Rudolph Glossop

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Rudolph Glossop (born February 17, 1902 in Bakewell , † March 1, 1993 in Cornwall ) was a British geotechnician.

Glossop studied at Imperial College's Royal School of Mines , where he graduated in 1924. Then he worked as a mining engineer in Canada, taught briefly at Birmingham University , and then worked as a civil engineer at the construction company John Mowlem & Co. from 1930 on power station projects and subway projects. In the mid-1930s, he returned to work as a mining engineer during the recession and ran a mine in the Gold Coast . From 1937 he was back in England, where he worked on the London Underground extension for his old company Mowlem. He came into contact with actual soil mechanics during the renovation work on the slipped Chingford Dam, for which Karl von Terzaghi also acted as a consultant and which is often considered to be the founding date of modern soil mechanics in England. Glossop managed a soil mechanics laboratory on site in collaboration with the Building Research Station (BRS). He also saved the lab over the time he was busy building airfields at the beginning of World War II, and in 1943 he founded geotechnical with Hugh Golder (who came to Mowlem from the BRS) and Harold Harding (head of Mowlem) Labor Soil Mechanics Ltd., the first of its kind in England, which quickly became successful and expanded. Glossop was its director from 1944 to 1973 and from 1951 also in the management of Mowlems.

He was also instrumental in founding Géotechnique in 1948 with Hugh Golder . He was also involved in founding the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology in 1965. He was a co-founder of the Geological Society's engineering geology subgroup and was its director from 1965 to 1968. In 1968 he was a Rankine Lecturer (The rise of geotechnology and its influence in engineering practice). In 1970 he became a Fellow of Imperial College, in 1978 of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 1962 he received the George Stephenson Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers .

Glossop also wrote historical works on geotechnical engineering, for example on soil injection and the use of compressed air in tunnel and shaft construction.

literature

Obituary by Skempton in Geotechnique, Volume 43, 1993, p. 623

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Also Alec Skempton of the BRS, where he helped as a young engineer
  2. ^ The invention and development of injection processes, part 1,2, Geotechnique, Volume 10, 1960, p. 91, Volume 11, 1961, p. 255
  3. ↑ The invention and early use of compressed air to exclude water from shafts and tunnels during construction, Geotechnique, Volume 26, 1976, p. 253
personal data
SURNAME Glossop, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British geotechnician
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bakewell
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1993
Place of death Cornwall