Alan W. Bishop

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Alan Wilfred Bishop (born May 27, 1920 in Whitstable , † June 30, 1988 ibid) was a British pioneer of soil mechanics .

Bishop went to King's College at Wimbledon and studied at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College, graduated in 1942). He received his PhD in 1952 with Alec Skempton at Imperial College (PhD, with the thesis The stability of earth dams ). He was a professor at Imperial College, where he was first Assistant Lecturer in Skempton's Department in 1946, Lecturer in 1947 , Reader in 1957 (in the same year he received his doctorate degree DSc) and in 1965 was given a full professorship in soil mechanics. From 1970 to 1973 he was Dean of City and Guilds College at Imperial College. In 1980 he retired and was then a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College (from 1983 with the title Professor Emeritus).

In 1966 he was the 6th Rankine Lecturer ( The Strength of soil as engineering materials , Geotechnique, Volume 16, 1966, pp. 91-130).

Bishop is particularly known for methods of analyzing the stability of embankments and embankments (including the slip circle method , in Bishop The use of the slip circle in the stability analysis of slopes , Geotechnique, Volume 5, 1955, pp. 7-17) and the Development of the triaxial device (working with David Henkel ). He also developed methods for measuring pore water pressure. As early as the 1940s, when he was investigating the failure of dams at the Building Research Station for the Metropolitan Water Board, he developed his own devices for testing soil properties and for taking samples.

Bishop was a passionate sailor. He was married since 1983.

literature

  • Obituary by Angus Skinner, Geotechnique, Volume 38, 1988, p. 653

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also Bishop, N. Morgenstern Stability coefficients for earth slopes , Geotechnique Volume 10, 1960, pp. 129-150
  2. ^ Bishop, DJ Henkel The measurement of soil properties in the triaxial test , Edward Arnold, 1957, 1961
personal data
SURNAME Bishop, Alan W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bishop, Alan Wilfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British soil mechanics pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitstable
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1988
Place of death Whitstable