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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 embankments and cuttings)
  • The impact of extreme weather and climate change on groundwater pressures beneath engineering structures
  • The engineering properties of Jurassic and Triassic mudstones for geotechnical design (e.g. excavations, embankments and foundations)
Connect with Kevin

Email: K.Briggs@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Forecasting the long-term deterioration of a cut slope in high-plasticity clay using a numerical model
Harry Postill, Peter R. Helm, Neil Dixon, Stephanie Glendinning, Joel Smethurst, Mohamed Rouainia, Kevin M. Briggs, Ashraf El-Hamalawi & Anthony Blake, 2020, Engineering Geology
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2020.105912
Type: article