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Research project

Assessment, Costing and enhancement of long life, Long Linear assets

Project overview

KB was University of Bath PI for ACHILLES (£299,528 to Bath)

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Kevin Briggs

Associate Professor in Geomechanics
Research interests
  • Deterioration processes in ageing of transportation earthworks (e.g. highway and railway emba…
  • The impact of extreme weather and climate change on groundwater pressures beneath engineering…
  • The engineering properties of Jurassic and Triassic mudstones for geotechnical design (e.g. e…
Connect with Kevin

Email: K.Briggs@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Standard penetration tests in clays derived from weathered Jurassic mudstones in central England
Kevin Briggs, Yuderka Trinidad González, William Powrie, Simon Butler & Nick Sartain, 2025, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 58(3)
DOI: 10.1144/qjegh2025-022
Type: article
In-situ shear modulus reduction with strain in stiff fissured clays and weathered mudstones
Kevin M. Briggs, Yuderka Trinidad Gonzalez, Gerrit J. Meijer, William Powrie, Simon Butler & Nick Sartain, 2025, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 62
DOI: 10.1139/cgj-2023-0702
Type: article
The influence of earthworks construction on porewater pressures in clays and mudstones of the Lias Group
Kevin M. Briggs, Yuderka Trinidad González, Gerrit J. Meijer, Andrew Ridley, William Powrie, Simon Butler & Nick Sartain, 2024, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 57(4)
DOI: 10.1144/qjegh2024-036
Type: article
Coherence-based prediction of Multi-Temporal InSAR measurement availability for infrastructure monitoring
Dominika Malinowska, Pietro Milillo, Kevin Briggs, Cormac Reale & Giorgia Giardina, 2024, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 17, 16392-16410
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3449688
Type: article
Evaluating the likelihood of slope failure in ageing earthworks using Bayesian updating
Yuderka Trinidad González, Kevin M. Briggs, Aleksandra Svalova & Stephanie Glendinning, 2023, Infrastructure Asset Management, 10(4), 207-222
DOI: 10.1680/jinam.23.00005
Type: article
Evidence for the weather-driven deterioration of ageing transportation earthworks in the UK
Kevin Briggs, Peter R. Helm, Joel A. Smethurst, Alastair Smith, Ross Stirling, Aleksandra Svalova, Yuderka Trinidad Gonzalez, Fleur A. Loveridge & Stephanie Glendinning, 2023, Transportation Geotechnics, 43
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2023.101130
Type: article
Forecast climate change impact on pore-water pressure regimes for the design and assessment of clay earthworks
Wengui Huang, Fleur A. Loveridge, Kevin M. Briggs, Joel A. Smethurst, Nader Saffari & Fiona Thomson, 2023, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 57(1)
DOI: 10.1144/qjegh2023-015
Type: article