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Proceedings of the First Southern African Geotechnical Conference book cover

1st Edition

Proceedings of the First Southern African Geotechnical Conference

Edited By S.W. Jacobsz Copyright 2016
406 Pages
by CRC Press

406 Pages
by CRC Press

406 Pages
by CRC Press
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The First Southern African Geotechnical Conference was organised by the Geotechnical Division of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) under the auspices of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and took place at Sun City, South Africa on 5 and 6 May 2016. More than 60 papers were received from authors in South Africa, Botswana,... Read more

Preface; Committees
Foundation; Mining & tailings; Modelling and design; Site investigation; Soil properties; Soil reinforcement and slopes
Author index

Biography

SW Jacobsz graduated with a MEng degree from the University of Pretoria in 1996 and PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2002. He then worked on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Project in London and a UK government funded collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the development of wireless displacement sensors before returning to South Africa where he worked for Jones & Wagener Consulting as geotechnical engineer. He joined the University of Pretoria in 2010 and is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. His research interests include physical modelling of geotechnical and soil-structure interaction problems in the geotechnical centrifuge.

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