Charles Peter Wroth

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Charles Peter Wroth , mostly quoted as CP Wroth, (* 1929 - February 3, 1991 ) was a British geotechnician.

Life

Wroth studied civil engineering at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College). After his military service in the artillery and a time as a school teacher, he continued his studies as a research student with Kenneth Harry Roscoe , where he received his doctorate in 1958 (The behavior of soils and other granular media when subjected to shear). With Roscoe and Andrew Noel Schofield he laid the foundations of the Critical State Soil Mechanics in an essay in 1958 . He then worked as a civil engineer at Mansell and Partners (including overseeing the construction of the prestressed concrete flyover Hammersmith Flyover in West London). From 1961 he was back in Cambridge as a lecturer and fellow of Churchill College. After Roscoe's death, he headed the soil mechanics research group in Cambridge from 1970 until Schofield was appointed professor in 1974. In 1975 he became a reader in soil mechanics. In 1978 he became a professor at Oxford University and a fellow of Brasenose College. Most recently he was head of the Faculty of Engineering. In 1990 he returned to Cambridge as a Masters from his old college, but died shortly afterwards.

With Schofield he wrote the monograph Critical State Soil Mechanics (McGraw Hill) published in 1968 . He also developed field measuring devices for in situ tests (such as the self boring pressure meter ) as part of his efforts to always ensure the most realistic test conditions and measurement procedures possible. He commented on this in his Rankine Lecture in 1984 and in 1985 he wrote a review article with Guy T. Houlsby in which they were skeptical about the fact that the current measurement methods of soil mechanics could provide the parameters necessary for complex modeling of soils.

He was married twice, from his first marriage (since 1954) he had four children. During his studies (which he graduated with top marks) he also excelled in sports and also played international hockey for Wales.

literature

  • GT Houlsby et al. a. (Editor) Predictive soil mechanics. Proceedings of the Wroth Memorial Symposium , Thomas Telford 1993
  • Obituary by G. Milligan in Geotechnique, Volume 41, 1991, No. 4, pp. 631-635
  • Schofield, Wroth: Critical State Soil Mechanics , McGraw Hill 1968, online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He only used the first name Peter and is therefore also known as Peter Wroth
  2. ↑ Roscoe, Schofield, Wroth On the yielding of soil , Geotechnique, Volume 8, 1958, pp. 22-53
  3. ^ Wroth Interpretation of in situ soil tests , Geotechnique, Volume 34, 1984, pp. 449-489
  4. ^ Wroth, Houlsby Soil Mechanics - Property Characterization and Analysis Procedures , 11. ICSMFE, San Francisco, 1985, Volume 1, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Wroth, Charles Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wroth, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1991