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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
Connect with William

Email: W.Powrie@soton.ac.uk

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
Connect with Joel

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

Research outputs

Thermal conductivity of soils by the needle probe method, for energy foundation applications
J. Low, F.A. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2014
Type: conference
Measuring soil thermal properties for use in energy foundation design
J. Low, F.A. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2013
Type: conference
Performance of piled foundations used as heat exchangers
F.A. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2013
Type: conference
Temperature response functions (G-functions) for single pile heat exchangers
F.A. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2013, Energy, 57, 554-564
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.04.060
Type: article
Pile heat exchangers: thermal behaviour and interactions
F.A. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2013, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, 166(2), 178-196
DOI: 10.1680/geng.11.00042
Type: article