Oceans engineer Professor Dave White holds the Shell EMI Chair in Offshore Engineering. He is based at the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems and the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering. He was previously an ARC Future Fellow and has been a Professor at UWA since 2007.
Dave has over 15 years of research experience focussing on the mechanics of soils, foundations and pipelines, primarily for the offshore industry. He has led experimental and numerical studies into geotechnical mechanisms at micro-and macro-scale which have been used to understand the behaviour of piles, foundations, pipelines and submarine slides. Simple design methods have been devised, which are widely used in engineering practice.
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