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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

Identifying best practice, installation, laboratory testing, and field testing
2014, DFI Journal: The Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute, 8(2), 74-83
DOI: 10.1179/1937525514Y.0000000006
Type: article
New technologies and applications: materials and equipment in near surface geothermal systems
2014, DFI Journal: The Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute, 8(2), 93-107
DOI: 10.1179/1937525514Y.0000000012
Type: article
A comparison of laboratory and in situ methods to determine soil thermal conductivity for energy foundations and other ground heat exchanger applications
J. Low, F. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2014, Acta Geotechnica, 10(2), 209-218
DOI: 10.1007/s11440-014-0333-0
Type: article
Comparison of two different models for pile thermal response test interpretation
F.A. Loveridge, W. Powrie & D. Nicholson, 2014, Acta Geotechnica, 9(3), 367-384
DOI: 10.1007/s11440-014-0306-3
Type: article
The thermal behaviour of three different auger pressure grouted piles used as heat exchangers
F. Loveridge, C.G. Olgun, T. Brettmann & W. Powrie, 2014, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 33(2), 273-289
DOI: 10.1007/s10706-014-9757-4
Type: article
Assessing the applicability of thermal response testing to energy piles
F.A. Loveridge, T. Brettmann, C.G. Olgun & W. Powrie, 2014
Type: conference
2D thermal resistance of pile heat exchangers
F.A. Loveridge & W. Powrie, 2014, Geothermics, 50, 122-135
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2013.09.015
Type: article