Events for 07-2011

Speaker Dr. Ryan Yan Wai ManAssistant Professor, Department of Civil EngineeringUniversity of Hong Kong (HKU) Abstract Geotechnical testing, either in field or laboratory scale, is the most direct way to understand the response of a geotechnical system. Herein a geotechnical system can be as simple as a soil specimen confined in rigid walls (for instance oedometer cell) or as complex as the construction of twin tunnels adjacent to existing piles. Monitoring is of prime importance during the testing. Over the decades, owing to the advances in technologies, monitoring has been evolved from simply naked eyes, to mechanical sensing, and further to mechanical-electrical coupled ones. Unfortunately, the more powerful the sensors the more common that users treat them as a black-box. ...