Research project

GROUND ENERGY

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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Other 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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Research outputs

Jasmine E. Low, William Powrie & Fleur A. Loveridge, 2017, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, 170(3), 191-200
Type: article
Fleur Loveridge, Jasmine Low & William Powrie, 2017, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(2), 158-168
Type: article
2016, Environmental Geotechnics, 3(4), 265-279
Type: article
2014, DFI Journal: The Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute, 8(2), 84-92
Type: article