1st Elmo DiBiagio Young Engineers’ Paper Competition
Finalists, judges and sponsors (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute) for the 1st Elmo DiBiagio Young Engineers’ Award
At the 11th International Symposium on Field Monitoring in Geomechanics held in London in 2022 the Young Engineers’ Paper Competition was named in honour of Elmo DiBiagio.
Entrants were asked to prepare a one-page case history in the format proposed by Elmo and to present their work at the Symposium. A judging panel made up of Dr W. Allen Marr, Dr Giorgio Pezzetti and Professor Jamie Standing were on hand to decide on the winner and runner-up.
The posters of the five finalists are presented below in alphabetical order. Click on the image of the poster to open in a new page.
Kevin Duffy - Axial pile testing in very dense sand Interpreting pile load tests to develop a safe and sustainable design procedure
Emma McConnell - Hydrological Monitoring of a Desiccated Slope
Efthymios Panagiotis - Assessment of field measurements of two deep excavations from Copenhagen’s Sydhavn metro line.
WINNER
Erling Singstad Paulsen - Monitoring vibrations during iron ore handling in Narvik harbour for LKAB
Runner-up
Adnan Sahyouni - Instrumentation of a real-scale wind turbine foundation