Lee, Kien Thang Ngo, Sam Tagliabue, Xian Hui Tan, Sek Yee Teh

Stage 4: David Kristopher Green, Bijoy Joseph, Edward Nguyen

Robson, Lizhe Sun

The Faculty of Engineering

Student Service Awards

reward and encourage

exceptional and

outstanding service to the

UNSW or Faculty student

community. The Faculty

provide only three such

awards each year. In 2011

one of these awards went

to the School’s Civil with

Architecture student Hannah

Mahoney-Hayes.

One of Hannah’s major

achievements was being

the co-ordinator of the

Engineers Australia Great

Engineering Challenge held at UNSW in 2010. This event

involved bringing 54 teams of 4 students, from 25 high schools

together to compete in engineering challenges and to listen

to engineering presentations. Her organisational skills meant

the event was the largest and most successful to date, and a

blueprint for future events.

Hannah was also involved in the yellow shirts of 2010 and

2011, and in the Honeywell Engineering summer School

(HESS) in 2010, where she mentored and supervised a group

of high school students over a six day summer school.

Hannah was also involved with the Thoughtful Foods Co-op

on campus in 2008-2009. In 2010 and 2011, Hannah was the

Engineers Australia UNSW Campus Coordinator.

In 2011 Hannah also won the School’s Year 4 prize for Civil

with Architecture (donated by ARUP).

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Year 4 Prize Winner, Rebbecca Temperley (left) with AECOM’s Athena Venios


UNSW was the fi rst Australian university to establish a program

of sports scholarships in 1988 and now provides over $100,000

in support to talented student athletes. The cornerstone of the

program is the Ben Lexcen Sport Scholarship program with each

scholarship providing up to $5,000 in cash and in-kind support

annually. In 2011 Sports scholarships were awarded to the

following Civil Engineering students who have excelled in their

chosen area of sport. They are:

Ben Lexcen Sports Scholars 2011

A Jindabyne local, Callum Watson BE Civil (pictured above)

is an elite athlete in the Australian Cross Country Ski Team.

Callum represented Australian University Sport at the World

Winter University Games in Turkey. He competed in the 2011

World Championships in Oslo (NOR) and is hopeful for selection

in the 2014 Winter Olympics. He is the reigning Australian

University Cross Country Champion after winning gold in both

the individual and relay events at the 2010 Australian University

Championships at Mt Buller.

Claire McGarity, BE Civil

Engineering with Architecture,

represented NSW in 2010, in

the U21 hockey squad, having

graduated from the State U19

team which she captained in

2009. Claire also represented

UNSW at the 2010 Eastern

University Games where UNSW

fi nished 2nd. In the State League Competition, Claire plays

representative level for Bathurst. In the Sydney Metro League

Division 1 competition, Claire is continuing her season playing for

UNSW.

UNSW David Pearson Lexcen Scholarship Scott Kneller – BE

Civil) /Commerce

Another Jindabyne

prodigy, Scott ‘s Ski

Cross World Cup

victory in December

2010 made him the

fi rst Australian to win

a gold medal in a

Ski Cross World Cup

event. At his fi rst

Winter Olympics, in

Vancouver 2010, he

narrowly missed out

on qualifying for the

Gold medal race.

Scott represented

UNSW at the 2010

Australian University

Snow Sports

Championships in

Mt Buller where he

was named Men’s

Freestyle Champion, winning Gold in the Alpine Super Giant

Slalom and Ski Cross

Sports Scholarships


Year 4 Honours Theses TopicsStudents who have achieved a weighted

average mark (WAM) of 63 or above after

completing Year 3 may apply to undertake

an Honours thesis. Currently over 50% of

the School’s fourth years students enrol

in the thesis, a huge increase from the

practice of previous decades, when only

the top 10% of students were expected

to enrol. These higher numbers refl ect the

higher ATAR entry level of our students in

the last seven years. In 2011, 116 students

were enrolled in the honours thesis. The

work is completed under the guidance and

supervision of a member of the academic

staff . The research may involve a directed

laboratory or fi eld investigation, analytical

or numerical modelling, a detailed design,

literature review or such other individual

research project. Industry Partners have

the opportunity to attend our annual

Honours Students thesis presentations and

see for themselves the breadth and quality

of investigations being undertaken in the

School by our fi nal year students. Donald

Macleod, ex-Chair of the School’s Industry

Advisory Committee, commented that it

was hard to believe that these young people

hadn’t yet graduated; such was the high

quality of their presentations.

First name Family Name Topic Supervisor

Engineering, Construction & Management

Beau Bartlett Minimum Emissions in Mining Operations - Payload Alternatives Carmichael, D

Matthew Bessen Hybrid Simulated Annealing Genetic Algorithm for the Resource Constrained Project

Scheduling Problem

Davis, S

Jaryd Carolin Collective Creativity: A New Open Innovation Paradigm Davis, S

Herny Chandra Impact of Schedule Pressure on Productivity, Quality and Safety Han, S

Prudencia Danubrata Reputation Risk Mangagement Carmichael, D

Ben Garnock Experimental Study of Lunar Concrete Beam Construction Bernold, L

Henry Hoskins Joint Venture Agreements -Dispute Resolution Carmichael, D

Billy Kwan Digital Modelling of Soil for Virtual Reality Applications Davis, S

Kian Hou Lee Using Facebook in Project Management Davis, S

Hugh David Miller Flexibility in Infrastructure Carmichael, D

Hannah Reeve Delivery Method Transaction Costs Carmichael, D

Tomislav Sikic Sustainability and Construction Practices Carmichael, D

Maxime Stekelorom Correlated Probability Distributions of the Random Walks Taken by Share Prices Davis, S

Jeremy Wen Leong Tan Cost and Quantity of Defects During Construction Davis, S

Kent Tanaka Carbon Supply Chain on Construction Projects Carmichael, D

Karl Vendrasco Experimental Assessment of Truck Location Monitoring on the Productivity of

Asphalt Placement

Bernold, L

Amanda Wilson Analysis of Estimation Errors Davis, S

Ming Yuen Safety Issues in the Rail Industry Han, S

Geotechnical Engineering

Fang Chen Practical Application of Principle of Eff ective Stress on Expansive Soil Khalili, N

Erica Davey Regional Variations in Rip Current Density Douglas, K /Brander, R

Gavin Gunawan Experimental Study of the Mechanical and Hydraulic Performance of Permeable

Pavements

Oeser, M

Thomas Hosking Analysis of Stability of Slopes at Macvraes Gold Mine, NZ Douglas, K

Chee Keong Lau Performance characteristics of Permeable Pavements Under Various Grain Sizes Oeser, M

Kevin Luu The Infl uence of Soil Compaction Eff ort on Unsaturated Soil Russell, A

Megan Mathews Rock Strength and Rock Mass Strength Douglas, K

Nicole Meo Eff ects of Climate Change on Infrastructure - Analysis of Decentralised Energy and

Water Network Proposals of the Sydney 2030 Plan

Douglas, K

William Nichols Numberical Analysis of Embankments on Soft Clays Oeser, M /Russell, A

Yongchao Qiu Lateral Earth Pressures In Unsaturated Soils Russell, A

Patrick Sells Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Australia's Buried Infrastructure: a Case

Study of the Randwick Local Government Area

Douglas, K

Michael Smytheman Piping Erosion Under Dams and Levees Taiebat, H

Adnan Sufi an Microstructural Characterisation of Sedimentary Rock Russell, A

Renardi Tanuwidjaja Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations Near Slopes Taiebat, H

Dirk van Weeren Liquefaction Potential in Cemented Soils Khalili, N




George Agamalis Composite Steel Deck Slabs with Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete Foster, S

Khairul Anuar Ahmad Aff andi Analysis of Rollover Metric Attard, M

Nicholas Baramili Pre-cast, Reinforced and Post-tensioned Concrete Flooring in Regional Australia Attard, M

Himanshu Batta Reduction Behaviour of Hematite & Magnetite Composite Pellets using Macadamia

Waste

Sahajwalla, V /Attard, M

Alex Blanchard An Investigation into the Fundamental Relationship Between Crack Bridging in Steel

Fibre Reinforced Concrete & Its Breakdown Under Repeated Loading

Foster, S

Kittipoj Chalermkanjana Limit Analysis of Arch Structures Tin-Loi, F /Tangaramvong, S

Vicky Chen Crack Control in Reinforced Concrete One-Way Continuous Member Gilbert, I

Yang Chengwei Non-Deterministic Limit Analysis Considering Uncertainties in System Parameters

and Inputs (CVEN4033 Higher Honours Thesis)

Gao, W

Anthony Curry Upheaval of Concrete Pavements Due to Temperature Gradients Bradford, M

Wenchen Du Hybrid Probabilistic Interval Analysis for Structures with Uncertainty Gao, W

Nicholas Freeland A Study into the Durability of Triboard Wood Panels System Bradford, M

Timothy Patrick Gotts Application and Development of the Scaled Boundary Finite-Element Method Song, C

Neshen Govender Dynamic Characteristics and Response of Cracked Reinforced Concrete Beams Hamed, E

Angela Ching Man Ho Biomimetics: The Honeycomb Structure Vrcelj, Z

Fang Jiang Non-Deterministic Fracture Analysis of a Bar Gao, W

Robert Kerr Upheaval of Concrete Pavements Due to Temperature Gradients Bradford, M

Nathaniel Ko Flexural Fatigue of Steel Reinforced Concrete Beams with the Addition of Steel Fibres Foster, S

Alan Leones Structural Analysis of the Sydney Opera House Attard, M

Shing Ken Leung Use of Synthetic Waste Materials as Aggregates for Concrete Gowripalan, N

Wen Yu Liu Application and Development of the Scaled Boundary Finite-Element Method Song, C

Xiaojing Lu Analysis of Arbitrarily Shaped Plates by the Spline Finite Strip Method Vrcelj, Z

Hannah Mahony-Hayes Experimental Investigation and Numerical Modelling of Vibration in Lightweight

Steel Staircases

Song, C

Daniel Mitchell A Structural Analysis of a Historical Building - Saint Paul's Cathedral Attard, M

Sina Pishva Bending of Plates: Convergence and Error Estimation Using Finite Strip Method Vrcelj, Z

Kartika Putra Design for Deconstruction Vrcelj, Z

Daniel Ivan Ricardo Flexural Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beam with Composite Materials -

Modes of Failure

Hamed, E

Ahmed Saleh The Criteria of Serviceability and Unaddressed issues Concerning Prestressed

Concrete Slabs

Gilbert, I

Albert Artha Saputra Lamb Waves Simulation in a Thin-Cracked Plate (CVEN4033 Higher Honours Thesis) Song, C/Gravenkamp, H

David Schimke Investigation of Occupant Injuries in Vehicle Rollover Crashes Grezebieta, R /Attard, M

Patrick Shepard The Behaviour of Sandwich Panel Systems Using Reactive Powder Concrete Under

Static Loading

Foster, S

Peter Shepherd Defl ection of Reinforced Concrete Beams and One-Way Slabs Gilbert, I

Hui Qing Shi Systematic Technology Transfer from Biology to Engineering by using TRIZ Vrcelj, Z

Gonzalo Suzac Acevedo Evaluation of ANSYS Mechanical on Dynamic Analyses of Foundations Song, C

Rainis Tebecis Crash Characteristics and Casual Factors of Motorcycle Fatalities in Australia Grzebieta, R /Attard, M

Tingsong Xiang Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method for Plate Structure Song, C

Chengwei Yang Non-Deterministic Limit Analysis Considering Uncertainties in System Parameters

and Inputs

Gao, W

Fang Yuan Nonlinear Analysis of Steel Frame Structures Subjected to Blast Loading Heidarpour, A /Vrcelj, Z

Si Zhang Development Length and Lapped Splice Length Gilbert, I

Transport Engineering

David Arbis Analysis and Planning of Bicycle Parking for Transport Interchanges Vandebona, U

Michael Burgess Analysis of Single-Track Railway Capacity of Freight Rail in Sydney Vandebona, U

Herman Lok Observational Surveys of Analysis of the Transport Access to Australian Universities Vandebona, U

Stanley Weng Pedestrian and Driver Behaviour at Unsignalised Zebra Crossings Vandebona, U

Yi Zhang Railway Station Layout Design Vandebona, U

Water Engineering



Reginaldo Aleixo Performance Assessment of a Small-scale Advanced Water Treatment Reactor Khan, S

Darren Azzopardi Fluoresence Monitoring of a Drinking Water Treatment Plant Khan, S

Blake` Bambrook Aquitards and Groundwater Sustainability - Comparison of geotechnical Centrifuge

tests and Computer Models

Timms, W

Laurena Basutu The Urban Metabolism of Australia - Materials Flux Analysis of Aluminium in the

Sydney and Australian Economy in 2007-2008

Moore, S

Matthew Brown Uranium Heap Leaching from Low-Grade Ranger Mine Tailings Waite, D / Collins, R / Kinsela,

A

Wasin Chaivaranont Estimating Evapotranspiration from Space McCabe, M

William Chan Quantitative Assessment of Chemical Rejection by Reverse Osmosis for Indirect

Potable Reuse

Khan, S

Xiao Tian Chang The Removal of Microorganism in Membrane Bioreactor Khan, S

Garth Cooper A Numerical Analysis of Groundwater Abstraction on River-Aquifer Interactions Andersen, M

Christopher Drummond The Implications of Climate Change on the Beaches of the Central Coast, NSW Cox, R / Pierson, W

Chris Farley Aquitards and Groundwater Sustainability - 3D Mapping of Aquitart Architecture Timms, W

Jeff ery Fung Implications of a Changing Climate on Flood Risk: Evaluating the Sensitivity of a

Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Model to Changes in Extreme Rainfall

Westra, S / Alexander, L /

Sharma,A

Luke Garden Measurement of Beach Profi le Evolution During Storms Using a LiDAR Instrument Blenkinsopp, C

Bianca Wairimu Gichangi Degradation of Microcystins by Photolysis Khan, S

Lawerence

Alexander

Kerr Potential Health and Environmental Impacts to Current and Future Coal Seam Gas

Mining - A Framework for Risk Assessment

Khan, S

James King An Evaluation of Evapotranspiration Measurement Techniques McCabe, M

Francesca Manila Material Flux Analysis of Carbon in Greater Metropolitan Sydney in 2007-2008 Moore, S

Simon Devenish Mears Fill the Dams? Feasibility of Aggregate-Filled Dams Cox, R / Peirson, W

Bree Amanda Miller Evidence of Climate Change in Australia Cordery, I

David Notholt Abatement, Permits and Risk Management for the Carbon Package Khan, S / McCreery, S

Yasadi Peiris Measuring Soil Moisture in the Hydrological Cycle McCabe, M

Lincoln Quilliam Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation for Easter Island Cox, R / Pierson, W

James Rayers Trends in Cyclone Rainfall Intensity Sharma, A / Westra, S

Maree Riley Flood Modelling in Urban Areas: Investigating Houses on Piers Cox, R / Pierson, W

Alexander Rogan Aquitards and Groundwater Sustainability - Investigation Soil Moisture Changes in

the Unsaturated Zone

Timms, W

Dale Rubinstein Climate Change in Australia Cordery, I

Zoe Southwell Classifi cation Indices by Means of Stream Flow Analysis McCabe, M

Michael Sugiyanto Low-Frequency Variability in General Circulation Model Simulation Sharma, A

Benjamin Sung Multi-Decadal Drought Analysis for the Murray Darling Basin McCabe, M

Tiff any Li Lee Teo Chemical Contaminants in Bottled Beverages Khan, S

Joshua Toohey Pan Evaporation Measurement: Developing an Automated Monitoring System and

Assessing Estimate Trends in Cyclone Rainfall Intensity

McCabe, M

Hannah Walmsley Contaminants Under the Ground-Centrifuge Testing of Natural Clay Barriers Timms, W

Michael Wu Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Wastewater Treatment Plants Khan, S

Xin Ni Lily Wu Numerical Modelling of Aeration Eff ects on Spillway Structures Peirson, W / Cox, R

Benjamin Wyeth An Empirical Model Erosion at the Gold Coast, Australia Turner, I

Yuk Lun Yeung Of Heat Islands and Sunday Rainfall Sharma, A

Yu Rong Zhang Comparison Between Synthetic and Wastewater Activated Sludge in Microbial

Indicators Removal

Khan, S

Rachel Zhao Synthesis of Activated Carbon Supported Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles and

Application to Contaminant Degradation in Benthic Sediments

Waite, D

Ke Zhou Performance of Membrane Bioreactors for Treating Organic Chemicals in Wastewater Khan, S


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 fi fty years. With 426

coursework students enrolled in 2011 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 seven specialisations:

Civil Engineering


Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

Project Management


Water Resources (includes coastal engineering)

Water, Wastewater and Waste Engineering

Courses in construction management and transport

engineering are also off ered on campus and by distance.

The School off ered 42 postgraduate courses in 2011 either

as internal weekly courses, in short course mode or in a

distance education format, making the program large even by

international standards. Continued Commonwealth Support

(HECS) makes our MEngSc program fi nancially very competitive

for local students.

Postgraduate courses off ered at the School include:

CVEN9405 Urban Transport Planning Practice

CVEN9414 Transport Systems Part 1

CVEN9415 Transport Systems Part 2

CVEN9422 Traffi c Management & Control

CVEN9511 Geotechnical Models and Site Investigation

CVEN9512 Geomechanics

CVEN9513 Advanced Foundation Engineering

CVEN9514 Numerical Methods in Geotechnical

Engineering

CVEN9521 Slope Instability and Stabilisation

CVEN9522 Rock Engineering

CVEN9523 Pavement Engineering and Analysis

CVEN9524 Geotechnical Engineering of Dams

CVEN9525 Fundamentals of Geomechanics

CVEN9610 Surface Water Hydrology

CVEN9611 Urban Hydrology & Stormwater

Management

CVEN9612 Catchment and Water Resources Modelling

CVEN9620 Channels, Rivers and Estuaries

CVEN9630 Groundwater Hydrology and Resources

Analysis

CVEN9631 Hydrogeochemistry

CVEN9640 Waves, Beaches and Coastal Infrastructure

CVEN9701 Engineering Economics and Financial

Management

CVEN9702 Project Planning & Control

CVEN9703 Quality & Quality Systems

CVEN9706 Human Resources Management

CVEN9707 Contracts Management

CVEN9710 Management of Risk


CVEN9712 Dispute Avoidance & Resolution

CVEN9714 Resource Management

CVEN9717 Marketing in Technology and Engineering

CVEN9718 Strategic Management for Engineering

CVEN9720 Problem Solving & Decision Making

CVEN9723 Design of Construction Operations

CVEN9726 Legal Studies and Professional Practice

CVEN9730 International Project Management

CVEN9731 Project Management Framework

CVEN9802 Structural Stability

CVEN9806 Prestressed Concrete Design

CVEN9809 Reinforced Concrete Design

CVEN9820 Computational Structural Mechanics

CVEN9822 Steel Structures

CVEN9824 Advanced Materials Technology

CVEN9855 Water and Wastewater Analysis & Quality

Requirements

CVEN9856 Water Treatment

CVEN9857 Wastewater Treatment

CVEN9872 Solid Waste Management

CVEN9881 Hazardous Waste Management

CVEN9884 Environmental Engineering Science 1

CVEN9885 Environmental Engineering Science 2

CVEN9888 Environmental Management (Materials Risk

Assessment)

CVEN9892 Sustainability Assessment & Risk Analysis

(in water and energy systems planning)

Masters Project

Not all courses are on off er each year. For further details please

see the School Timetable at http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/

information-for/current-students

Leighton Holdings In 2011 the School continued its delivery of a specialized Master

of Engineering Science in Project Management specifi cally

designed for Leighton Holdings. With over 9500 operations

and engineering staff working across the Leighton group

of companies, the MEngSc was established after Leighton

identifi ed a need for targeted postgraduate education to

develop the management skills of its professional staff , and in

particular the need for a corporately identifi ed postgraduate

degree programme in project management.

The MEngSc provides Leighton 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.

The program is taught by distance methods, with the School

providing hard copy notes and facilitating online teaching and

learning discussions. Leighton also organise a residential week

for each cohort of students at their headquarters in St Leonards.

In 2011 over sixty staff from the Leighton group of companies

including John Holland, Leighton Asia, Leighton Contractors,

and Thiess were enrolled in this special MEngSc program.

The photo shows the School’s engineering construction and

management guru, Professor David Carmichael visiting the

Leighton Site Offi ce at the Lai Chi Kok Transfer Scheme in March

2011, where he met two of the Hong Kong based MEngSc

students L William Holden and R Chi Ming Tam (Joe).

Professor David Carmichael with Leighton students, L William Holden and R Chi Ming Tam (Joe), Site Offi ce Lai Chi Kok Transfer Scheme. Hong Kong March 2011


School Computing Facilities

The Computing, IT and Education Technology Committee

(CIETC) provides support to the School’s academic, general

and technical staff , and undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD

students. This committee is also responsible for the website of

the school.

The School’s computing facilities in 2011 include:

2 WinXP laboratories (Lab 201 and Lab 611) with 80\5 SOE

computers for undergraduate and postgraduate coursework

students.

Networked administrative and technical staff SOE PCs.

Networked SOE and non-SOE PCs for PhD students.

Networked laser printers, scanners and other peripherals.

2 smart-board systems (CE701 and CE501) for lecture

recording and video conferencing.

The general opening hours for the undergraduate and

postgraduate coursework laboratories are 8 am to 10 pm

(weekdays), and 10am to 6pm (Saturdays) during Semester. Four

student assistants were employed to service the laboratories

after hours (6pm to 10pm) during weekdays and during

Saturdays, and also for audiovisual support.

The major operations and changes in our IT infrastructure are as

follows:

Migration of our School web site to the Faculty’s CMS

(Content Management System) based on Drupal. The

system is supported by the Faculty IT unit, while local web

applications and web contents are managed by the School.

Migration of email lists. Our staff email distribution lists have

been migrated to the Majordomo system hosted by IT@

UNSW. Course email lists are built from NSS data and can be

used by staff via either Outlook Exchange, or Blackboard 9

LMS.

Upgrade of internet connection in the Civil and

Environmental Engineering Building (H20). 4x48 ports are

switched to 1Gb network. Additional 2x48 ports will be

installed in 2012. The upgrade of the network in Valentine

Annex to 1Gb will be carried out in 2012.

Installation of MPS (Managed Print Service) printers in PhD

student rooms.

Relocation of servers. All of our servers, except for Webnew

(Typo3 web server) which still hosts some local web

applications, have been decommissioned and moved to IT@

UNSW. We plan to decommission Webnew by July 2012.

Preparation of upgrade of lab SOE computers to Windows 7

has been completed. The rollout will be carried out before

Session 1, 2012.

Web/IT Coordinator Kate Brown with Faculty IT Manager Geoff Oakley

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External Relations Committee Report Dr Kurt Douglas, co-Chair of the ERC continues the School’s

extensive outreach program with visits to selected high schools,

assisting in the training of Faculty student ambassadors,

building strong links with the NSW Careers Advisers Association,

and further developing an innovative primary school

engineering and architecture design program, with schoolyard

‘site visits’ with year 1 students.

The School Industry Supporters Careers Market held at the end

of March provided close interaction between over 250 year

3 and 4 students and ten industry supporters of the School,

with many students fi nding IT placements and/or interviews

for employment during the day. Representatives from industry

supporters - Brookfi eld Multiplex, Cardno, Evans & Peck, GHD,

Hyder, Macmahon Contractors, Parsons Brinckerhoff , SKM and

Taylor Thomson Whitting - reported back that they too found

the day very useful, having enjoyed the opportunity to meet

quality students.

The Industry/Elite Students Breakfast, an initiative from the ERC

was held on March 25, at the Botanic Gardens. Twenty students

met representatives from 11 industry partner companies to

discuss career interests and options. It was like speed dating

with students shifting tables three times. Interestingly, four

students received job off ers from that breakfast.

The Year 10 work experience bus tour, which was held 20

– 25 June is a clear Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) and

ERC success. This year, the second year, 30 students from

16 Schools participated, from city and rural areas including

Cooma, Warilla and Murwillumbah, with some disappointed

students left on the waiting list. Daily engineering site

Associate Professor Ron Cox Co-Chair

Dr Kurt Douglas Co - Chair

Dr Steve Davis Scholarships Offi cer (S2)

Dr Mary O’Connell External Relations Manager

Dr Markus Oeser Scholarships Offi cer (S1)

Associate Professor Ian Turner SSP, S2

Ms Tricia Tesoriero Casual Admin Support

During 2011, the External Relations Committee (ERC) continued

to further develop the School’s relationships with prospective

students and their parents, industry colleagues and our

illustrious alumni.

ERC members represent and promote the School at many

presentations and functions on and off campus. These include

UNSW and Engineering Information days, High School visits, the

Honeywell Engineering Summer School, Indigenous Australian

Engineering Summer School, National Youth Science Forum,

UNSW Nura Gili Winter School, and facilitating all day school

visits with engineering studies lectures and experiments in

labs, a program which has been developed for use with the HSC

Engineering Studies ‘Civil module’ Syllabus.

The ERC also coordinated the School’s participation at the

UNSW Open Day on Saturday 3 September, the biggest day of

interaction between UNSW and the community. As in previous

years, Open Day was a very successful day for UNSW and the

School. Once more, the School received hundreds of interested

and enthusiastic visitors. School staff gave introductory talks,

had some technical displays in the foyer and labs, and answered

all queries from 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). L-R: Steve Davis, Kurt Douglas, Mary O’Connell, Ron Cox


Year 10 Work Experience Site Visit

visit themes were: Water, wastewater and environment:

Road, transport and underground: Structures and design:

Coastal and port infrastructure: Construction and project

management.

Feedback from school

career advisors included

the following comments,

‘fantastic course...students

loved it...great insight into

Engineering’; ‘fabulous

week... can’t speak highly

enough of the program’:

excellent organisation....

both enjoyable and valuable’; ‘a very good overview of the

diff erent types of engineering’, and ‘book me in for next year

again!!!’ In fact the overwhelming response was that we include

more students in the future. It has therefore been decided

that next year, 2012, with industry support, we will double

the number of buses and therefore participants. This will be

administered by the School’s Ms Tricia Tesoriero (above).

T he ERC also invited careers advisors to attend, as guests of

the School, the gala night of Sydney EA Engineering Excellence

Awards held at the Westin on September 16. 9 careers advisers

from 8 schools Bossley Park High, Cherrybrook Technology,

St Josephs College Hunters Hill, Gymea Tech, Fort St High,

Kingsgrove High, Picnic Point, and Picton High, enjoyed the

evening, as well as 2 regional consultants from the Department

of Education and Training. The invitees were very appreciative

of the event and of what they learned there. Rosemary Brook,

Leader, Vocational Learning, Vocational Education in Schools

Directorate commented that she was ‘so impressed with the

ever increasing breadth of engineering; the deep concern

for improving the life of humanity … and also for the warm

camaraderie that I’m sure we all felt. These are all key features

of the engineering profession that we can promote to students

thinking of careers in engineering.’

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. Ten $1000 awards were presented

by industry for achievement in academic disciplines, industrial

training and engineering professional practice. Industry also

provided an additional $10,000 in total to subsidise the ticket

price for our students.

The ERC continues to develop the School’s relationship with

alumni, via the Alumni newsletter profi ling several more of our

high achieving alumni and distributed through the University’s

alumni magazine, UNSWorld, while other School stories reached

all Faculty of Engineering alumni through UNSW Engineers

alumni magazine. Alumni also participated in the School’s

very successful Maths Primary Prize, another initiative of the

Industry Advisory Committee and ERC. This year saw a very

keen response, with alumni volunteering to travel considerable

distances to participate. The numbers of schools participating

doubled to a total of 46 in NSW, with prizes being given to 120

young students, of whom one third were girls.

The IAC/ERC creative partnership is set for 2012 to embark

on another visionary task: growing the numbers of women

studying engineering. There has been a national ‘stalling’ in the

last decade of female participation in engineering studies. It

was felt that the IAC could contribute through initiating a ‘Grad

Ambassador’ program, whereby women engineers could talk

to high school students, especially girls’ selective schools, about

their interesting and rewarding careers.

For further information on external relations, alumni, the IAC and

School Industry Partnership Program contact Dr Mary O’Connell

at [email protected]


Industry Advisory Committee

The Industry Advisory Committee is an important means by

which links between the School and industry are maintained.

Members of the IAC are drawn from private sector, government

and consultant organisations. Its main function is that of

“sounding board” for the School in regard to undergraduate and

graduate programs, and research directions. The IAC has also

been the source of many initiatives aimed at maximising the

standard of students making application for undergraduate and

graduate programs.

The IAC and the School have taken a long term approach to

improving the standing of the School within the awareness and

perception of possible future students, their parents, teachers

and careers advisers. As a consequence, the School now

reaches out to these groups in several practical ways:

Presentation of prizes in primary schools to emphasise the

importance of mathematics as a pathway to exciting career

options.

Year 10 visits to engineering projects and activities as an

alternative form of “industry work experience” for high

school students, with resulting increased awareness of

engineering generally within the participating secondary

schools.

Sponsorship of attendance by school careers advisers at

industry awards dinners for engineering excellence as a

means of increasing the understanding that careers advisers

have of engineering.

Each of these means of outreach has received very favourable

feedback from participants and the scale of each was increased

in 2011.

The IAC also focused on several additional matters and

objectives in 2011:

Assistance to the School in regard to Engineers Australia

Accreditation.

Development of guidelines for employers in regard to

industrial training periods for third year undergraduates so

as to increase the number of participating organisations,

given the historically high numbers of students needing

industry experience placements.

Investigation of ways in which the School and industry can

jointly take advantage of collaborative research grants.

Promotion of relationships between the School and other

industry, government and professional organisations.

Investigation of factors aff ecting the number of women

applicants for Civil Engineering undergraduate places.

The IAC membership represents a broad cross section of

relevant industry sectors at a senior and infl uential level. Quite

apart from specifi c initiatives, the opportunity for general

interaction between the School and industry organisations is

important both to the School and to the industries to which

it relates, whether by means of formal quarterly meetings or

by way of informal exchange of information, perspectives and

views.

Ian McIntyre

Chairman


Ian McIntyre

Principal, Evans and Peck

Deirdre Agnew

Student Careers Advisor

St Aloysius Kirribilli

Stephen Boss

Regional Director NSW & QLD

Construction + Development

Brookfi eld Multiplex Limited

Adrian Bull

Senior Project Manager -

Infrastructure Division

NSW Transport & Infrastructure

Michael Bushby

Chief Executive RTA

Mr Andrew Carruthers

Industry Director – AECOM

IAC Committee Members 2011

Dave Wilson

Executive General Manager

Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd

IAC School Members

Welcome 2011Michael Bushby

Chief Executive - RTA

Trained as a civil engineer,

the management and long

term planning of State road

networks - in Tasmania and

NSW - has been Michael’s focus

for the past 20 years.

Andrew Carruthers

Industry Director – AECOM

Andrew is currently Project

Director responsible for the

design of engineering, rail

systems and architecture

on the North West Rail Link.

Andrew’s area of technical

expertise is in the design

and construction of major

bridge and rail projects and

have included the 17.2km

long Vasco da Gama Bridge

in Lisbon, the Fatih Sultan

Mehmet Suspension Bridge

in Istanbul, the Epping to

Chatswood Rail Link in Sydney

and the Thameslink Rail Project

in London.

Les Wielinga

Director - General, Transport

NSW, NSW Government

Transport NSW is the state’s

main agency for public

transport and roads in NSW,

with responsibility for policy,

planning and coordination,

infrastructure delivery and

asset management. Les has

been Director –General since

July 2009. He was previously

Chief Executive of the Sydney

Metro Authority and the NSW

Roads and Traffi c Authority. Les

is an alumnus of this School,

class of ’77.

Andrew Johnson

Principal, ARUP

Dr Kourosh Kayvani

Innovation Leader - Asia Pacifi c

Aurecon

David Kinniburgh

Manager Sydney Operating

Centre GHD

A/Prof Garry Mostyn

Principal, PSM

Col Nicholson

General Manager, Operations

Division, Sydney Water

Les Wielinga

Director-General, Transport NSW

Professor T David Waite

Scientia Professor

Head of School



Committee

Convenor, ACCARNSI

Dr Kurt Douglas


Committee

Dr Mary O’Connell

Manager - External Relations

FarewellThe IAC farewelled Dr Robert

Care, previously CEO and

Regional Chair of Arup in

Australasia, as he took up the

role of Regional Chair of Arup

in the United Kingdom, Middle

East and Africa (UKMEA). We

also farewelled and thanked

Ken Porter and Andrew

Tompson.


Maths Prize

Alexandria Park Community School

Amy Chu

Georgia Hicks

Alexander Lai

Elaine Zhong

Avondale Primary School Cooranbong

Joseph Hattingh

Cooper Richards-Hancock

Sebastian Szeszeran

Laura Thomson

Beecroft Public School

Dominic Lam

Dominic Wong

Belrose Public School

Adam Bond

Ben Carter

Annelise Durant

Charlotte Whybrow

Berowra Public School

Thomas Abarbanel

Flynn Bryant

Timothy Robinson

Axel Wheeler

Camdenville Public School

Vijaya Sainju

Cammeray Public School

Kedar Gu

Hanano Kijima

Ethan Lee

Lawrence Nheu

Carlton South Public School

Zack Lewin

Jade Sorensen

Chifl ey Public School

Gigi Liang

Cowra Public School

Brady Barlow

Sam Long

Crescent Head Public School

Ajay Rix

Double Bay Public School

Adam McLeod

Eastlakes Public School

Adam Attia

Sooaad Dahoud

Imran Fayez

Fardeen Rashid

Harbord Public School

Rory Adams

Zoe Bowers

Georgia Perkins

Noah Richardson

Jasper Road Public School

Christina Cao

Carmen Khor

Rachel Lau

Gabriel Simbulan

Kambora Public School

Isaac Barry

Kensington Public School

Bavan Manamohan

Alexandra Pitt

Jonathan Wu

Phoebe Zeng

Loquat Valley Anglican Prepartory School

Lucas Jory

Oliver May

Isadora Page

Sophie Turnbull

Manly West Public School

Evan Foo

Callum Joyner

Mia Kha

Andrea Vissarion

Mosman Public School

Katie Payne

Robbie Thompson

Mount Colah Public School

Matthew Hiebl

Brodie Klosowski

Brendan McSweeney

Vir Srinivas

North Balgowlah Public School

Alexander Hobsbawn

North Narrabeen Public School

Robbie Caldwell

Jessica Lu

Northbridge Public School

Matthew Duncan-Nagy

Emily Kim

Pennant Hills Public School

June-Ha Lee

Carmen Tu

Picnic Point Public School

Kieren Tso

Randwick Public School

Henry Ho

Lauren Leung

Jordon Woods

Roselea Public School

Jane Wang

William Xiao

Saint Declans Catholic School

Angus McGregor

Lucas Pok

Kimberley Tong Kuen

Saint Joseph’s Primary, Como

Adam Bryant

Timothy Dews

Melika Karki

David Welch

South Coogee Public School

Stephanie Cheung

Luc Johnson

Annalise Jones

Kai Rouse

Tacking Point Public School

Bradley De Domizio

Alex Green

Thomas Horder

Theo Last

Toongabbie West Public School

Trishan Don Bernard

Christopher Piller

Turramurra Public School

Charlie Pollaers

West Pennant Hills Public School

Harrison Chudleigh

Jake Hwang

Luke Middleton

Christy Oh

Wheeler Heights Public School

Mitchell Hardie

Lara Hather

Kacie Turner

Jenny Zheng

Wollondilly Anglican College

Jessica Bethune

Woollahra Public School

Rexana Jiang

Freya Waring

Austin Zhang

Saint Declans Catholic School Maths Prize

Cowra Maths Prize

A UNSW Civil and Environmental

Engineering Primary School Prize

in Mathematics was awarded at a

number of Sydney and NSW primary

schools in 2011. The objective of

the prize is to encourage a lifelong

interest in mathematics, as one of

the key requirements for a rewarding,

fulfi lling and socially useful engineering

career. Selection criteria emphasized

applications and creativity as well as

class projects and test results. Our

congratulation to all the young winners

of the 2011 prize.


Scholarships 2011In 2011 over sixty undergraduate students

at the School of Civil and Environmental

Engineering received fi nancial assistance

for their studies - largely from scholarships

provided by private donors and companies,

and totalling over $530,000 pa. In particular,

we have a large number of scholarships that

enable students from rural areas to attend

UNSW.

The School gratefully acknowledges the

generosity of industry and private donors of

prizes and scholarships.

Private Scholarship Providers

Graham Campbell Family, Bernard W Gould

Family, Stan Hall Family,

Major Industry Scholarship providers

Evans & Peck, GHD, Leighton Contractors,

Leighton Holdings, MWH, Parsons

Brinckerhoff (PB), RTA, Sydney Water, Wagga

Wagga Council, Xstrata Coal.

Industry Sponsoring through Co-op

Scholarships: Brookfi eld Multiplex, Evans and

Peck, Lean & Hayward, MWH, Sydney Water

Corporation, Thiess.

Scholarship support for regional Australian youthIn 2011 Nathan Milham (above left), from Orange, NSW completed his third

year studying a BE in civil engineering. Alexander Rogan, from St George,

Queensland fi nished his fourth and fi nal year, winning not only the School’s

Year 4 water engineering prize (donated by GHD) but also the University Medal

in civil engineering.

Both students are recipients of the UNSW Stan Hall Rural Scholarship in Civil

Engineering; one of many engineering scholarships at UNSW designed to

assist talented young people from regional Australia fulfi l their dreams of a

challenging and rewarding career. Stan Hall was a founding academic of the

university, a talented and generous teacher, manager and structural engineer,

who encouraged generations of students. His family continue his legacy with

the Stan Hall scholarship.

So far Nathan has enjoyed his three years studying a range of civil engineering

fi elds including construction, civil design, structures, water management, and

transport but is looking forward to choosing his own electives in fourth year.

He believes he will eventually seek a career in project management. One of

the things that attracted him to civil engineering was its broadness of scope

and its secure employment prospects. Moreover he knows that the ‘skills

gained in engineering could lead me to positions in other industries.’

Alex began his degree with the idea of becoming a river engineer – but

as he progressed in his studies he found that ‘geotechnics as well as water

engineering truly fascinated me,’ and will begin his career with specialist

geotechnical consultancy fi rm, PSM. He plans to return to the university in a

few years to study his Masters degree.

Both students took part in a full sporting and cultural life. For Nathan, who

represented UNSW in football at UniGames in Perth this year, a balanced

life will always be important. ‘Engineering is not all there is!’ Alex kept busy

with tutoring younger students at the School and also with UNSW Rotaract,

combining leadership roles with his very successful studies. For Alex, ‘UNSW

civil engineering has allowed me to follow my passions, as well as discover

some unique and new ones, something I will always be thankful for.’ Lois Chambers in front of the picture of her father, founding UNSW

academic and Head of School (1974-1976) Stan Hall.


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 profi le 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

also 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. We also work 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. We also hosted the Elite

Student Breakfast at Botanic Gardens where our top students

engaged with industry representatives in a more relaxed setting.

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 profi le with the staff and students of the School

is just one benefi cial 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 scientifi c

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 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.


Evans & Peck - an international infrastructure-based advisory

company –established a new Chair in 2010 - the Evans & Peck

Professor for Transport Innovation. In 2011 Professor Travis

Waller led a new Faculty–wide Research Centre for Integrated

Transport Innovation (RCITI) based in the School.

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 Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

(BEES) in the Faculty of Science, which is held by the School’s

groundwater expert Professor Ian Acworth.

Pells Sullivan Meynink Pty Ltd, a high profi le fi rm of specialist

geotechnical consultants, provide funding support for the

position of Pells Sullivan Meynink Senior Lecturer of Rock

Mechanics, Dr Kurt Douglas.

State Water Corporation, New South Wales’ rural bulk water

delivery business with an asset portfolio of $3.5 billion provide

funding support for the position of State Water Senior Lecturer

of Dam Engineering, Dr Hossein Taiebat.

New research with industry:Industry Partners are always very welcome to discuss new

research projects with us. In 2011 our industry and government-

related research income totaled over $17.35M, involving over

one hundred partnering organisations from private industry,

public utilities, and all levels of government.

Thank you to our current Industry

Partners & Supporters:

AECOM

ANSTO

ARUP

Aurecon

Brookfi eld Multiplex Ltd

Cardno

Evans & Peck

GHD

Laing O’Rourke

Leighton Contractors

Leighton Holdings

Macmahon Contractors

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

URS Australia

Worley Parsons

PSM signing of funding support for the position of Pells Sullivan Meynink Senior Lecturer of

Rock Mechanics, Dr Kurt Douglas.

Back L – R: Prof David Waite (HoS), Dr Kurt Douglas, Prof Nasser Khalili

Front: Prof Graham Davies, Dean of Engineering, and Mr Tim Sullivan, Director & Principal, PSM

Images below: Elite Students/Industry Partners Breakfast at Botanic Gardens


Alumni

Alumni Foundation FundIn 2011 the School established a special CVEN Alumni

Foundation Fund to further connect alumni with the life

of the School, in particular its current students. Funds

received from alumni will be used to support students

of the School through the provision of undergraduate

and postgraduate scholarships, as well as a variety of

student focused activities such as support for CEVSOC

(undergraduate student society) and CERSA (postgraduate

student society) activities, facilities and prizes.

Donations of $2 or more to UNSW are tax deductible in

Australia.

Online donations can be made at:

http://www.donate.unsw.edu.au/form/donate_unsw.

html?Fund=%20CVEN%20Alumni%20Foundation%20

Fund

School Alumni can perform an essential on-going

contribution to the School in terms of:

Feedback on School direction and areas for

improvement

A way of tracking the strengths and weaknesses of the

School’s educational programs

May participate in School programs and committees

including curriculum review, student mentoring, raising

participation rates of women in the BE programs, and

other relevant activities.

Provide fi nancial or mentoring support for CEVSOC

(undergraduate society), or CERSA (research student

society) activities.

Attend research or industry seminars.

The Alumni Registration is a contact point between the

School and those of you who have graduated and moved

on. Please let us know where you are by fi lling out the

online Registration form. http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/

information-for/alumni-industry/alumni

At the Faculty of

Engineering’s Annual

Golden Jubilee dinner,

held in April 2011, several

School alumni shared

memories and stories

of their days at the

youthful School of Civil

Engineering. In those days,

most of the undergraduate

civil engineering classes

took place at the UNSW

campus in Ultimo, with

some occasional visits to

the very new Kensington

campus, where there

was as yet no sign of the

School of Civil. (see pic

with School site appearing

as open cut mining

operation.)

Image Above:

Alumni Golden Jubilee 1961

Dr Mary O’Connell, External Relations:

Frank Wilkinson BE ’61, Margaret

Wilkinson, John Brett BE ’61, Margaret

Griffi ths, Robin Griffi ths BE ’61, Max

Nicholls MTech (Highway) ’61, Lyn

Christie, Ronald Christie BE ’61, John

Conner MTech (Civil) ’61, John Haynes

MTech (Highway) ’61, Helen Haynes,

Professor David Waite, Head of School.

Image Right: 1962 UNSW Archives


Staff Industry & Community EngagementProfessor Ian Acworth

Conferences:International Association of Hydrogeologists,

Pretoria, South Africa, Sep 2011.

Membership of Committees:International Vice-President, IAH: Member, IAH

Program Leader, National Centre for

Groundwater Research and Training.

Dr Martin Andersen

Presentations at Conferences:Impact of Heterogeneity at Hydrological

Interfaces for Biogeochemical Reactions,

Surface Water – Groundwater Interactions,

and Other Hydrological Processes at American

Geophysical Union,(AGU) Annual Fall Meeting,

San Francisco, USA, 5-9 Dec 2011: Surface Water

Groundwater Interactions and Case Studies,

Australian Groundwater School (NCGRT),

Sydney, March 2011:Water quality and ecological

implications of changing dynamics in surface

water groundwater interactions. NSW Offi ce of

Water, Tamworth, NSW, 19th July, 2011: NSW IAH

Symposium 2011, Uncertainty in Hydrogeology,

5-6 Sep, 2011: 11th Australasian Environmental

Isotope Conference, Cairns, QLD, 12-14 July,

2011: 4th Australasian Hydrogeology Research

Conference, Cairns, QLD, 12-14 July, 2011.

Invited Speaker: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco,

USW, 5-9 Dec 2011.

Recipient: Best Poster Award, Investigation of

δ180 and δ2H in the Namoi River catchment

– surface water/groundwater interactions.

NSW IAH Symposium 2011,Uncertainty in

Hydrogeology, 5-6 Sep 2011.

Nominated: Finalist with fellow CWI colleagues,

Water Research and Innovation category, Eureka

2011.

Associate Editor: Hydrogeology Journal

Member: IAH Australia, AGU

Professor John BlackSeminar: The Australian PPP Experience with

Particular reference to Airport Rail Links, Jakarta,

Indonesia, 13th Oct 2011.

Invitation Lecture: Implementing a PPP on an

Infrastructure Project: Australian Experience, Bina

Marga, Jakarta, Indonesia, 14th Oct 2011.

Dr Chris BlenkinsoppConference: Australasian Coasts and Ports, Perth, Sep 2011.

Professor Mark BradfordConferences:Twelfth East Asia-Pacifi c Conference on

Structural Engineering and Construction, Hong

Kong, January 2011: American Society of Civil

Engineers Structural Conference, Las Vegas,

Nevada, USA, April 2011: Tenth International

Conference on Steel, Space and Composite

Structures, Gazimagusta, North Cyprus, Turkey,

May 2011: Seventh International Conference

on Steel and Aluminium Structures, Kuching,

Sawawak, Malaysia, July 2011: EuroSteel 2011,

Budapest, Hungary, September 2011: Sixth

International Conference on Thin-Walled

Structures, Timisoara, Romania, Sept 2011:

Thirteenth International Conference on Civil,

Structural and Environmental Engineering

Computing, Chania, Crete, Greece, Sept 2011:

Concrete 2011, Concrete Institute of Australia,

Perth WA, Nov 2011.

Services and Professional:Member, College of Experts (Engineering,

Mathematics and informatics), Australian

Research Council, 2011: Panellist, Scopus Young

Researcher award for Science and Technology,

2011:

Member of Editorial Boards of: International

Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering;

Engineering Structures; Computers and

Structures; Thin-Walled Structures; International

Journal of Structural Stability and dynamics;

Advances in Structural Engineering; Interaction

and Multiscale Mechanics; Steel and Composite

Structures; Advanced Steel Construction;

Australian Journal of Structural Engineering;

Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering;

Institution of Engineers, Singapore A: Civil and

Structural Engineering.

Chairman, International Conference on

Composite Construction in Steel and Concrete

VII.

Member of Standards Australia committees:

BD/1 Steel Structures; BD/23 Structural Steel

(Chairman); BD/32 Composite Construction;

BD/92 Evaluation of Structures.

Consulting, Dispute resolution for TressCox

Lawyers.

Recipient: 2011 Shortridge Hardesty Award

of the American Society of Civil Engineers for

“signifi cant and infl uential contributions to the

art and science of stability of metal structures”.

Associate Professor Ron J Cox Conferences:As Convener ACCARNSI made numerous

invited visits to institutions Australia wide for

presentations to research groups, government

and industry; Invited speaker, NSW Flood

Conference, Tamworth: NCCARF conference,

Cairns; Participant, Greenhouse 2011 conference,

Cairns; Convener of Climate Change Adaptation

forums for Early Career Researchers in Sydney

and Sunshine Coast; Invitee, NSW Infrastructure

Adaptation Forums, Sydney; Organizer, EIANZ

Learning to Adapt Forum, Darling Harbour;

Participant, IAHR International Congress,

Brisbane; Participant, WQRA workshop, Climate

change adaptation for the water industry,

Adelaide; Invited speaker, NSW Maritime Panel/

PIANC workshop, Extreme Events, Sydney;

Participant, International Disaster Prevention

Symposium, Yokohama; Participant, Coastal

Structures 2011 Conference, Yokohama;

Organizer, PIANC dredging workshop, Perth;

Participant, Australasian Coasts and Ports

Conference, Perth; Invited speaker, Coastal

Setbacks workshop, Stellenbosch, South

Africa; Invitee, Sydney Coastal Council Group

Coastal Planning workshops, Sydney; Invitee,

Climate Change Adaptation workshop, Go8+

Engineering Deans, Adelaide; Convener,

Australian and State Local Government

Associations, Needs workshop, Sydney; Griffi th

University, Centre for Coastal Management,

Gold Coast; University of Sunshine Coast,

Sunshine Coast; Queensland University,

Brisbane; Adelaide University, Adelaide;

University of South Australia, Adelaide; Waseda

University, Tokyo; Ports and Airports Research

Institute PARI, Yokosuka; CSIR Stellenbosch,

South Africa; University of Stellenbosch,

South Africa; Waterways Experimental Station

USACE, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA; University

of Colorado, Fort Collins, Colorado; Tsunami

Research Centre, Oregon State University,

Corvallis, Oregon; University of British Columbia

UBC, Vancouver, Canada; BCHYDRO, Vancouver,

Canada; Indian Institute of Technology Madras

IITM, Chennai, India; Commonwealth Dep’t

Climate Change and Energy Effi ciency, DCCEE;

Commonwealth Dep’t for Attorney General

AG; Geoscience Australia, Canberra; NSW Dep’t

Environment, Climate Change and Water

DECCW; QLD Dep’t of Environment & Natural

Resource Management DERM; Victorian Dep’t

of Sustainability and Environment DSE; Sydney

Water; Sydney Coastal Council’s Group SCCG;

Sydney Ports Corporation; Ports Australia.

Consulting and Other Activities: 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.

Providing advice to various State, Territory

and Commonwealth government agencies

as Convener of ACCARNSI, Australian Climate

Change Adaptation Research Network for

Settlements and Infrastructure. Working group

member and Chair of and review panel for

Engineers Australia National Committee Coastal

and Ocean Engineering NCCOE preparation and

production of 3 vol Guideline document series

for Adaptive Climate Management of Australia’s

Coast.

Membership of Committees and Panels:

Chair, Review team, National Adaptation

Research Plan for Settlements and Infrastructure;

Reviewer, IPCC AR5 Chapter 2; Member,

Engineers Australia National Committee on

Coastal and Ocean Engineering NCCOE -

working group member and Chair of review

panel for preparation and production of

3 volume NCCOE Guideline document

series for Adaptive Climate Management

of Australia’s Coast); 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; Co-Chair, School

External Relations Committee; Member, Water

Research Management Committee; Member

School Management Group; Member Scientifi c

Committee, IAHR International Conference,


Brisbane 2011; Member Organizing Committee,

EIANZ workshops, Sydney 2011; Member,

Climate Change Science Review Network

advising NSW DECCW; Member, Infrastructure

Adaptation Panel, NSW DECCW; Member Coastal

Advisory Panel, NSW DECCW.

Dr Steven DavisConferences:Programme Director and Organising Committee

Member of Fourth International Conference

on Construction Engineering and Project

Management, Sydney 16-18 Feb 2011: 22nd

Annual Conference for the Australian Association

for Engineering Education, Freemantle, WA, 5-7

Dec 2011.

Professor Stephen FosterConferences:Concrete 2011, 25th Biennial Conference of the

Concrete Institute of Australia, Perth, WA, 12-14

Oct2011:Fib Symposium, Prague Czech Republic,

8-10 Jun, 2011.

Membership of Professional Bodies

and Organisations:Member, Institution of Engineers Australia;

Member, concrete Institute of Australia; Member,

Standards Australia Committee BD2 “Concrete

Structures”; Chairman, Standards Australia

Subcommittee BD2/5 “Strength”; Chairman,

Standards Australia Subcommittee BD2/8

‘Fibre Reinforced Concrete (fi b); Chairman,

fi b Commission 4 “Modelling of Structural

Behaviour and Design; Member, fi b Task

Group 4.4 “Computer-Based Modelling and

Design”; Member, fi b Model Code Task Group

(SAG5); Member, American Concrete Institute;

Member, representing BD2, ISO TC 71 “Concrete,

Reinforced Concrete, prestressed Concrete”;

Member, Board of International Association of

Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete

Structures, (IA-FraMC0s).

Dr Lauren GardnerConferences:Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board

(TRB) Washington, D.C. 2011: The Australian

Transport Research Forum (ATRF), Adelaide, SA.

2011.

Emeritus Professor Ian GilbertInvited Paper:Andrew Scanlon Symposium, American

Concrete Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio 16-20 Oct

2011.

Conferences:The Twelfth East Asia-Pacifi c Conference on

Structural Engineering and Construction

(EASEC-12), Hong Kong, China, 24-26 Jan 2011.

(presented 3 papers): The 2011 fi b symposium,

Concrete Engineering for Excellency and

Effi ciency, Prague, Czech Republic, 8-10 Jun

2011. (presented 2 papers): CONCRETE 11, 25th

Biennial Conference of the Concrete Institute of

Australia, Perth, WA, 12-14 Oct 2011. (presented

3 papers): Fall Convention of the American

Concrete Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, 16-20 Oct

2011.

Membership of Committees and

Boards and Panels:Fellow, Engineers Australia: Member, American

Concrete Institute: Member and Academic

Principal Representative, Concrete Institute of

Australia: Member, National Council, Concrete

Institute of Australia: Member, Council Member

responsible for Publications and Technology,

Concrete Institute of Australia: Chair, Task Group

TG5, Cracking and Crack Control in Concrete

structures, Concrete Institute of Australia:

Member Standards Australia committees BD-002

Concrete Structure

Chair, BD-002-01 General: Member, BD1-002-

04 Materials: Member, Standards Australia

Committees BD-090-5 Standard for Concrete

Bridges: Member, American Concrete Institute

Committee ACI-209 Creep and Shrinkage.

Consulting, Seminars and Reports:National Seminar, Concrete Institute of Australia,

Design Guidance to AS3600-2009, presented

in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and

Brisbane, Nov 2011: Seminar, Institute of

Structural Engineers, Victorian Branch, Creep

and shrinkage Eff ects in Concrete Structures,

University of Melbourne, 1st Aug 2011: National

Seminar on Future of Civil and Structural

Engineering, Learning and Teaching – the Tragic

Decline, Gold Coast, QLD, Aug 2011.

Visits: City University of Hong Kong, Jan 2011: Imperial

College, London, Jan & Jun 2011: Melbourne

University, VIC, Aug 2011: Griffi th University,

Gold Coast, QLD, Aug 2011: Curtin University,

Perth, WA, Oct 2011: University of Adelaide, SA,

Nov 2011: University of Sydney, NSW, numerous,

2011: University of Technology, Sydney, NSW,

numerous, 2011.

Recipient:Honorary Life Membership awarded by the

Concrete Institute of Australia “presented in

recognition of outstanding contribution to the

development and use of concrete in Australia”,

Oct 2011:

National Award for Excellence, Technology

Category, Concrete Institute of Australia

(biennial awards) presented in October for the

book “Time-dependent behaviour of concrete

structures”, Spon Press, London, 2010.

Dr Ehab HamedConferences:The 9th International Symposium on High

Performance Concrete, Rotorua, New Zealand,

9-11 Aug, 2011: 16th International Conference

on Composite Structures, Porto, Portugal, 28-30

Jun, 2011: Concrete 2011: building a sustainable

future, Perth, WA, 12-14 Oct 2011. Seminar: CIES

Symposium about “Research in the repair and

strengthening of Structures using composite

materials”, 2nd Nov 2011.

Dr Stuart KhanConferences:Invited Speaker, National Water Recycling and

Reuse Technology Conference, Melb, VIC 2011:

Invited Speaker, Local Government and Shires

Associated (LGSA) of NSW Water Management

Conference, Grafton, NSW, 2011: Invited

Speaker, 23rd Conference of Residue Chemists:

Brisbane, QLD 2011. Chair, Scientifi c Committee

for MICROPOL & ECOHAZARD 2011: 7th

International Water Association (IWA) Specialist

Conference on Assessment and Control of

Micropollutants/ Hazardous Substances in

Water, Sydney, NSW 2011: Member, Scientifi c

Committee for WateReuse Barcelona 2011:

8th International Water Association (IWA)

International Conference on Water Reclamation

and Reuse, Barcelona, Spain, 2011: Invited

Speaker, WateReuse Foundation and University

of Arizona Water Recycling Workshop,

International Congress on Sustainability Science

and Engineering, Arizona, 2011.

Consulting, Gave evidence to the NSW

Legislative Council Inquiry on Coal Seam Gas,

2011.

Advising Member, Reappointed to serve another

term (2011-2013), Water Quality Advisory

Committee, National Health and Medical

Research Council (NHMRC).

Dr Gregoire MariethozAward: Best Paper Award, “Parameterizing

Training Images Used For Multiple-Point

Simulations”, 1st Conference on Spatial Statistics,

Enschede, The Netherlands, 2011.

Associate Professor Bill PeirsonConferences:Coasts and Ports 2011, Engineers Australia, Perth,

28-30 Sep 2011: Peer Review of environmental

impact assessment of the proposed Tillegra Dam

on the Hunter River Estuary.

Seminars: Presentation on Environmental Flows

to Australian Estuaries at Institut Mecaniques des

Fluides, Toulouse, France, 21 Apr 2011: Seminar:

Presentation on the growth of wind waves at

Instituto de Hidraulica Ambiental “IH Cantabria”,

Santander, Spain, 26 Apr 2011.

Dr Adrian RussellConferences:Semi-Plenary Lecturer, 13th International

Conference of the International Association

for Computer Methods and Advances in

Geomechanics, Melbourne, VIC, 2011: Fifth

International Symposium on Deformation

Characteristics of Geomaterials, Seoul, Korea.

Recipient, Excellent Paper Award, International

Association for Computer Methods and

Advances in Geomechanics, “Point load tests

and strength measurements for brittle spheres”,

published in the International Journal of Rock

Mechanics and Mining Sciences 2009.

Dr Gareth SwarbrickInvited Presentation at Conference:Swarbrick G, “Mitigation of Subsidence Impacts

on the Upper Canal”, 8th Triennial Conference

on Management of Subsidence Start of the Art,

Hunter Valley, NSW 15-17 May,2011.

Editorial Board, International Journal Waste

Management & Research.

Consultant, Pells Sullivan Meynink.

Dr Wendy TimmsConferences:NSW IAH Symposium 2011 – Uncertainty

in Hydrogeology, Sydney, 4-5 Sep 2011:

2nd Canadian Symposium on Aquitard

Hydrogeology, University of Ottawa, Canada,

21-23 Jun 2011.

Membership of Committees:Vice President, International Association of

Hydrogeologists Australia: Member, community


Water Reference Group for Shenhua Watermak

Coal Project: Co-convenor, IAH International

congress, Session on aquitards, Niagara, CAN,

2012: Organising Committee, International

Congress on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics,

Perth, 2014.

Consulting and other activities:Recommendations to Hon. Tony Windsor MP

regarding scientifi c assessments of aquifers:

NCGRT Summer School, Adelaide, 30th Nov

2011:NCGRT Hydrology Research Discovery,

Gunnedah, NSW, 10th Aug 2011:Groundwater

research update for the Upper Namoi

catchment. Community workshop, Cotton

Catchment communities CRC, 10th Mar

2011: Groundwater hydrology: the basics.

A component of NCGRT industry course

“Groundwater for Decision Makers”, Canberra,

ACT, 1st Sep 2011: Managed aquifer recharge.

A component of NCGRT industry course

“Introduction to groundwater and surface water

interaction, Sydney, NSW, 29th Mar 2011.

Recipient, Best Poster IAH NSW Groundwater

Symposium.

Recipient, Best Technical Presentation, IAH NSW

Groundwater Symposium.

Associate Professor Ian TurnerSeminar Presentation, “Towards an Australian

National Coastal Observatory”, University of

Plymouth 2011.

Member: Member, Engineers Australia National

Committee on Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Federal Dept. Climate Change and Energy

Effi ciency Coastal Geomorphology Advisory

Workshop.

Other:BBC Film Clip on “What happens to grains of

sand at high tide”, Perranporth, Cornwall, UK, Oct

2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15270548

Professor S. Travis WallerConferences:Speaker and sub-committee chair,

Transportation Research Board (TRB) 90th

Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Jan 2011:

Speaker, Conference for the International

Federation of Operations Research Societies,

(IFORS)Melbourne, VIC, Jul 2011: Invited co-

convenor and speaker, Microsimulation for

Sustainable Communications, Australian Institute

of Traffi c Planning and Management, Inc.

National conference, Melbourne, VIC, Aug 2011:

Invited Speaker, Australian Intelligent Transport

Systems Summit (ITS), Gold Coast, QLD, Sep

2011: Invited Speaker, Australian French

Workshop on Transport Research sponsored by

IFSTTAR, Sep 2011: Invited Session Chair, 2nd

International Workshop on Traffi c Data Collection

and its Standardization at QUT, Sep 2011:

Invited Speaker, Australasian Transport Research

Forum (ATRF), Adelaide, SA, Sep 2011: Invited

Panel Speaker and Co-chair, Innovative Smart

Grid Technologies Conference (IEEE PES ISGT)

Perth, WA, Oct 2011.

Non-Conference invited talks:Bi-level Applications of Graph Theoretical

(Combinatorial) Algorithms for Dynamic Traffi c

Assignment, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

Jul 2011: Overview of Dynamic Transport

Network Modelling, Evans & Peck, Sydney,

NSW, Oct 2011: Innovative Methodologies for

Large-scale Stochastic Dynamic Transportation

Network Systems, Sydney, UNSW, Oct 2011:

Member:Associate Member, American Society of

Civil Engineers (ASCE); Member, Institute for

Operations Research and Management Sciences

(INFORMS); Member, Institute of Transportation

Engineers (ITE); Member, Transportation

Research Board (TRB);Member, American Society

for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Membership of Committees and Panels - 2011:

Chair, Network Equilibrium Modelling Sub-

Committee (ADB30(2)), Transportation Research

Board (TRB), National Research Council;

Member, Network Modelling Committee

(ADB30), Transportation Research Board (TRB),

National Research Council; Member, Traffi c

Flow Properties and Characteristics Committee

(AHB45), Transportation Research Board

(TRB) National Research Council; Member,

Transportation Demand Forecasting Committee

(ADB40) Transportation Research Board

(TRB) , National Research Council; Member,

Technical Advisory Panel, Texas Department of

Transportation (TxDOT); Member, Route-Choice

and Spatial Behavior Sub-committee (ADB10

(2)); Member, Journal of Transportation Letters

– Editorial Board; Member, Journal of Modern

Transportation – Editorial Board; Member Journal

of ITS – Editorial Board.

Reviewer for the following Journals:Annals of Operations Research, Annals of

Regional Sciences, American Society of Civil

Engineers Journal of Computing in Civil

Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers

Journal of Transportation Engineering Computer

Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering,

European Journal of Operations Research,

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Transactions on Intelligent Transportation

Systems, Journal of the Transportation Research

Board, journal of Earthquake Engineering,

Journal of Transportation Letters, Networks,

Operations Research, Transportation Research

Part B (methodology), Transportation Research

Part C (Emerging Technology), Transportation

Research Part E ( Logistics and Transportation

Review), Transportation Sciences.

Consulting:Resource Systems Group

Other:Elected Liaison for Asia, Australia and New

Zealand for the Transportation Science and

Logistics Society within the Institute for

Operations Research and Management Science.

Dr Lixin WangConferences:11th Australasian Environmental Isotope

Conference, Poster, Cairns, QLD, 12-14 Jul 2011:

The American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting,

San Francisco: Isoscapes 2011. Purdue University,

USA, 25-27 Sept 2011: Hydrogen Isotopes as

environmental recorders, Orleans, France, 15-26

Sept: 9th International Symposium on Applied

Isotope Geochemistry, Tarragona, Spain, 19-23

Sep: 8th IALE World Conference, Oral, Beijing,

China, 18-23 Aug 2011:

around the world w

ith the 2010 annual report


Industry Reports

Blacka, MJ, Coghlan, IR, & Rayner, D

2011, 3D Physical Modelling of Hay

Point Coal Terminal, Expansions 3 and 4,

Queensland

Carley, JT, & Mole, MA 2011, Inundation

Levels for George River Floodplain, St

Helens, Tasmania

Carley, JT, Cox, RJ, & Miller, BM 2011, Peer

Review of Black Head to Crowdy Head

Coastline Hazard Defi nition Study and

Management Options Study

Carley, JT, Glamore, W, Miller, BM, &

Cox, RJ 2011, Peer Review of Reports

Regarding Erosion at the Detention

River, Hellyer, Tasmania

Carley, JT, Mariani, A, Miller, BM, & Cox, RJ

2011, Task 1, Brunei, Review of Coastal

Processes for Brunei

Cunningham, I, & Miller, BM 2011,

Stratifi cation and Destratifi cation of

Penrith Lakes Main Lake A

Flocard, F, Carley, JT, & Shand, TD 2011,

Physical Modelling for James Price Point,

Browse LNG Development

Glamore, W, & Badenhop, AM 2011, A

Decision Support Tool to Assess the

Impact of Boat Wake Wash on River Bank

Erosion

Glamore, W, & Wasko, CD 2011, Anna Bay

Drainage: Reducing Acid Water Impacts

via Water Control Structures and Tidal

Restoration

Glamore, W, & Badenhop, AM 2011, Boat

Wake Wash Decision Support Tool Users

Manual

Glamore, W, & Coghlan, IR 2011, Illawarra

Ocean Outfall Commissioning Study

Kinsela, AS, Glamore, W, & Collins, RN

2011, Suggested remedial works for

Christies Creek to reduce the discharge

of aluminium and iron from acid sulfate

soils. Final Report, version 1

Kinsela, AS, & Collins, RN 2011,

Suggested remedial works for Christies

Creek to reduce the discharge of

aluminium and iron from acid sulfate

soils. Final Report, version 2

Mariani, A, Blacka, MJ, & Coghlan, IR

2011, 2D Physical Modelling of Hay Point

Coal Terminal 3, Queensland

Mariani, A, Smith, G, & Glamore, W 2011,

Estimation of Critical Shear for Transport

of In-Sewer Solids Low Flow Sewers

Project

Mariani, A, Carley, JT, & Miller, BM 2011,

Task 6, Design of Seaward Extent of

River Training Walls and Sand Bypassing

Tutong River Estuary, Brunei

Mariani, A, Carley, JT, Mole, MA, & Miller,

BM 2011, Task 8, Tutong Estuary, Brunei,

Physical Modelling of Training Walls

Smith, G, & Coghlan, IR 2011, Hunter

River Water Quality Model Stage 2:

Model Calibration and Verifi cation

Report

Smith, G, & Coghlan, IR 2011, Hunter

River Water Quality Model Stage 3:

Scenario Modelling

Smith, G, & Wasko, CD 2011, Progress

Report 3, Kuala Belait Stormwater

Network Modelling

Wang, X, & Sivret, EC 2011, Odour Impact

Assessment of the Bega Cheese Effl uent

Storage Dam

Wang, X, & Sivret, EC 2011, VOCs and

TPHs Emission Assessment Report at

Glenrose Shopping Centre Building Site

Wasko, CD, & Miller, BM 2011,

Demonstrating Climate Change

Adaptation of Interconnected Water

Infrastructure: Literature Review and

Project Plan

Wasko, CD, & Wyllie, S 2011, Mallowa

Creek Surface Flow: Hydraulic Study

Westra, SP 2011, Implications of Climate

Change on Flood Estimation - Discussion

Paper for the Australian Rainfall and

Runoff Climate Change Workshop No. 2.

Westra, SP 2011, Project 4: Continuous

Rainfall Sequences at a Point. Phase 2

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Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure

Since its inception, over 120 talented researchers from across

Australia have participated in ACCARNSI’s six National Forums

for Early Career Researchers, creating and connecting pathways

towards a sustainable future and showcasing the valuable

research being undertaken in climate change adaptation for

settlements and infrastructure by universities, government

and industry. The Forums have provided the opportunity for

researchers and practitioners in engineering, architecture and

design, science including geography and environmental studies,

law, economics and the social sciences to network, share

ideas, discuss their research and experience the benefi ts of a

multidisciplinary approach to eff ectively address climate change

adaptation issues.

2011 continued to be an insightful and productive year for

ACCARNSI. The Network recently held its 6th Early Career

Researcher Forum at the University of the Sunshine Coast

(USC) in Queensland. Guest speakers included Professor Tim

Smith from the USC Sustainability Research Centre discussing

the complex nature of adaptation and the importance of

cooperation across disciplines to eff ectively build adaptive

capacity, ACCARNSI Node 4 Co-Convenor, Associate Professor

Bill Peirson presenting on Climate Change Adaptation of Water

Supply Systems, ACCARNSI Node 1 Convenor, Professor Rodger

Tomlinson adeptly putting into context the enormity of coastal

adaptation issues due to climate change and Dr Xiaoming Wang

from the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship.

Participants presented on a diverse range of areas including

Planning and Policy, Coastal Settlements, the Built Environment

and Infrastructure including Transport and Water, and were

given the opportunity to contribute in a number of workshops

concentrating on participatory planning and on the Australian

Productivity Commission’s Issues Paper ‘Barriers to Eff ective

Climate Change Adaptation’.

Feedback from our participants is always positive and

constructive with one in fi ve returning for subsequent forums.

As one participant noted ‘I found the experience invaluable. It

was great to position myself in the fi eld, to know what is going

on, to gauge people’s reactions to my work and to understand

how eff ective my communication was. The participatory

planning workshop was a great way to connect the diverse

disciplines. Thanks for the opportunity.’

Dr Philip Booth, Ms Tamara Rouse (Coordinator), Associate Professor Ron Cox (Convenor), Ms Louise Gates, Associate Professor William Peirson.


In 2011 ACCARNSI actively collaborated with key stakeholders

to promote inclusion of climate change adaptation sessions

in relevant conferences, including Coasts and Ports 2011, the

State Of Australian Cities (SOAC) conferences and the annual

Australian Transport Research Forums.

In partnership with the Environment Institute of Australia and

New Zealand (EIANZ) NSW Branch ACCARNSI also successfully

facilitated a Learning to Adapt Professional Development

Seminar series committed to promoting the climate change

adaptation agenda to 1000 business professionals including all

levels of government.

In addition, ACCARNSI has engaged with over 100 local

government councils from around Australia on climate change

adaptation issues, working with State and Territory Local

Government Associations on the compilation of case studies on

climate change adaptation tools. The initiative will culminate in

a workshop series around the country in the early half of 2012

communicating outcomes directly to the local government

councils involved in the study and other interested parties.

ACCARNSI also seeks to promote discourse around the key

areas of climate change adaptation research for Settlements

and Infrastructure and to this end has released nine Discussion

Papers for 2011 including research topics on: Ageing, the

Built Environment and Adaptation to Climate Change; The

Economic Value of Natural and Built Coastal Assets; Adapting to

Climate Change - Revising our approach to estimating future

fl oods; and Voluntary Travel Behaviour Change and its potential

implications for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Each paper is released to the ACCARNSI Network Membership

as a draft for comment in order to encourage stakeholder

input. This allows ACCARNSI to connect interested parties to

the authors to maximise the relevance and coverage of each

Discussion Paper. The interest generated by these papers in the

ACCARNSI Network has highlighted the gaps and the potential

for leadership in these areas. All fi nalised Discussion Papers can

be downloaded from the ACCARNSI website at http://www.

nccarf.edu.au/settlements-infrastructure/discussion_papers.


Connected Waters Initiativehttp://www.connectedwaters.unsw.edu.au/

The Connected Waters Initiative is a joint initiative between the

School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the School of

Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences (BEES).

2011 has seen a further growth in research personnel, research

output and research funding. The CWI hosts the National Centre

for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) node at UNSW.

NCGRT funding in 2011 was $1.97 million. In addition to this, the

CWI was the Centre agent for a further $4.0 million expenditure

of Super Science funding provided by the Federal Government.

The Cotton CRC ($123k), Land & Water ($970k) and NSW DWE

($41k) projects further boosted the activity level.

Super Science (Groundwater EIF) funds have been used to

establish 2 main fi eld areas, one at Wellington and the other on

the Namoi. A major drilling program at Wellington on the UNSW

Farm has established an internationally signifi cant research

facility where many groundwater processes can be studied. A

new 4th year elective was presented at the site in April giving

students hands on experience with a number of fi eld based

investigation techniques. The Training Centre comprises air

conditioned offi ces and lecture rooms with internet facilities

and major equipment storage facilities.

A GEOPROBE unit capable of installing piezometers to 20m

was commissioned at the site and has been used to install new

piezometer networks at Wellington, on the banks of the Namoi

at Maules Creek and at Anna Bay. The monitoring infrastructure

installed by Andy Baker and the team in the caves at Wellington

recorded the groundwater response to the major fl ooding

through the area that occurred at the beginning of the year.

Matt McCabe has further developed the Baldry Site some 50km

southwest of Wellington where detailed studies of evaporative

fl ux 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. The team also

off ered advice to the community over the hotly debated Mining

tax proposals.

Dr Martin Andersen and his team have established bores and

infrastructure on the banks of both the Namoi River and Maules

Creek (a tributary to the Namoi River) to study the physical

and chemical eff ects of groundwater recharge by fl oods and

the impacts of groundwater abstraction on stream fl ow and

groundwater quality. At Elfi n Crossing on Maules Creek an

abstraction bore was installed on the creek bank to simulate the

eff ects on the stream aquifer-system of groundwater abstraction

for irrigation.

Dr Wendy Timms and Martin O’Rourke from NSW Offi ce of Water


Major development work was also undertaken at the Water

Research Laboratory during the year. The centrifuge facility

established in 2010 at the Water Research Laboratory was

commissioned during the year and a program of research and

commercial work undertaken. Funds were also used to establish

offi ce accommodation for the CWI and to refurbish the well

tank and cool room facilities to develop a constant temperature

laboratory for a heat research program.

The CWI team was a fi nalist in the Eureka Awards during

September where they came a close 2nd. CWI also participated

in the AGU in San Francisco in December by leading several

sessions.

2011 was a very successful year with a signifi cant number of

publications in top journals beginning to fl ow from the various

research programs.

Detail of CWI activity and publications 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. These web pages are a signifi cant support

to the groundwater industry with more than 500 hits each week

from Australia and internationally.

NCGRT Aquitard research team 7-Sep-2011 L-R: Dr Adam Hartland, Dr Anna Greve, Gyanendra

Regmi, David Garces, Dr Wendy Timms.

Farmer Chris on his property sampling water


Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety

UNSW Centres encourage research in areas that concentrate on

multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fi elds that bring together

strengths from within and outside of the confi nes of Schools,

Faculties and indeed the University itself.

While strong in discipline-based research in Geotechnical

and Structural Engineering, the Centre for Infrastructure

Engineering and Safety (CIES) is increasing its breadth through

ever increasing eff orts to engage in cross-disciplinary research.

Collaborations by Associate Professor Chongmin Song and Dr

Kurt Douglas with Professor Robin Fell and Associate Bill Peirson

of the Water Research Centre; Professor Stephen Foster with

Associate Professor Ganga Prusty of Mechanical Engineering and

Professor Alan Crosky from the Faculty of Science on the CRC

for Advanced Composite Structures; and with Linlin Ge from the

School of Surveying on Structural Monitoring and Modelling are

just some examples of research synergies enabled through CIES.

The year 2011 was a year of maintaining our successes in the

Centre’s traditional areas of strength, Geotechnical and Structural

Engineering, while exploring and engaging in new areas of

collaboration. To this end, we maintained our high success rates

in pure research, driven largely by ARC Discovery grants, while

seeing considerable growth in industry based and supported

research through CRC and ARC Linkage collaborations.

CIES Engineering for Sustainable Futures Nearing the 5th birthday of the Centre for Infrastructure

Engineering and Safety we can refl ect on our substantive

achievements in the fi eld of infrastructure engineering, from

our numerous success stories in Dam Engineering through the

work of Professor Nasser Khalili, Dr Hossein Taiebat and A/Prof

Chongmin Song to those in Structures of Emeritus Professor Ian

Gilbert, Scientia Professor Mark Bradford and Dr Ehab Hamed.

Perhaps less is known of the Centre’s engagement in sustainable

infrastructure engineering. Since 2010, Professor Nasser Khalili

and his team of young researchers (Saeed Salimzadeh, Jianjun

Ma and Yun Bai) have been engaged in fi nding solutions

to CO2 sequestration in geological formations (Fig 1). This

signifi cant scientifi c and engineering problem analysed

from a fundamental perspective to advance theoretical and

computational bases for CO2 sequestration in chemically

reactive deformable fractured porous media, and provide

regulatory authorities and engineers with a much-needed

predictive tool for quantitative evaluation and assessment

of CO2 injection and storage in geological media. The

project for the fi rst time incorporates important processes

in CO2 sequestration such as deformability, fracture-fl uid

interaction, loading and chemical induced damage, intricate

phase interactions and thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling

Back Row: Ehab Hamed, Upali Vandebona, Frank Scharfe, Greg Worthing, John Gilbert, Zora Vrcelj, Tian Ng

Second Row: Ron Moncay, Michael Man, Chongmin Song, Jean Li, Yonglin Pi, Zhen Tian Chang, Ean Tat Ooi, Wei Gao

Front Row: Nasser Khalili, Ian Gilbert, Irene Calaizis, Mark Bradford, Adrian Russell, Mario Attard


eff ects in an integrated and unifi ed manner, which has so far

received little attention. Models, theories and relationships

derived from this research are expected to have a direct and

immediate impact on the design, construction, maintenance,

management and risk assessment of sequestration systems in

Australia and overseas.

In recent announcements, and working through the Centre

for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), Professor

Deo Prasad of the Faculty of the Built Environment together

with a multi-disciplinary team from across UNSW, CSIRO,

and the Universities of South Australia, Curtin, Swinburne

and Melbourne were successful in their bid for the 14th

round of Federally awarded Co-operative Research Centres

(CRCs). Awarded $28 million over a period of seven years, this

initiative will develop new products for lowering Australia’s

carbon emissions in a competitive environment and the tools

for the monitoring of its success and for use by policy and

decision makers. Such initiatives go to the heart of the Centre’s

engagement into infrastructure sustainability research, which

included initiatives, such as that of Scientia Professor Mark

Bradford in his Laureate research project “An innovative and

advanced systems approach for full life-cycle, low emissions

composite and hybrid building infrastructure”.

As we move more and more as a society towards engineering

of a low carbon future, the Centre’s engagement in these areas

becomes even more important and its long history of research

into high-performance materials and structures ever more

signifi cant.

CIES Fig 1: CO2 sequestration in geological formations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage)

Mr Mohammad Pournaghiazar a fi nal year PhD student of CIES was awarded the prestigious

Australian Geomechanics Society Research Award in 2011 for his groundbreaking work on

cone penetration testing of unsaturated soils.


On 14th October 2011, Emeritus Professor Ian Gilbert – Deputy

Director of CIES was bestowed the prestigious award of

Honorary Membership of the Concrete Institute of Australia,

at its biennial Concrete 2011 Conference in Perth. The citation

for this award was his “Outstanding Contribution to the

Development and Use of Concrete in Australia”, recognising

sustained contributions to teaching, research and practice

in concrete structures in Australia. After some 35 years in the

area of creep and shrinkage eff ects in concrete structures Ian

is recognised as the Australian leader and a highly-regarded

international fi gure. Ian’s Honorary Membership refl ects

his contributions to practice through over three decade’s

involvement with Standards Australia in developing its Concrete

Structures Standard AS3600, his industry courses and seminars

over many years, his textbooks on reinforced and prestressed

concrete and standing as a consultant to the structural concrete

community. With over 300 technical papers in the area, Ian is

the most-published Australian researcher in concrete structures.

At the same event in Perth, Ian was also presented the Award

for Excellence in the Technology Category at the National 2011

Awards for Excellence in Concrete for his 2010 book “Time

Dependent Behaviour of Concrete Structures”, co-authored with

Associate Professor Gianluca Ranzi. This was the sequel to Ian’s

authoritative text “Time Eff ects in Concrete Structures”, which

he published in 1988. He still drives technology excellence as

an Emeritus Professor through scholarly research funded by

the Australian Research Council and by industry; successfully

securing competitive funding for his work in CIES where he also

supervises higher-degree research students.

Emeritus Professor Ian Gilbert accepts Honorary Membership of the Concrete Institute of

Australia from outgoing President Fred Andrews-Phaedonos at the Institute’s recent conference,

Concrete 2011 in Perth.

Scientia Professor Mark Bradford was awarded the prestigious

Shortridge Hardesty Award for 2011 by the American Society of

Civil Engineers (ASCE). The award is given annually to an individual

who has contributed substantially in applying fundamental results

of research to the solution of practical engineering problems in

the fi eld of structural stability. Professor Bradford’s award citation

read “For his signifi cant and infl uential contributions to the art and

science of stability of metal structures”

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a professional

body founded in 1852 to represent members of the civil

engineering profession worldwide. It is the oldest national

engineering society in the United States. ASCE’s vision is to have

engineers positioned as global leaders who strive toward building

a better quality of life.


CIES Alumnus Dr Yen Yei (Jackie) Voo‘Environmental Friendly’, ‘Eco-’,

‘Green’, ‘Sustainable’, ‘Recycle’

– are important words in our

contemporary language. It is the

view of many notable scientists,

engineers, politicians and also of

the community at large that we

are in need of a new revolution,

a revolution to sustain. With

continuous eff orts in extracting

natural resources and discharging of wastes, it is forecast that we

are to experience the negative results of more than 200 years

of the industrial revolution that has led to exponential growth

in the burning of fossil based fuels. With the current stage of

our planet’s environmental development; rising temperature,

greater intensity of natural disasters, food and clean water

scarcity, diseases, limited natural resources, animal extinction,

and growing human population, it is little wonder that the

scientifi c community have issued warnings that the planet

is in need of help. For engineers, the issues that societies are

faced with provide innovation drivers for a range of new ‘green’

technologies.

The principle of sustainable construction stands on a basis

of material optimization together with structural design

optimization, which results in the lowest life-cycle cost for

the structure. To this end, UNSW Centre for Infrastructure

Engineering and Safety and School alumnus Dr Jackie Voo

(pictured) has taken his research to the next level, delivering

in practice. After his graduation from his doctoral studies in

2004, Yen Yei took his new found skills in high-performance

cementitious materials technology, and set up a company for

the development and marketing of Ultra-High Performance,

Reactive Powder, Concrete. In the short time since, his company,

Dura Technologies, Malaysia (valued at A$5 million), has

established itself as a leader in the commercialisation of this

novel material within his home country, while the construction

developments are leading the world. Marketed as a ‘green’

technology due to the markedly lower carbon footprint in

structures constructed of this material when compared to the

conventional structural alternatives, Yen Yei has designed the

world’s longest Ultra-High Performance Box Girder Bridge,

spanning 50 metres (pictured). Reactive Powder Concrete with

strength exceeding 150 MPa (three times that of conventional

concrete) and bending fracture energy of more than 20 N/mm

(200 times that of conventional concrete) is an ideal material for

optimisation of sectional shapes and member size, leading to

signifi cant overall weight reductions and materials cost savings.

In his latest endeavours, Yen Yei is taking his ideas into

the villages of Malaysia; the relatively light weight of each

structural component ideally lending itself to conventional

crane technologies and construction practices for longer

spans leaving the rivers and streams as pier free. This durable

technology that will last more than 100 years is testimony to the

achievements of one of CIES’ highly regarded graduates.

Pictures supplied by Dr Voo. Ultra High-Performance, Reactive Powder, Concrete fi nds its way to the villages of Malaysia.

World’s longest span reactive powder box girder bridge


Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)

This Centre represents a strategic eff ort with research and

industry partners that unites and substantially augments the

wide range of transport research across campus.

The Evans & Peck Chair for Transport Innovation will lead

the new Research Centre and has been made possible by

the generous support of Evans & Peck, an international

infrastructure-based advisory company, and a School Industry

Partner.

Other fi nancial supporters of the rCITI include NICTA, UNSW

central strategic support as well as the Faculty of Engineering.

The new Evans & Peck Professor of Transport Innovation is

Professor S. Travis Waller, previously in the Department of Civil

Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. 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 cross-

School Faculty Centre.

2011 has been an exciting year for rCITI:

Professor Waller took up the position of Evans & Peck Professor

for Transport Innovation and Director of rCITI in May, welcomed

by Dr Upali Vandebona (Senior Lecturer in Transport, School of

Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW) and followed by

The Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation

(rCITI) is a new UNSW Centre, based in the School of Civil and

Environmental Engineering. Its mission is to become a world-

leading organization in integrated interdisciplinary transport

research and development. Towards this mission, rCITI will

investigate sustainable approaches to transport infrastructure

and operations, with extensive liaison with industry and

government. The Centre pursues these activities building

on fi ve core research pillars including Transport Planning, ITS

Communications, Computational Sustainability, Infrastructure

and Energy / Fuel.

The aim is to reshape the fi eld of Multi-modal Transport

Engineering and Planning by introducing new innovative

techniques and technologies, which enhance society, by

integrating across methodological disciplines and contextual

considerations. We adopt a comprehensive system-level view

facilitated by the robust interdisciplinary groups available to us

at UNSW which currently span civil, environmental, computer,

electrical, and mechanical engineering as well as the built

environment with additional collaborations continuing to

develop.

In the presence of supporters from Government and Industry

and across the university, rCITI was offi cially launched in

November 2011 by Professor Mary O’Kane, NSW Chief Scientist

and Engineer.

rCITI team 2011 L-R: Melissa Duell, Vinayak Dixit, Travis Waller, David Fajardo, Sylvia Brohl, Lauren Gardner, Upali Vandebona


Dr Lauren Gardner, Dr David Fajardo and Dr Vinayak Dixit. Both Dr

Gardner and Dr Fajardo have been working closely with Professor

Waller at the University of Texas at Austin for several years.

Dr Gardner’s key areas include cross-disciplinary system

interaction (e.g., health impacts of transport including disease

propagation due to air travel) and congestion pricing for

transportation networks. Research Associate Dr Fajardo focuses

on vehicle routing, automated intersection control and logistics.

Dr Dixit, previously the Associate Director of Research, Gulf Coast

Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency at

Louisiana State University, joined the team in October and has a

keen interest in topics such as planning for risk in transportation

and emergency evacuation and management.

Apart from the set up of the Centre structure and the offi cial

launch of the rCITI, key achievements for 2011 included the

award of the UNSW Goldstar Award for “Adaptive Stochastic

Network Behaviour Modelling Approaches for Representing

and Responding to Disrupted Conditions” as well as a research

contract with Booz Allen Hamilton for the Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA) of the Department of Transport

of the United States of America (USDOT). This research

project represents a major FHWA initiative to investigate

the “Identifi cation and Evaluation of Transformative and

Environmental Applications and Strategies”.

Professor Waller has attended and been invited to present

at a variety of conferences. He spoke at ATRF in Adelaide

and presented research contributions at TRB (Transportation

Research Board 90th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C) and ITS

(Australian Intelligent Transport Systems Summit, Gold Coast).

In addition, Professor Waller has co-organized and co-chaired

a Panel at ISGT for IEEE (Innovative Smart Grid Technologies

Conference, Perth) about the rising popularity of Electric

Vehicles and this growing interdisciplinary fi eld. He also co-

organized a workshop on micro-simulation in Melbourne and

presented at an international workshop on traffi c management

hosted by QUT.

Resulting from rapidly increasing interest in electric vehicles,

UNSW hosted an introductory workshop in November on

“The Convergence of Transportation, Energy, and the Built

Environment’. Led by Professor Waller and Professor Michael

Neuman (Professor of Sustainable Urbanism, Faculty of the

Built Environment), key speakers included Professor Mladen

Kezunovic (Director, Power System Control and Protection

Laboratory, Texas A & M University), Professor Michael A P

Taylor (Professor of Transport Planning, University of South

Australia), Dr Peter Pudney (Senior Research Fellow, University

of South Australia), Mr Kristian Handberg (Project Manager, VIC

Department of Transport), Mr Ricardo Goldman (Managing

Director at TRIM GBO, Architecture and Planning, Spain)

and Mr Guy Pross (Director, Business Development and

Commercial Partnerships, Better Place). Additional attendees

included representation from national labs, consultancies and

government.

The focus of this workshop was an overview of previous

international research and deployment eff orts, the exploration

of domain linkages, and the potential for collaboration in

this growing interdisciplinary fi eld. The intention is to hold

further workshops in the future and outline possible areas for

collaboration.

The offi cial rCITI launch event took place in November and

was well attended by alumni, researchers, consultants and

government personnel. Speakers such as Professor Graham

Davies (Dean, Faculty of Engineering), Professor Les Field

(Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research) and Mr Les Wielinga

(Director General of the NSW Government Department of

Transport) congratulated the University, School and Professor

Waller at the opening of the rCITI, when the Centre was offi cially

launched by Professor Mary O’Kane, NSW Chief Scientist and

Engineer.

Moving forward, rCITI is seeking to build new relationships

with industry partners and transition core research into usable

tools and solutions. Substantial scope for contribution has

been identifi ed locally, national and internationally in terms

of rigorous research-based engineering tools for integrated

Transport analysis.


UNSW Water Research Centrewater@UNSW

Vision StatementAustralia’s water future will require synthesized understanding

coupled with innovative approaches to all aspects of the

water cycle; water use and re-use; aquatic environments;

fl ooding; estuaries and the coast. Our vision for the UNSW

Water Research Centre is to continue UNSW’s 60 year history

of leading water research within a holistic perspective of water

from catchment to ocean.

The UNSW Water Research Centre maintains the School’s

international research leadership in all key facets of Australia’s

contemporary and future water issues. As well as maintaining

the largest postgraduate and undergraduate teaching

programmes in water engineering in Australia, the School –

through the WRC - remains active in Australian fundamental

water research in the following areas:

surface and groundwater hydrology – ongoing Australian

leadership of the quantifying of rainfall, runoff and

groundwater fl ows at catchment scales (includes

development of the premier Australian design document,

Rainfall and Runoff , now published and developed by

Engineers Australia).

public health and water treatment – fundamental

investigations of the chemistry and microbiology of water

for urban use. We provide multidisciplinary research in

water and wastewater engineering and the development

of tools for environmental management and sustainability

for improving the aquatic and atmospheric environments.

civil and environmental hydraulics – practical project-

based and theoretical hydraulics research undertaken

using the unique large-scale facilities of the Water

Research Laboratory at Manly Vale.


There are two primary Centre nodes: at Kensington with staff

and students accommodated within the Vallentine Annex; and,

at the Water Research Laboratory at Manly Vale. The Centre

is co-supervised by Richard Stuetz and Bill Peirson, who are

respectively responsible for each node. Centre activities are

grouped around 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.

WATER RESEARCH LABORATORY

During 2011, the Water Research Laboratory (WRL) celebrated

its 52nd year as a leading international research laboratory in

hydraulics, groundwater and coastal engineering, with unique

large-scale physical facilities at its Manly Vale site. With a track

record for addressing computationally-demanding numerical

modelling in water engineering and signifi cant experience in

undertaking fi eld investigations, WRL continues to maintain an

international research and professional engineering reputation

in the specifi c disciplines of:

1. Civil and Environmental Engineering HydraulicsUnderstanding the turbulent fl ow of water, air and sediment

through pipes, turbomachines, open channels and across

the landscape is one of the most challenging of technical

disciplines. Engineering design must recognise the inherent

uncertainties of measurement and modelling methods

when providing practical solutions to industry needs.

2. Coastal EngineeringApproximately 86% of Australians live in the coastal

fringe with consequent major development of urban

areas, industry and supporting infrastructure. Many of the

processes of wave formation and impact as well as shoreline

and structural response remain poorly understood. Robust

coastal engineering design techniques are essential for

sustainable coastal development. Coastal engineering

design must be undertaken in an ecological context

containing interacting marine and freshwater ecosystems.

Present concerns regarding greenhouse gas emissions are

prompting a fresh look at the potential to harness energy in

the coastal zone.

3. GroundwaterIn a country dominated by long droughts interspersed with

fl oods, groundwater is a key water reserve: protected from

evaporative loss but subject to contamination and potential

overexploitation. Capturing key fi eld information is critical to

an adequate understanding of groundwater movement and

WRC –Kensington 2011 L-R: Richard Collins, Russell Yap, David Roser, Kelvin Ong, Lixin Wang, Chris Duesterberg, Jacqueline Stroud, Catherine Jex (at front), Hoori Ajami, Michael Short, Robert Steel,

Teh Cuong Dang, Adam Hambly, Richard Stuetz (Director), Gregoire Mariethoz, Hazel Rowley, Cecilia Azcurra, Bela Carvosso (in front), Yuang Wang, Mark Bligh, Patricia Karwan, Stuart Khan, Ali

Ershadi Esmaeilabadi, Bei Wang, Gavin Parcsi, Eric Sivret, Ivan Cabeza Rojas, Hung Viet Le, David Waite, Ashish Sharma.


its coupling to surface waters. The development of large-

scale geophysical techniques to “see” beneath the ground

surface is a key aspect of groundwater assessment.

4. Estuarine EngineeringEstuaries are highly productive and complex ecosystems

due to the high levels of nutrients available from catchment

runoff and their large and diverse habitats. As coastal

development occurs, engineering design is required to:

mitigate adverse environmental eff ects and minimize

impacts; fi nd appropriate means of discharging treated

wastewater; and, develop strategies for determining

appropriate estuary fresh water fl ows to minimize

ecosystem and threatened species impacts.

Highlights for 2011 included:

The evolution of WRL Projects will continue in 2012 with

the leadership of Mr Grantley Smith as WRL Principal

Projects Engineer and Manager. Grantley, one of Australia’s

eminent water engineers with more than 22 years of

specialist experience, has been a senior member of WRL’s

management team for the past three years. Mr Brett Miller,

who has led WRL Projects for the past ten very successful

years, will move into

an exciting new role as

WRL Principal Projects

Engineer - Hydraulics

and Modelling. This

technically focused

role will ensure WRL

continues to provide

innovative solutions to

real world problems.

Dr Chris Blenkinsopp was appointed as an academic staff

member of the School. After 3 years of postdoctoral research

at WRL, Chris’s contributions to international research coupled

with his diligent contribution to School teaching activities

now see him assume a major leadership role at WRL.

WRL Projects Engineer Alessio Mariani is to be congratulated

on securing a prestigious 2011 Churchill Fellowship under

the topic of: Investigation of international innovative coastal

engineering solutions to manage beach erosion.

WRL PhD student Ed Kearney has been awarded a

prestigious Bicentennial Scholarship to conduct research at

the University of Plymouth (UK) in mid-2012, and will bring

with him an extensive set of data collected at Australian

beaches as part of the Coastal Observation Network. Using

this data he will investigate and develop a storm erosion

model, with the aim of providing coastal engineers and

managers a way to better predict and mitigate damaging

storm erosion.

IAHR World Congress, Brisbane, June 2011: WRL was well

represented at the congress held in Brisbane, with fi ve

presentations being given by WRL staff members or research

students on a broad range of topics from groundwater

hydraulics and hydrology, to fl oods, and eco-hydraulics.

Grantley Smith’s presentation on the Development of

Appropriate Criteria for the Safety and Stability of Persons

and Vehicles in Floods created substantial interest as the

results presented form part of the Australian Rainfall &

Runoff Revision Project.

2011 Coasts & Ports Conference, Perth WA: A 14-person

strong WRL contingent attended the Conference, which

is the pre-eminent forum in the Australasian region for

engineers, planners, scientists and researchers to meet

and discuss issues extending across all disciplines related

to oceans, coasts and ports. The welcome reception was

sponsored by WRL.

During November 2011, WRL hosted visits by both Dr

Andrew Garcia (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and Dr

Linwood Vincent (Offi ce of Naval Research). Dr Vincent’s

visit marked the beginning of a new collaboration between

UNSW researchers and the US National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration in wind-wave interaction. Dr

Garcia has been a long term collaborator with WRL, recently

WRL Staff 2011: Pierre Rémy, Anna Blacka, Grantley Smith, Tom Shand, Ross Mathews, Joan Terlecky, Ed Kearney, Rob Thompson, Jamie Ruprecht, Kristen Splinter, Larry Paice, Matt Blacka,

Wendy Thomason-Harper, Will Glamore, Bill Peirson, David Garces Cordoba, Wendy Timms, Mike Allis, Xavier Barthelemy, Conrad Wasko, Ian Acworth, Sam McCulloch, Adam Hartland, Denis

O’Carroll, Brett Miller, Francois Flocard, Ian Coghlan, James Carley, Juan Carlos Castilla, Duncan Rayner, Youliang Cheng, Gabriel Rau, Hamid Roshan, Xia Yan, Mark Whelan, Jodi Adams


focusing on the signifi cance of climate change for Coastal

Engineering. Sadly, Dr Garcia passed away in late 2011.

New Staff Members: In 2011 WRL has welcomed several new

staff members. The WRL Projects Team gained 3 new Project

Engineers: Dr Francois Flocard and Erica Davey, with recent

graduate Priom Rahman to start in early 2012. WRL also

welcomed a new Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Kristen Splinter; and

two new PhD Students, Melissa Mole and Ed Kearney.

Fundamental research activities led by WRL staff (excluding

the Connected Waters Initiative) attracted $685,000 in funding

during 2011 and continued to yield fi ndings of signifi cant

international impact. Highlights include:

Australian Coastal Observation Network - Monitoring

and Forecasting Coastal Erosion in a Changing

Climate: This research project launches a strategic

international collaboration between university, industry

and government to address the considerable and growing

pressure for solutions to observe and forecast accelerating

shoreline erosion. The initiative is a proactive response

to the October 2009 House of Representatives Standing

Committee on Climate Change Report: Managing our

Coastal Zone in a Changing Climate, that identifi ed the

urgent need to better understand the risks of coastal erosion

through monitoring and modelling.

The three-year project will establish and rigorously test

a practical approach for establishing baseline coastal

monitoring via intensive RTK-GPS beach surveying, LiDAR,

bathymetric surveying and inshore wave monitoring using

aircraft, jetskis, quadbikes, cameras and buoys; at 10 beaches

along the NSW open coastline (Lennox Head, Sawtell, Dixon

Park - Newcastle, Wamberal, Terrigal, Collaroy-Narrabeen,

Manly, Wanda Beach - Cronulla, Thirroul and Shoalhaven) to

build a computer model that will enable prediction of wave

and sea level impacts on beaches anywhere in the world.

Measuring Water Surface Velocities: Predicting the

speed of movement of the surface of open waters is

fundamental to many important environmental engineering

problems, especially oil spill prediction. In a collaboration

between the Institute of Environmental Physics, University

of Heidelberg and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,

Columbia University and WRL; University of Heidelberg

Diploma Thesis student Jana Schnieders visited WRL from

July to September 2011, to develop and benchmark this

technique against unique data previously captured at WRL.

Strategic industry advice was provided by WRL Projects to

industry, government and private clients within Australia and

overseas with a turnover of over $2.7M. Several major projects

were undertaken with highlights as follows:

Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) Flood Model:

This year’s fl oods in Queensland and Victoria have been a

timely reminder of how destructive and dangerous natural

disasters can be. Researchers at WRL are working to assist

planners and emergency managers to more eff ectively

deal with future fl oods. WRL has been commissioned by


Numerical Modelling of Coastal Processes for Climate

Change Adaptation: A sound understanding of existing

coastal processes is required to quantify present coastal

hazards and to predict how these hazards may change

into the future. WRL has been involved in a range of hazard

assessment and climate change adaptation studies on

national, state and local government levels. These studies

have used observational data and advanced statistical

analyses and numerical modelling techniques to quantify

existing processes and to make predictions about possible

future trends. WRL has developed extensive expertise and

understanding of contemporary climate change science,

and implications of sea level rise on coastal processes and

hazards.

Coastal Zone Management Plan for Batemans Bay:

WRL has been commissioned to partner with Umwelt

Environmental Consultants and ACT Geotechnical in the

preparation of the Batemans Bay Coastal Zone Management

Plan (CZMP) for Eurobodalla Shire Council. As part of this

study, WRL will review literature relevant to the CZMP,

describe the coastal processes and hazards aff ecting the

study area, and recommend detailed management options

to address the respective risks. An emergency action sub

plan will also be prepared for North Batemans Bay (Wharf

Road).

AcknowledgementsWRC staff and students would like to thank our many supporters

and collaborators throughout industry, government and at

Universities.

Engineers Australia as part of the review Project 15 for ARR

to provide a set of guidelines outlining the appropriate

application of 2D numerical models for urban fl oodplain

environments.

Low Flow Sewer Project: Water utilities around Australia

are facing increased asset maintenance costs due to a

range of issues with low fl ows in sewers. Regular low fl ow

velocities in gravity sewers can result in the deposition of

solids on the sewer fl oor. If fl ow velocities are maintained

below the critical threshold of sediment motion, sediments

can progressively accumulate. WRL is supporting Sydney

Water’s ongoing investigation of sewer corrosion and

odour production through a detailed experiment aimed at

characterising sewer sediment accumulation and erosion.

Extensive Modelling - Coastal and Marine Structures:

WRL provided extensive physical modelling for a range of

major port infrastructure projects throughout Australia. Each

of these projects facilitated design optimisation, resulting in

refi ned engineering design.

Tidal Restoration: Design and Installation of SwingGates

for Tomago Wetland: WRL - working with the Offi ce of

Environment and Heritage (Parks and Wildlife Division) and

the Port Stephens Fishery Research Centre of Excellence

- developed, designed and installed a new style of tidal

fl oodgate. The new gates, called SwingGates, are designed

to permit tidal fl ushing within the Stage 2 area of the

Tomago Wetlands to a predetermined tidal water level.

The overall aim of the project was to restore tidal fl ushing

to over 50 hectares of tidal wetlands and create saltmarsh

habitat. In early December 2011, the Tomago site was visited

by a national team of 25 researchers investigating climate

change impacts on Austalian estuaries.

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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