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SUMMARY:Liquefaction of cargo in ships - Professor David Airey\, The Unive
 rsity of Sydney
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CONTACT:Magdalena Charytoniuk
DESCRIPTION:The talk will provide a brief introduction to the issue of liq
 uefaction of cargo in ships and explain the recent interest in the topic\,
  the types of cargoes that are problematic and the procedures used to ensu
 re safe transport. Although the cargoes are nominally dry\, in practice be
 cause of mining and processing procedures the ores often contain significa
 nt amounts of moisture when placed into ships. The results of several seri
 es of tests conducted to understand the unsaturated soil mechanics behind 
 the liquefaction phenomena will be presented. This will include cyclic tes
 ts of unsaturated ore like materials prepared at different densities and d
 egrees of saturation\, small centrifuge tests investigating moisture redis
 tribution\, 1-D column tests of unsaturated soil subject to shaking and fi
 nally the development and results from numerical FE analyses.
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, JDB Seminar Room
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