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
Connect with William
Other researchers

Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering
Connect with David

Research outputs

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)
Type: article
Joel Smethurst, Nicola Bicocchi, William Powrie & A.S. O'Brien, 2020, Géotechnique, 70(9), 774-790
Type: article
Joel Smethurst, Alister Smith, Sebastian Uhlemann, Chris Wooff, Jonathan Chambers, Paul Hughes, Stanislav Lenart, Haris Saroglou, Sarah Marcella Springman, Hjördis Löfroth & David Hughes, 2017, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(3), 271-286
Type: article