Advanced lab testingMott MacDonald has
established a trend in the 1990’s for investing in applied research
through a number of different routes. These include our established
links with CIRIA on all advisory panels, direct links with
pre-eminent universities and direct commissions from major UK
clients plus strands of internally funded research and development
(RD) to help develop in-house leading edge technologies.
Foundations and geotechnics have been involved at the forefront of
a number of RD programmes and past and current commissions include:
CentrifugeAdvanced numerical analysis,
laboratory testing and centrifuge modelling of clay slopes for
London Underground Centrifuge
- DETR-PIT project 'Managing Geotechnical Risk' member of the ICE
Steering Group
- Mansion House long term monitoring, part of EPSRC/CIRIA
project
- Applied research to study the effectiveness of ground
improvement of liquefiable spoils to decrease susceptibility using
centrifuge models
- Research using numerical modelling to identify a more reliable
method for designing pile, supported reinforced shallow embankment
over soft ground
- Modelling of dynamic loading on old railway bridges, including
application of Shake Table Testing
- Mott MacDonald/Cambridge University joint research on
sustainability issues
- Establishment of links with Illinois University, USA on a
visiting basis for the Prof. R. B. Peck Center Steering
Committee
- Reinforced embankments on soft clay research with Sheffield
University leading to 1997 BGS prize Upheaval buckling of offshore
pipelines for a consortium of oil companies
FLAC 3D model, piled embankmentThree
dimensional numerical analysis, internally funded FLAC 3D modelling
subsidence damage to buildings - prediction, protection and repair,
CIRIA-LINK/Imperial College
- Autogenous healing of cracks in concrete EPSRC/Imperial
College
- Promotion of the benefits of innovation - CIRIA
- CIRIA infrastructure embankments and cuttings: condition
appraisal as remedial treatment
- Member of expert panel on Transport Research Laboratory
embankment remedial treatment project
- Development of geographical information systems
- State-of-the-art report on lime and cement stabilisation for
soils
- Committee member of university research steering groups
- CIRIA core member and chairman of core programme committee
- Mott MacDonald/Southampton University study of soil/structure
interaction associated with infrastructure embankment
stabilisation
- Numerical modelling for soil nailing of steep slopes in OC
clays