Research project

J Smethurst 2015 - EPSRC: Rooting for Sustainable Performance

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Joel Smethurst BEng PhD GMICE FHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure subject to both seasonal cycles of wetting and drying and applied traffic loading
  • The effect of extreme weather events and climate change on the performance of earthworks (cuttings and embankments) and flood levees
  • The effects of vegetation transpiration and root reinforcement on the performance of earthworks
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Other researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials
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Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
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Professor Tiina Roose

Professor-Biological&Environmental Model
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Daniel Bull, Joel Smethurst, Gerrit Meijer, Ian Sinclair, Fabrice Pierron, Tiina Roose, William Powrie & Glyn Bengough, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 478(2257)
Type: article
Nicholas Woodman, Joel Smethurst, Tiina Roose, William Powrie, G. Meijer, J. Knappett & T. Dias, 2020, Computers and Geotechnics, 127
Type: article
Daniel Bull, Joel Smethurst, Ian Sinclair, Fabrice Pierron, Tiina Roose, William Powrie & Anthony G. Bengough, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 476(2237), 1-23
Type: article