Postgraduate Researchers in the School of Civil, Environmental
and Mining Engineering

While the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering is noted for its collegiality, it is also divided naturally into three research groups because of the different areas of interest and expertise of its staff and students. 

Postgraduate researchers are listed here according to the theme that mosts interests them and influences their research.

Postgraduate Researchers with WaterSIMM

Ms Nicole Arbon

This project is a collaborative venture with United Water International Pty Ltd with the aim being to develop a practical method for the detection and location of blockages in the field.

Ms Eva Beh

Ms Bernadette Foley

Incorporating the concept of sustainability into decision making

My research focuses on using alternative thinking techniques and tools to advance the concept of sustainability and develop it as a journey.

Ms Li Li

Mr Jingzhe Gong

Ms Sarah Jewell

Dredging and sea level rise: impacts on the geomorphology of the Murray Mouth coastal lagoon

Mr Steven Need

Mr Jeffrey Newman

Optimisation

The project focusses on the decisions a planner makes when considering a greenfield development, with particular focus on optimising these decisions. 

Mr Alexander Osti

Quantification of hydrological persistence and drought forecasting in Australia

My research is centred primarily on the identification, classification and forecasting of drought events from Australian rainfall patterns.

Ms Joanna Szemis

Mr Tim Rowan

Development of an integrated modelling framework for assessment of irrigation management policies

This project focuses firstly on the development of a conceptual model describing the environmental, economic and social components of an irrigated landscape.

Ms Wenyan Wu

Genetic algorithm optimisation; water distribution system optimisation; multi-objective optimisation; sustainable development

Ms Fiona Paton

Multi-objective optimisation using evolutionary algorithms; sustainable urban water supply management

Mr Daniel Partington

Ms Mina Pazandeh

Mr Darren Broad

Decision support system to maintain water quality

This project will build on the vast research field of optimisation of water distribution systems. While numerous papers exist in the literature on this topic, design of real water distribution systems in industry rarely utilises optimisation algorithms.

Mr Fei Fei Zheng

Optimal design and operation of water distribution systems

Decomposing water distribution systems by graph theory

Multi-objective optimization

Ms Abigail Goodman

Ecological water requirements of wetlands

The construction of the deep groundwater drains in the Upper South East of South Australia has had a major impact on the volume and quality of the water received by more than 200 wetlands in the region.

Ms Gayani Fernando

Postgraduate Researchers in the Structures Research Group

Mr Matthew Haskett

A method to obtain the interfacial bond stress-slip relationship for various types of reinforcement

Matthew's research is investigating a method to obtain the interfacial bond stress-slip relationship for various types of reinforcement, including steel reinforcing bars, near surface mounted (NSM) plates, and externally bonded (EB) plates from the global load-slip relationship.

Mr Liang Huang

Yunita Idris

Ms Jaya Kashyap

Seismic retrofit of RC frames using FRP

My research interests revolves around different aspects of structural engineering, in particular related to seismic behaviour of structures and their retrofitting.

Mr Arash Khansari

Ms Nora Abdullah

Mr Chen Liang

Mr Wade Lucas

The aim of this project is to develop a structural mechanics based model that is capable of predicting the load at which an RC beam will undergo sliding failure and in particular to take into account the interaction between the major components that contribute to the shear capacity.

Ms Lisa Moon

Ms Rahimah Muhamad

Ms Ratni Nurwidayati

Mr Hisham Qureshi

Mr Grant Nicholas

Mr Yu Su

The behaviours of ordinary concrete, ultra-high performance concrete and masonry structures subjected to blast loading or impact

Mr. Yu Su is interested in studying the behaviors of ordinary concrete, ultra-high performance concrete and masonry structures subjected to blast loading or impact.

Mr Jerry Vaculik

Seismic design of unreinforced masonry walls in biaxial bending

The aim of this research is to develop a displacement-based assessment approach for the seismic design of unreinforced masonry in biaxial bending.

Mr Tom Vincent

Mr Phillip Visintin

Mr Dong Xiang

 Mr Tao Zhang

Postgraduate Researchers in the Mining and
Geotechnical Research Group

Mr Bambang Setiawan

Assessing liquefaction potential of soils utilising in-situ testing

Liquefaction has caused significant failures worldwide and represents a significant problem for the community and geotechnical engineering designers.

Mr Jiayi Shen

Phytocaps

My project is part of a larger ARC funded project known as Australian Alternative Cover Assessment Program (A-ACAP) The aim of A-ACAP is to determine quantitatively whether phytocaps (covers designed using water balance modelling techniques without the use of a compacted clay barrier to limit drainage) can meet performance criteria for landfill final covers more cost effectively and sustainably than conventional covers (those using a compacted clay barrier to prevent drainage into the underlying waste), under a wide range of Australian conditions and jurisdictions.

Ms Sally Roach

Mr Qian Qian

Mr Ahrufan Ghalba

Mr Arash Mirahmadi