Green Slope Engineering â Some Recent Work
Auckland Branch Presentation Tuesday 16 May 2017 University of Auckland Architecture Building, (Adjacent to the Engineering School) Room ALR5/421W-301 Refreshments 5.30pm Presentation 6pm
Green Slope Engineering – Some Recent Work Presented by Dr Ryan Yan (University of Auckland) In many hilly cities, hardcover shotcrete had long been an engineering measure for slope upgrading by minimising rain infiltration and surface erosion. In the past decade, there has been an increasing demand from the public for slope revegetation and for aesthetic and ecological improvements in slope rehabilitation and upgrading. In this presentation, the speaker will highlight some recent work that has been done by his research team regarding slope greening. It includes the survival rates and root architecture of selected shrubs and trees native to Hong Kong, mechanical contribution of roots to slope against shallow landslides, tree stability against lateral pulling, and soil-water characteristics of cemented soils. Current thoughts of using vegetated-fibre-reinforced soils as slope covers will also be discussed. The talk aims to provide audience a better understanding of the concept “integrated bioengineered live slope cover”.
Ryan Yan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland. Prior to moving to New Zealand in 2016, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and University of Macau for more than 10 years. Received his BEng, MPhil and PhD degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Ryan has a wide spectrum of research interests including experimental characterisation and constitutive modelling of geomaterials, grain-scale micromechanics, geotechnical process monitoring, application of Bayesian analysis to geotechnical engineering, and soil-plant interactions. Since 2006, he had been granted over 3 million NZD worth of funding as PI and coInvestigator in more than 10 research projects. Ryan is a chartered member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (Geotechnical Discipline). In 2016, he received the Higher Education Research Excellence Natural Science Award (First Class) presented by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
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Green Slope Engineering – Some Recent Work Presented by Dr Ryan Yan (University of Auckland) In many hilly cities, hardcover shotcrete had long been an engineering measure for slope upgrading by minimising rain infiltration and surface erosion. In the past decade, there has been an increasing demand from the public for slope revegetation and for aesthetic and ecological improvements in slope rehabilitation and upgrading. In this presentation, the speaker will highlight some recent work that has been done by his research team regarding slope greening. It includes the survival rates and root architecture of selected shrubs and trees native to Hong Kong, mechanical contribution of roots to slope against shallow landslides, tree stability against lateral pulling, and soil-water characteristics of cemented soils. Current thoughts of using vegetated-fibre-reinforced soils as slope covers will also be discussed. The talk aims to provide audience a better understanding of the concept “integrated bioengineered live slope cover”.
Ryan Yan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland. Prior to moving to New Zealand in 2016, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and University of Macau for more than 10 years. Received his BEng, MPhil and PhD degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Ryan has a wide spectrum of research interests including experimental characterisation and constitutive modelling of geomaterials, grain-scale micromechanics, geotechnical process monitoring, application of Bayesian analysis to geotechnical engineering, and soil-plant interactions. Since 2006, he had been granted over 3 million NZD worth of funding as PI and coInvestigator in more than 10 research projects. Ryan is a chartered member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (Geotechnical Discipline). In 2016, he received the Higher Education Research Excellence Natural Science Award (First Class) presented by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
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