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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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Email: [email protected]

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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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