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Aerospace, Civil & Mechanical Engineering

Associate Professor Robert Lo

Academic and Professional Qualifications
BSc, PhD, CEng, CPEng

Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer


Phone: +61 2 6268 8349
Fax: +61 2 6268 8337
Email: r.lo@adfa.edu.au

Professional and Teaching Experience

Engineer then Senior Engineer with Intl. consulting group, government for about 7 years. Extensive industrial experience of a high order in the design and construction of both structural and geotechnical infrastructure projects.
Lecturer, Senior Lecturer then Associate Professor with UNSW. Teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and successful supervision of numerous PhD projects.

Honorary International Appointments
Honorary advisor, Centre for Professional Development and Research, HKSAR.
Technical Committee Member, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geoechnical Engineering.

Research Interests

Behaviour of pavement materials and soils subject to cyclic loading
Influence of strain path on behaviour of granular soils
Reinforced soil system (including geosynthetic reinforced soil structures)
Reliability methods and risk analysis in geotechnical engineering
Soft soil engineering (including embankment on soft soil)
Large deformation behaviour of soils liquefaction.

Consulting Interests

Foundations. Deep Excavation. Reinforced soil system. Liquefaction. Soil modelling. Soft soil engineering

Publications
Books: 2 chapters
Book Co-editor: 2
Journals: 41
Conference: 52
Other: -

 

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