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Kevin Briggs is a Chartered Engineer and HS2 Ltd/RAEng Senior Research Fellow in Geotechnical Engineering (2020-2025).
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 properties and behaviour of natural soils and engineered fills.
Kevin was awarded a RAEng Industrial Fellowship in ‘Railway Infrastructure Resilience’ (2017/18) and the EPSRC Doctoral Prize in (2011). He 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 doctoral students
Infrastructure earthworks and retaining structures
Monitoring and assessment of historic structures
Climate and extreme weather impacts on geotechnical structures
Mudstone research
History of civil engineering
Geotechnical case studies
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Visiting Researcher, University of Southampton
Jan 2020 → Jan 2022
Adviser: Reservoir Research Advisory Group, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
22 Dec 2017 → Dec 2019
Visiting Researcher, University of Southampton
Oct 2012 → Oct 2013
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Characterisation of Mortars from St Briavels and Bridport
14/03/22 → 31/03/24
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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Assessment, Costing and enhancement of long life, Long Linear assets
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/07/18 → 31/12/22
Project: Research council
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Moisture Movement Beneath Solid Ground Floors in Historic Buildings
1/11/16 → 1/10/24
Project: UK charity
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The influence of weathering on index properties and undrained shear strength for the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the Lias Group at a site near Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK
Briggs, K., Blackmore, L., Loveridge, F., Svalova, A., Glendinning, S., Powrie, W., Butler, S. & Sartain, N., 16 Mar 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 066.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploring the hot mixing and etching of aggregate hypothesis
Morris, G., Briggs, K., Ball, R. & Henry, A., 22 Sep 2021, In: The Journal of the Building Limes Forum. 27, p. 66-76 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Forecasting the long-term deterioration of a cut slope in high-plasticity clay using a numerical model
Postill, H., Helm, P., Dixon, N., Glendinning, S., Smethurst, J., Rouainia, M., Briggs, K., El-Hamalawi, A. & Blake, A., 31 Jan 2021, In: Engineering Geology. 280, 105912.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A method for measuring the liquid permeability of mortar-masonry systems
Morris, G., Briggs, K. & Ball, R., 31 Aug 2020. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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Comparing the moisture permeability of limecrete and concrete floor slabs
Phillips, G., Briggs, K., McCaig, I. & Ball, R., 2019, 5th Historic Mortars Conference . Álvarez, J. I., Fernández, J. M., Navarro, Í., Durán, A. & Sirera, R. (eds.). RILEM, p. 1267-1278 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Datasets
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Dataset for the undrained shear strength and index properties of Charmouth Mudstone Formation samples excavated near Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK
Briggs, K. (Creator) & Blackmore, L. (Creator), University of Bath, 24 Feb 2022
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-01012
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