Khoi Nguyen

Research Interests

Civil Geotechnical Engineering Geological hazards (e.g. earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity)

Teaching Strengths

Soil Mechanics
Structural Engineering
Earthquake engineering
Geotechnical Engineering
Numerical modelling

Dr Khoi Nguyen

Lecturer, Geotechnical Engineering

School of Civil Engineering and Construction

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Dr Khoi Nguyen completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of South Australia. The dissertation title is: ‘Critical state behaviour of granular materials and associated micro-mechanics: A DEM study’, which involves in both advanced laboratory testing regime and discrete element model (DEM) of granular materials. He has developed strong understanding and research capacity in geotechnical and earthquake engineering issues, and numerical modelling. After his PhD, he worked as research associate and teaching academic in different civil engineering disciplines, including soil mechanics, geotechnical and earthquake engineering. He is currently the course coordinator and lecturer in UniSA STEM. 
Editorialship:

Associate Editor in Geotechnical Research, ICE.
Guest Editor in Frontiers in Build Environment. Research Topic "Recent Advances in Numerical Modelling for Soil and Soil-Structure Interactions".
Guest Editor in Geosciences. Special Issue "Modern Advancements in the Evaluation of Soil Failure"
Guest Editor in Geotechnics. Special Issue "Recent Advances in Geotechnical Engineering".
Guest Editor in Sustainability. Special Issue "Sustainable Civil Engineering Structures and Construction Materials".

Research interests:

Geotechnical engineering problems such as slope stability, foundation design, soil liquefaction
Critical state theory of soil mechanics
Micro-mechanics
Numerical modeling such as DEM and FEM.
Constitutive model
Soil-water interaction
Soil-structure interaction
Earthquake engineering

  • Liquefaction behaviour of sand
  • Discrete element method
  • Finite element analysis
  • Micro-mechanics of granular material
  • Soil-water interaction
  • Soil-structure interaction
  • Model earthquake load
  • Climate change

Date Position Institution name
2019 - ongoing Lecturer University of South Australia

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2025 Research Award Best Research Team Award in STEM University of South Australia Australia -
2023 Research Award Best Early Career Research Award in STEM University of South Australia Australia -
2023 Teaching Award Best Early Career Teacher Award in STEM University of South Australia Australia -
2023 Teaching Award Best Teaching Team Award in STEM University of South Australia Australia -
2023 Research Award Best Research Team Award in STEM University of South Australia Australia -
2021 Recognition Outstanding Reviewer Award, Geotechnical Research Institution of Civil Engineers United Kingdom -
2021 Recognition Editor’s choice collection (vol.147, no.2), Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering American Society of Civil Engineers United States -

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Vietnamese Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
2013 - 2017 University of South Australia Australia Doctor of Philosophy
2010 - 2013 University of South Australia Australia Bachelor in Engineering

Year Citation
2026 Le, T. T., Khoi Nguyen, H. B., Rahman, M. M., & Karim, M. R. (2026). Realistic particle shape representation using clump in DEM: A critical state soil mechanics study. Computers and Geotechnics, 190(107750), 15 pages.
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2025 Devkota, B., Karim, M. R., Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, H. B. K., & Beecham, S. (2025). The changing frequency of La Niña cycles and their effect on footing design in expansive soils. Journal of Environmental Management, 393(127124), 14 pages.
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2025 Chia, E., Nguyen, H. B. K., Le, K. N., Bi, K., & Pham, T. M. (2025). Performance of hybrid basalt-recycled polypropylene fibre reinforced concrete. Structures, 75(108711), 108711.
DOI Scopus6 WoS8
2025 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M., Fourie, A. B., Szypcio, Z., & Dołzyk-Szypcio, K. (2025). How particle shape affects the critical state, triggering of instability and dilatancy of granular materials – results from a DEM study. Geotechnique, 75(4), 578-580.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2024 Javadi, M., Hassanli, R., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2024). Numerical investigation on the behaviour of Post-Tensioned Mechanically Stabilised Earth Walls (PT-MSEW). Computers and Structures, 299(107403), 22 pages.
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2024 Karim, M. R., Devkota, B., Rahman, M. M., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2024). Thornthwaite moisture index and depth of suction change under current and future climate ‒ An Australian study. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 16(5), 1761-1775.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8
2023 Cao, Y., Nguyen, H. B. K., Aikins, D., Karim, M. R., & Rahman, M. M. (2023). Advances in Coupling Computational Fluid Dynamics and Discrete Element Method in Geotechnical Problems. Geotechnics, 3(4), 1162-1179.
DOI Scopus4 WoS3
2023 Kolapalli, R., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2023). A DEM Investigation on the Influence of Cyclic and Static Stress Ratios and State Variables on the Pore Water Pressure Generation in Granular Materials. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 149(7), 16 pages.
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2023 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Karim, M. R. (2023). Effect of soil anisotropy and variability on the stability of undrained soil slope. Frontiers in Built Environment, 9(1117858), 11 pages.
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2023 Kolapalli, R., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2023). The failure modes of granular material in undrained cyclic loading: a critical state approach using DEM. Acta Geotechnica, 18(6), 2945-2970.
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2022 Devkota, B., Karim, M. R., Rahman, M. M., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2022). Accounting for Expansive Soil Movement in Geotechnical Design—A State-of-the-Art Review. Sustainability Switzerland, 14(23), 27 pages.
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2022 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., Fourie, A. B., Luo, X. D., Tang, X., & Yang, J. (2022). How particle shape affects the critical state, triggering of instability and dilatancy of granular materials - results from a DEM study. Geotechnique, 74(12), 1503-1508.
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2022 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Karim, M. R. (2022). An Investigation of Instability on Constant Shear Drained (CSD) Path under the CSSM Framework: A DEM Study. Geosciences Switzerland, 12(12), 13 pages.
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2021 Karim, M. R., Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, K., Cameron, D., Iqbal, A., & Ahenkorah, I. (2021). Changes in Thornthwaite Moisture Index and reactive soil movements under current and future climate scenarios-a case study. Energies, 14(20, article no. 6760), 1-18.
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2021 Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, H. B. K., Fourie, A. B., & Kuhn, M. R. (2021). Critical state soil mechanics for cyclic liquefaction and postliquefaction behavior: DEM study. Journal Of Geotechnical And Geoenvironmental Engineering, 147(2, article no. 04020166), 1-17.
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2021 Barnett, N., Rahman, M., Karim, R., Nguyen, H. B. K., & Carraro, J. H. A. (2021). Equivalent state theory for mixtures of sand with non-plastic fines: A DEM investigation. Geotechnique, 71(5), 423-440.
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2021 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Fourie, A. (2021). The critical state behaviour of granular material in triaxial and direct simple shear condition: A DEM approach. Computers and Geotechnics, 138(104325), 15 pages.
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2021 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Fourie, A. B. (2021). How particle shape affects the critical state, triggering of instability and dilatancy of granular materials - Results from a DEM study. Geotechnique, 71(9), 749-764.
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2021 Nguyen, H. B. K., Hondrovasilopoulos, P., Vrettis, P., Chow, C. W. K., Rahman, M. M., Gorjian, N., & Rameezdeen, R. (2021). Practical evaluation of key factors contributing to pipe failure by using a case study approach combined with statistical analysis. Water Utility Journal, 29, 1-14.
2020 Barnett, N., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2020). Evaluating the particle rolling effect on the characteristic features of granular material under the critical state soil mechanics framework. Granular Matter, 22(4), 24 pages.
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2020 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Fourie, A. B. (2020). Effect of Particle Shape on Constitutive Relation: DEM Study. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 146(7), 16 pages.
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2018 Mizanur Rahman, M., Khoi Nguyen, H. B., & Md Zillur Rabbi, A. T. (2018). The effect of consolidation on undrained behaviour of granular materials: Experiment and DEM simulation. Geotechnical Research, 5(4), 199-217.
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2018 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Fourie, A. B. (2018). Characteristic behavior of drained and undrained triaxial compression tests: DEM study. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 144(9), 13 pages.
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2017 Nguyen, H. B. K., & Rahman, M. M. (2017). The role of micro-mechanics on the consolidation history of granular materials. Australian Geomechanics Journal, 52(3), 27-35.
Scopus18 WoS12
2017 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Fourie, A. B. (2017). Undrained behaviour of granular material and the role of fabric in isotropic and K0 consolidations: DEM approach. Geotechnique, 67(2), 153-167.
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2013 Rahman, M. M., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2013). Spatial variability of material parameter and bearing capacity of clay. Advanced Materials Research, 629, 433-437.
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Year Citation
2025 Devkota, B., Karim, M. R., Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, H. B. K., & Zapata, C. (2025). Short-Term Thornthwaite Moisture Index (TMI) for Australian Climate. In C. Rujikiatkamjorn, J. Xue, & B. Indraratna (Eds.), Event/exhibition information: 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG), Sydney, Australia, 20/11/2024-22/11/2024
Source details - Title: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Volume 1: Sensor Technologies, Data Analytics and Climatic Effects (Vol. 402 LNCE, pp. 249-257). Singapore: SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
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2025 Devkota, B., Karim, M. R., Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, H. B. K., & Cameron, D. A. (2025). Modelling of Soil-Vegetation-Atmospheric Boundary Interaction Under Future Climate Scenarios. In C. Rujikiatkamjorn, J. Xue, & B. Indraratna (Eds.), Event/exhibition information: 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Sydney, Australia, 20/11/2024-22/11/2024
Source details - Title: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Volume 1: Sensor Technologies, Data Analytics and Climatic Effects (Vol. 402 LNCE, pp. 259-267). Singapore: SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
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2025 Devkota, B., Karim, M. R., Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, H. B. K., & Cameron, D. A. (2025). Numerical Investigation of Suction Profiles Under Cracked Soil Conditions. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (Vol. 658 LNCE, pp. 361-371). Springer Nature Singapore.
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2024 Le, T. T., Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Karim, M. R. (2024). Computational Geometric and Discrete Fourier Series Approaches for Particle Shape Analysis. In Event/exhibition information: 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture, ICSCEA 2023, Da Nang City, 19/07/2023-21/07/2023
Source details - Title: The International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and ArchitectureICSCEA 2023: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture (Vol. 442, pp. 1066-1073). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
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2024 Shrestha, S., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2024). Evaluation of pavement performance for three different designs on the expansive subgrade: three case studies. In C. Rujikiatkamjorn, B. Indraratna, & J. Xue (Eds.), Event/exhibition information: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Sydney, Australia, 20/11/2024-22/11/2024
Source details - Title: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024 (pp. 11-17). Springer Nature.
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2023 Devkota, B., Karim, M. R., Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, K., & Iqbal, A. (2023). Effect of climate change on depth of suction change-A case study. In E. Rathje, B. M. Montoya, & M. H. Wayne (Eds.), Event/exhibition information: Geo-Congress 2023, Los Angeles, California, 26/03/2023-29/03/2023
Source details - Title: Geo-Congress 2023: Geotechnical Data Analysis and Computation (Vol. 2023-March, pp. 649-660). US: AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS.
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2023 Aikins, D., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2023). Effect of Interparticle Friction and Particle Elasticity on Behavior of Granular Materials. In E. Rathje, B. M. Montoya, & M. H. Wayne (Eds.), Event/exhibition information: Geo-Congress 2023, Los Angeles, California, 26/03/2023-29/03/2023
Source details - Title: Geo-Congress 2023: Geotechnical Data Analysis and Computation (Vol. 2023-March, pp. 258-268). US: AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS.
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2023 Cao, Y., Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Cheng, W. C. (2023). The Effects of Fines on the Response of Granular Soil during Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Shield Tunneling. In E. Rathje, B. M. Montoya, & M. H. Wayne (Eds.), Event/exhibition information: Geo-Congress 2023, Los Angeles, California, 26/03/2023-29/03/2023
Source details - Title: Geo-Congress 2023: Geotechnical Data Analysis and Computation (Vol. 2023-March, pp. 249-257). US: AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS.
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2021 Kolapalli, R., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2021). Effect of Stress Reversal in Cyclic Instability: A DEM Study. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (Vol. 119 LNCE, pp. 213-221). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
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2020 Kolapalli, R., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2020). Effect of Stress Reversal and Consolidation on Undrained Behaviour of Granular Materials under Cyclic Loading: A DEM Study. In J. P. Hambleton, R. Makhnenko, & A. S. Budge (Eds.), Event/exhibition information: Geo-Congress 2020: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Special Topics, Minneapolis; United States, 25/02/2020-28/02/2020
Source details - Title: Geo-Congress 2020: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Special Topics (Vol. 2020-February, pp. 161-168). US: AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS.
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2020 Kolapalli, R., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2020). A Micromechanical Study on the Effect of Initial Static Shear Stress on Cyclic Shearing Response. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (Vol. 56, pp. 145-156). Germany: Springer Singapore.
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2020 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M., & Wang, H. C. (2020). A Micro-mechanical Study for Constant Shear Drained Behaviour of Granular Material. In Event/exhibition information: 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition: Sustainable Civil Infrastructures - The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE), Cairo, Egypt, 10/11/2019-14/11/2019
Source details - Title: Advanced Numerical Methods in Foundation Engineering (pp. 48-55). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
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2020 Mizanur Rahman, M., Nguyen, H. B. K., & Wang, H. C. (2020). Stiff Degradation of Granular Material – A DEM Approach. In Event/exhibition information: 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition: Sustainable Civil Infrastructures - The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE), Cairo, Egypt, 10/11/2019-14/11/2019
Source details - Title: Advanced Numerical Methods in Foundation Engineering (pp. 56-62). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
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2019 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Karim, M. R. (2019). The Phase Transformation under Undrained and Drained Triaxial Conditions by the Discrete Element Method. In Event/exhibition information: International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering (8th : 2019 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 24/03/2019-27/03/2019
Source details - Title: Geo-Congress 2019. Geotechnical Materials, Modeling, and Testing (Vol. 2019-March, pp. 40-47). United States: American Society of Civil Engineers.
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2019 Barnett, N., Rahman, M., Karim, R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2019). Critical state theory for sand with fines: a DEM perspective. In H. Shehata, & B. Das (Eds.), Event/exhibition information: International Congress and Exhibition "Sustainable Civil Infrastructures: Innovative Infrastructure Geotechnology"GeoMEast 2018, Cairo, Egypt, 24/11/2018-28/11/2018
Source details - Title: Advances in numerical methods in geotechnical engineering (pp. 151-161). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
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2019 Barnett, N., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2019). Influence of Particle Rolling and Rotation on the Shearing Response of Clean Sand. In Event/exhibition information: International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering (8th : 2019 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 24/03/2019-27/03/2019
Source details - Title: Geo-Congress 2019. Geotechnical Materials, Modeling, and Testing (Vol. 2019-March, pp. 30-39). United States: American Society of Civil Engineers.
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2019 Barnett, N., Rahman, M., Karim, R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2019). Critical State Theory for Sand with Fines: A DEM Perspective. In Sustainable Civil Infrastructures (pp. 62-75). Springer International Publishing.
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2019 Mizanur Rahman, M., Nguyen, H. B. K., & Rajibul Karim, M. (2019). Modelling the Liquefaction Behaviour of Sydney Sand and the Link Between Static and Cyclic Instability. In Sustainable Civil Infrastructures (pp. 76-86). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
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2019 Nguyen, H. B. K., & Rahman, M. (2019). Drained Response of Granular Material. In Event/exhibition information: International Congress and Exhibition "Sustainable Civil Infrastructures: Innovative Infrastructure Geotechnology" GeoMEast 2018, Cairo, Egypt, 24/11/2018-28/11/2018
Source details - Title: Advanced Research on Shallow Foundations. GeoMEast 2018. Sustainable Civil Infrastructures (pp. 175-184). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
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Year Citation
2025 Shrestha, S., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2025). Performance Outcome of Geosynthetic Stabilised Pavement Constructed on Expansive Subgrade. In Proceedings of GeoMandu 2024 Volume 4: Ground Improvement and Environmental Geotechnics Vol. 659 LNCE (pp. 85-94). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
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2025 Shrestha, S., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2025). Evaluation of Pavement Performance for Three Different Designs on the Expansive Subgrade: Three Case Studies. In C. Rujikiatkamjorn, J. Xue, & B. Indraratna (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering Vol. 409 LNCE (pp. 11-17). AUSTRALIA, Sydney: SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
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2025 Ibrahim, B., Rahman, M. M., Karim, R., Nguyen, K., & Kavazanjian jr, E. (2025). The Challenge of Stabilizing Copper Tailings Using EICP: The Role of Inhibitors. In J. Tao (Ed.), Proceedings of the ICBBG2025 (pp. 1-11). US: ISSMGE.
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2025 Khan, S. A., Karim, R., Rahman, M. M., Kavazanjian, E., & Nguyen, K. (2025). Review of critical state theory based constitutive models for bio-cemented granular soils. In J. Tao (Ed.), Proceedings of the ICBBG2025 (pp. 1-16). US: ISSMGE.
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2025 Cao, Y., Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Karim, M. R. (2025). Investigating Undrained Behaviour of Partially Saturated Granular Materials under Cyclic Triaxial Loading Using DEM. In Geotechnical Special Publication Vol. 2025-November (pp. 205-213). American Society of Civil Engineers.
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2025 Le, T. T., Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Karim, M. R. (2025). Modelling Undrained and Drained Triaxial Shearing Behaviour of Realistic Sand Particles Using DEM. In Geotechnical Special Publication Vol. 2025-November (pp. 214-223). American Society of Civil Engineers.
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2022 Karim, M. R., Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, H. B. K., Newsome, P. L., & Cameron, D. (2022). TMI soil moisture index for South Australia under current and future climate scenarios. In M. Rahman, & M. Jaksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (pp. 2233-2236). Australia: Australian Geomechanics Society.
2022 Cao, Y., Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M., & Cheng, W. -C. (2022). Soil Behavior in the Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Shield Tunnelling-A DEM Study. In A. Lemnitzer, & A. W. Stuedlein (Eds.), GEO-CONGRESS 2022: SITE AND SOIL CHARACTERIZATION, COMPUTATIONAL GEOTECHNICS, RISK, AND LESSONS LEARNED Vol. 333 (pp. 690-698). USA: AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS.
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2021 Cai, H., Yin, F., Singhal, T., Pendyam, S., Noorzad, P., Zhu, Y., . . . Porikli, F. (2021). Real-Time and Accurate Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation on Mobile Device. In D. Kiela, M. Ciccone, & B. Caputo (Eds.), NEURIPS 2021 COMPETITIONS AND DEMONSTRATIONS TRACK, VOL 176 Vol. 176 (pp. 308-313). ELECTR NETWORK: JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH.
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2019 Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, H. B. K., Wang, H. C., & Shahriar, M. A. (2019). Critical state behaviour of granular materials. In Papers from the International Conference On Discrete Element Methods (pp. 1-9). Netherlands: University of Twente.
2019 Kolapalli, R., Rahman, M. M., Karim, M. R., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2019). Effect of static loading on cyclic liqueafaction behaviour: a DEM study. In H. E. Acosta-Martínez, & B. M. Lehane (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics (pp. 1129-1134). Australia: Australian Geomechanics Society.
2017 Rahman, M. M., Nguyen, H., & Rabbi, Z. (2017). Undrained behaviour of sand under isotropic and K₀-consolidated condition: experimental and DEM approach. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul 2017 (pp. 493-496). UK: ISSMGE.
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2016 Rahman, M. M., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2016). Triggering of static liquefaction behaviour of undrained granular materials: A DEM study. In R. Pathegama (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Geomechanics, Geo-energy and Geo-resources (IC3G 2016) (pp. 1-7). Australia: 3GDeep.
2015 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., & Cameron, D. A. (2015). Undrained behavior of sand by DEM Study. In Geotechnical Special Publication Vol. GSP 256 (pp. 182-191). US: American Society of Civil Engineers.
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2015 Nguyen, H. B. K., & Rahman, M. M. (2015). Finite element analysis for spatially stochastic soil - Anisotropic Studies. In Geotechnical Special Publication Vol. GSP 256 (pp. 271-278). US: American Society of Civil Engineers.
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2015 Nguyen, H. B. K., Rahman, M. M., Cameron, D. A., & Fourie, A. B. (2015). The effect of consolidation path on undrained behaviour of sand - A DEM approach. In F. Oka, A. Murakami, R. Uzuoka, & S. Kimoto (Eds.), Computer Methods and Recent Advances in Geomechanics Proceedings of the 14th Int Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Recent Advances in Geomechanics Iacmag 2014 (pp. 175-180). Australia: CRC PRESS-TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP.
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2012 Rahman, M. M., & Nguyen, H. B. K. (2012). Applications of random finite element method in bearing capacity problems. In ADVCOMP 2012, The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (pp. 53-58). Spain: Xpert Publishing Services.

  • Guidelines to mitigate structure damage due to water content change in Victoria’s expansive soils, Victorian Building Authority, 03/03/2025 - 24/04/2026

Courses I teach

  • CIVE 3007 Geotechnical Engineering (2025)
  • CIVE 3013 Steel and Timber Design (2025)
  • CIVE 4036 Earthquake and Masonry Engineering (2025)
  • CIVE 5083 Advanced Soil Mechanics (2025)
  • CIVE 3007 Geotechnical Engineering (2024)
  • CIVE 3013 Steel and Timber Design (2024)
  • CIVE 4036 Earthquake and Masonry Engineering (2024)
  • CIVE 5083 Advanced Soil Mechanics (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 External Supervisor Investigation of the micro-mechanism of gap-graded soils subjected to suffusion using a novel CFD-DEM approach Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hanfan Liu
2024 External Supervisor Investigation of the micro-mechanism of gap-graded soils subjected to suffusion using a novel CFD-DEM approach Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Hanfan Liu
2023 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mohsen Zarei
2023 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Shahid Ali Khan
2023 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Bemah Ibrahim
2022 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sagun Shrestha
2022 Principal Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tri Le
2022 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Bikash Devkota

Date Role Membership Country
2021 - ongoing Member Australian Geomechnics Society -

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2023 - ongoing Associate Editor Geotechnical Research Institution of Civil Engineers United Kingdom

Date Engagement Type Partner Name
2025 - ongoing Collaboration Building and Plumbing Commission
2023 - 2025 Research Contract Atlantic Industries Limited
2022 - ongoing Collaboration City of Salisbury

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