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Kevin Briggs is a Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering and RAEng Industrial Fellow in ‘Railway Infrastructure Resilience’ (2017/18). He is an EPSRC RISE Connector (2019).
His research is being used to assess the ageing and degradation of infrastructure earthworks (embankments & cuttings) supporting the railway and highway networks. This includes field and laboratory investigations into the behaviour of natural soils and engineered fills.
Kevin was awarded the EPSRC Doctoral Prize in 2011 and is currently Bath PI for the £4.8M EPSRC ACHILLES Programme (2018-2022) led by Newcastle University. ACHILLES will examine how to better monitor and maintain UK infrastructure earthworks, to save money and reduce transport disruptions.
Kevin is the industrial placement tutor and site visit co-ordinator for civil engineering students.
Willing to supervise PhD
Infrastructure earthworks and retaining structures
Monitoring and assessment of historic structures
Climate and extreme weather impacts on geotechnical structures
Small-strain stiffness
History of civil engineering
Geotechnical case studies
External positions
Adviser: Reservoir Research Advisory Group, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Projects 2013 2022
Assessment, Costing and enHancement of long lIfe, Long Linear assEtS
1/07/18 → 31/12/22
Project: Research council
Moisture Movement Beneath Solid Ground Floors in Historic Buildings
1/11/16 → 1/10/20
Project: UK charity
GCRF: Solar-based faecal sludge treatment for rural communities in developing countries
Briggs, K., Wenk, J. & Bryant, L.
7/07/16 → 21/03/17
Project: Research council
Global Mobility Scheme - Unsaturated Ground Water Flow in Response to Weather
4/05/15 → 1/02/16
Project: Research-related funding
Research Output 2010 2019
Evaluating the deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure assets using performance curves
Briggs, K., Dijkstra, T. & Glendinning, S., 20 Mar 2019, (Accepted/In press) International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC) 2019. Thomas Telford (ICE Publishing)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Macropore structure and permeability of clay fill samples from a historic clay fill earthwork
Muddle, D. M. & Briggs, K. M., 1 Jun 2019, In : Transportation Geotechnics. 19, p. 96-109 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Characterisation of faecal sludge simulants for drying experiments
Deering, N., Briggs, K., Bryant, L. & Way, C., 9 Jul 2018.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
Open Access
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sludge
dewatering
experiment
health and safety
drying
How do we maintain invisible transport infrastructure?
Briggs, K., 30 Oct 2018, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath.Research output: Other contribution
Open Access
1
Citation
(Scopus)
In situ measurements of near-surface hydraulic conductivity in engineered clay slopes
Dixon, N., Crosby, C., Stirling, R., Hughes, P., Smethurst, J., Briggs, K., Hughes, D., Gunn, D., Hobbs, P., Loveridge, F., Glendinning, S., Dijkstra, T. & Hudson, A., 16 Oct 2018, In : Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 52, p. 123-135 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Hydraulic conductivity
in situ measurement
hydraulic conductivity
Clay
clay
Thesis
The effects of soil macroporosity on the hydrology of infrastructure slopes
Author: Muddle, D., 21 Mar 2018Supervisor: Briggs, K. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
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