Guy T. Houlsby

Guy Tinmouth Houlsby (born before 1981) is a British civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering . He is a professor at Oxford University .

Houlsby received his PhD in 1981 from the University of Cambridge under Charles Peter Wroth (A Study of Plasticity Theories and Their Applicability to Soils).

He deals with offshore foundations such as wind turbines (such as "Suction Caisson " foundations), jack-up rigs and the development of tidal turbines , in-situ tests (such as pressure sounding , pile driving ), soil improvement, tunnels (e.g. modeling settlement damage to buildings ) and the development of constitutive models of soils (with plasticity theory such as hyperplasticity , application of thermodynamic principles).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering . For 2014 he was selected as a Rankine Lecturer ( Interactions in Offshore Foundation Design ).

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Books:

• with GWE Milligan: Basic soil mechanics , Butterworth, London 1984
• with Alexander M. Puzrin : Principles of hyperplasticity: an approach to plasticity theory based on thermodynamic principles , Springer Verlag 2006
• Editor with AN Schofield : Predictive soil mechanics: proceedings of the Wroth Memorial Symposium held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, July 27-29, 1992 , London: Thomas Telford 1993
• Edited by CP Wroth, R. Driscoll, DJ Corke, EL James, RJ Mair, David Muir Wood : Pressuremeters , Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Pressuremeters, Oxford University, April 2-6, 1990, London: Thomas Telford, 1990

Some essays:

• with CP Wroth Interpretation of in situ soil tests , Geotechnique, Volume 34, 1984, pp. 449-489
• with CP Wroth Soil Mechanics - Property Characterization and Analysis Procedures , 11. ICSMFE, San Francisco, 1985, Volume 1, p. 1
• Theoretical Analysis of the Fall Cone Test , Géotechnique, Volume 32, 1982, pp. 111-118
• Analysis of the Cone Pressuremeter Test in Clay , Géotechnique, Volume 38, 1987, pp. 575-587 (received the Geotechnical Research Medal of the ICE)
• with HJ Burd, CE Augarde, G. Liu: Prediction of Tunnel-Induced Settlement Damage to Masonry Structures , Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Engineering, Volume 143, 2000, pp. 17-30 (received the Telford Prize in 2001)
• with IF Collins: Application of Thermomechanical Principles to the Modeling of Geotechnical Materials , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Volume 453, 1997, pp. 1975-2001
• with RB Kelly, J. Huxtable, BW Byrne: Field trials of suction caissons in clay for offshore wind turbine foundations , Géotechnique, Volume 55, 2005, pp. 287–296 (received the Halcrow Prize)

Web links

• Homepage in Oxford