Malcolm David Bolton (born 1946) is a British
soil mechanics
Soil mechanics is a branch of soil physics and applied mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics in the sense that soils consist of a heterogeneous mixture of fluids (usually air and ...
engineer and
professor
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of
geotechnical engineering
Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics to solve its engineering problems. I ...
at the
University of Cambridge
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.
Education
He read engineering at the
University of Cambridge
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. He then studied for a MSc at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and then did research in soil mechanics at Cambridge which led to the award of a PhD.
Career
He currently holds the Chair of Soil Mechanics at the University of Cambridge and his is the Director of the Schofield Centrifuge Centre for Geotechnical Processes and Construction. He published extensively in the field of fundamental soil mechanics, geotechnical centrifuge testing and geotechnical design. For the latter topic, he introduced the
mobilisable strength design (MSD) method. In 2012, he was invited to deliver the prestigious 52nd
Rankine Lecture
The Rankine lecture is an annual lecture organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after William John Macquorn Rankine, an early contributor to the theory of soil mechanics.
This should not be confused with the biennial BGA Géotech ...
, titled "Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering".
Professor M D Bolton to give 52nd Rankine lecture
/ref> In 1991 he delivered the 2nd BGA Géotechnique Lecture
The Géotechnique lecture is an biennial lecture on the topic of soil mechanics, organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after its major scientific journal Géotechnique.
This should not be confused with the annual BGA Rankine ...
.
References
External links
Professor Malcolm D. Bolton's web page
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British civil engineers
Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge
Living people
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Geotechnical engineers
1946 births