Workshop 2: Geotechnical Applications of Geosciences
| Date: | 18 September 2022 |
| Time: | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Conveners: | Koya Suto (Terra Australis Geophysica) Arre Verweerd (AECOM) |
Workshop Description
This workshop tries to fill the gap between geosciences and ground/geotechnical engineering. Although both our disciplines work effortlessly to characterise the ground in a deterministic way, there always appears to be a disconnect. Geophysicists are unsure about the questions that ground and geotechnical engineering need answered and engineers are unsure how to use geophysical techniques and models with their infinite number of equally valid quirks. The workshop will be a series of presentations of geoscientists and engineers followed by discussions on this theme to foster their mutual understanding.
Who Should Attend
- Engineers who wish to improve their skills in geotechnical/geophysical analysis.
- Geoscientists consider career development beyond the resource industry.
- Students looking at broader career opportunities.
Preliminary Programme
Latest update: 23.8.2022
General Presentations
| Time | Title | Presenter |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Welcome | Dr. Esther Bloem EAGE Near-Surface Division Chair NORWAY |
| 9:10 - 9:35 | Geophysical methods and their applications - To reduce the geological uncertainty in the geotechnical projects | Dr. Takao Aizawa Geotechnical Consultants Association JAPAN |
| 9:35 - 10:00 | The need for geophysicists and engineers to understand each other to tackle environmental and civil issues. | Prof. Pedro Martinez Pagan Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena SPAIN |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Use of geophysical survey in geotechnical engineering practice – From one of geotechnical engineers’ perspective | Dr. Jun Sugawara Director, University of South Queensland, Wollongong University AUSTRALIA |
| 10:25 - 10:45 | Coffee Break (20 min) | |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Pseudo-N-value from S-wave velocity: A consideration for geotechnical application | Koya Suto Terra Australis Geophysica Pty Ltd. AUSTRALIA |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | MASW-Refraction on railway embankments correlated with CPT | Dr. Arre Verweerd AECOM UK |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Closing the gaps between geophysics and ground/geotechnical engineering.Accelerating cloud driven collaboration of geoscience data projects | Victor Mapuranga |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Geophysical models – what do we use them for? | Dr. Andi A. Pfaffhuber Emerald NORWAY |
| 12:25 - 13:15 | Lunch Break (50 min) | |
Case Studies
| Time | Technique | Title | Presenter |
| 13:15 - 13:35 | GPR | GPR and NDT Surveys on a Proposed UK Spaceport Runway | James Eason (recorded) AECOM UK |
| 13:35 - 14:10 | Airborne EM | Applying machine learning on airborne geophysical models to map bedrock topography and its lithological boundaries | Dr. Andi A. Pfaffhuber Emerald NORWAY |
| 14:10 - 14:45 | Passive seismic | Application of 1D, 2D and 3D passive surface wave methods to geotechnical site investigations | Dr. Koichi Hayashi Geometrics USA |
| 14:45 - 15:10 | Coffee Break (25 min) | ||
| 15:10 - 15:35 | Seismic reflection | Fault detection in the area of mini hydropower plant in Kotor Varošby seismic reflection | Dr. Siniša Arsenović Ipkin Consultants BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA |
| 15:35 - 16:10 | Seismic | Examples for the application of “unusual” seismic methods to answer “special” questions in geotechnical engineering | Dr. Dirk Orlowsky DMT GmbH & Co. GERMANY |
| 16:10 - 16:35 | Multi-disciplinary | Geotechnical and geophysical tests for the study of soils in urban areas of the Vega de Granada (Spain) focused on seismic risk | Prof. Ignacio Valverde Palacios Universidad de Granada SPAIN |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Discussion | ||
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