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