Sarah is a Chartered Professional Engineer with undergraduate qualifications in geology and post graduate qualifications in engineering geology and geotechnical engineering. Sarah has completed site investigation, geotechnical interpretive reporting, and design for infrastructure projects in Iran and Australia and has design experience on projects involving slope stability, settlement, and modelling.
She has a specialty in the design, construction, operation of tailings storage facilities (TSFs). She has good skills in Seismic Interpretation and provides seismic engineering design services for mines and infrastructure clients (owners, operators, constructors, and designers) as part of the ATC Williams geotechnical team.
She also has developed an excellent knowledge of numerical modelling tools and methods and experience in using geotechnical design software such as PLAXIS as well as others and Developed innovative new software based on consolidation, elastic and plastic theory combined with physics laws for predicting organic soil behaviour during settlement and consolidation (Part of PhD thesis). Used the new method (secondary permeability index) to evaluate groutability of weak rocks and rock improvement (started as a part of M.Sc. thesis and developed during professional work at industry).
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PhD (Civil) (Geotech) Monash University, Australia
MSc Engineering Geology, Isfahan University, Iran
BSc Geology, Shiraz Azad University, Iran
- ACCREDITATIONS
Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng)
National Engineering Register (NER)
Member of The Institute of Engineers Australia (MIEAust)
- YEARS AT ATCW
Joined 2020