An overview of research activities and achievement in Geotechnics from the Scottish Universities Geotechnics Network (SUGN)

Leung, A; Anastasopoulos, I X; Augarde, C E; Barreto, Daniel; Brennan, A J; Brown, M J Z; Connolly, D; Coombs, W M; Davies, T; Gao, Z; Ivanovic, A; Kenny, M; Knappett, J A; Lombardi, Domenico; McDougall, J; Medero, G; Muir Wood, David; El Mountassir, G; Osman, A S; Pytharouli, S; Sentenac, P; Stewart, B; Switzer, C; Tarantino, A; Wheeler, S J; Woodward, P K; Zielinski, M

Abstract

Design of geotechnical systems is often challenging as it requires the understanding of complex soil behaviour and its influence on field-scale performance of geo-structures. To advance the scientific knowledge and the technological development in geotechnical engineering, a Scottish academic community, named Scottish Universities Geotechnics Network (SUGN), was established in 2001, composing of eight higher education institutions. The network gathers geotechnics researchers, including experimentalists as well as centrifuge, constitutive, and numerical modellers, to generate multiple synergies for building larger collaboration and wider research dissemination in and beyond Scotland. The paper will highlight the research excellence and leading work undertaken in SUGN emphasising some of the contribution to the geotechnical research community and some of the significant research outcomes.

Citation

Leung, A., Anastasopoulos, I. X., Augarde, C. E., Barreto, D., Brennan, A. J., Brown, M. J. Z., Connolly, D., Coombs, W. M., Davies, T., Gao, Z., Ivanovic, A., Kenny, M., Knappett, J. A., Lombardi, D., McDougall, J., Medero, G., Muir Wood, D., El Mountassir, G., Osman, A. S., Pytharouli, S., …Zielinski, M. (2015, September). An overview of research activities and achievement in Geotechnics from the Scottish Universities Geotechnics Network (SUGN). Presented at 16th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Edinburgh

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 16th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
• Start Date: Sep 13, 2015
• End Date: Sep 17, 2015
• Publication Date: Sep 11, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jun 8, 2016
• Publisher: ICE Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 4289-4294
• Book Title: Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
• ISBN: 9780727760678
• Keywords: Soil behaviour; geo-structures; Scottish Universities Geotechnics Network (SUGN)
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/10102