Biological and Engineering Impacts of Climate Change on Slopes: Learning from full scale
Lead Research Organisation:
Queen's University Belfast
Abstract
The focus of this collaboration is to link research groups who undertake full-scale monitoring of slopes through a range of people-based activities. These include: visits of UK researchers and academics to a number of field sites both in the UK and overseas; exchanges of young researchers between UK and overseas academic institutions; secondments of researchers to industry; a dissemination workshop and the establishment of a web portal for the storage and exchange of data and for the running of on-line meetings and seminars. Despite its main focus, the collaboration will necessarily provide links between members of the extended research teams with expertise in numerical simulation, constitutive modelling, soils testing and instrumentation. It is the intention that these activities will also be linked within the wider collaborative framework created by this funding.
Organisations
- Queen's University Belfast (Lead Research Organisation)
- Translink (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Mott Macdonald (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Construction Industry Research and Information Association (Project Partner)
- Department for Infrastructure (Project Partner)
- Geotechnical Observations (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Highways England (Project Partner)
- University of Saskatchewan (Project Partner)
- Transnet (South Africa) (Project Partner)
- University of Minho (Project Partner)
- University of Manitoba (Project Partner)
- National University of Singapore (Project Partner)
- Resource Efficiency KTN (Project Partner)
- Network Rail (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
David Hughes (Principal Investigator) | |
V Sivakumar (Co-Investigator) |
Publications

Hughes D
(2007)
A case study: delayed failure of a deep cutting in lodgement till
in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering