Peter Rolfe Vaughan
Peter Rolfe Vaughan (born March 10, 1935 in Luton , † May 16, 2008 in Suffolk ) was a British civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).
Vaughan graduated from Imperial College with a degree in civil engineering in 1956 and then worked for the construction company Sandemann Kennard and Partners, where his interest in dam construction began. In 1964 he was involved in the construction of the Kainji Dam in Nigeria for the construction company Balfour Beatty. In 1965 he took half a year of unpaid leave to write his doctoral thesis. From 1967 he worked for Sandemann Kennard on the construction of the dams in Cow Green and Balderhead. In 1969 he was back as a lecturer at Imperial College, where he was reader in 1976 and professor in 1987. In 1996 he retired there and was then an independent geotechnical consultant, in particular for the Geotechnical Consulting Group which he co-founded. His other dam projects include the Epingham and Roadford dams in the UK and the investigation into the cause of the failure of Carsington Dam in 1984 and the design of its successor.
In 1994 he gave the Rankine Lecture (Assumption, prediction and reality in geotechnical engineering). In 1978 he became a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and in 1991 of the Royal Academy of Engineering .
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| SURNAME | Vaughan, Peter Rolfe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geotechnical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luton |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 2008 |
| Place of death | Suffolk |