DrThanh Nguyen

CHIEF INVESTIGATOR/RESEARCH GRANT (approx. $3.6 million cumlative funding)

• Industry Fund with Glencore: Advanced Monitoring Operation and Predictive Maintenance of Permeable Reactive Barrier (PRB) for Mining Acid Water Treatment (2025-2029).
• Australian Research Council (ARC)-Linkage Project (ARC-LP230100199 Grant): “Hybrid pile-drain system to stabilise railways built on soft soils” (2024-2026).
• Industry Fund with OCG-Japan (Lead Investigator): "Sustainable deep foundation for seaport", (2024-2028) .
• ARC DECRA Fellowship (Sole Investigator, 2023-2025): "Stabilising soil foundation with biopolymer for enhanced rail transport". (DE230101127)
• ANSTO, Travel and Experiment Fund (Leading Investigator), detail in confidence.
• UTS Chancellor's Fellowship (Leading Investigator, 2023-2026): "Novel green stabilisation technique for soil foundation under transport infrastructure" under support from SMEC and Sydney Trains.
• Competitive UTS Grant for Early Career Research-Capability Development Initiative (ECR-CDI 13337 Grant, Leading Investigator, 2021-2022): "A novel non-destructive method to assess fluidization failure of subgrade soils under heavy railways" under support from Transport Research Centre (TRC) and Sydney Trains.
• JSPS (Japan) Fellowship conferred by Australian Academy of Science associated with Japanese Government (Leading Investigator, 2020-2022, P20715): “A Novel Biodegradable Approach to Stabilize Mud Pumping Tracks for Higher Speed Rail” at Hokkaido University, Japan (equivalent to ARC-DECRA Fellowship Award). The project is inspired by considerable support from Australian industry partners including Sydney Trains, SMEC, and novel technologies in railway engineering by Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI), Japan.
• Australian Research Council (ARC)-Linkage Project (LP160101254 Grant): “Understanding mud pumping in heavy haul railroads” (2017-2021) (ARC and other Industry contributions).

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RESEARCH INTEREST

• Bioengineered (Eco-Friendly) solutions in Geotech: Biopolymers, natural fibres, biodegradable materials, microbially induced mechanism, comtaminated groundwater remediation. 
• Soil behaviour under transport infrastructure: cyclic loading, dynamic characteristics (damping, rate-dependent), mud pumping (bog holes), non-destructive site investigations
• Internal instability, Internal erosion, Soil clogging: Experimental and Numerical approaches
• Soft soil, Ground improvement/Soil stabilization: soil consolidation, soft soil characteristics, radial consolidation; PVDs, vacuum preloading
• Computational methods in geoengineering: FEM, DEM, CFD-DEM Coupling, LBM-DEM Coupling
• Hydraulic behaviour of geomaterials & soil-structure systems: Kozeny-Carman method; micro-parameters such as shape factor and tortuousity 
• Pile foundation: Load transfer, soil-pile interaction, super long piles in soft soils  
• Micro-characteristics of geomaterials and their role in geomechanics: Micro-CT scanning; micro-optical observations; image processing; SEM;
• Applications of Artificial Intelligence AI/machine learning techniques for Geotechnical Engineering: Pile Foundation & Ground Improvement
• Influence of climate change and land subsidence in Mekong Delta of Vietnam