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“Performance Based Design In Geotechnical Engineering”

A Reprise of the 52nd Rankine Lecture
(Organized by Geotechnical Engineering Technical Division)
BEM APPROVED
Date : 10 December 2012 (Monday) CPD/PDP HOURS: 2
Time : 5.30 pm -7.30 pm (Refreshment will be served at 5.00 pm.) REF: IEM12/HQ/320/T
Venue : Auditorium Tan Sri Prof. Chin Fung Kee, Wisma IEM
Speaker : Professor Malcolm Bolton (Cambridge University)

SYNOPSIS

Engineering design consists of a sequence of decisions which should satisfy the client’s objective performance requirements. This
lecture will argue that an assessment of geotechnical performance must involve ground displacements, and that the traditional
approach of specifying safety factors is potentially wasteful. In particular, the Limit State Design (LSD) approach adopted in the
Eurocodes will be shown to lack objectivity and therefore to be inadequate to the needs of clients and society at large. Improvements
will be proposed through the adoption of Mobilizable Strength Design (MSD) principles in which the designer explicitly considers the
stress-strain behaviour of the ground.

Central to the MSD approach will be an assessment of the possible deformability and strength of the soil that lies within the
anticipated deformation mechanism of the proposed geo-structure. Displacements are then calculated by applying the principle of
conservation of energy to the deformation mechanism. This leaves the designer with an implicit assessment of deformations before
any other checks which might later be made by Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and ensures that the intended design performance can
always be checked by monitoring during construction. Examples of the application of MSD will include slopes, earth retaining
structures and foundations..

BIODATA

Malcolm Bolton is Professor of Soil Mechanics at Cambridge University, and has been Director of the Schofield Centre for
Geotechnical and Construction Modelling since 1995. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds various prizes
of the UK Institutions of Civil and Structural Engineering, the British Geotechnical Association and the Canadian Geotechnical
Society. He was founding chairman of the ISSMGE Technical Committee on Geo-Mechanics from Micro to Macro (GM3). He has
collaborated on piles with the Giken company of Japan for 18 years, and is the founding chairman of the International Press-In
Association. He served on the Slope Stability Technical Review Board for the Hong Kong Government, and acts as a consultant in
relation to soil-pipeline interactions on the sea bed. He helped to draft BS8002 Earth Retaining Structures, and has over 220
publications on topics ranging from fundamental soil mechanics to a wide variety of geotechnical engineering applications.

Ir. Liew Shaw Shong

Chairman
Geotechnical Engineering Technical Division

Announcement to note:
1. Talk is STRICTLY for IEM members only (walk in)
2. Limited seats available on a "first come first served" basis.
3. No telephone and/or fax reservation will be entertained.
4. Latecomers will not be allowed entrance, if the lecture hall is full.
5. Please bring along this flyer and membership card for confirmation of attendance (CPD purpose).

For IEM members, membership cards MUST be presented for identification purpose. Members who fail to show their membership card will be
charged a fee of RM20.00.

FUNDS FOR IEM NEW BUILDING

Kindly be informed that IEM will be charging participants RM10.00 administrative fee to evening talks organised by IEM. The fee
would be used for overhead costs, building maintenance expenses as well as to support the purchase of the new building.

Students are however exempted. Your understanding is greatly appreciated.

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