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Research project

RAEng Industrial Fellowship in Railway Infrastructure Resilience

Project overview

A seven-month industrial fellowship at 0.8 FTE, funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and supported by Network Rail.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Kevin Briggs

Associate Professor in Geomechanics
Research interests
  • Deterioration processes in ageing of transportation earthworks (e.g. highway and railway embankments and cuttings)
  • The impact of extreme weather and climate change on groundwater pressures beneath engineering structures
  • The engineering properties of Jurassic and Triassic mudstones for geotechnical design (e.g. excavations, embankments and foundations)
Connect with Kevin

Email: K.Briggs@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Macropore structure and permeability of clay fill samples from a historic clay fill earthwork
David Muddle & K.M. Briggs, 2019, Transportation Geotechnics, 19, 96-109
DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2019.02.003
Type: article
Failures in transport infrastructure embankments
K.M. Briggs, F.A. Loveridge & S. Glendinning, 2017, Engineering Geology, 219, 107-117
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2016.07.016
Type: article