By Christophe Gaudin, David White
The 8th foreign convention on actual Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG2014) was once organised by way of the Centre for Offshore starting place platforms on the collage of Western Australia lower than the auspices of the Technical Committee 104 for actual Modelling in Geotechnics of the overseas Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. This quadrennial convention is the normal point of interest for the actual modelling neighborhood of teachers, scientists and engineers to give and trade the most recent advancements on a variety of actual modelling points linked to geotechnical engineering. those lawsuits, including the seven prior complaints courting from 1988, current an inestimable number of the technical and medical advancements and breakthroughs confirmed during the last 25 years.
These lawsuits comprise 10 keynote lectures from medical leaders in the actual modelling neighborhood and a hundred and sixty peer-reviewed papers from 26 international locations. they're organised in 14 subject matters, proposing the newest advancements in actual modelling know-how, modelling strategies and sensors, via quite a lot of soil-structure interplay difficulties, together with shallow and deep foundations, offshore geotechnics, dams and embankments, excavations and preserving buildings and slope balance. basic elements of earthquake engineering, geohazards, flooring reinforcements and enhancements, and soil houses and behavior also are coated, demonstrating the expanding complexity of modelling coming up from state of the art technological advancements and elevated knowing of similitude ideas. a unique subject matter on schooling provides the newest advancements within the use of actual modelling concepts for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate scholars in geotechnical engineering.
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Indb 6 11/7/2013 8:13:24 AM Figure 2. General views of UWA large O-tube facility. 5 m/s at period of 6 seconds and above. The MOT has the unique advantage that it requires less sediment to fill and nourish the working section compared with the LOT (so that small scale tests and erosion testing can be undertaken with prototype sediment to complement LOT testing) and it allows for testing at reduced scale (so as to examine scale effects). 2 Figure 3. Table 1. The O-tube Program was initiated by UWA in partnership with Woodside, Chevron and the Australian Research Council, with support from local Western Australia engineering consultancies Atteris and JP Kenny.
Two O-tubes have been constructed at the University of Western Australia. 0 m (wide); see Figure 2. 5 m/s, respectively, for wave periods of 5 s–13 s (see An et al. (2013) and Table 1 for further details). The LOT is therefore larger in scale than all previous closed flumes and can be used for 1:1 scale experimental studies of smaller diameter subsea pipelines in, for example, cyclonic conditions on the NWS. The second O-tube is approximately 5 times smaller than the LOT, and is termed the ‘Mini’ O-Tube (MOT); see Figure 3.
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