Research project

GROUND ENERGY

Lead researcher:

Professor William Powrie
Other researchers:

Professor Joel Smethurst
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

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

Error analysis of the thermal cell for soil thermal conductivity measurement

Jasmine E. Low, William Powrie & Fleur A. Loveridge, 2017, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, 170(3), 191-200

DOI: 10.1680/jgeen.16.00137

Type: article

Site investigation for energy geostructures

Fleur Loveridge, Jasmine Low & William Powrie, 2017, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(2), 158-168

DOI: 10.1144/qjegh2016-027

Type: article

Thermal performance of thermoactive continuous flight auger piles

2016, Environmental Geotechnics, 3(4), 265-279

DOI: 10.1680/jenge.15.00023

Type: article

Influences on the thermal efficiency of energy piles

2015, Energy, 82, 1021-1033