Peter Rolfe Vaughan

Peter Rolfe Vaughan ( born March 10, 1935 in Luton, † 16 May, 2008 Suffolk ) was a British civil engineer ( geotechnical ).

Vaughan made ​​in 1956 graduated as a civil engineer at Imperial College and then worked for the construction company Sandemann Kennard and Partners, where his interest began for dam construction. In 1964 he was involved in the construction of the Kainji dam in Nigeria for the construction company Balfour Beatty. In 1965, he took half a year of unpaid leave to make his thesis to write. From 1967 he worked for Sandemann Kennard in the construction of dams in Cow Green and Balder Head. In 1969, he was back as a lecturer at Imperial College, where he was Reader in 1976 and Professor in 1987. In 1996, he went there to retire and was thereafter independent geotechnical consultant for the particular with which he founded Geotechnical Consulting Group. His further dam projects include the Epingham and Ford Road dam in the UK and investigating the cause of the failure of Carsington Dam in 1984 and the design of his successor.

In 1994 he held the Rankine Lecture ( Assumption, prediction and reality in geotechnical engineering). In 1978 he became a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and in 1991 the Royal Academy of Engineering.