ProfessorBre-Anne Sainsbury
Professor
Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0003-0175-4720 (opens in a new tab)
- ProfessorFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering
- +61 3 522 78736 (Work)
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
RESEARCH INTERESTS
large-scale extraction mining methods
tunneling (ground-structure interaction)
backfill for mining operations (CRF, paste)
geomechnical laboratory testing (ground support, rock and synthetic materials)
three-dimensional non-linear analysis for large-scale deformation
empirical versus numerical design approaches
forensic investigations of excavation failures
tunneling (ground-structure interaction)
backfill for mining operations (CRF, paste)
geomechnical laboratory testing (ground support, rock and synthetic materials)
three-dimensional non-linear analysis for large-scale deformation
empirical versus numerical design approaches
forensic investigations of excavation failures
GRANTS
- CONTRACT RESEARCHConsideration of Binder Addition for the Large-Scale Strength of CRF8 Sep 2025 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- INTERNAL GRANTVictorian Gold Mine Tailings as an Alternative Concrete MaterialFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment20 Mar 2025 - 31 Oct 2025People funded by this grant:
- Adhikari S,
- Karunasena G,
- Moon E,
- Sainsbury B-A,
- Zhao S
- GRANTDevelopment of a Constitutive Model for Rock that Accounts for Complex Stress Paths1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2027People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHInvestigation of the UCS Response of Large-Scale Cemented Rock Fill Samples1 Jul 2024 - 31 Dec 2026People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCharacterisation of the loading response of large-scale mining timber chocks.1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHInvestigation of the long-term strength degradation of pastefill from the Kibali Mine1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Sainsbury B-A,
- Moon E
- CONTRACT RESEARCHInvestigation of the UCS Response of Large-Scale Cemented Rock Fill Samples19 Sep 2022 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- GRANTPhase II: MEMS piezometer performance on field engineering site and data analysis using Machine Learning and Python code for pore pressure prediction and estimation of hydro-mechanical properties..18 Jul 2022 - 16 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Timms W,
- Sainsbury B-A,
- Touchahi MB
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCharacterisation of the Strength of Cold Joints in Paste Fill1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCharacterisation of the Strength of Cold Joints in Paste Fill1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCharacterisation of the Strength of Cold Joints in Paste Fill1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCharacterisation of the Strength of Cold Joints in Paste Fill1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCharacterisation of the Strength of Cold Joints in Paste Fill1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCharacterisation of the Strength of Cold Joints in Paste Fill1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHCharacterisation of the Strength of Cold Joints in Paste Fill1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHInvestigation of the corrosion degradation of split set ground support elements.1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2023People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHInvestigation of the UCS Response of Large-Scale Cemented Rock Fill Samples.8 Nov 2021 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- GRANTTransformation of Reclaimed Waste into Engineered Materials and Solutions (TREMS)20 Jul 2021 - 20 Jul 2026People funded by this grant:
- Setunge S,
- Costa S,
- Polonsky M,
- Sainsbury B-A,
- Pathirana P
- CONTRACT RESEARCHInvestigation of the Large-Scale Cemented Rock Fill Response at the Renison Mine, Tasmania.1 Jun 2021 - 31 Dec 2021People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- GRANTTransformation of Reclaimed Waste into Engineered Materials and Solutions (TREMS)31 Mar 2021 - 31 Mar 2026People funded by this grant:
- Setunge S,
- Costa S,
- Polonsky M,
- Sainsbury B-A,
- Pathirana P
- GRANTAdvanced monitoring and analysis systems for subsurface monitoring of rock strata and groundwater systems.1 Jul 2020 - 1 Jul 2024People funded by this grant:
- Timms W,
- Sainsbury B-A
- CONTRACT RESEARCHNumerical Simulation Research - Caving Geomechanics16 Mar 2020 - 31 Dec 2020People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHConsideration of Cracking Damage to Concrete Tunnel Lining Systems1 May 2019 - 30 Apr 2024People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- GRANTR & D Modelling3 Apr 2018 - 31 Dec 2018People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury
- CONTRACT RESEARCHLarge Scale UCS analysis of CRF samples1 Mar 2018 - 31 Dec 2018People funded by this grant:
- Bre-Anne Sainsbury