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CEE Oral Dissertation Defense

Speaker: Chanin Chuen-Im, Ph.D. Candidate, USC-Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Talk Title: A Coastal Development Idea for Gulf of Thailand to Improve Global Trades

Abstract: For a long time since ancient history international trade was used to exchange capital, goods, and service. There are several modes of transportation but people have been using marine transport as a main transportation mode for certain types of good and commodities in global trades. The pioneers of marine transports in Greek, Roman, and China used sea routes to sell and buy goods for their respective kingdoms. Until now more than 80 percent of transporting goods around the world is still by sea even though the speed of sea transportation is much slower compared to air or ground transportation. Since the most disadvantage of marine transport is its slow speed, what can be done to decrease the time of transportation by sea.
Suez Canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and the Panama Canal connecting Caribbean Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are the best examples of the man-made canals that show the necessity and the importance of what the alternative sea routes could do. This dissertation study presents a new route of Man-made canals that could make the shipping faster and more effective for Asian Region (between Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean).
At the present time, transportation between Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean are mainly from the existing three routes : Malacca Route, Sundra Route, and Lombok Route. By introducing a man-made canal herein called “Siam Canal” which will be located in Thailand. Siam Canal which connects the Andaman Sea and Gulf of Thailand can shorten the travel distance between Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean up to 3,500 kilometers or 7 days of travel time.
This dissertation research presents preliminary study of Siam Canal which will include the proposal of Siam Canal, the potential benefits using Siam Canal, the initial design of the proposed Siam Canal, environmental problems, and the economic and engineering feasibility study of the proposed Siam Canal. Environmental impacts due to the construction of the “Siam Canal” are addressed. The wave and tide condition, before and after the construction of the “Siam Canal” are simulated by a finite element numerical model for the Gulf of Thailand region.


Adviser: Prof. Jiin Jin Lee

Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Evangeline Reyes