Kevin Briggs
University of Bath
24 Papers
20 Citations
Kevin Briggs is an academic researcher from University of Bath. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pore water pressure & Soil water. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 19 publications. Previous affiliations of Kevin Briggs include University of Southampton & Mott MacDonald.
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Papers
Mechanical and hydrological impacts of tree removal on a clay fill railway embankment
TL;DR: In this article, a field experiment was carried out on a heavily vegetated clay railway embankment to investigate quantitatively the influence of trees on the embankments' behavior.
Wet winter pore pressures in railway embankments
Kevin Briggs,J. Smethurst,William Powrie,A.S. O’Brien,A.S. O’Brien +4 more
- 20 Feb 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of extreme wet winter weather on pore water pressure within railway embankments, using field monitoring data and numerical modelling, was demonstrated using the London Underground Ltd network.
The influence of tree root water uptake on the long term hydrology of a clay fill railway embankment
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of tree root water uptake and tree removal on pore water pressures and the vertical movement of a railway embankment was investigated using a numerical model.
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Forecasting the long-term deterioration of a cut slope in high-plasticity clay using a numerical model
Harry Postill,Peter Helm,Neil Dixon,Stephanie Glendinning,J. Smethurst,Mohamed Rouainia,Kevin Briggs,Ashraf El-Hamalawi,Anthony Blake +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical model was used to forecast the long-term performance of a cut slope formed in high plasticity clay. And the model was validated using 16 years of measured pore water pressure data from multiple locations in a London Clay cut slope.
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In situ measurements of near-surface hydraulic conductivity in engineered clay slopes
Neil Dixon,C. J. Crosby,Ross Stirling,Paul Hughes,J. Smethurst,Kevin Briggs,David Hughes,David Gunn,Peter Hobbs,Fleur Loveridge,Stephanie Glendinning,Tom Dijkstra,A.P. Hudson +12 more
TL;DR: In situ measurements of near-saturated hydraulic conductivity in fine grained soils have been made at six exemplar UK transport earthwork sites: three embankment and three cutting slopes as discussed by the authors.