John H. Atkinson
John Herbert Atkinson (born October 3, 1942 ) is a British civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).
Atkinson studied civil engineering and soil mechanics at Imperial College , London. He then carried out research at Cambridge University and was a senior lecturer at University College Cardiff , before becoming a reader in 1980 and professor of soil mechanics at City University London from 1985 . There he founded the Geotechnical Engineering Research Center and was a co-founder of the London Geocentrifuge Center (London Geotechnical Centrifuge Center). He spent ten years as a geotechnical consulting engineer for Ove Arup and Partners and for Coffey Geotechnics.
He advised in Australia, the Great Man Made River project in Libya , geotechnical projects in Cairo and in the North Sea.
In 1994 he gave the Rankine Lecture (Non-linear soil stiffness in routine design). He was director of the Geological Society's engineering geology division. He is the editor of Geotechnique .
Fonts
- Introduction to the Mechanics of Soils and Foundations: through critical state soil mechanics , McGraw Hill 1993, 2nd edition Taylor and Francis 2007
- Foundations and slopes: an introduction to applications of critical state soil mechanics , Wiley 1981
- with PL Bransby The mechanics of soils: an introduction to critical state soil mechanics , McGraw Hill 1978
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| SURNAME | Atkinson, John H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Atkinson, John Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geotechnical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1942 |