Seminars and lecture series
Each year, we organise an open seminar on the afternoon of the BGA* Rankine lecture, details of previous seminars and lectures are listed in the following table.
Previous events
| Year | Rankine Seminar | BGA* Rankine Lecture |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 |
Data in Geotechnical Engineering: beyond conventional methods and design 2024 Rankine Flyer |
Lidija Zdravkovic: Geotechnical Engineering for a Sustainable Society |
| 2023 |
Recent large-scale field research into offshore foundation behaviour 2023 Rankine Flyer |
John Carter: Constitutive Modelling in Computational Geomechanics |
| 2022 |
COVID-19 |
Stephan Jefferis: The Unusual and the Unexpected in Geotechnical Engineering: Observation – Analogy – Experiment |
| 2021 |
COVID-19 (no seminar nor Rankine) |
COVID-19 (no seminar nor Rankine) |
| 2020 |
COVID-19 (no seminar nor Rankine) |
COVID-19 (no seminar nor Rankine) |
| 2019 |
Engineering Resilient Infrastructure - Pre-Rankine flyer 2019 |
George Gazetas: Benefits of Unconventional Seismic Foundation Design |
| 2018 |
Linking fabric, structure and soil behaviour: Recent advancements- Pre-Rankine flyer 2018 |
Nick O'Riordan Dynamic soil-structure interaction |
| 2017 | Recent developments in energy geotechnics: Fundamentals to applications 2017 Rankine Flyer | Eduardo Alonso: Triggering & motion of landslides |
| 2016 | Research on offshore foundations - Pre-Rankine flyer 2016 | Richard Jardine: Geotechnics & energy |
| 2015 | Tunnelling in London: learning lessons from Crossrail - Pre-Rankine flyer 2015 | Suzanne Lacasse: Hazard, risk and reliability in geotechnical practice |
| 2014 | Nicholas Ambraseys Memorial Symposium | Guy Houlsby: Interactions in offshore foundation design |
| 2013 | Unsaturated soil slopes: From theory to practice.- Pre-Rankine flyer 2013 | Michele Jamiolkowski: Soil Mechanics and the observational method: Challenges at the Zelazny Most copper tailings disposal facility |
| 2012 | Recent research and developments in stiff clays and mudrocks - Pre-Rankine flyer 2012 | Malcolm Bolton: Performance based design in geotechnical engineering |
| 2011 | Modelling ULS in geotechnical finite element analysis - Pre-Rankine flyer 2011 | Scott Sloan: Geotechnical stability analysis |
| 2010 | Understanding the measurement of soil dynamic properties | Chris Clayton: Stiffness at small strain: research and practice |
| 2009 | 1-day Peter Vaughan Memorial symposium | Tom O’Rourke: Geohazards and large geographically distributed systems |
| 2008 | Embankments and Earthworks | Andrew Charles: The engineering behaviour of fill – the use, misuse and disuse of case histories |
| 2007 | Beyond a continuum framework for soil mechanics element testing: Some challenges presented by soil’s particulate nature and some new tools to analyse it. | Antonio Gens: Soil-environment interactions in geotechnical engineering |
| 2006 | Advanced characterisation of London Clay | Robert Mair: Tunnelling and geotechnics: new horizons |
| 2005 | No seminar took place | Kerry Rowe: Long term performance of contaminant barrier systems |
| 2004 | 3-day Skempton Memorial Conference | Nick Ambraseys: Engineering, seismology & soil mechanics |
*BGA = British Geotechnical Association
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Geotechnics
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Skempton Building
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London, SW7 2AZ
Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7594 6077
Email: j.otoole@imperial.ac.uk
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