Guy T. Houlsby

Guy Houlsby Tinmouth is a British civil engineer in geotechnical engineering. He is a professor at the University of Oxford.

Houlsby 1981 at the University of Cambridge with Charles Peter Wroth doctorate (A Study of Plasticity Theories and Their Applicability to Soils ).

It deals with offshore foundations such as wind turbines ( such as " Suction Caisson " start-ups ), jack-up platforms and the development of tidal turbines, in situ tests (such as CPT, Rammsondierung ), soil improvement, tunnels (eg, modeling subsidence damage to buildings ) and the development of constitutive models of soils ( with thermodynamic theory of plasticity such as Hyper plasticity, principles of application ).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. For 2014, he was selected as a Rankine Lecturer ( Interactions in Offshore Foundation Design).

Writings

Books:

• With GWE Milligan: Basic soil mechanics, Butterworth, London 1984
• Alexander M. Puzrin: Principles of hyperplasticity: on approach to plasticity theory based on thermodynamic principles, Springer Verlag 2006
• Publisher with AN Schofield: Predictive soil mechanics: proceedings of the Wroth Memorial Symposium held at St. Catherine 's College, Oxford, 27-29 July 1992, London: Thomas Telford 1993
• Publisher with CP Wroth, R. Driscoll, DJ Corke, EL James, RJ Mair, David Muir Wood: Pressure Meters, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Pressure Meters, Oxford University, 2-6 April 1990, London: Thomas Telford, 1990

Some essays:

• With CP Wroth interpretation of in situ soil tests, Geotechnique, Volume 34, 1984, S.449 -489
• With CP Wroth Soil Mechanics - Property Characterization and Analysis Procedures 11 ICSMFE, San Francisco, 1985, Volume 1, p 1
• Theoretical Analysis of the Fall Cone Test, Géotechnique, Vol 32, 1982, p 111-118
• Analysis of the Cone Pressure Meter Test in Clay, Géotechnique, Vol 38, 1987, p 575-587 ( received the Geotechnical Research Medal of the ICE)
• With HJ Burd, CE Augarde, G. Liu: Prediction of Tunnel - Induced Settlement Damage to Masonry Structures, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Engineering, Volume 143, 2000, pp. 17-30 ( received the 2001 Prize Telford )
• With IF Collins: Application of Thermomechanical Principles to the Modelling of Geotechnical Materials, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Volume 453, 1997, S.1975 -2001
• RB Kelly, J. Huxtable, BW Byrne: Field trials of suction caissons in clay for offshore wind turbine foundations, Géotechnique, Vol 55, 2005, pp. 287-296 ( Halcrow was awarded the Prize )