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Research project

Long-term performance of geotechnical transport infrastructure

Staff

Lead researchers

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]

Other researchers

Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering
Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Challenges in monitoring and managing engineered slopes in a changing climate
P.N. Hughes, R. Hen-Jones, R.A. Stirling, S. Glendinning, D.A. Gunn, J.E. Chambers, T.A. Dijkstra, J.A. Smethurst & K. Flesjo, 2016
DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20160904009
Type: conference
Seepage and pore pressures around contiguous pile retaining walls
D.J. Richards, C.A. Wiggan & W. Powrie, 2016, Géotechnique, 66(7), 523-532
DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.14.P.121
Type: article
Research-informed design, management and maintenance of infrastructure slopes: development of a multi-scalar approach
S. Glendinning, P.R. Helm, M. Rouainia, R.A. Stirling, J.D. Asquith, P.N. Hughes, D.G. Toll, D. Clarke, W. Powrie, J.A. Smethurst, D. Hughes, R. Harley, R. Karim, N. Dixon, C. Crosby, J. Chambers, T. Dijkstra, D. Gunn, K. Briggs & D. Muddle, 2015, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 26
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/26/1/012005
Type: article
Validation of a spatial-temporal soil water movement and plant water uptake model
J. Heppell, S. Payvandi, K.C. Zygalakis, J.A. Smethurst, J. Fliege & T. Roose, 2014, Géotechnique, 64(7), 526-539
DOI: 10.1680/geot.13.P.142
Type: article
Wet winter pore pressures in railway embankments
Kevin M. Briggs, Joel A. Smethurst, William Powrie & Anthony S. O'Brien, 2013, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, 166(5), 451-465
DOI: 10.1680/geng.11.00106
Type: article