Research project

Long-term performance of geotechnical transport infrastructure

Lead researchers:

Professor William Powrie
Other researchers:

Professor David Richards
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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 David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering

Connect with David

Email: djr@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Modelling of stress transfer in root-reinforced soils informed by four-dimensional X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation data

Daniel Bull, Joel Smethurst, Gerrit Meijer, Ian Sinclair, Fabrice Pierron, Tiina Roose, William Powrie & Glyn Bengough, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 478(2257)

DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2021.0210

Type: article

Behaviour of discrete piles used to stabilise a tree-covered railway embankment

Joel Smethurst, Nicola Bicocchi, William Powrie & A.S. O'Brien, 2020, Géotechnique, 70(9), 774-790

DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.18.P.150

Type: article

Climate and vegetation impacts on infrastructure cuttings and embankments

William Powrie & Joel Smethurst, 2019

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2221-1_7

Type: conference

Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes

Joel Smethurst, Alister Smith, Sebastian Uhlemann, Chris Wooff, Jonathan Chambers, Paul Hughes, Stanislav Lenart, Haris Saroglou, Sarah Marcella Springman, Hj?rdis L?froth & David Hughes, 2017, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(3), 271-286

DOI: 10.1144/qjegh2016-080

Type: article

The influence of tree root water uptake on the long term hydrology of a clay fill railway embankment

K. Briggs, J. A. Smethurst, W. Powrie & A.S. O'Brien, 2016, Transportation Geotechnics, 9, 31-48

DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2016.06.001

Type: article

Challenges in monitoring and managing engineered slopes in a changing climate

P.N. Hughes, R. Hen-Jones, R.A. Stirling, S. Glendinning, D.A. Gunn, J.E. Chambers, T.A. Dijkstra, J.A. Smethurst & K. Flesjo, 2016

DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/20160904009

Type: conference

Seepage and pore pressures around contiguous pile retaining walls

D.J. Richards, C.A. Wiggan & W. Powrie, 2016, Géotechnique, 66(7), 523-532

DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.14.P.121

Type: article