UG4 Student Conference 2015
To mark the end of the four year MEng programme in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and for many, the end of university life, a two-day Student Conference is held each year at the end of June.
It provides an opportunity for this year’s graduates to present the results of their research, carried out in the final year over a period of four months, to an audience of academic staff, industry, postgraduate researchers, and fellow undergraduates, in the form of a poster and an oral presentation. The Conference offers an excellent way to showcase the skills of our final year students as well as the diversity of research undertaken within the departmental Sections of Environmental and Water Resource Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Geotechnics, Structures and Transport.
The final year posters, which can be viewed by Section in the drop down menu's below, reflect the content of the research paper, as presented, at the Conference. Some poster and titles have been withheld due to commercial sensitivities. The event closed with an Awards ceremony at which the best student oral presentations, by Section, were recognised. This year’s winners (2015) were:
| Poster no# and Student | Poster and title | Section |
|---|---|---|
| E14 - David Declan Maguire | Identification of Critical Metal Priorities in WEEE | Environmental Engineering (EWRE) |
| F05 - Stephen Rose | Extreme Waves in Wind Driven Seas [poster not available due to commercial sensitivities] |
Fluid Mechanics |
| G08 - Bernat Bellavista Crespo | UK Railway Cut Slopes: Effect of Soil-atmosphere Interaction on the Factor of Safety against Failure | Geotechnics |
| S18 - Mitesh Patel | Surface Topology Optimisation and its Application to Bone Structures | Structures |
| T06 - Fanny Heneine | Analysis of travel time reliability on London Underground | Transport |
| T09 - Xiyi Mark Wu | Using MassMotion, an Agent-based Simulation on Optimizing the Fire Evacuation Plan in Road Tunnel - A Case Study for the Dartford Tunnel | Transport |
| 2015 Student Conference: Poster prize winners | ||
UG4 Student Conference 2015 Posters
Environmental Engineering (EWRE)
| Poster no# and Student | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| E01 - Jineesha Mehta | Chlorine and Chloramine Demand of Natural Organic Matter Surrogates | Bond, T. |
| E02 - Emma Watkins | Modelling salinity exchange between drinking water ponds and groundwater in southern Bangladesh | Butler, A.P |
| E03 - Ka Tsun Ho | Using Dissolved Oxygen As A Mean Of Accessing Carbon Uptake And Utilisation | Butler, A.P |
| E04 - Rachel Ribeiro | Building a regional glacier melt model to analyse the impacts of climate change on water resources in the tropical Andes | Buytaert, W. |
| E05 - Emma Emodi | Multivariate frequency analysis of flood Risk in the poor coastal communities of Lagos State, Nigeria | Buytaert, W. |
| E06 - Pierre Magnien | Trends and mapping of climate change impact on winter chill in Western Cape, South Africa | Buytaert, W. |
| E07 - Anthony Wong | Production and characterisation of glass proppants for application in hydraulic fracturing | Cheeseman, C.R. Sim, W.W. |
| E08 - Yang Zhang | Improving the thermal properties of mortar using phase change materials in granules made from recycled glass | Cheeseman, C.R. |
| E10 Tim Munday | Greywater recycling with and without solar power – a technical and economic feasibility study | Graham, N.J. |
| E11 - Hongfei Cai | Investigation of the use of ionic liquids in the capture of volatile organic compounds | Grimes, S.M. Professor Wenlong Wang |
| E12 - Margaux Fargier | Statistical comparison of solid waste management performance in 40 cities | Grimes, S.M. |
| E13 - Saji Khoury | Integrating construction into the circular economy | Grimes, S.M. |
| E14 - David Declan Maguire | Identifcation of critical metal priorities in WEEE | Grimes, S.M. |
| E15 - Miguel Martinez de Aguirre Miral | Societal challenges in managing WEEE as part of a circular economy | Grimes, S.M. |
| E16 - Morteza Mortezai-Nejad | Potential for recovery of metal value from WEEE using crab shell waste | Grimes, S.M. |
| E17 - Barry Au | Green roof energy performance modelling | Mijic, A. |
| E18 - Eleni Christofides | Flood estimation and impacts in urban areas | Mijic, A. |
| E19 Panagiotis Floros | Impacts of blue-green solutions on urban sustainability | Mijic, A. |
| E20 - Georgios Pasias | The impact of temporal input data resolution on partitioning of water fluxes in the Jules Land surface model | Mijic, A. |
| E21 - Zigang Guo | Multi-scale radar data analysis | Onof, C. |
| E22 - Maria Akerboom | The added value of the UK Met Office super resolution radar product | Onof, C. |
| E23 - Ryosuke Fukushi | VFA recovery from anaerobic digestion process a comparative analysis with methane recovery | Smith, S.R. |
| E24 - Haizumawati Jamil | Pathogen and health risks from flooding | Smith, S.R. |
| E25 - Jash Rughani | Multi-criteria analysis for optimum selection of waste management technologies for Mumbai, India. | Smith, S.R. Grimes, S.M. |
| E26 - John Sing-Key | Resource recovery potential of Wastewater treatment: biopolymers | Smith, S.R. |
| E27 - Azzura Haji Mohd Jaya | Resource recovery potential of wastewater treatment: industrial enzymes | Smith, S.R. |
| E28 - Ahmad Mashkuri | Short-term demand forecasting for the operational control of water supply and distribution systems | Stoianov, I. |
| E29 - Charles Prichard | Nitrogen-containing disinfection by-products in drinking water supplies in England | Templeton, M.R. Bond, T. |
| E30 - Hannah Riordan | The effect of fertilisers on the flux through a pervaporative irrigation tube | Templeton, M.R. |
| Environmental Engineering (EWRE) | ||
Fluid Mechanics
| Poster No# and Student | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| F01 - Alexander Marr | Implementation of an open source numerical model (XBeach) to predict the influence of wave grouping on beach profile evolution | Alsina, J. |
| F02 - Dominik Sznajder | Analysis of wave breaking induced by wave groups | Alsina, J. |
| F03 - Lingwei Ng | Determining wave-height statistics and limiting sea-states by analysing shallow water field measurements | Christou, M. |
| F09 - Muhammad Danyal Khan | Turbulent entrainment of a plume in a stratified environment | van Reeuwijk, M. |
| F10 - Sander van der Bie | Smoothed particle hydrodynamics modelling of free shear flows | van Reeuwijk, M. |
| F11 - Chris Carter | Momentum exchange and domain-size effects in urban-boundary layer large-eddy simulations | van Reeuwijk, M. |
| Fluid Mechanics | ||
Geotechnics
| Poster No# & Student | Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| G01 - Tina Gunnarsson | Geotechnical characterisation of an analogue lunar silt | Standing, J.R. Ghail, R.C. |
| G02 - Siu Kei Tam | Rockfill Dams – from simulation to failure | Han, B. |
| G03 - SeungKyu Nam | Characterisation of proppants for use in hydraulic fracturing | Sim, W.W. |
| G04 - Wanying Zhao | Influence of existing tunnels on compressibility characteristics of London Clay | Standing, J.R. |
| G06 - Terrence Weijie Wu | Numerical simulation of the behaviour of thermo-active Piles using a t-z methodology | Taborda, D. |
| G07 - Andrew Kirkham | Novel experimental technique for the measurement of hydraulic properties of geomaterials | Tsiampousi, A. Standing, J.R. |
| G08 - Bernat Bellavista Crespo | Railway cut slopes in the UK; Effect of soil-atmosphere interaction on the factor of safety against failure | Tsiampousi, A. |
| G09 - Joe Dai | Finite element analysis of soil behaviour during cyclic lateral loading of monopiles | Zdravkovic, L. |
| G10 - Arthur Chung | Influence of Soil anisotropy on soil liquefation | Zdravkovic, L. |
| Geotechnics | ||
Structures
| Poster No# and Student | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| S01 - Roi Sanjurjo Fortes | Structural performance of hybrid reinforced concrete/steel floor systems | Elghazouli, A. |
| S02 - Danielle Chen | Numerical study of composite floor systems consisting of cold-formed Steel beams and wood-based floorboards | Gardner, L. |
| S03 - Stephen Okeghie | Tensile behaviour of prestressed high strength steel elements | Gardner, L. |
| S04 - Paras Shah | Effects of prestressing and grouting on high strength steel trusses | Gardner, L. |
| S05 - Ho Yeung Kwok | Comparison of stiffness reduction method, effective length method and geometrically non-linear analysis with imperfections for in-plane design of steel frames | Gardner, L. |
| S06 - Bosco Zhong Heng Lee | Design of steel structures using nonlinear analysis with geometric imperfections | Gardner, L. |
| S07 - Wai Lock | Comparison between Eurocode approach and geometrical non-linear analysis on second order effects | Gardner, L. |
| S08 - Amar Patel | Numerical analysis of cold-formed steel purlins | Gardner, L. |
| S09 - Oliver Negus | Development of practical models for the assessment of static and dynamic properties of belt truss outrigger systems in tall buildings | Louca, L. |
| S10 - Thomas Donald Baird | Simplified single degree of freedom and finite element dynamic analysisOf high strength steel plates subjected to blast loading | Louca, L. |
| S12 - Clara Torres Gomez | Parametric design of timber grid shell structures: Structural form-finding and optimisation | Malaga-Chuquitaype, C. |
| S13 - Marcello Valerio | Seismic performance of weak-base strong-column frame systems | Malaga-Chuquitaype, C. |
| S14 - Karl Robert Stenbacka | Investigating the effects of dynamic impact loads on a structurally adapted FE-model of the femur | Phillips, A.T.M |
| S15 - David Steed | Educational resources for blended learning in structures | Wadee, M.A. Phillips, A.T.M |
| S16 - Peter James Nugent | Finite element representation of muscles | Phillips, A.T.M |
| S18 - Mitesh Patel | Shape topology optimisation | Phillips, A.T.M |
| S19 - Erqin Ji | Active control of bridges under moving loads | Stafford, P.J. Ruiz-Teran, A. |
| S20 - Bradley Pring | High speed railway bridges with precast-prestressed concrete beams | Ruiz-Teran, A. |
| S21 - Luke Gardner | Assessment of proposed punching shear models for incorporation into 2018 Revision of Eurocode 2 | Vollum, R.L. |
| S22 - Kwan Tsuen Michael Cheung | Influence of supplementary cementitious materials on pore structure and transport properties of cement pastes | Dr Hong Wong |
| S23 - Yuebi Yang | Impregnation of concrete with super-hydrophobic powder | Wong, H.S. Cheeseman, C.R., |
| S24 - Wenjie Zhou | Three-dimensional analysis of the pore structure of cement-based materials | Wong, H.S. |
| S25 - Mark Hanna | Technologically Enhancing the Sup ply Chain of a Hybrid Modular Builder | Popo-Ola, S.O. |
| S26 - Ruolin Lin | Time-Cost Analysis for Light Steel Frame Modular Buildings | Popo-Ola, S.O. |
| S27 - Constantinos Samuel | Model for the construction industry to reorganise Bim | Popo-Ola, S.O. |
| Structures | ||
Transport
| Poster No# and Student | Title | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| T01 - Jose Escribano Macias | Planning post-disaster recovery and reconstruction for transport infrastructure considering time and cost | Angeloudis, P. |
| T02 - Javier Monroig Vives | Balanced K-means clustering algorithm for a multi-objective partitioning in the bike repositioning problem | Angeloudis, P. |
| T03 - Alexandros Abadjis | Demand-driven design of passenger ferry services in dense island groups | Angeloudis, P. |
| T04 - Jae Wook Jung | Optimisation of Multi-Commodity, Multi-Vehicle Supply Chains in Construction | Angeloudis, P. |
| T05 - Nicholas Wong | Rapid urban evacuation across constrained transport networks | Dr Panagiotis Angeloudis Han, K. |
| T06 - Fanny Heneine | Analysis of travel time reliability on London Underground | Graham, D.J. |
| T07 - Eduard Kim | Implementation and comparison of different on-lineSignal control strategies | Han, K. |
| T08 - Kawthar Aljufairi | Commuter travel behaviour on London Underground using automatic clustering of Oyster card data | Majumdar, A. |
| T09 - Xiyi Mark Wu | Using Mass motion, an agent-based simulation on optimizing the fire evacuation in road tunnel – a case study in the Dartford Tunnel | Majumdar, A. Dr Rein Guillermo |
| T10 - Kar Chun Lee | Impact of single-engine taxiing on NOx emission from aircraft engines at London Heathrow Airport | Majumdar, A. |
| T11 - Ho Ming Rony Cheng | Optimising fire evacuation procedures of the Dartford Tunnel; A hybrid simulation approach | Majumdar, A. |
| T12 - Cheuk Hei Adrian Lee | Assessing the risk to civil aviation from laser attacks | Majumdar, A. |
| T13 - Samuel Simanjuntak | The indirect costs assessment of railway incidents and their relationship to human error: The case of signals passed at danger | Majumdar, A. |
| T14 - Ageeve Baskarathas | Investigating factors that influence pilot performance | Majumdar, A. |
| T15 - Rayan Khoury | Space based positioning and timing for railway operations | Ochieng, W. |
| Transport | ||