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Dear All, Below is an announcement of a lecture on Wednesday the 18th of November in Derby at the Midland Hotel (opposite Derby rail station), organised by the East Midlands Geotechnical Group (EMGG) and the Permanent Way Institution (PWI): Date : Wednesday 18 November 2009, 6 for 6.30pm Subject : "Geosynthetics and Railway Foundations" Venue: Derby: Midland Hotel - opposite Derby rail station (Derby, DE1 2SQ) Speaker : Peter Musgrave An Incorporated Engineer and Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers with 31 years experience predominately in Permanent Way Engineering. He started his railway career with British Rail in 1978 in the Civil Engineer's department as a Technical Officer and progressed through the technical grades into Management within British Rail. He has also worked in Railfreight Distribution, Atkins Rail and Railtrack and currently works for Network Rail in the central engineer team supporting track renewals. Over the last 5 years he has specialised in track bed investigation and design, managing the technical aspects of the national track bed investigation programmes which support track renewals. Abstract : The presentation will be in two parts, Part 1 will be covering "Processes and Systems that are Applied to the Track Bed" and Part two "Track Bed Assessment, Interpretation and Design" The presentations will provide an appreciation of the processes, systems and data Network Rail currently uses for track bed assessment and site investigation and how the data is used to assess the site to determine the required level of investigation and the optimum design solution which supports the Renewal Specification. If you would like to be on our mailing list, please send me an e-mail. More information may be obtained about the various talks at : http://emgg.lboro.ac.uk Regards, Ashraf --------- Dr A. El-Hamalawi BEng, PhD (Cantab), MASCE,MCGS,RegEES Senior Lecturer in Geomechanics Civil and Building Engineering Department, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU United Kingdom Tel: +44-1509-223206 Fax: +44-1509-223981