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Research project

Quantifying macroscopic flow and transport in the unsaturated zone to address the long-term contaminant burden of waste repositories.

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

Dr Richard Beaven

Principal Research Fellow
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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]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Borehole dilution tests to measure leachate flow at a recirculation landfill
T. Rees-White, M. Feenstra, T. Kanen, R. Beaven & J. Gebert, 2023
Type: conference
Installation of a vadose zone monitoring system for tracer testing in a municipal solid waste landfill subject to leachate recirculation
Anne Stringfellow, R.P. Beaven, Tristan Rees-White, Joel Smethurst, William Powrie & Twan Kanen, 2023
Type: conference
Spatial variability of leachate tables, leachate composition and hydraulic conductivity in a landfill stabilized by in situ aeration
Julia Gebert, Ties de Jong, R.P. Beaven, Tristan Rees-White & Hans Lammen, 2021
Type: conference