Research project

J Smethurst 2015 - EPSRC: Rooting for Sustainable Performance

Research groups:

Engineering Materials and Surface Engineering Group

Bioengineering Group
Lead researchers:

Professor Joel Smethurst
Other researchers:

Professor Ian Sinclair,

Professor William Powrie,

Professor Tiina Roose
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

Connect with Joel

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials

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Research interests

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

Connect with William

Email: [email protected]

Professor Tiina Roose

Professor-Biological&Environmental Model

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Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Modelling of stress transfer in root-reinforced soils informed by four-dimensional X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation data

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)

DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2021.0210

Type: article

Mathematical and computational modelling of vegetated soil incorporating hydraulically-driven finite strain deformation

Nicholas Woodman, Joel Smethurst, Tiina Roose, William Powrie, G. Meijer, J. Knappett & T. Dias, 2020, Computers and Geotechnics, 127

DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2020.103754

Type: article

Mechanisms of root-reinforcement in soils: an experimental methodology using four-dimensional X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation

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

DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2019.0838

Type: article

Understanding the mechanisms of root-reinforcement in soils: soil shear tests using X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation

Daniel Bull, Ian Sinclair, Fabrice Pierron, Tiina Roose & Joel Smethurst, 2019, E3S Web of Conferences, 92

DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20199212009

Type: article

Climate and vegetation impacts on infrastructure cuttings and embankments

William Powrie & Joel Smethurst, 2019

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2221-1_7

Type: conference