SYNOPSIS

The course will comprise lectures and software applications, focusing on modern approaches to the design of single piles, pile groups and piled rafts under the action of vertical and horizontal loading. The target outcomes for participants include:
•  Appreciation of influence of pile construction techniques on pile performance
•  Awareness of the role of pile testing in design
•  Ability to derive design parameters for piles from intrinsic soil properties and site investigation data
•  Awareness of the effects of cyclic shearing, including that occurring during installation, on the capacity of piles
•  Awareness of time effects on pile capacity
•  Familiarity with calculation approaches used to quantify the in-service response of single piles and pile groups
•  Appreciation of interaction effects and complete system response in design of pile groups    and piled rafts


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Mark Randolph is Professor of Civil Engineering in the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University in 1973, Master from the same university in 1978  and his PhD from Cambridge University also in 1978. His two main research interests are piled foundations and offshore geotechnics, co-authoring books in each area: Piling Engineering, now in its third edition, and Offshore Geotechnical Engineering. He has published over 250 journal articles, providing novel solutions to practical problems. He is also the author of various pieces of software for analysis and design of piles and pile groups.  Professor Randolph interacts closely with industry, both in research and through his role as Technical Advisor within Fugro AG. He is a Fellow of several learned academies, including the Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science, and in 2013 was elected Scientist of the Year in Western Australia. In 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich.