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Mechanics and settlement of post landfill directive residual wastes

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.
Other researchers

Mr Geoff Watson

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Railway field instrumentation (MEMS, geophones, DIC, fibre optics)
  • Geotechnical field instrumentation (piezometers, earth pressure cells, shape arrays, extensometers)
  • Solid waste infrastructure modelling

Research outputs

Investigations into the landfill behaviour of pretreated wastes
A.A. Siddiqui,
D.J. Richards,
& W. Powrie
, 2012 , Waste Management , 32 (7) , 1420--1426
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.03.016
Type: article
Physical modelling of in-ground waste repository capping systems
David J. Richards,
& William Powrie
, 2011 , Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management , 164 (1) , 53--65
DOI: 10.1680/warm.2011.164.1.53
Type: article
A preliminary analysis of mechanically biologically treated waste: Biodegradation and settlement behaviour
A. Siddiqui,
D. J. Richards,
& W. Powrie
, 2009
Type: conference
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