TBS project

I wish youngsters in my country had more chances to pursue their dreams. I hope this project can give potential students in my country more opportunities.

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), the inventor of differential and integral calculus

and the gravitational theory; and the Principia (1687) (modified from Wikipedia).

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Random and Determined

{From A to B}

  • Chapter 1: Some laws of the universe
  • Chapter 2: The power of aspiration and love
  • Chapter 3: The potential of zero state
  • Chapter 4: Silence and Solitude
  • Chapter 5: Friendship
  • Chapter 6: The role of heroes
  • Chapter 7: Serving not mastering
  • Chapter 8: Engineering Science from Western countries
  • Chapter 9: Lessons from Jewish Beliefs
  • Chapter 10: Intuition and the way to practice

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Those I have met, and events I have experienced help me respect my chances. This forms the book “Random or Determined: from Oxford to Imperial,” which I hope to share with students in my country. I hope potential students in my country can find similar things when pursuing their dreams.

 

The following research papers are part of the TPS project (Dr Nguyen would like to thank Dr Xuzhen He at the University of Technology Sydney, Prof Majid Nazem at the RMIT University and Prof Jim Shiau at the University of Southern Queensland for their kind help and support):

 

Book Chapters

  • Nguyen, H.C. (2021a). Upper bound analysis of seismic stability of tunnels using cell-based smoothed finite element. In Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground. 2nd Edition (pp. 337-342). CRC Press.

  • Nguyen, H.C. (2021b). The use of adaptive smoothed finite-element limit analysis to seismic stability of tunnels. In Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground. 2nd Edition (pp. 330-336). CRC Press.

Preparing for Submission to Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Nguyen, H.C., & He, X. (2025). Gaussian-based surrogate models for geotechnical stability analysis of spatial random soils. Int. J. Numer. Anal. Meth. Geomech. In progress.
  • Nguyen, H.C., & Shiau, J. (2025). Assessing the bearing capacity of strip footings on slopes in spatially random soils using Gaussian processes and Bayesian Inference. Géotechnique Letters. In progress.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  •  Nguyen, H.C. (2023). A mixed formulation of limit analysis for seismic slope stability. G´eotechnique Letters, 13(1), 54-64.

  •  Nguyen, H.C., & Vo-Minh, T. (2022). Calculation of seismic bearing capacity of shallow strip foundations using the cell-based smoothed finite element method. Acta Geotechnica, 17(8), 3567-3590.

  • Nguyen, H.C. (2022). Discrete element method analysis of non-linear stiffness for granular media. Computers and Geotechnics, 13(1), 54-64.

  • Vo-Minh, T., & Nguyen, H.C. (2022). Seismic stability of a circular tunnel in cohesive-frictional soils using a stable node-based smoothed finite element method. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 130, 104606.

  • Nguyen, H.C., & Vo-Minh, T. (2022). The use of the node-based smoothed finite element method to estimate static and seismic bearing capacities of shallow strip footings. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 14(1), 180-196.

 

The IECent is alo a component of the TPS project.

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