Seminars @ AIT
STS99 Flight and Mission Overview
Dr. Kiyoshi Honda, Coordinator of the STAR Program, School of Advanced
Technologies, is organizing a special lecture and video presentation on
STS99 Flight and Mission Overview, to be held on Monday, 4 Sept. at 1:30
p.m. at the AIT Center Auditorium. Dr. Mamoru Mouri, the Japanese astronaut
who carried out the radar topographic survey mission from a space shuttle,
will deliver the lecture.
For further information, call tel. 524-6406. Fax. 524-6147. E-mail:
[email protected]
Website: http://www.sat.ait.ac.th/ej-sat/
GPS: Fundamentals and Data Collection
A GPS training seminar will be held on Tuesday, 5-6 Sept. at the Institute
Wide RS/GIS laboratory of the STAR Program. A key resource person in this
training program is Mr. Dampegama, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Surveying
and Mapping, Sri Lanka. The course is free for AIT community members. The
closing date for registration is 2 Sept.
For complete course details and registration, please visit: http://www.acrors.ait.ac.th/gac
Greater Mekong Subregion and
Human Resource Development: A Business Perspective
Dr. Peter Brimble, President of Policy Research, and Dr. David Oldfield,
Vice President of the Public Policy Department – the Brooker Group Public
Co., Ltd., will conduct the above mentioned presentation on Thursday,
7 Sept. at 2:00 p.m.in Room TC-203, Telecom Bldg. Interested persons are
most welcome.
Performance of GRS Bridge Supporting
Structures: FHWA Pier and Black Hawk, Abutments
The Geotechnical Engineering Program, School of Civil Engineering,
will conduct a special lecture on ‘Performance of GRS Bridge Supporting
Structures: FHWA Pier and Black Hawk, Abutments’ on Friday, 8 Sept. from
10:00-11:00 a.m. at the SCE Building. The lecture will be conducted by
Dr. Kanop Ketchart, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Walailak University.
Abstract
Two recent projects on load test of geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS)
bridge abutments and pier will be presented. The two projects are:
- A full-scale bridge pier load test conducted by Turner-Fairbank Highway
Research Center, Federal Highway Administration in Virginia in 1996 (referred
to as the FHWA pier) - A production bridge abutment load test constructed by Yenter Companies
in Black Hawk, Colorado in 1997 (referred to as the Black Hawk abutments)
The FHWA pier is a 5.4-m high. A series of load tests were conducted to
examine the load carrying capacity of the GRS bridge pier and to investigate
the effects of various loading schemes, including preloading, on the pier
performance. The Black Hawk abutments were a production structure.
Two abutments were constructed to support a 36-m span steel arch bridge.
The abutments were situated along a hill slope over a dry creek.
Since the thickness of the reinforced soil abutment is quite different
beneath the four footings directly supporting the weight of the bridge,
the GRS abutments were preloaded to reduce post-construction settlement,
especially the differential settlement between adjacent footings.
The presentation will describe each project and present the measured test
results and discussion of the results.
