> Dear Colleagues,
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> You are warmly invited to attend a seminar to be given by Dr. Matthew Coop, Reader in Experimental Soil Mechanics, Imperial College. The seminar will be held at 3pm on THU (19/2) in the Postgraduate Teaching Block, School of Engineering (Building 10b at http://www.location.bham.ac.uk/edgbaston.htm). Tea/Coffee will be provided at 2:30pm and after the seminar. ALL are welcome. The University is served by the University railway station with a frequent train service from Brimingham New Street station. Car parking facilities can be found in the South Car Park (just below building 39 on the map). The abstract of the seminar can be found below . We Look forward to seeing you at the University of Birmingham.
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> Thank you for your attention.
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> regards,
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> Andrew
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ABSTRACT FOR SEMINAR
> From Laboratory Tests to Design in Sands
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> Design approaches for sands are still commonly formulated in terms of relative density. Reviewing the basic mechanics of sands from laboratory element tests, it will be shown that this type of method is unlikely to be successful and that a state parameter type of approach should be used. An analysis of a series of centrifuge tests on driven piles, together with other laboratory model and limited field test data, will then be used to highlight the shortcomings of both current design approaches based on relative density and some difficulties in applying existing state parameter methods. It will be shown that a new definition of state parameter based on a stress ratio instead of a difference of voids ratio can be used as the basis for a more consistent design method and should be simpler to implement.
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> Eur. Ing. Dr. Andrew H.C. Chan (???):
> BSc(Eng), MPhil, PhD, MBCS, CEng, FEANI, ILTM
> Reader in Computational Engineering Head of Engineering Computation Network,
> Room F39, First Floor, South West Engineering Building,
> Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham B15 2TT UK
> Tel: +44(0)121 41 45100 Fax: +44(0)121 41 43675 Mobile: +44(0)7773 243 055
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> http://www.eng.bham.ac.uk/civil/people/chanah.htm
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