Géotechnique Lecture

The Géotechnique lecture is an biennial lecture on the topic of soil mechanics, organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after its major scientific journal Géotechnique.

This should not be confused with the annual BGA Rankine Lecture.

List of Géotechnique Lecturers

No YEAR LECTURER SUBJECT AFFILIATION
1 1989 David M. Potts & Richard J. Jardine Offshore Piling Imperial College
2 1991 Malcolm D. Bolton & Scott Steedman Dynamic soil behaviour University of Cambridge & BEQE Ltd
3 1993 William Powrie & Martin Preene Groundwater control in fine soils University of Southampton & W J Groundwater Ltd
4 1999 Chris R. I. Clayton & William Powrie Recent research on embedded retaining walls University of Southampton
5 2001 Guy T. Houlsby & Roy Butterfield Foundations on sand: towards a more secure basis for design University of Oxford & University of Southampton
6 2003 Matthew R. Coop From laboratory tests to design in sand Imperial College
7 2005 Simon J. Wheeler The mechanics of unsaturated soils University of Glasgow
8 2007 Kenichi Soga University of Cambridge
9 2009 Jamie R. Standing Geology, engineering and ground response to tunnelling Imperial College
10 2011 Byron W. Byrne Foundation Design for Offshore Wind Turbines University of Oxford
11 2013 Lidija Zdravković Geotechnical numerical analysis: a road map Imperial College
12 2015 Catherine O'Sullivan A Particulate Perspective on Soil Mechanics [1] Imperial College
13 2017 Jonathan A. Knappett Use of vegetation in low-carbon Geotechnical Engineering [2] University of Dundee
14 2019 David J. White[3] Designing infrastructure for an evolving seabed [4] University of Southampton
15 2021 Stuart K. Haigh[5] Performance-Based Design of Propped Retaining Walls [6] University of Cambridge
16 2023 Alessandro Tarantino[7] Bringing vegetation-based solutions into geotechnical engineering design: how do we make it happen? [8] University of Strathclyde
17 2025

See also

References

  1. ^ 2015 Géotechnique Lecture
  2. ^ 2017 Géotechnique Lecture
  3. ^ Professor David White BA, MA, MEng, PhD (Cantab), FREng, FTSE, FRINA, FIEAust Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics
  4. ^ Géotechnique Lecture 2019: Designing infrastructure for an evolving seabed, London
  5. ^ Professor Stuart Haigh Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
  6. ^ 2021 Géotechnique Lecture - Performance-Based Design of Propped Retaining Walls
  7. ^ Professor Alessandro Tarantino
  8. ^ 2023 Géotechnique Lecture - Bringing vegetation-based solutions into geotechnical engineering design: how do we make it happen?