Andrew Noel Schofield

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Andrew Noel Schofield (born November 1, 1930 ) is a British civil engineer who deals with foundation engineering and soil mechanics.

Schofield studied civil engineering at Cambridge and was an engineer at the engineering office Scott, Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners in Malawi (then Nyasaland) from 1951 to 1954 , where he worked, among other things, on road construction and the construction of runways. He was then a research student (and from 1955 demonstrator) for soil mechanics with Kenneth Harry Roscoe at Cambridge University and in 1963/64 at Caltech . 1964 to 1966 and from 1974 he was a fellow at Churchill College , Cambridge. From 1968 to 1974 he was professor at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST, then still associated with the university) and from 1974 professor of civil engineering at Cambridge. In 1998 he retired. He also had his own engineering office (Andrew N. Schofield and Associates, from 1984), from whose chairmanship he retired in 2000, and was on the board of directors of Centrifuge Instrumentation and Equipment Ltd. from 1987 to 1997.

Schofield founded the Critical State Soil Mechanics with Roscoe and Peter Wroth in 1958 , about which he wrote a book with Wroth. He is also known for his development of centrifuge technology for the experimental simulation of earth pressure conditions in soils with the construction of a large centrifuge plant in Cambridge, after he had previously built a centrifuge in Manchester (like Peter Rowe at the University of Manchester). With the centrifuges he examined, among other things, the safety of levees in the context of the Thames barrage in the 1970s and causes of levee breaches on the Mississippi.

In 1972 he became a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), in 1986 of the Royal Society of Engineering and 1992 of the Royal Society . In 1993 he received the James Alfred Ewing Medal of the ICE and in 1979 the US Army Award for Civil Service.

In 1980 he was a Rankine Lecturer (Cambridge Geotechnical Centrifuge Operations, Geotechnique, Volume 30, 1980, pp. 227-268).

Fonts

  • with CPWroth: Critical State Soil Mechanics, McGraw Hill 1968, online
  • Editor with JR Gronow, RKJain: Land Disposal of Harzardeous Waste, Wiley 1988
  • Editor with WH Craig, RG James: Centrifuges in Soil Mechanics, Balkema, Rotterdam 1988
  • Disturbed soil properties and geotechnical design, Thomas Telford 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A work about his experiences in the improvement of the laterite soils in Malawi with lime admixtures brought him the John Winbolt Prize in 1954
  2. ↑ Roscoe, AN Schofield, CP Wroth On the yielding of soils , Geotechnique, Volume 8, 1958, pp. 22-52
  3. ↑ In the 1960s, Mikasa in Japan also developed centrifuge technology for experiments in geotechnics
personal data
SURNAME Schofield, Andrew Noel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1930