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Robin Fell

BE MEngSc Qld., CPEng, FIEAust

Emeritus Professor

Contact Details

Fax: + 61 2 9385 6139
Email: r.fellroberto@unsw.edujlo.au

Teaching Areas

Slope Stability and Landslides
Geotechnical Site Investigations
Embankment Dams
Foundation Engineering

Research Areas

Slope stability and landslides - risk assessment, including assessment of probability of sliding, travel distance, vulnerability and acceptable risk. Design of embankments on soft clays. Pre and post failure deformation of natural and constructed slopes.
Embankment dams - risk assessment, including assessment of probability of failure due to piping, slope instability and other causes, under static and earthquake load, prediction of pore pressures during construction.
Embankment dams - developing methods to model the cracking internal erosion and piping of embankment dams and their foundations.
Concrete gravity dams - risk assessment, including assessment of failure in the dam and its foundation.

Selected Publications

Fell, R., Wan, C.F., Cyganiewicz, J. and Foster, M. (2003). Time for development of internal erosion and piping in embankment dams. ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering. Vol. 129, No.4, 307-314.

Wan, C.F. and Fell, R. (2002). Investigation of internal erosion and piping of soils in embankment dams by the slot erosion test and the hole erosion test. UNICIV Report No. R-412, ISBN: 85841 379 5, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales.

Glastonbury, J. and Fell, R. (2002). A Decision Analysis Framework For Assessing Post-Failure Velocity of Natural Rock Slopes. UNICIV Report No. R-409, ISBN: 85841 376 0. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales.

Foster, M. and Fell, R. (2001). Assessing embankment dams, filters which do not satisfy design criteria, J. Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol.127, No.4, May 2001, 398-407.

Fell, R. (2000). The E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture, Embankment dams - some lessons learnt, and new developments, Australian Geomechanics, Vol.35, No.1, Australian Geomechanics Society, Barton, pp.5-47, ISSN: 0818-9110, March 2000.

Fell, R., Bowles, D.S., Anderson, L.R. and Bell, G. (2000). The status of methods for estimation of the probability of failure of dams for use in quantitative risk assessment, Proceedings of the 20th Congress on Large Dams, Vol.1, Question 76, International Commission on Large Dams, Paris, pp.213-236, ISSN: 0254 0703, June 2000.

Fell, R., Hungr, O., Leroueil, S. and Riemer, W. (2000). Keynote Lecture - Geotechnical engineering of the stability of natural slopes, and cuts and fills in soil, GeoEng 2000, Vol.1, Invited Papers, Technomic Publishing, Lancaster, pp.21-120, ISBN: 1-58716-067-6, November 2000.

Foster, M. and Fell, R. (2000). Use of event trees to estimate the probability of failure of embankment dams by internal erosion and piping, Proceedings of the 20th Congress and Large Dams, Vol.1, Question 76, International Commission on Large Dams, Paris, pp.237-260, ISSN: 0254 0703, June 2000.

Foster, M., Fell, R. and Spannagle, M. (2000(a)). The statistics of embankment dam failures and accidents, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol.37, No.5, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, pp.1000-1024, ISSN: 0008-3674.

Fell R. and Hartford, D., "Landslide Risk Management ", Landslide Risk Assessment, D.Cruden, R.Fell editors, Balkema, pp 51-110, (1997)

Finlay, R.J. And Fell, R., "Landslides: risk perception and acceptance", Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 34 (1997)

Fell, R., MacGregor, J.P. and Stapledon, D.H., "Geotechnical Engineering of Embankment Dams", Balkema, Rotterdam, 675pp, (1992)

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