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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
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Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Managing the extent of tree removal from railway earthwork slopes
K.M. Briggs, J.A. Smethurst, W. Powrie, A.S. O'Brien & D.J.E. Butcher, 2013, Ecological Engineering, 61(Part C), 690-696
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.12.076
Type: article
Factors controlling the seasonal variation in soil water content and pore water pressures within a lightly vegetated clay slope
J.A. Smethurst, D. Clarke & W. Powrie, 2012, Géotechnique, 62(5), 429-446
DOI: 10.1680/geot.10.p.097
Type: article
Effects of climate change on cycles of wetting and drying in engineered clay slopes in England
D. Clarke & J. Smethurst, 2010, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 43(4), 473-486
DOI: 10.1144/1470-9236/08-106
Type: article