Associate Professor Chin Jian Leo

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Grants/Current Projects
• Publications
• Contact

Biography

Chin Leo is a civil engineer with professional engineering experience in infrastructure and geotechnical engineering, including the maintenance, design and construction of roads, road tunnels and slopes. He has previously undertaken both preliminary and detailed designs for road widening, new expressways & expressway interchanges, the scope of which include soil investigation, studies of cuts and fills, slope stability analysis and proposals for dealing with problematic soft soils.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

300485 Foundation Engineering
85012 Soil Engineering
300488 Numerical Methods in Engineering
300486 Infrastructure Engineering
300604 Advanced Geotechnical Engineering

Chin's major research interests fall broadly in the areas of computational geomechanics and environmental geomechanics with particular regard to soft soils, groundwater flow and contamination problems in soils and soil remediation. He is also interested in coupled problems in porous media.

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Grants/Current Projects

ARC large grant (1996-1999)
UWS internal research grant (2003-2004)
UWS internal research grant (2004-2005)
Environment Trust seed grant (2008-2009)

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Publications

Leo, C.J. and Booker, J.R. (1996), "A time stepping finite element method for analysis of contaminant transport in fractured porous media", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanic. V20, 12, Dec. 1996, pp 847-864.

Leo, C J. and Booker, J.R. (1999a), "A boundary element method for analysis of contaminant transport in porous media I: Homogeneous porous media", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics�. V23, 14, pp1681-1699.

Leo, C J. and Booker, J.R. (1999b), "A boundary element method for analysis of contaminant transport in porous media II: Non homogeneous porous media II, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics". V23, 14, pp1701-1715.

Leo, C.J. and Booker, J.R. (1999c), "Semi-analytic solutions of contaminant transport from deeply buried cylindrical repository surrounded by zoned media", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. V23, 14, pp1797-1815.

Y.Zou, J.C.Small and C.J.Leo (2000), "Behaviour of EPS geofoam in model test on pavements", Geosynthetics International, V7(1), pp1-22.

Leo, C.J. (2004), "Equal strain consolidation of fine-grained compressible soils by vertical drains", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, ISBN 1090-0241, v130(3), pp316-327.

Wong, K. and Leo, C.J. (2006), "A simple elastoplastic hardening constitutive model for EPS geofoam", Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 24, pp299-310.

Leo, C.J. and Wong, K. (2007), "Closed form solutions of contaminant transport into semi-infinite soil with non-equilibrium sorption from a finite diminishing surface source", Revue Europeenne de Genie Civil, pp 355-382, Vol 11(3), Hermes Science Publication, Paris, ISSN 1774-7120.

Wong K., Leo, C.J., Pereira, J.M. and Dubujet, Ph., (2007) "Sedimentation-consolidation of a double porosity material", Computers and Geotechnics, 34. pp532-538, ISSN:0266-352X.

Leo, C.J., Kumruzzaman, M., Wong, K, Yin, J.H., (2008), "Behaviour of EPS geofoam in true triaxial compression tests", Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 26(2), pp175-180.

For more information, please contact Chin.

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