Arnold Verruijt
Arnold Verruijt (born April 27, 1940 ) is a Dutch geotechnician.
Verruijt received his doctorate in 1969 under Gerard de Josselin de Jong at the TU Delft (Stresses due to gravity in an elastic halfplane with notches or mounds) and was professor of soil mechanics there from 1975. He has now retired.
Verruijt was particularly concerned with consolidation (where he showed that the theory of biot could be extended to compressible liquids and thus could explain an unexpected phenomenon in drinking water production in Noordbergum , where the pore water pressures rose when a well was put into operation), groundwater flow (where he, among other things, Flushing Effect at the interface of two liquids in the groundwater, as it occurs for example in the Dutch coastal regions between salty and normal groundwater), soil dynamics and numerical modeling and analytical solutions in geotechnical engineering. He developed geotechnical software early on.
He is an officer of the Royal Dutch Order of Oranje-Nassau and a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences . In 2014 he received the Maurice A. Biot Medal .
Among his students are René de Borst and Pieter A. Vermeer .
Fonts
- Groundwater Flow , London, Macmillan 1970, 2nd edition 1982
- An introduction to soil dynamics , Springer 2010
- Computational Geomechanics , Kluwer 1995
- with Jacob Bear Modeling groundwater flow and pollution , Dordrecht, Reidel 1985
literature
- Frans Barends, Steijger (editor): Learned and applied soil mechanics out of Delft , Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse 2002 (Festschrift on Verruijt's retirement)
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| SURNAME | Verruijt, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch geotechnician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1940 |