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

F.A. Loveridge, W. Powrie & D. Nicholson, 2014, Acta Geotechnica, 9(3), 367-384
Type: article
F. Loveridge, C.G. Olgun, T. Brettmann & W. Powrie, 2014, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 33(2), 273-289
Type: article
F.A. Loveridge, T. Brettmann, C.G. Olgun & W. Powrie, 2014
Type: conference
F.A. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2014, Geothermics, 50, 122-135
Type: article
F.A. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2014, Energy, 64, 747-757
Type: article