Professor Paul Hughes' Outputs (4)

Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure: the influence of asset aging through environmental cycling (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stirling, S., Helm, P., Glendinning, S., Asquith, J., Hughes, P., & Toll, D. (2017, September). Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure: the influence of asset aging through environmental cycling. Presented at 19th Int. Conf. on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul, Korea

This paper sets out to establish the implication of weather driven deterioration processes on the long-term performance of infrastructure earthworks. With particular reference to UK transport network slopes, the work presented here centres on their s... Read More about Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure: the influence of asset aging through environmental cycling.

Mechanical properties of biopolymer-stabilised soil-based construction materials (2017)
Journal Article
Muguda, S., Booth, S. J., Hughes, P. N., Augarde, C. E., Perlot, C., Bruno, A. W., & Gallipoli, D. (2017). Mechanical properties of biopolymer-stabilised soil-based construction materials. Géotechnique Letters, 7(4), 309-314. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgele.17.00081

Soil-based construction materials are of interest as structural building materials due to their green credentials, as well as being present in many historical structures. For effective conservation of the latter, and to motivate greater uptake for ne... Read More about Mechanical properties of biopolymer-stabilised soil-based construction materials.

Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes (2017)
Journal Article
Smethurst, J., Smith, A., Uhlemann, S., Wooff, C., Chambers, J., Hughes, P., …Hughes, D. (2017). Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(3), 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2016-080

Instrumentation is often used to monitor the performance of engineered infrastructure slopes. This paper looks at the current role of instrumentation and monitoring, including the reasons for monitoring infrastructure slopes, the instrumentation typi... Read More about Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes.

Seasonal effects on geophysical-geotechnical relationships and their implications for Electrical Resistivity Tomography monitoring of slopes (2017)
Journal Article
Hen-Jones, R., Hughes, P., Stirling, R., Glendinning, S., Chambers, J., Gunn, D., & Cui, Y. (2017). Seasonal effects on geophysical-geotechnical relationships and their implications for Electrical Resistivity Tomography monitoring of slopes. Acta Geotechnica, 12(5), 1159-1173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-017-0523-7

Current assessments of slope stability rely on point sensors, the results of which are often difficult to interpret, have relatively high costs and do not provide large-area coverage. A new system is under development, based on integrated geophysical... Read More about Seasonal effects on geophysical-geotechnical relationships and their implications for Electrical Resistivity Tomography monitoring of slopes.