Registration

Welcome

Peter Scales, Acting Dean, Melbourne School of Engineering;

Abbas Rajabifard, Director, Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety;

Head of Department, Department of Infrastructure Engineering

SESSION 1: PREDICTION OF KM SCALE FAILURE FROM DATA

Chair: Guillermo Narsilio

Plenary Lecture: Geomaterials across scales

J. Carlos Santamarina, Georgia Tech/KAUST

Data mining and pattern detection - Part I.

Antoinette Tordesillas, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne;

Michael Small, School of Mathematics, University of Western Australia;

Ben Rubinstein, Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

Across the scales (perspectives from the laboratory versus the field): Particle motions across scales

Jie Zhang, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Morning Tea

Slope stability – basic concepts and typical data collection and problems

Mahdi Disfani, Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne

Ground motion and slope monitoring in open-pit mines

Martyn Robotham, Chief Adviser Geotechnical, Rio Tinto

Panel I: Discussion on Bridging the Scales

Panel Members: Batterham (Chair), Robotham, Santamarina, Small, Tordesillas, Zhang

Lunch

SESSION 2: WHAT STRUCTURE AT MICROSCALE TELLS YOU ABOUT FUNCTIONALITY AT MACROSCALE

Chair: Adrian Russell

Data mining and pattern detection - Part II.

Michael Small, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia;

Antoinette Tordesillas, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne;e

Ben Rubinstein, Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

Across the scales (perspectives from the laboratory versus the field): Imaging with X-rays at the Australian Synchrotron Imaging and Medical Beamline (IMBL)

Robert Acres, Australian Synchrotron

A word on recent trends in (micro) geomaterial characterisation

Guillermo Narsilio, Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne

Snapshots of challenges in micro-macro modelling and characterisation

Modelling micro-macro mechanics (Paul Mignone, Univerity of Melbourne);

Use of microCTs to generate microscale data: saturated and unsaturated soil (Tae Sup Yun - in absentia, Civil Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea)

Afternoon Tea

Panel II: Discussion on Bridging the Scales

Panel Members: Acres, Borja, Mayo, Narsilio, Santamarina (Chair), Small, Yang

Dinner

Drinks, followed by dinner at University House at the Woodward (10th floor, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham St, Carlton), a two minute walk from the Alan Gilbert Building