About
Dr Jamie Crispin is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southampton, UK. He works on the development of analytical, theoretical, and numerical solutions to soil-structure interaction problems related to static, dynamic, and cyclic loading. He focusses on predicting the deformations of monopiles and pile groups, as well as retaining walls, surface foundations and other geotechnical structures. He is particularly interested in how these complex solutions can be translated to foundation design practice, such as in the design of offshore wind turbines that are resilient to future storms.
Prior to this, Jamie worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, UK, on both the PICASO and ALPACA+ projects. He was involved in the development of models to predict the response of monopile foundations to cyclic storm loading, as well as interpreting medium-scale field test results.
His MEng degree in Civil Engineering was completed at the University of Bristol, UK, where he also completed a PhD in 2021 on the 'Static and dynamic analysis of piles in inhomogenous soils'. This work focussed on developing simplified analytical solutions in closed-form for predicting the deflections of piles and pile groups. These were validated against numerical results and the DINGO database of over 500 onshore pile tests, which he assisted in collecting.