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Professor Ranjith Pathegama Gamage |
| Director of 3GDeep, and Head of Geomechanics Group | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54982 | |
| Office: Room 140, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Shale Gas: Stimulation methodologies for enhancement of recoveries, Research into Geosequestration of Carbon Dioxide (CO2), including geomechanical behaviour due to the stored supercritical CO2, Formation and swelling behaviour of rock media, Migration of CO2 due to change in insitu stresses., Activation of faults due to the injection of high fluid pressures, Deep Geothermal works, Slope Stability of large deep, open cut mines, Stability of wellbore analysis, Underground longwall mining, Enhanced coal bed methane recovery, ECBM, Hydro-fracturing and other simulation methods for depleted and tight reservoirs, Two-phase and multiphase flow in fractured rock media, Coupled Hydro-mechanical behaviour of fractured and porous rocks, Gas outbursts and groundwater inundation in mines, Rock physics under high pressure conditions, Contaminant transport through rock, Storage of chemical/nuclear waste in underground caverns, Characterization of weathered rocks, Tunneling in soft and hard ground |
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Professor Jian Zhao |
| Geomechanics, Mining & Resource Engineering | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 56879 | |
| Office: Room 146, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Rock Mechanics, Rock Dynamics, Underground Construction, Geophysics, Mining engineering, Geothermal energy |
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Professor Xavier Choi |
| Professor in Petroleum and Mining Geomechanics | |
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| Office: Room 112, Building 33, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Rock support and reinforcement, mine stability, rock fracture and damage mechanics, coal and gas outbursts, subsidence induced by underground mining and reservoir depletion, reservoir simulation, unconventional energy, CO2 sequestration, wellbore stability, sand production, fractured reservoirs, and the numerical modelling of multi-scale and multi-physics problems in civil, mining and petroleum geomechanics, and materials engineering. |
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Professor Malek Bouazza |
| Geomechanics Engineering | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54956 | |
| Office: Room 138, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Energy Geotechnology (Borehole heat exchangers, geothermal geostructures, CO2 sequestration)., Gas advective and diffusive flow in saturated and unsaturated porous media, Landfill design, Unsaturated behaviour of geomaterials., Thermo-hydro-mechanical/chemical behaviour of porous media., Contaminant transport through soils and geosynthetics., Geosynthetics in landfills, Geosynthetics in mining applications (heap leach pads, tailing dams, etc.)., Earth reinforced structures, Ground Improvement (Shallow and deep soil mixing, dynamic compaction, stone columns,rigid inclusions)., Biological applications to Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental engineering., Geotechnical properties of soft soils. |
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Dr. Samintha Perera |
| Lecturer in Geomechanics | |
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| Phone: +61 3 903 58649 | |
| Office: Room B 29, Engineering Block B, Grattan Street, Parkville, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia | |
| Research Interests: Geosequestration of carbon dioxide in coal beds, saline aquifers and depleted oil reservoirs, Enhanced coal bed methane recovery (ECBM) and oil recover processes, Permeability of rock mass with respect to oil and gas recovery, Modeling of multiphase flow through rocks. |
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Dr. Asadul Haque |
| Senior Lecturer, Director of Teaching (Geomechanics Engineering) | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54974 | |
| Office: Room 141, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Soil improvement using additives, Biochar sequestration in treated soils, XrayCT imaging of geomaterials, Railway track geotechnology, Laterally loaded piles in jointed rocks, Cyclic filtration behaviour of soils, Shear behaviour of jointed rocks, CO2 sequestration |
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Dr. Mohan Yellishetty |
| Senior Lecturer (Mining & Resource Engineering) | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 27143 | |
| Office: Room 147, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Mohan Yellishetty’s current and future research interests are focused around the development and implementation of industrial ecological principles to mining and mining communities. He has a very strong interest in the area of environmental impacts and management due to mining in particular. He has been involved with many aspects of geotechnical & environmental engineering with a particular specialty in acid rock drainage and other environmental aspects of mining industry, besides the current research interests in industrial ecology applications to mining industry. |
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Dr. Ha Bui |
| Lecturer (Geomechanics Engineering) | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 52599 | |
| Office: Room 132, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Computational mechanics, geomaterials constitutive modelling, large deformation and failure of geomaterials, soil cracking modelling, fracture and damage of geomaterials, slope stability and landslide, multiphase flow in porous media, soil-structure interactions, mesh-free approaches for computational geomechanics, granular flows, lunar soil mechanics, free-surface fluid flows, two-phase flow modeling. |
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Dr. Will Gates |
| Senior Research Officer | |
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| Phone: +61 3 9905 8902 | |
| Office: Room 116, Building 36, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: X-ray imaging of materials, including concretes, Geo-mechanical and geo-technical aspects of swelling materials, Improving durability of concretes, Standards testing development/modification, Modification of clay minerals for applications in reactive barrier technologies. |
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Dr. Rao Singh |
| Research Fellow | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54981 | |
| Office: Room 154, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Physical and numerical modelling of geotechnical problems involving heat, moisture and gas transfer, geothermal energy pile foundation, unsaturated clays and geosynthetic clay liner (GCL), nuclear waste repository, suction measurement techniques, thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behavior of soils and geosynthetics, modification of bentonite to improve its retention capacity, gas/liquid permeability characteristic of cement bentonite used in cut-off walls and borehole walls, coal seam gas (CSG), wind farm collector system. |
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Dr. Qianbing Zhang |
| Lecturer (Mining & Resource Engineering) | |
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| Phone: +61 3 990 54385 | |
| Office: Room 149, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: Mechanical behavior of rock at high strain rate using split Hopkinson pressure bar; Mechanical behavior of rock at high pressure using plate impact facility; High speed digital image correlation method; Field monitoring, numerical simulations and geomechanical model tests of underground caverns; Scientific drilling and modeling of earthquake; Induced seismicity in deep earth energy and resources extraction. |
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Dr. Tharaka Rathnaweera |
| Research Fellow | |
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| Phone: +61 3 9905 5549 | |
| Office: Room G22, Building 60, Clayton Campus | |
| Research Interests: CO2 Geosequestration, Mechanical behaviour of reservoir rock (sandstone), Stress-strain behaviour of rocks and constitutive modelling. |