The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
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The McClelland Lecture is the honour lecture of ISSMGE
TC209, with the recipient selected by a panel of peers from across the offshore
geotechnical profession.
Further details of the event can be found HERE.
The British Geotechnical Association
12.09.2023
18:00 - 19:30
The Great Hall, Sherfield Building, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ
ISSMGE Conferences and Seminars
Understanding vertical bearing behaviour is often key to foundation design. Assessing how this may change over time is crucial to project life-cycle analysis and allows designers to consider the potential benefits of pre-installing foundations or gradually building-up loads. Capturing the ageing processes is also key to assessing whether existing foundations can carry additional loads safely when modifying the superstructure or operating plant, addressing metocean or marine growth changes, assessing reliability levels or considering new loading cases, such as earthquakes. This lecture summarises recent developments in understanding the ageing of shallow foundations and driven piles. It reviews and reports experiments at clay, sand and chalk sites, supported by intensive characterisation, and emphasises the findings that are most important for practice and research.
Imperial College London
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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