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COFS PhD student, Mr Jingbin Zheng, has been awarded a 2015-2016 ISOPE scholarship for Outstanding Students. The scholarship is in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and the potential to become a leader in the offshore mechanics and polar engineering field.

Jingbin co-authored the paper Installation of Spudcan Foundations in Layered Soils: Centrifuge Test and Numerical Analysis, with COFS researchers Shazzad Hossain, Stefanus Safinus, Youngho Kim and Jonghwa Won, Jong-Sik Park and Min Jung Jun from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in Korea. The paper is being presented at ISOPE 2015.

Jingbin’s PhD topic is on the numerical modelling of spudcan and cone penetration in multilayer soils. Using numerical analyses of spudcan and cone penetration tests, Jingbin is producing practical predictive methods for assessing spudcan penetration resistance in multilayer soils. These include a mechanism-based two-step approach and a CPT-based direct approach. The former predicts spudcan penetration resistance using shear strength parameters derived from laboratory tests, while the latter will provide a direct correlation between spudcan penetration performance and field penetrometer data to provide a first-order estimation for the risk of punch-through failure and thus reducing the time scale and costs of current engineering calculations.

COFS would like to congratulate Jingbin on his ISOPE scholarship award.

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Rochelle Gunn, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, +61 6488 3183, [email protected]