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    YGE Chairperson: Please Note This Programme Is Subject To Change by The YGE Committee and The Organisers

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    The document provides the program for the Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2011, which took place from August 31 to September 2. It details the schedule over the three days, with sessions on topics like site investigation, piling, mining, analysis and modeling, construction, and case studies. Speakers presented on advances in field testing techniques, soil reinforcement methods, instrumentation, analysis of pile pullout tests, slope stability, tailings facilities, modeling, and more. The program aimed to educate young geotechnical engineers through presentations and discussions on current research and practices.

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    The document provides the program for the Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2011, which took place from August 31 to September 2. It details the schedule over the three days, with sessions on topics like site investigation, piling, mining, analysis and modeling, construction, and case studies. Speakers presented on advances in field testing techniques, soil reinforcement methods, instrumentation, analysis of pile pullout tests, slope stability, tailings facilities, modeling, and more. The program aimed to educate young geotechnical engineers through presentations and discussions on current research and practices.

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    The document provides the program for the Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2011, which took place from August 31 to September 2. It details the schedule over the three days, with sessions on topics like site investigation, piling, mining, analysis and modeling, construction, and case studies. Speakers presented on advances in field testing techniques, soil reinforcement methods, instrumentation, analysis of pile pullout tests, slope stability, tailings facilities, modeling, and more. The program aimed to educate young geotechnical engineers through presentations and discussions on current research and practices.

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    YOUNG GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS CONFERENCE 2011

    PROGRAMME
    DAY 1 WEDNESDAY 31 AUGUST 2011*
    07:00 08:45 Breakfast, Tea & Coffee and REGISTRATION

    Session 1 Site Investigation and Testing

    09:00 09:15 Welcome Address Eulane Heukelman


    YGE Chairperson
    09:15 10:00 Godfather Presentation Dr Gary Jones

    10:00 10:20 Advances in the Use of DPSH Testing for Site Charles MacRobert
    Investigations Anglo Technical Services
    10:20 10:40 Investigation of Different Surface Preparation Hennie Barnard
    Methods to Minimize Bedding Errors in Plate Load Aurecon SA
    Tests
    10:40 10:50 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    10:50 11:10 Tea & Coffee Break

    Session 2 Piling and Lateral Support

    11:10 11:30 Soil Reinforcement Using Perforated Plastic Shopping Laxmee Sobhee-Beetul
    Bags University of Cape Town
    11:30 11:50 Internally Instrumented Soil Nail Pull Out Tests Jacobus Breyl
    Jones and Wagener
    11:50 12:10 Soil Nail Pull Out Tests - Pitfalls Highlighted from Mzwakhe Dlamini
    Experience Jones and Wagener
    12:10 12:20 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    12:20 13:20 Lunch Break

    Session 3 Site Investigation and Testing

    13:20 13:40 Applying Resistivity Testing to Determining the Charles MacRobert


    Phreatic Surface in Embankments Anglo Technical Services
    13:40 14:00 Application of the Correlation Between Rock Mass Marie Basson
    Classification Systems for South African Conditions ARQ
    14:00 14:10 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    14:10 14:30 Tea & Coffee Break

    Session 4 Piling and Lateral Support

    14:30 14:50 Axial Loads in Soil Nails During Construction Barnus Beyers
    WBHO
    14:50 15:10 Current Soil Nail Pull Out Testing Procedures Being Rene Rampersad
    Used in South Africa Jones and Wagener
    15:10 15:20 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    15:20 18:00 Leisure time

    18:00 Drinks by the Fire

    * Please note this programme is subject to change by the YGE committee and the organisers
    DAY 2 THURSDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2011*

    07:00 08:45 Breakfast, Tea & Coffee


    Session 5 Mining & Environmental

    09:00 09:20 Leading Fall of Ground Prevention Strategy Andr Esterhuizen


    Implemented at Two Rivers Platinum Mine Open House Management
    Solutions
    09:20 09:40 Design of the Blow B3 Vertical Pit at Koidu Diamond Robert Armstrong
    Mine, Sierra Leone SRK Consulting
    09:40 10:00 Towards an Improved Pillar Design Methodology at Yerisha Rajpal
    Bathopele Mine Anglo American
    10:00 10:20 The Potential Impact of the Removal of the Chrome Arte Schoeman
    Fraction on the Geotechnical Behaviour of UG2 SRK Consulting
    Tailings Material
    10:20 10:30 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    10:30 10:50 Tea & Coffee Break


    Session 6 Mining & Environmental (cont.)

    10:50 11:10 The Determination of Excess Pore Water Pressure Drian Roos
    Development in Gold Tailings Dams using Finite Epoch Resources
    Element Modelling and Laboratory Simulation
    11:10 11:30 Slope Management in Mogalakwena Central Rethabile Mohapi
    Anglo American
    11:30 11:50 Pillarless Mining at Shallow to Intermediate Depths Michael du Plessis
    on the Merensky Reef Horizon Lonmin Platinum
    11:50 12:10 A Geosynthetic Alternative to Traditional Sand Filter Colin Gewanlal
    Drains in a Piggy-Back Tailings Storage Facility Kaytech Engineered Fabrics

    12:10 12:20 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    12:20 13:20 Lunch Break

    Session 7 Analysis & Modelling

    13:20 13:40 Numerical & Limit State Analysis of Connected Sinenkosi Dlamini
    Double-Faced Mechanically Stabilised Earth Walls Maccaferri SA
    13:40 14:00 Deterministic Rock Slope Stability Analyses of a Andrew Greet
    Bullnose within Coedmore Quarry, Durban, South University of KwaZulu-Natal
    Africa
    14:00 14:20 A Comparison of Predicted and Measured Dynamic Helene Steinberg
    Response of a Machine Foundation ARQ
    14:20 14:30 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    14:30 14:50 Tea & Coffee Break


    Session 8 Analysis and Modelling (cont.)

    14:50 15:10 Predicting the In-situ Behaviour of Collapsing Soils Rachael Govender
    for the Purposes of Foundation Design The Centre for Excellence in
    Foundation Engineering
    15:10 15:30 Possible Environmental Causes and Implications of Tshepiso P. Letlole
    Corrosion on Housing Structures (Bontleng) Department of Geological
    Survey, Botswana
    15:30 15:50 The Behaviour of Modern Flexible Framed Structures Gerrit Smit
    Undergoing Differential Settlement LEO Consulting
    15:50 16:00 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    16:00 16:30 Group Discussion

    16:0 17:00 Leisure time

    17:00 Game Drive and Bush Braai

    * Please note this programme is subject to change by the YGE committee and the organisers
    DAY 3 FRIDAY 02 SEPTEMBER 2011*

    07:00 09:00 Breakfast, Tea & Coffee

    Session 9 Construction & Case Studies

    09:20 09:40 Evaluation of the Stability of a rehabilitated Pit Wall Brendon Jones
    Slope at Coedmore Quarry, Durban, South Africa University of KwaZulu-Natal
    09:40 10:00 Case Study of the Design Solution to a Typical Bronwen Klaas
    Dolomite Problem ARQ
    10:00 10:10 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    10:10 10:30 Tea & Coffee Break

    Session 10 Construction & Case Studies (cont.)

    10:30 10:50 CASE STUDY: Geotechnical Investigation for Silke van Haute
    Upgrades to National Route 2 Section 26 from Mt Vela VKE
    Edgecombe Interchange to Tongaat Toll Plaza
    10:50 11:10 Cost Analysis for the Mechanically Stabilized Earth Mark Laughton
    Wall for the John Ross Bridge Richards Bay ARQ
    11:10 11:30 Session Summary Dr Gary Jones

    11:30 11:50 Tea & Coffee Break

    11:50 12:10 Conference Summary Dr Gary Jones

    12:10 - 12:30 Awards and Closure

    * Please note this programme is subject to change by the YGE committee and the organisers

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