Publications

Digital files of all publications are available upon request

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. Cappellaro, C., Dhakal, R. & Cubrinovski, M. (2024). Liquefaction Hazard of Wellington Reclamations Based on Simplified Analyses, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 57(2), 97-116, doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.1675.

2. Roy, J., Rollins, K.M., Dhakal, R. & Cubrinovski, M. (2023). A Comparative Study between the DPT and CPT in Evaluating Liquefaction Potential for Gravelly Soil at the Port of Wellington, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 149(11), doi.org/10.1061/JGGEFK.GTENG-10769.

3. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M. & Bray, J.D. (2022). Evaluating the Applicability of Conventional CPT-Based Liquefaction Assessment Procedures to Reclaimed Gravelly Soils, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 155: 107176, doi.org/10.1016/j.soildyn.2022.107176

4. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M. & Bray, J.D. (2020). Geotechnical Characterization and Liquefaction Evaluation of Gravelly Reclamations and Hydraulic Fills (Port of Wellington, New Zealand), Soils and Foundations, 60(6): 1507-1531, doi.org/10.1016/j.sandf.2020.10.001.

5. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M., Bray, J.D. & de la Torre, C. (2020). Liquefaction Assessment of Reclaimed Land at CentrePort, Wellington, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, 53(1), 1-12, doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.53.1.1-12. [Otto Glogau Award]

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

1. Dhakal, R., Plata, R. & Cubrinovski, M. (2024). Liquefaction Response of a Pile-Supported Wharf on Liquefiable Gravelly Reclamations from 2D Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses, 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Milan, Italy, 30 June – 5 July 2024.

2. Dhakal, R. & Cubrinovski, M. (2024). Comparative Liquefaction Assessment of Gravelly Reclamations using the CPT, DPT, and Shear-Wave Velocity, 7th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization, Barcelona, Spain, 18-21 June 2024.

3. Rollins, K., Roy, J., Walburger, A., Amoroso, S., Dhakal, R., Minarelli, L. & Marenghi, L. (2024). Interpretation of CPT tests in liquefiable gravel, 7th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization, Barcelona, Spain, 18-21 June 2024.

4. Dhakal, R. & Cubrinovski, M. (2024). Liquefaction Response of Gravel-Sand-Silt Reclamations from 1D Effective Stress Analysis, 8th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Osaka, Japan, 7-10 May 2024.

5. Dhakal, R. & Cubrinovski, M. (2023). CPT-based evaluation of liquefaction-induced settlement for reclaimed gravelly soil, Canadian Conference - Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2023, Vancouver, Canada, 25-30 June 2023.

6. Dhakal, R. & Cubrinovski, M. (2023). CPT-based Evaluation of Relative Density for Reclaimed Gravel-Sand-Silt Mixtures, 14th Australia and New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Cairns, Australia, 2-5 July 2023.

7. Dhakal, R., Bray, J.D. & Cubrinovski, M. (2022). Sensitivity of CPT-based liquefaction assessment to sleeve friction depth correction, Proc. 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2021, Sydney, Australia, 1-6 May 2022.

8. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M. & Bray, J.D. (2022). Input Ground Motion Selection for Site Response Analysis at the Port of Wellington (New Zealand), Proc. 4th International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (PBD-IV), Beijing, China, 15-17 July 2022.

9. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M. & Bray, J.D. (2022). Application of the CPT for Liquefaction Assessment of Gravelly Reclamations at the Port of Wellington, Proc. 5th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing, CPT’22, Bologna, Italy, 8-10 June 2022.

10. Cappellaro, C., Cubrinovski, M. & Dhakal, R. (2022). Liquefaction risk analysis of reclaimed soil deposits in central Wellington, Proc. 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 2021, Sydney, Australia, 1-6 May 2022.

11. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M. & Bray, J.D. (2021). Liquefaction of Reclaimed Soils in the Port of Wellington, New Zealand, Proc. 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Sendai, Japan, 27 September – 2 October 2021.

12. Cubrinovski, M. & Dhakal, R. (2021). Identification and Mitigation of Seismic Hazards from Inherited Vulnerabilities, Proc. 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Sendai, Japan, 27 September – 2 October 2021.

13. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M., Bray, J.D. & de la Torre, C. (2019). Site Characterization for Liquefaction Assessment of Gravelly Reclamations at CentrePort, Wellington, Proc. 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Rome, Italy, 17-20 June 2019.

14. Cubrinovski, M., Ntritsos, N., Dhakal, R. & Rhodes, A. (2019). Key aspects in the engineering assessment of soil liquefaction, Proc. 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Rome, Italy, 17-20 June 2019.

15. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M., Bray, J.D. & de la Torre, C. (2019). Liquefaction Assessment of Reclaimed Gravelly Soils at CentrePort, Wellington, Proc. 2019 Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, 4-6 April 2019.

16. Dhakal, R., Cubrinovski, M., Bray, J.D. & de la Torre, C. (2019). Site Characterisation and Liquefaction Assessment for the Reclaimed Soils in CentrePort, Wellington, Proc. 13th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Perth, Australia, 1-3 April 2019.

17. Bray, J.D., Cubrinovski, M., Dhakal, R. & de la Torre, C. (2019). Seismic Performance of CentrePort, Wellington, Proc. Eighth International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 24-27 March 2019.

REPORTS AND ARTICLES

1. Ackerson, M., Beyzaei, C., Dhakal, R., Hess, K., Lin, Y.C., Ma, X., Makdisi, A. & Pascua, C. (2019). Environmental Impacts of Christchurch and Kaikoura Earthquakes: Lessons Learnt to Inform Resilient Strategies, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Travel Study Program Report, New Zealand, 5-11 March 2019.

2. Dhakal, R. & Luo, D. (2017). Seismic Wave Inversion for Groundwater Tomography, Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Final Year Projects, University of Canterbury, October 2017, 8 pp.

PRESENTATIONS

• Invited Department Seminars at Research Institutes

  • Department of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy, June 2024

  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, March 2024

  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA, March 2023

  • Department of Civil & Infrastructure Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2022

  • Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, July 2022

  • Department of Civil Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, June 2022

• Invited External Research Seminars

  • Technical Presentation, Holmes Infrastructure Team, New Zealand, August 2024

  • Lunch and Learn for Geotechnical Engineering at Tonkin and Taylor Ltd., New Zealand, May 2024

  • US-NZ Travel Study Presentation on CentrePort, QuakeCoRE, April 2023

  • Canterbury Branch Presentation, New Zealand Geotechnical Society, July 2022

  • Earthquake Commission (EQC) Research Advisory Team, New Zealand, 2022, 2021

  • QuakeCoRE Disciplinary Theme Monthly Seminars, New Zealand, 2019 – 2022

  • BECA Geotechnical Engineering Group, New Zealand, 2019

• Conference Presentations

  • Global Young Scientists Summit, SIngapore, January 2025

  • 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Italy, July 2024

  • 7th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization, Spain, June 2024

  • 8th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Japan, May 2024

  • Canadian and Pacific Conference in Earthquake Engineering (CCEE–PCEE), Canada, June 2023

  • 14th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Australia, July 2023

  • QuakeCoRE Annual Meetings, New Zealand, August 2022, September 2018

  • 4th International Conference on Performance-based Design in Geotechnical Engineering, China, July 2022

  • 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Australia, May 2022

  • 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Japan, July 2021

  • NZGS YGP Symposiums, Christchurch, June 2021, Wellington, July 2021

  • Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Postgraduate Conference, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, February 2021

  • 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Italy, June 2019

  • 2019 Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Zealand, April 2019

  • 13th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics, Australia, April 2019