Assistant Professor (Geotechnical Engineering)   Dr. Fiona C. Y. Kwok   BEng (First Class Honours), University of Sheffield, U.K. MEng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. PhD, University of Cambridge, U.K.   Office:      HW 5-21 Phone:     +852 28592655 Fax:         +852 25595337 E-mail:     fiona.kwok@hku.hk Homepage:   https://sites.google.com/site/fcykwok/home

 

Teaching Activities

• CIVL 2001 Engineering design and communication
• CIVL 2006 Soil mechanics
• CIVL 3013 Project

 

Research Interests

• Time effects in soil and rock, and their influence on construction activities
• Micromechanics of particulate systems, their internal fabric, strength relationships and force transmissions
• Engineering analysis and modelling of powders and grains subject to various loading conditions and stress paths
• Computational mechanics of geotechnical and geological processes
• Soil characterisation

 

Representative Research / Consultancy Projects

• Micromechanical modelling of soil creep, ageing and rate effects
• Investigation of mechanisms controlling time-dependent compaction of caved rock
• Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracturing in the Magnolia Field
• Analysis of multiple hydraulic fracturing in horizontal wellbores
• Slope stability analysis of the south wall at the Bingham Canyon
• Tunnel support design in weak rock

 

Representative Publications

1. Kwok, C. Y. & Pierce, M. (2010). "Time-dependent compaction in caving rock." . 3rd Canadian Young Geotechnical Engineers and Geoscientists Conference. In press
2. Kwok, C. Y. & Bolton, M. D. (2010). "DEM simulations of thermally activated creep in soils." Géotechnique, 60(6), 425-433
3. Kwok, C. Y., Bolton, M. D. & Cheng Y. P. (2008). "Discrete element simulation of crack growth in a single grain." 1st International FLAC/DEM Symposium on Numerical Modeling, Minneapolis, USA, pp.157-164.