Research Areas/Expertise

• Foundation engineering   
• Pipeline engineering 
• Soil mechanics 
• Geotechnical centrifuge modelling  
• Geotechnical site characterisation 
• Image-based deformation measurement techniques

Professorial Fellow
Centre for Offshore Foundations Systems
The University of Western Australia

WA:ERA projects

Pluto pipe-soil interaction investigation (Project leader)

Submarine slide – pipeline interaction (Project leader)
(MERIWA-CSIRO coordinated, with Woodside involvement through R2D3) 

Background

Dave began his PhD research at the University of Cambridge in 1998, and was appointed to a Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge, in 2001. He took up a Lectureship in Cambridge in 2003, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006. He has been based at the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at the University of Western Australia since late 2006, and was appointed a Professorial Fellow in 2007.

Education

Ph.D.
M.Eng.
M.A. Engineering

Grants

• Telford Premium, ICE, 2006
  (for one of the two best papers in the ICE’s Geotechnical Engng. journal, 2005)
• Geotechnical Research Medal, ICE, 2005
  (for the best geotechnical paper published in the ICE’s journals in 2004)
• British Geotechnical Association Prize, 2005
  (for the best geotechnical paper published during 2004)
• British Geotechnical Association Prize, 2006
  (for the best geotechnical paper published during 2005)
• First Prize, Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Symposium, Dundee, 2002
  (Chosen to represent UK at International Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Symposium, Romania, 2003)
• Research Fellowship, St. John’s College, 2001-2004

• Awards whilst at University of Cambridge:
  • Institution of Civil Engineers’ Prize, 1998   
  • Roscoe Prize for Soil Mechanics, 1998
  • Hawthorne Prize for Engineering, 1998
  • Isaac Newton Trust Award, 1998-2001
  • Leica Civil Engineering Prize, 1997  
  • Giken Seisakusho Research Scholarship, 1996-2001
  • Churchill College Scholarship, 1995-8
• Competitive research awards
• Australian Research Council, CSIRO, MERIWA, Woodside, ARC, SAFEBUCK JIP (AtkinsBoreas), Nippon Steel Corp., WorleyParsons.

 

Publications

List of Publications (PDF)

Contact

Email: white(at)civil.uwa.edu.au