Geotechnical Engineering Research Group
Academic staff
Affiliated academic staff
Postdoctoral staff
Laboratory staff
Adjunct staff
HDR Students
Aayush Kumar
Program: PhD
Project title: Thermo-Mechanics of Asphalt Mixes with Crushed Waste Glass Aggregates
Advisors: Dr Mehdi Serati, Dr Prashanth Vangla and Dr Ian Van Wijk
Commencement year: 2021
Arthur Dilshan De Alwis
Program: PhD
Project title: Catastrophic Rock and Concrete Brittle Failures
Advisors: Dr Mehdi Serati and Professor David Williams
Commencement year: 2022
Augusto Riascos
Program: PhD
Project title: Measuring the Deformation of Mine Waste Facilities
Advisors: Professor David Williams and Danish Kazmi
Commencement year: 2022
Dorna Emami
Program: PhD
Project title: Shotcrete Spalling in Tunnel Fires
Advisors: Dr Mehdi Serati, Professor David Williams and Dr Harry Asche
Commencement year: 2022
Hua Tian
Program: PhD
Project title: Strength-Deformation Characterisation and Application in Red Mud Tailings Dams Stability
Advisors: Professor David Williams and Dr Chenming Zhang
Commencement year. 2020
Keith Mandisodza
Program: PhD
Project title: Tailings Design Process: Design Parameters and Assessment Methodologies
Advisors: Professor David Williams and Dr Chenming Zhang
Commencement year: 2021
Mutaz Mahmoud
Program: PhD
Project title: Physical Modelling of Spalling Failure in Underground Structures
Advisors: Dr Mehdi Serati and Professor David Williams
Commencement year: 2018
Reza Mottaghi
Program: PhD
Project title: Investigating the Behavior of Shotcrete under Bi-axial Stress and Impact
Advisors: Dr Mehdi Serati, Professor David Williams and Zhongwei Chen
Commencement year: 2021
Sasan Moravej
Program: PhD
Project title: Thermo-Mechanical Damage Behavior of Rock Under Polyaxial Stresses
Advisors: Dr Mehdi Serati and Professor David Williams
Commencement year: 2021
Souvik Saha
Program: PhD
Project title: Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Fire-Induced Concrete Spalling Under Biaxial Stresses
List of supervisors: Dr Mehdi Serati, Dr Cristian Maluk and Professor Dipti Ranjan Sahoo
Commencement year: 2020
Thomas Roper
Program: PhD
Project title: The utility of the observational method in conventional rock tunnelling
Advisors: Dr Jurij Karlsovek, Dr Robert Bertuzzi and Dr Paul Buddery
Commencement year: 2016
Wenqiang Zhang
Program: PhD
Project title: Weather-induced Tailings Desiccation and Salt Uptake
Advisors: Professor David Williams and Dr Chenming Zhang
Commencement year: 2018
Wenran Cao
Program: PhD
Project title: Physical and Geochemical Coupling in a Subterranean Estuary
Advisors: Dr Chenming Zhang and Dr Harald Hofmann
Commencement year: 2020
Ximing Lei
Program: PhD
Project title: Dynamic Behaviour of Railways on Expansive Soil Subgrade under Weather and Loading
Advisors: Professor David Williams and Dr Chenming Zhang
Commencement year: 2019
Xuanyu Zhu
Program: PhD
Project title: Utilization of solid wastes in shotcrete production
Advisors: Dr Mehdi Serati and Dr Harry Asche
Commencement year: 2022
Zhongyu Xu
Program: PhD
Project title: Evaluation of Shotcrete Shrinkage Behaviour in Underground Environment
Advisors: Dr Jurij Karlovsek and Dr Harry Asche
Commencement year: 2017