Stephen F. Brown

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Stephen F. Brown , OBE (* 1940 ) is a British civil engineer in geotechnical engineering and professor at the University of Nottingham (Nottingham Transportation Engineering Center, NTEC).

Career and research

Brown graduated from Nottingham University with top grades as a civil engineer in 1960 and then spent three years as a consulting engineer in the UK and South Africa. From 1965 he was back at Nottingham University, where he was lecturer in 1965 , reader in 1978 and professor in 1983. He holds a PhD from Nottingham University (Ph. D. and D. Sc.). In 2005 he retired.

From 1992 to 1995 he was Dean of the Engineering Faculty in Nottingham and from 1989 to 1994 and 1999 to 2003 he headed the Faculty of Civil Engineering. From 1994 to 1998 he was Vice Chancellor of the University for Research, Commercial Implementation and Liaison with Industry. He was also co-founder and director of the global engineering firm Scott Wilson Pavement Engineering (SWK Pavement Engineering Ltd.) founded in 1985 from the university and owner of the company's US division in New Jersey.

Brown investigated the use of geogrids (made of high-strength polymers) on asphalt roads (in the asphalt surface) from the 1980s and later (2000s) for the track bed of railway lines. In the early 1980s he worked with the inventor of the process, Frank Brian Mercer (1927–1998) (industrial product Tensar ).

In 1996 he was a Rankine Lecturer (Soil mechanics in pavement engineering). In 1997 he received the James Alfred Ewing Gold Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers . He is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering . He received the Royal Society's Senior Mercer Award for his work on railroad improvements . He was President of the British Geotechnical Society. In 2007/2008 he was President of the US Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists. He is the Institution of Civil Engineers and became a Fellow in 1996 in the Guild of the road paver added (City of London Livery of the Worshipful Company of Paviors) of London. In 1997 he was Distinguished Lecturer of the International Society for Asphalt Pavements.

1985 to 1989 he coordinated the geotechnical department at SERC.

Fonts

  • with BV Brodrick: Nottingham pavement test facility, Transportation Research Record 810, 1981, pp. 67-72
  • with JM Brunton, DAB Hughes, BV Broderick: Polymer grid reinforcement of asphalt, Journal of Asphalt Technology, Volume 54, 1985, pp. 18-41
  • with BV Broderick, NH Thom, GR McDowell: The Nottingham Railway Test Facility, Proc. of the ICE Transport, Volume 160, TR 2, 2007, pp. 59-65
  • with J. Kwan, NH Thom: Identifying the key parameters that influence geogrid reinforcement of railway ballast, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Volume 25, 2007, pp. 326-335
  • An assessment of geogrid use in railway and asphalt applications, Jubilee Symposium on Polymer Geogrid Reinforcement, London 2009, pdf
  • with GR Mcdowell, O. Harireche, H. Konietzky, NH Thom: Discrete element modeling of geogrid-reinforced aggregates., Geotechnical Engineering, No. 159, 2006, pp. 35-48

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geotechnique, Volume 46, 1996, pp. 383-425
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Stephen F
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering
DATE OF BIRTH 1940