David M. Potts (civil engineer)
David Malcolm Potts (born April 26, 1952 ) is a British civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).
Career
Potts studied civil engineering at King's College London (bachelor's degree) and received a Ph.D. in soil mechanics from the University of Cambridge . He also received a D.Sc. in soil mechanics from Imperial College London . After completing his doctorate, he did research at Cambridge and then on offshore problems at Shell Research Laboratories in the Netherlands.
He has been teaching at Imperial College London since 1979. Potts is Professor of Analytical Soil Mechanics at Imperial College London, Head of the Soil Mechanics Department and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is the director of GCG Computing Ltd. at the Geotechnical Consulting Group (GCG).
He is known for numerical modeling in geotechnics. The Imperial College Finite Element Program (ICFEP) comes from him.
In 2002 he gave the Rankine Lecture (Numerical analysis: a virtual dream or practical reality?). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers .
Fonts
- As co-author: Guidelines for the use of advanced numerical analysis, Thomas Telford 2002
- with Lidija Zdravkovic: Finite element analysis in geotechnical engineering, Thomas Telford, 1999, 2001
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Potts, David M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Potts, David Malcolm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geotechnical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1952 |