Brady, Barry Hugh Garrett (1942 - )

Summary

Barry Brady was in the team which conducted the gigantic blast at the Mount Isa Mine in 1975. Subsequently he was a lecturer in rock mechanics and mining engineering at Imperial College, London, professor at the University of Minnesota, USA, and Chief of CSIRO's Division of Geomechanics. He was a co-founder and Technical Director of Itasca Consulting Group, Minneapolis, and manager of the Applied Mechanics department of Schlumberger Dowell, USA. After serving as Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Queensland, he was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics at the University of Western Australia.

Details

Educated at the University of Queensland (BSc, MSc), University of London, Imperial College (MSc(Eng) and PhD, Mining and Geo-Engineering). Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering; Fellow of The Institution of Engineers, Australia; Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; Chartered Professional Engineer, Australia; Chartered Professional Mining Engineer, Australia; and Member of the International Society for Rock Mechanics.

Chronology

1980

Basic Research Award, Rock Mechanics Committee of the US National Research Council

1984

International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM), best paper at Cambridge Symposium

1992 - 1994

Chairman, US National Committee for Rock Mechanics

2007

President's Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy

Published resources

Resources

• 'Brady, B H G (1942-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-892943. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details