Marcelo Llano, PhD, RPEQ
Marcelo Llano, PhD, RPEQ, is a Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer based in Australia focused on providing geotechnical consulting and numerical modeling to large projects in Australia and Papa New Guinea. He specializes in numerical modeling, tailings and other dams, risk-reduction analyses, field instrumentation, soil mechanics and liquefaction, and seepage barriers.
Specialties
Geotechnical engineering, numerical modeling, tailings dams, stability assessments, risk-reduction analyses, field instrumentation and seepage barriers
Practice Areas
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Education
BS, Civil Engineering, National University of Colombia, 2010; MS, Geotechnics, University of Brasilia, 2012; PhD, Geotechnics, University of Brasilia, 2016.
Registration
Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland
Client Service
Clients seek out Marcelo for his experience using fore-front large-deformation numerical modeling. His experience helped him to simulate the failure of Brazil’s Brumadinho Dam and create a failure model to identify the errors that occurred. In addition, Marcelo has conducted multiple dam safety reviews, site investigations, and gap assessments for tailings and water dams, and he has designed a 2-kilometer long, 55-meter-deep cofferdam in a complex remote, tropical, seismic, and geothermal environment.
Marcelo has published or presented 25 papers in international journals and conferences, and his work has received over 150 citations.
Contact Marcelo at Marcelo.llano@geosyntec.com.
