R. Kerry Rowe
R. Kerry Rowe is an Australian-Canadian civil engineer who specializes in geotechnical engineering .
Rowe studied at the University of Sydney , where he received his PhD in 1979. In 1978 he emigrated to Canada and went to the University of Western Ontario , where he received a full professorship in 1986 and headed the Faculty of Civil Engineering from 1992 to 2000. He then went to Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario , where he holds a Canada Research Chair in geotechnical engineering.
He is concerned with the geotechnical design of landfill sites, containment of contaminated soils (as occurs in mining), migration of pollutants into groundwater and soil, and geosynthetics. He also deals with tunnel construction in soft soils, slope failure and the failure of construction pit walls, reinforced retaining walls and slopes.
In 2005 he was a Rankine Lecturer (Long term performance of contaminant barrier systems) and in 2003 he received the Leggett Medal of the Canadian Geotechnical Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. From 2006 to 2008 he was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada, 2001/02 of the Canadian Geotechnical Society and from 1990 to 1994 President of the International Geosynthetics Society. From 1986 to 2000 he was part of the working group of the International Commission on Standardization for Geotextiles. In 2016 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering , in 2017 he is Terzaghi Lecturer .
Fonts
- with Robert M. Quigley, JR Booker : Clayey barriers for waste disposal facilities, Spon Press, London / New York 1997
- with others: Barrier systems for waste disposal facilities, Spon Press, 2nd edition, London 2004
- Editor: Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Handbook, Kluwer 2001
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| SURNAME | Rowe, R. Kerry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian-Canadian civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |