Chris Clayton

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Christopher Robert Ian "Chris" Clayton (* 1948 ) is a British civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering . He is Professor of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Southampton .

Clayton worked after graduating as a civil engineer in a geotechnical engineering laboratory. In 1972 he took a year off to obtain his master's degree from Imperial College London , began to publish scientifically and received his doctorate in 1978 from the University of Surrey on chalk as fill. At that time he was with Surrey Geotechnical Consultants. He was then a lecturer there , became a professor in 1992 and was professor in Southampton from 1999.

He published on various practical problems in geotechnical engineering from engineering practice such as ground investigation in the field (including seismic methods, monitoring with sensors), geotechnical engineering of chalk rock, methane hydrate in sea floors and stress-strain behavior of soil materials such as chalk and clay (common materials in his main area of ​​work Southern England) for small deformations and determination of the modulus of elasticity.

In 2010 he was Rankine Lecturer (Stiffness at small strain - research and practice) and in 2006 Jennings Lecturer at the Institute of Civil Engineers in South Africa. From 2009 to 2011 he was editor of Geotechnique, 1993 to 1996 of the Proceedings ICE Geotechnical Engineering and 1997 to 2000 of the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology.

In 1994 he was on the committee of inquiry into the collapse of the Heathrow tunnel. The tunnel for the express train connection to the airport, which was under construction, collapsed in the early morning of October 21, 1994, causing a large crater and the collapse of houses, but fortunately no one was killed. The construction company and engineering firm were fined 1.2 million pounds in the ensuing trial.

Fonts

  • with MC Matthews, NE Simons: Site Investigation. A handbook for engineers , Oxford: Blackwell 1995
  • with DM Smith: Effective Site Investigation , Site Investigation Steering Group, London: Institution of Civil Engineers 2013
  • The standard penetration test (SPT): methods and use , Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA), 1995
  • with IF Symons, P. Darley, JV Krawczyk: Earth pressures against an experimental retaining wall backfilled with heavy clay , Transport Research Laboratory Research Report 192, Wokingham 1989
  • Editor: Retaining Structures: Proceedings of the Retaining Structures Conference held at Robinson College, Cambridge, July 1992 , London: Thomas Telford, 1993
  • with JF Uff: Recommendations for the procurement of ground investigation , CIRIA Special Publications 46, 1986
  • Earth pressure and Earth-retaining Structures , Taylor and Francis 1986
  • Managing Geotechnical Risk: improving productivity in UK building and construction , Institution of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford 2001
  • with JA Lord, RN Mortimore: Engineering in chalk , CIRIA 2002
  • with G. Heymann: Stiffness of geomaterials at very small strains , Geotechnique, Volume 51, 2001, pp. 245-255, abstract

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in Geotechnique, Volume 61, 2011, pp. 5-37
  2. ^ Record fine after tunnel collapse, BBC
personal data
SURNAME Clayton, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clayton, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH 1948