Protection
of coastal cities from adverse impacts of sea level rise is a major challenge facing
engineers and decision makers This seminar aims to bring researchers and practitioners together to
discuss new ideas, new solutions, new technologies or any other issues that are relevant to the theme
of this seminar Our invited speakers will present their studies pertinent to Singapore as well as their
experience from other countries including China and Australia
Most
of us have experienced the difficulty of lifting our shoes up from muddy ground
the quintessential ‘stuck in the mud’) This phenomenon, terminologically called the breakout
problem, has become increasingly important in studying lifting objects off the seabed, as it is the
scientific basis for a variety of offshore applications, such as 1 retrieval of oil and gas infrastructure
sitting on the seabed for decommissioning, repairing or even repositioning 2 marine salvage and
3 securing submarine foundations against lifting away under severe storm conditions
This
seminar reviews the speaker’s research work in the past couple of years in investigating the
process of lifting objects off the seabed Essentially, it will concentrate on 1 the effect of uplifting
rate on the resistance capacity 2 sustained uplifting loading for offshore foundations 3 developing
numerical structure soil interface to facilitate uplifting modelling.
Date: 10 January 2022 (Monday)
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Platform: Zoom (The link will be sent to the registrants
on 7 J an 2022.)
Organised
By: Centre for Urban Solutions (CUS) CUS), School of Civil and Environmental
Engineering (CEE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Registration: Please click
here to register. Registration is free.
Conventional practices of urban master planning is always one of clustering land parcels for similar
land use with the objective of sharing common resources and management There are opportunities
of mixed land uses through careful consideration and innovative creation of space within the same
development In addition, there may be advantage of co location of certain developments with
synergetic production chains This webinar explores various examples of innovative planning,
new space creation and other land uses in the coastal waters
The need for creating a more sustainable environment can be found in every aspect of geotechnical engineering. Keeping sustainability in mind, biodegradable materials and the viability of natural geotextiles for dewatering and containment systems need to be explored.
