Malcolm Bolton
Malcolm David Bolton (* 1946 ) is a British civil engineer who specializes in geotechnical engineering and is a professor at Cambridge University .
Bolton studied civil engineering from 1964 at Cambridge University (Bachelor 1967) and in 1969 a Master’s degree from Manchester University . He received his PhD in soil mechanics from Cambridge and was then involved in building the first geocentrifuge in Great Britain in Manchester by Andrew Schofield . From 1980 he was back in Cambridge, where he is Professor and Director of the Schofield Center for Geotechnical Processes and Construction Modeling. He is also head of the geotechnical and environmental engineering department in the engineering faculty.
In 1979 he became a Fellow of Churchill College , Cambridge.
He deals with fundamental questions of soil mechanics as well as with the geotechnical engineering of tunnels, the effects of earthquakes and precautions against landslides and was a geotechnical consultant for pipeline projects in the offshore area (interaction between soil and pipeline). He was on the official British standardization committee for retaining structures (Earth Retaining Structures, BS 8002). He was chairman of the Technical Committee TC 15 of the ISSMGE Geomechanics from Micro to Macro .
He was a long-time stake advisor to the Giken Company and was the founding president of the International Press-In Association (IPA). He was on the Hong Kong Slope Stability Technical Review Board. He continues the tradition of geomechanical modeling by comparing numerical calculations with tests in geocentrifuges in Cambridge. In soil modeling, he deals with Discrete Element Models (DEM), among other things.
In 2012 he was a Rankine Lecturer (Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering). In his Rankine Lecture he advocates more flexibility in geotechnical design by taking into account ground movements and stress-deformation behavior (the Mobilizeable Strength Design, MSD) that he proposes, and considers the load-bearing method (LSD, Limit State Design) used in the Eurocodes and the associated ones Safety factors are often too conservative and expensive. He is thus a representative of the observation method (performance based design).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering . He has received the Telford Prize, the Oscar Faber Medal, and the Sir Benjamin Baker Medal.
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He wrote over 200 scientific publications (2012) and a textbook:
- Guide to Soil Mechanics, Macmillan 1979, Wiley 1980
Some essays:
- Limit state design in geotechnical engineering, Ground Engineering, Volume 14, 1981, pp. 39-46
- with P. Pang: Collapse limit states of reinforced earth retaining walls, Geotechnique, Volume 32, 1982, pp. 349-367
- The strength and dilatancy of sand, Geotechnique, Volume 36, 1986, pp. 65-78
- with SY Lam: Energy conservation as a principle underlying mobilizable strength design for deep excavations. ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Volume 137, 2011, pp. 1062-1074.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bolton, Malcolm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bolton, Malcolm David (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |