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Research project

J Smethurst 2015 - EPSRC: Rooting for Sustainable Performance

Staff

Lead 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
Connect with Joel

Email: J.A.SMETHURST@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials
Connect with Ian

Email: I.Sinclair@soton.ac.uk

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

Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

Professor Tiina Roose

Professor-Biological&Environmental Model
Connect with Tiina

Email: T.Roose@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

The influence of tree root water uptake on the long term hydrology of a clay fill railway embankment
K. Briggs, J. A. Smethurst, W. Powrie & A.S. O'Brien, 2016, Transportation Geotechnics, 9, 31-48
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2016.06.001
Type: article