Congress Program
MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2014
0800-1730
Registration and Information Desk Open
0900-1700
Short Course 1 – Meeting Room 104
Short Course 2 – Meeting Room 103
0900-1000
Geosynthetics in landfills and other barrier systems
Cover systems for landfills and mine waste storage facilities:
current international practices and design for long-term
conditions
1000-1030
Morning Tea – Trade Exhibition
1030-1230
Short Course 1 – Continued
1230-1345
Lunch – Trade Exhibition
1345-1500
Short Course 1 – Continued
1500-1530
Afternoon Tea – Trade Exhibition
1530-1730
Short Course 1 – Continued
Short Course 2 – Continued
Short Course 2 – Continued
Short Course 2 – Continued
TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014
0730-1715
Registration and Information Desk Open
0830-1000
Plenary Session 1
Room
Plenary 1, Ground Floor
0830-0900
Welcome & Opening Ceremony
0900-1000
The R.K Rowe Lecture – Chair: Mario Manassero (Italy)
The role of diffusion in environmental geotechnics
Charles Shackelford (USA)
1000-1030
Morning Tea – Trade Exhibition
1030-1230
Plenary Session 2
Room
Plenary 1, Ground Floor
1030-1130
Keynote Lecture – Chair: Kerry Rowe (Canada)
Environment and geotechnics: a forward look at the union
Stephan Jefferis (UK)
1130-1230
Keynote Lecture – Chair: Roger Parker (Australia)
The importance of communicating the science, in the development of major resource projects
Shaun Davidge (Australia)
1230-1345
Lunch – Trade Exhibition
1345-1515
Plenary Session 3
Room
Plenary 1, Ground Floor
1345-1415
Theme Lecture – Chair: John McCartney (USA)
Some considerations for designing GSHP coupled geotechnical structures based on a case study
Kenichi Soga (UK)
1415-1445
Theme Lecture – Chair: John McCartney (USA)
Energy piles in cooling dominated climates
Marcelo Sanchez (USA)
1445-1515
Theme Lecture – Chair: John McCartney (USA)
Hydromechanical coupling in CO2 geological injection processes
Lyesse Laloui (Switzerland)
1515-1545
Afternoon Tea – Trade Exhibition
1545-1715
Concurrent Session 1A
Concurrent Session 1B
Concurrent Session 1C
Containment &
Management of Waste
Joint TC215-TC308 Session
Energy Geoenvironmental
Technology
Containment &
Management of Waste
(Barriers)
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
Meeting Room 104
Meeting Room 103
Chair
John Cowland (Hong Kong)
Marcelo Sanchez (USA)
Stephan Jefferis (UK)
1545-1555
The role of a regulator in
improving landfill design
and construction standards:
a victorian perspective
Kapila Bogoda
Settlement behavior of
geothermal energy piles in
sand
Rajni Saggu
Preliminary observations
on shrinkage of cementbentonite barrier wall
materials and its
compensation by reactive
magnesia addition
David O’Connor
1555-1605
Assessment of rock
mechanics parameters
for improved waste
disposal management and
containment
David Williams
Potential benefits of
intermittent and hybrid
ground-source heat pump
system operation
Stuart Colls
Volume change
characteristics of cutoff
wall materials
Jeffrey Evans
1605-1615
Mapping land damage from
the Canterbury earthquake
sequence
Tony Kortegast
Evaluation of soil thermal
properties through numerical
simulations of a heating test
on a geothermal energy pile
Gary Yu
Experimental study on
the self-sealing capability
of soil-bentonite mixture
cutoff walls
Atsushi Takai
1615-1625
Municipal solid waste
characteristics and
management in Kanpur City
Rajeesh Sathiyamoorthy
Analysis of inter-seasonal
heat storage in soils
Peter Cleall
Reuse of dredged sediments
in cut-offs
Evelina Fratalocchi
1625-1635
The Böschistobel landfill:
innovative reinforcement
solutions 1995-2013
Dimiter Alexiew
Charging and discharging of
soil-borehole thermal energy
storage systems in the
Vadose zone
John McCartney
Reuse of dredged sediments
for hydraulic barriers:
heavy metal adsorption
and hydraulic conductivity
improvement through
polymers
Gemmina Di Emidio
1635-1645
Service life of a number of
alternative designs for a
MSW leachate collection
system
Kerry Rowe
Coal seam gas extraction
and their potential effects
on surface subsidence:
an overview
Jubert Pineda
Hydraulic conductivity of
hindmarsh clay amended by
polymeric additives
An Deng
1645-1655
Filter performance
assessment of a drainage
geocomposite by laboratory
column leach tests
Aigen Zhao
Environmental risks,
regulation and management
of chemicals used in
hydraulic fracturing
Sophie Wood
Hydraulic conductivity of
chemically modified clays for
containment barriers
Gretchen Bohnhoff
1655-1705
Evaluation of the decrease
in long term water flow
capacity of geocomposites
due to filter intrusion
Alain Hérault
Understanding
environmental risks from
coal seam gas
Rowan Drinkwater
Tensile strength and
permeability behaviour of
soil barrier material with and
without polyester fibers
B V S Viswanadham
1705-1715
Q&A
Q&A
Q&A
1730-1930
Welcome Reception – Trade Exhibition
Sponsored by Australian Geomechanics Society
WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014
0730-1700
Registration and Information Desk Open
0830-1030
Plenary Session 4
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
0830-0930
Keynote Lecture – Chair: Craig Benson (USA)
Field and laboratory observations of down-slope bentonite migration in exposed composite liners
R. Kerry Rowe (Canada)
Session Sponsored by
0930-1000
Theme Lecture – Chair: Michael Malusis (USA)
Evaluating the performance of geosynthetics for environmental protection
to be presented by Malek Bouazza (Australia) on behalf of Nathalie Touze-Foltz (France)
1000-1030
Theme Lecture – Chair: Michael Malusis (USA)
Dewatering and beneficial reuse of dredged contaminated sediments using geotextile tubes
Chris Lawson (Malaysia)
1030-1100
Morning Tea – Trade Exhibition
1100-1230
Plenary Session 5
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
1100-1130
Theme Lecture – Chair: William Powrie (UK)
THM analysis of pellet-based materials for engineered barriers for nuclear waste
Antonio Gens (Spain)
1130-1200
Theme Lecture – Chair: William Powrie (UK)
Coupled phenomena in contaminant transport
Mario Manassero (Italy)
1200-1230
Theme Lecture – Chair: William Powrie (UK)
Environmental geotechnics for the recovery from 2011 East Japan earthquake and tsunami
Takeshi Katsumi (Japan)
1230-1330
Lunch – Trade Exhibition
1230-1330
Poster Presentation Session
1330-1500
Concurrent Session 2A
Concurrent Session 2B
Concurrent Session 2C
Concurrent Session 2D
Joint TC215-IGS TC
Barriers Developments
in geosynthetics for
environmental protection
Containment and Waste
Management
Contaminant fate and
transport assessment
Containment and
Management of Waste
(dredged sediments/
sludges)
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
Meeting Room 104
Meeting Room 103
Meeting Room 101/102
Chair
Boyd Ramsey (USA)
Maria Eugenia Boscov (Brazil) Mohd Raihan Taha (Malaysia) Jeffrey Evans (USA)
1330-1340
Geosynthetics used in
the barrier systems for
remediation of hydrocarbon
contaminated soil in
Antarctica
Kerry Rowe
Execution method of
cement mixed soils for
confining fluid mud
Teppei Akimoto
A novel hydro-geochemical
model for treating acidic
groundwater utilizing a
permeable reactive barrier
Udeshini Pathirage
Geotextile container disposal
of Type 3 contaminated
sediments dredged from
Causeway Bay Typhoon
Shelter in Hong Kong
Chris Lawson
1340-1350
New barrier technology for
sites contaminated with
hydrocarbons and VOCs
Richard Menage
Mechanical behaviour of
soil-wood chip mixtures
generated from earthquake
waste
Hideto Nonoyama
Experimental pollutant
transport parameters for the
leachate from a Brazilian
MSW disposal site
Giulliana Mondelli
Relationship between
bound water content and
permeability of cementtreated dredged sediment
C F Chiu
1350-1400
Effect of brine on STD-OIT
depletion from HDPE GMB
seams
Kerry Rowe
Coal ash in geotechnical
applications
Kenichi Sato
Contaminant transport
through peats: soil behavior
and risk assessment
Anirudh Sriraam
Redevelopment of old sludge
reservoirs
Kristof Verreydt
1400-1410
Analysis of chemical
resistance for notched high
density polyethylene (HDPE)
geomembrane
H Y Jeon
Incorporation of biosolids in
fired clay bricks
Aruna Ukwatta
A finite difference model for
electric field derived solute
transport
An Deng
Impact of flocculants on the
stress-strain behaviour of
dredged sediments
Peter Van Impe
1410-1420
Modelling of GCL moisture
and heat migration in a
composite liner subjected to
high temperatures
Rao Martand Singh
Microstructural effects of
environmental salinity on
unbound granular road
pavements
Xianfeng Liu
Pb(II) adsoption
characteristics of loess
modified soil-bentonite:
equilibrium and
non-equilibrium test
Haijian Xie
Compressive strength
behavior of sludge-fly ash
geopolymer
Arul Arulrajah
1420-1430
Persistence of
semipermeable membrane
behavior for a geosynthetic
clay liner
Charles Shackelford
Effects of electrode
configuration on electroosmotic consolidation
Hui Wu
Modeling the environmental
implications of bottom
seepage from oil sands
tailings ponds
Warren Miller
Use of vacuum preloading
to reduce volume of sewage
sludge contained in a lagoon
Xinjie Zhan
1430-1440
Impact of acid rock
drainage on the hydraulic
performance and chemical
compatibility of geosynthetic
clay liners
Angelica Naka
Q&A
Q&A
Q&A
1440-1450
Bentonite extrusion from
GCLs as a function of
moisture content, stress
application, and temperature
James Hanson
1450-1500
Q&A
1500-1530
Afternoon Tea – Trade Exhibition
1530-1730
Concurrent Session 3A
Concurrent Session 3B
Concurrent Session 3C
Concurrent Session 3D
Developments in
geosynthetics for
environmental protection
Developments in
geosynthetics for
environmental protection
Soil, ground vapour and
groundwater remediation
and redevelopment of
derelict land
Containment and
Management of Waste
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
Meeting Room 104
Meeting Room 103
Meeting Room 101/102
Chair
Fred Gassner (Australia)
Chris Lawson (Malaysia)
Charles Shackelford (USA)
Peter Cleall (UK)
1530-1540
Evaluation of HDPE
geomembranes under
tropical climate
Hoe Boon Ng
Durability of polyester
geotextiles subjected to
outdoor and accelerated
weathering
Daniel Gibbs
Erosion mitigation of
lignosulfonate treated
unstable soils
Rasika Athukorala
Importance of sample
volume changes and
material degradation on
gas transport properties in
Boom Clay
Enrique Romero
1540-1550
Developments in
geosynthetics for
environmental protection:
leak detection for optimum
geomembrane performance
Abigail Beck
Concrete canvas: a versatile
composite geosynthetic
Nigel Ross Wightman
Performance evaluation of
modified bentonite barrier
in the remediation of
contaminated groundwater
Ziyad Abunada
Mechanical properties of
compacted bentonite-sand
mixtures under unsaturated
and saturated conditions
Ying Cui
1550-1600
Enhance post installation
liner integrity surveys using
electrically conductive
geomembrane
Boyd Ramsey
Investigation of GCL overlap
techniques using a large
scale flow box
Preston Kendall
Large-scale model
experiments on multi-field
interactions in landfills of
municipal solid waste
Hui Xu
Shear characteristics of
Ca-type bentonite immersed
in NaOH solution
Yasutaka Watanabe
1600-1610
The impact of chemical and
environmental factors on the
mechanical parameters of
HDPE geogrid
Eugeniusz Koda
Some synergisms in the
degradation of polypropylene
geotextiles
Maria De Lurdes Lopes
Improvement of soil stability
along rail corridors through
native vegetation
Muditha Pallewattha
A conceptual approach
to two-scale constitutive
modelling for hydromechanical coupling
Giang Nguyen
1620-1630
Sludge treatment and
tailings pond cappings by the
use of geosynthetics
Ole Syllwasschy
Geomembrane protection
using cushioning geotextiles
Richard Austin
Evaluation of the
contamination on organic
soil of Gramacho M.S.W.
Landfill, Brazil
Elisabeth Ritter
A numerical study of shale
gas flow considering pore
scale effect
Pengwei Zhang
1630-1640
The risk of relying on
standard test method results
without understanding the
test method
Warren Hornsey
Installation durability testing
of revetment geotextiles
Preston Kendall
Removal of phosphorus
and other components from
eutrophic lake water
Catherine Mulligan
Geotechnical properties of
regolith materials in Central
Northern South Australia
Takashi Itakura
1640-1650
Sequential measurement
of gas diffusion and
gas permeability of a
geosynthetic clay liner
Abdur Rouf
New developments in landfill Q&A
sealing systems using coated
GCLS
Amir Shahkolahi
Preliminary modelling of
hydro-thermal behaviour of
ground reactive zone due to
climate change
Jayantha Kodikara
1650-1700
Q&A
Application of geotextile
mattress cofferdam
technology on soft seabed in
land reclamation engineering
Zhou Xiaowen
Q&A
1700-1710
Q&A
THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2014
0730-1700
Registration and Information Desk Open
0830-1030
Plenary Session 6
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
0830-0930
Keynote Lecture – Chair: Peter Van Impe (Belgium)
Geochemical or geotechnical: their dual requirements in effective waste management
Paul Brown (Australia)
0930-1030
Keynote Lecture – Chair: Will Gates (Australia)
Designing for extreme environments: Next generation geosynthetic clay liners with polymer-bentonite composites
Craig Benson (USA)
Session Sponsored by
1030-1100
Morning Tea – Trade Exhibition
1100-1230
Plenary Session 7
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
1100-1130
Theme Lecture – Chair: Bruce Brown (Australia)
Polymer modified mine tailings: is the current geotechnical framework adequate?
Andy Fourie (Australia)
1130-1200
Theme Lecture – Chair: Bruce Brown (Australia)
Applying geomechanics principles to mine waste management
David Williams (Australia)
1200-1230
Theme Lecture – Chair: Bruce Brown (Australia)
Applications of biogeotechnics to geoenvironmental problems
Ed Kavazanjian (USA)
1230-1330
Lunch – Trade Exhibition
1330-1500
Concurrent Session 4A
Concurrent Session 4B
Concurrent Session 4C
Concurrent Session 4D
Containment and
Management of Waste
Containment and
Management of Waste
Soil, ground vapour and
groundwater remediation
and redevelopment of
derelict land
Biogeotechnical
Engineering
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
Meeting Room 104
Meeting Room 103
Meeting Room 101/102
Chair
Andy Fourie (Australia)
Manoj Datta (India)
Marina Pantazidou (Greece)
Ed Kavazanjian (USA)
1330-1340
Laboratory testing of
mixtures of coal mine
washery wastes
David Williams
Mechanical properties of
reused cement stabilized soil
mixed with coal ash
Takuro Fujikawa
Modelling the movement
of substrates for anaerobic
bioremediation in a highly
permeable aquifer
Yasuhide Furukawa
Soil stabilisation by
microbial-induced calcite
precipitation (MICP):
investigation into some
physical and environmental
aspects
Mohamed Shahin
1340-1350
From fluid to solid: oil sands
fluid fine tailings
G. Ward Wilson
Evaluation of coal wash and
steel furnace slag blends as
effective reclamation fill for
port expansion
Ali Tasalloti
Pyritic sediment redox
dynamics and impact on
water quality during burial
under preload surcharge
Ohene Karikari-Yeboah
Seepage-induced erosion
control by microbially
induced calcite precipitation:
an experimental investigation
Ningjun Jiang
1350-1400
Modelling tailings
consolidation with the
geoREF geotechnical beam
centrifuge
Gonzalo Zambrano
Narvaez
Study of the hydraulic
behaviour of steel slag and
CDW recycled aggregates to
MSW landfill leachate
António José Roque
Adsorption of PCB on
nanomaterials enhanced soil
Mohd Raihan Taha
Self-healing soil: biomimetic
engineering of geotechnical
structures to respond to
damage
Michael Harbottle
1400-1410
Investigation of coal
combustion by-products
disposal in a semi-arid
climate
John Stormont
Workability and
compressibility of zeolite
amended soil-bentonite
backfills for slurry-trench
walls
Ri-Dong Fan
Industrial solid waste
treatment in China
Qingbo Wen
Insolubilization of hexavalent
chromium in cement
waste soil by anaerobic
microorganisms
Mitsuhiro Sumikura
1410-1420
Research and analysis of
geosynthetics for a tailings
storage application
Marc Amtsberg
Compaction behaviour of
organo clay amended sand
bentonite mixtures
Vandana Sreedharan
A methodology for the design
of driven piles through
municipal solid waste
material
Tim Thompson
Biomineralisation of metals
in soil – effect of metal
toxicity and precipitation as a
protective mechanism
Michael Harbottle
1420-1430
Relevance of hydromechanical-chemical
processes involved in the
construction and operation of
copper heap leach pads
Mayu Alberto Tincopa
Heredia
Polymer treated clays
subjected to wet-dry cycling
with seawater
Gemmina Di Emidio
Evaluation of groundwater
vulnerability to nitrate
in shallow aquifer of
Kathmandu basin using
multi-layer fuzzy inference
system within GIS
environment
Dhundi Raj Pathak
Urea hydrolysis rate of
B. Megaterium for soil
bio-cementation
Youventharan Duraisamy
1430-1440
Q&A
Q&A
Q&A
The use of biostimulation
increases the area impacted
by fuel spill
Antonio Thome
1440-1450
Shear strength of omani
sand treated with biopolymer
Mohsin Qureshi
1450-1500
Q&A
1500-1530
Afternoon Tea – Trade Exhibition
1530-1650
Concurrent Session 5A
Concurrent Session 5B
Concurrent Session 5C
Developments in
geosynthetics for
environmental protection
Containment and
Management of Waste
Soil, ground vapour and
groundwater remediation
and redevelopment of
derelict land
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
Meeting Room 104
Meeting Room 103
Chair
Takeshi Katsumi (Japan)
Liang-Tong Zhan (China)
Catherine Mulligan
(Canada)
1530-1540
Membrane efficiency of a
dense, prehydrated GCL
Michael Malusis
Shear strength of municipal
solid waste
Cristina Gomes
Time-dependent
performance of soil mix
technology mass stabilised
contaminated site soils
Fei Wang
1540-1550
Comparison between the
beneficial impact of polymer
treatment and sodiumactivation on calcium
bentonites
Gemmina De Emidio
Study on the characteristics
of natural shear strength
and deformation of the fresh
municipal solid waste in
Hangzhou, China
Zhenying Zhang
Beneficail reuse of
contaminated materials from
site remediation
Fred Gassner
1550-1600
Saline – sodic resistant
bentonite in geosynthetic
clay liners: potential for coal
seam gas applications
Will Gates
Engineering properties of
municipal solid waste with
high organic content and
their detrimental effect on
landfills
Wu Gao
Long-term removal efficiency
and hydraulic behaviour of
zero valent iron and lapillus
mixtures to remediate
heavy-metal contaminated
groundwater
Maria Grazia Madaffari
1600-1610
Microscopic study on
bentonite component of
geosynthetic clay liners
under acidic conditions
Will Gates
Preloading and
instrumentation for
Rockhampton Lakes Creek
Road waste transfer station
Richard Gong
Oxidant transport for ISCO
treatment using electric
gradients: a research
overview
Daniel Hodges
1610-1620
A test method to determine
expected GCL porosity under
specific site conditions
Will Gates
Stabilization of cover slopes
of Ghazipur MSW Landfill
using paver blocks, geocells
and geogrids – a case study
Manoj Datta
Hydrocarbon mass
estimation: methods of
calculation and relevance to
risk assessment
Stephen Cambridge
1620-1630
Effect of vertical stresses on
GCL thermal conductivity
Mohammad Asgar Ali
Reliability analysis of
municipal solid waste landfill
settlements
Sampurna Datta
Effect of sulfate on the
progress of dechlorination
through anaerobic
biotransformation
Marina Pantazidou
1630-1640
Performance of GCLs in
brine ponds for coal-seam
gas extraction sites: an
investigation
Abbas El-Zein
Q&A
Improving remediation
perfomance by hydraulic
fracturing in sand layer
Tomohiro Nakashima
1640-1650
Q&A
1900-2300
Congress Gala Dinner
National Galley of Victoria, Melbourne
Q&A
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2014
0730-1530
Registration and Information Desk Open
0830-1030
Plenary Session 8
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
0830-0930
Keynote Lecture – Chair: Warren Pump (Australia)
Remediation and redevelopment of derelict land in the UK – Lessons learnt over three decades; challenges remaining
Mike Summersgill (UK)
0930-1000
Theme Lecture – Chair: Tony Kortegast (Australia)
Landfill aftercare – meeting the challenge
William Powrie (UK)
1000-1030
Theme Lecture – Chair: Tony Kortegast (Australia)
Effective environmental performance following mine closure: an example from the Brukunga Mine Remediation Project,
South Australia
Tamie Weaver (Australia)
1030-1100
Morning Tea – Trade Exhibition
1100-1200
Plenary Session 9
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
1100-1130
Theme Lecture – Chair: Nazli Yesiller (USA)
Biochemical, hydraulic and mechanical behaviours of landfills with high-kitchen-waste-content MSW
Yun-Min Chen (China)
1130-1200
Theme Lecture – Chair: Nazli Yesiller (USA)
The California story: allocating site-specific landfill methane (CH_4) emissions for a regional GHG inventory using
process-based modeling
Jean Bogner (USA)
1200-1300
Lunch – Trade Exhibition
1300-1440
Concurrent Session 6A
Concurrent Session 6B
Landfill gas management and greenhouse emission abatement
Waste facilities closures and aftercare
Room
Meeting Room 105/106
Meeting Room 104
Chair
Sam Yuen (Australia)
David Williams (Australia)
1300-1310
The characteristic of intrinsic gas permeability of landfilled
waste in degradation process – a laboratory study
Lei Liu
Landfill redevelopment – lessons, experiences, and a
multitude of challenges
Sze-Fei Peng
1310-1320
Gas migration in bioreactor landfills considering MSW
compression and leachate recirculation
Shijin Feng
Closure and exit strategy for an unlined copper slag landfill
Graeme Miller
1320-1330
Ground gas beneath new residences built over a former
landfill, Cheltenham, Australia
Warren Pump
Final cover performance in the Australian environment
– the A-ACAP field trials
Melissa Salt
1330-1340
Seasonal variations of methane emissions from two landfills
in Australia
Mostafa Asadi
Design and installation of a geosynthetic final cover utilizing
artificial turf in Louisiana
Ricardo De Abreu
1340-1350
Stevensons Road Cranbourne landfill – lessons learned and
pragmatic methodology for landfill gas assessment and
management in Australia
Peter Gringinger
Advances in real time data collection for landfill
management
Tony Kortegast
1350-1400
Gas permeability of soil barriers of landfill cover system
subjected to deformation
B V S Viswanadham
Q&A
1400-1410
Q&A
1415-1455
Closing Ceremony – Meeting Room 105/106