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Event Address
City West Receptions Address: 45 Plaistowe Mews West Perth
Event Start
5:30pm
Event End
7:00pm
Event Details
The WA Branch of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists invites you to attend the upcoming ASEG WA Tech Night presented by Dr. Andi A Pfaffhuber, Principal Geophysicist of NGI Perth.
Geophysics, the disruptive innovation for the geotechnical industry?
The talk's title is quoting a statement made by a geotechnical engineer at last year's International conference on geotechnical and geophysical site characterisation. In my talk I will illustrate how close we might be to that predicted disruption of the industry.
The presentation will use a range of case studies to illustrate how geophysical and remote sensing methods are being used innovatively to deliver geotechnical efficiency. Expect to be entertained with cases that show…
• how radar satellite data is used to track infrastructure- and slope settlement to millimetre resolutions.
• how terrestrial photo/lidar/radar methods are combined for geohazard assessment and urban infrastructure settlement.
• how "geotechnical" airborne geophysics is used to.
• perform soil investigations for geotechnical design of surface infrastructure.
• find major weakness zones along tunnel alignments.
• classify hazardous quick clay.
• find the base of massive debris- and rock slides.
• and how LIDAR is applied in tunnelling to control and document rock properties, shotcrete and rock support.
Dr Andi Pfaffhuber has recently moved to Perth with two goals: to establish onshore activities at NGI's Perth office and to spend a sabbatical time away from NGI's main office in Oslo.
Andi has been with NGI for ten years and built up a Geosurveys section that provides the missing link between high quality survey data and complex, real life geotechnical challenges. This link and mutual understanding is the core benefit that the team's assembled expertise and experience provides in consulting and research projects anchored in NGI's building, construction, transportation and natural hazard market areas.
Representing NGI Andi has lead several projects using innovative technologies to map the earth's surface and subsurface with respect to settlement, bedrock topography, weakness zones, slope stability and contaminated ground.
Event website: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aseg-wa-may-tech-night-tickets-33000305803
Registration closing date: Monday 8th May
Regsitration Costs: Free to members and non members