Open menu
View all research projects
Research project

Discrete piles

Staff

Lead researcher

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.

Research outputs

Effective-stress analysis of berm-supported retaining walls
J. Smethurst,
& W. Powrie
, 2008 , Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering , 161 (1) , 39--48
DOI: 10.1680/geng.2008.161.1.39
Type: article
Monitoring and analysis of the bending behaviour of discrete piles used to stabilise a railway embankment
J.A. Smethurst,
& W. Powrie
, 2007 , G{\'e}otechnique , 57 (8) , 663--677
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2007.57.8.663
Type: article
Back
to top