Géotechnique Lecture

The Géotechnique lecture is an biennial lecture on the topic of soil mechanics, organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after its major scientific journal Géotechnique.

This should not be confused with the annual BGA Rankine Lecture.

List of Géotechnique Lecturers
No YEAR LECTURER SUBJECT AFFILIATION
1 1989 David M. Potts & Richard J. Jardine Offshore Piling Imperial College
2 1991 Malcolm D. Bolton & Scott Steedman Dynamic soil behaviour University of Cambridge & BEQE Ltd
3 1993 William Powrie & Martin Preene Groundwater control in fine soils University of Southampton & W J Groundwater Ltd
4 1999 Chris R. I. Clayton & William Powrie Recent research on embedded retaining walls University of Southampton
5 2001 Guy T. Houlsby & Roy Butterfield Foundations on sand: towards a more secure basis for design University of Oxford & University of Southampton
6 2003 Matthew R. Coop From laboratory tests to design in sand Imperial College
7 2005 Simon J. Wheeler The mechanics of unsaturated soils University of Glasgow
8 2007 Kenichi Soga University of Cambridge
9 2009 Jamie R. Standing Geology, engineering and ground response to tunnelling Imperial College
10 2011 Byron W. Byrne Foundation Design for Offshore Wind Turbines University of Oxford
11 2013 Lidija Zdravković Geotechnical numerical analysis: a road map Imperial College
12 2015 Catherine O'Sullivan A Particulate Perspective on Soil Mechanics [1] Imperial College
13 2017 Jonathan A. Knappett Use of vegetation in low-carbon Geotechnical Engineering [2] University of Dundee
14 2019 David J. White [3] Designing infrastructure for an evolving seabed [4] University of Southampton
gollark: "Oh yes, I will just go OUTSIDE the universe" - statements made by GTech™ exploration probe #15996-υ/4.
gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972

See also

References
  1. 2015 Géotechnique Lecture
  2. 2017 Géotechnique Lecture
  3. Professor David White BA, MA, MEng, PhD (Cantab), FREng, FTSE, FRINA, FIEAust Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics
  4. Géotechnique Lecture 2019: Designing infrastructure for an evolving seabed, London
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