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SUMMARY:The loss of bulk ore carriers at sea – some geotechnical aspects
  - Professor David W. Hight (GCG - Senior Consultant and Founding Director
 )
DTSTART:20161026T180000Z
DTEND:20161026T190000Z
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CONTACT:Stefan Ritter
DESCRIPTION:Overview:\nThere are many cases of vessels foundering when car
 rying cargoes of nickel ore\, iron ore fines and one case of a vessel carr
 ying bauxite ore. Cargo liquefaction is often cited in the shipping world 
 as the cause of the loss. This supposition will be questioned in the talk\
 , taking into account the potential modes of instability of the cargo heap
 s\, the properties of the unsaturated and uncompacted ores\, and the compl
 ex stress paths to which they are subjected.\n\nBiography:\nProfessor High
 t is a Senior Consultant and Founding Director of the Geotechnical Consult
 ing Group. He has vast experience in both industry and academia. He was a 
 lecturer at Imperial\nCollege London\, the National University of Singapor
 e and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published widely on th
 e subjects of soil behaviour\, offshore geotechnics\, soil sampling\, labo
 ratory testing\, stability problems\, earthworks and foundations. He deliv
 ered the 38th Rankine Lecture in 1998. He was elected to the Royal Academy
  of Engineering in 2001 and he was recently elected as a Fellow of the Roy
 al Society.\n
LOCATION:Webb Library\, Jesus College
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