Bio of the lecturer:Dr Chris Haberfield is a Principal Geotechnical Engineer with Golder Associates Pty Ltd. He is internationally recognised for his work on foundation structure interaction and soft, weak and weathered rock and in particular the analysis, design, laboratory and field testing, construction techniques and response of engineering works (e.g. foundations) in these materials. Chris has extensive experience in piled foundation design and analysis, numerical (including advanced finite element) and analytical modelling, laboratory and field testing of geo-materials, stress analysis, ground structure interaction problems and slope stability analyses.Chris has high level engineering skills and technical knowledge and provides a practical approach which has been developed through 30 years of research and teaching and high level consulting to industry as an academic followed by 20 years as a consultant solving high level technical issues for a wide variety of projects. Chris has been responsible for value engineering, engineering design, analysis, construction and testing advice for numerous low to high rise commercial and residential towers, deep basements, road/rail separations, bridges, embankments, tunnels, mines and other developments and infrastructure projects in a wide range of ground conditions from soft soil to hard rock. Some examples include many high rise and/or deep basement developments in Melbourne, SE Queensland and the Middle East (including the 1.2 km high Nakheel tower in Dubai and numerous 20 m to 30 m deep basements in Melbourne and Brisbane), tender design for the Gateway Bridge duplication, Middleborough road – rail grade separation and the tender and final design for the New Royal Adelaide Hospital.Chris has published over 150 refereed papers many of them dealing with ground structure interaction problems, pile performance and analysis. Chris was awarded the EH Davis Memorial Lecture (2007) by the Australian Geomechanics Society, Gregory Tschebotarioff Lecture (2017) by the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and is an awardee of the Inaugural Honorary Life Membership of the Australian Geomechanics Society (2020).
Time: 6:30 PM– 7:30 PM (AEST), 24th July 2020