Completed HDR projects

A number of students have completed high quality research projects during their time with GHERG. Below is a list of our past HDR projects and students.

Project titleNameLevel Year of completion
Assessment of horizontal bore drains performance in brown coal mines in the Latrobe ValleyCristiana PerdigaoMSc2022
FEM and XFEM Approaches to Investigate the Hydromechanical Interactions within a Jointed Soft-Rock SlopeTahereh Shaghaghi

PhD

2021
Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Evaluate the Effect of Time-Dependent and Time-Independent Soil Characteristics on the Stability of Deep ExcavationMohsen Ghadrdan

PhD

2021

Investigation of groundwater/surface water interactions

Chow Hirunteeyakul

PhD

2021

Random Finite Element Method Prediction and Optimisation for Open Pit Mine Slope Stability AnalysisAshley Dyson A

PhD

2020

Susceptibility of mine rehabilitation surfaces to mass movement

Tristan Allen

MSc

2018

Lime stabilisation of an Australian silty clay and its application in construction of excavation retaining walls by cutter soil mixing

Kaveh Ranjbar Pouya

PhD

2018

Coal ash drainage and filter layer for the rehabilitation of open cut mines

Jack Stipcevich

MSc

2018

Application of pressuremeter testing in open-pit mining

Zhan Tang

PhD

2018

Characterisation of the deformation behaviour of unbound granular materials using repeated load triaxial testing

Negin Zhalehjoo

PhD

2018

Coal consolidation behaviour

Fatemeh Moein

PhD

2015

Advanced techniques in measuring residual shear strength parameters of cohesive soils

Luke Tatnell

MSc

2015

* expected date of submission of final thesis