Lectures

Last updated 22/10/08.

The following were presented by G.T. Houlsby, except as otherwise noted. Note that lectures given prior to 1998 are not available electronically.

1. Houlsby, G.T.  (1998)
   "Advanced Interpretation of In Situ Tests",
   Invited Keynote Lecture at International Symposium on Site Characterisation, Atlanta, April
   Lecture and notes as pdf (295kB), paper as pdf (225kB)
2. Byrne, B.W. and Houlsby, G.T. (1999) (presented by Byrne)
   "Drained Behaviour of Suction Caisson Foundations on Very Dense Sand",
   Offshore Technology Conference, 3-6 May, Houston
   Lecture as pdf (659kB), paper as pdf (934kB)
3. Cassidy, M.J. and Houlsby, G.T. (1999) (presented by Cassidy)
   "On the Modelling of Foundations for Jack-up Units on Sand",
   Offshore Technology Conference, 3-6 May, Houston
   Lecture as pdf (1508kB), paper as pdf (376kB)
4. Mangal, J.K and Houlsby, G.T. (1999) (presented by Mangal)
   "Partially-Drained Loading of Shallow Foundations on Sand",
   Offshore Technology Conference, 3-6 May, Houston
   Lecture as pdf (75kB), paper as pdf (161kB)
5. Houlsby, G.T.  and Burd, H.J. (1999)
   "Understanding the Behaviour of Unpaved Roads on Soft Clay",
   Invited Keynote Lecture at European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Amsterdam, July
   Lecture and notes as pdf (584kB), paper as pdf (214kB), poster as pdf (62kB)
6. Houlsby, G.T.  (2000)
   "Observations on coupled flow/deformation processes based on thermodynamics",
   SIDERE meeting, Oxford, 20 September
   Lecture and notes as pdf (508kB)
7. Houlsby, G.T.  and Psomas, S.(2000)
   "Soil conditioning for pipejacking and tunnelling: tests on sand/foam mixtures",
   British Geotechnical Association meeting, London, 8 November
   Lecture as pdf (212kB)
8. Houlsby, G.T. and Butterfield, R. (2001) (presented in part by Butterfield)
   "Foundations on Sand: Towards a More Secure Basis for Design",
   Géotechnique Lecture, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, September
   Lecture as pdf (1566kB)
9. Houlsby, G.T. (2002)
   "Mathematics for plasticity models in geomechanics",
   Conference on Mathematical Methods in Geomechanics, Horton, Greece
   Lecture as pdf (563kB), paper as pdf (104 kB)
10. Houlsby, G.T.  (2003)
    "Modelling of Shallow Foundations for Offshore Structures",
    Invited Keynote Lecture at International Conference on Foundations, Dundee, 4 September
    Lecture as pdf (1566kB), paper as pdf (243 kB)
11. Houlsby, G.T.  and Byrne, B.W. (2003)
    "Design Issues for Offshore Wind Turbines",
    Lecture to Geological Society, London, 16 September
    Lecture as pdf (1754kB)
12. Houlsby, G.T.  (2003)
    "Offshore Wind Turbines: some Technical Challenges",
    Presentation to House of Lords Inquiry: Practicalities of Renewable Energy, 10 December
    Lecture and notes as pdf (640kB)
13. Houlsby, G.T.  and Mortara, G. (2004)
    "A continuous hyperplasticity model for sands under cyclic loading",
    International Conference on Cyclic Behaviour of Soils, Bochum
    Lecture as pdf (640kB), paper as pdf (199kB)
14. Nguyen, D.G. and Houlsby, G.T. (2004) (presented by Nguyen)
    "A thermodynamic approach to constitutive modelling of concrete",
    12th  Annual Conference of Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME), Cardiff, 5-6 April
    Lecture as pdf (192kB), text as pdf (72kB)
15. Houlsby, G.T., Byrne, B.W. and Martin, C.M.  (2004)
    "Novel Foundations for Offshore Wind Farms",
    Lecture at British Geotechnical Association annual conference, June, London
    Lecture as pdf (2633kB), poster as pdf (139kB)
16. Villalobos, F. Houlsby, G.T. and Byrne, B.W. (2004) (presented in Spanish by Villalobos)
    "Fundaciones Caisson a Succión para Turbinas Eólicas Costa Afuera", (Suction Caisson Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines),
    5th Chilean Conference of Geotechnics (Congreso Chileno de Geotecnia), Santiago, 24-26 November
    Lecture in Spanish as pdf (730kB), paper as pdf (263kB)
17. Houlsby, G.T. and Puzrin, A.M. (2005)
    "Thermodynamics of porous continua",
    International Workshop on Modern Trends in Geotechnics, Vienna
    Lecture as pdf (766kB), paper as pdf (385kB)
18. Houlsby, G.T. (2005)
    "Suction Caissons for Wind Turbines",
    Invited Keynote Lecture at International Symposium on Frontiers in Geomechanics, Perth, 20 September
    Lecture as pdf (2463kB), paper as pdf (341kB)
19. Houlsby, G.T. (2006)
    "Assessing novel foundation options for offshore wind turbines",
    MAREC, London, 8 March
    Lecture as pdf (2463kB), paper as pdf (341kB)
20. Teh, K.-L., Byrne, B.W. and Houlsby, G.T. (2006)
    "Effects of seabed irregularities on loads developed in legs of jack-up units",
    Jack-up Asia Conference, Singapore, 7-8 December
    Lecture as pdf (2097kB), conference paper as pdf (786kB), journal paper as pdf (2422kB)
21. Houlsby, G.T. (2008)
    "An early structural engineering problem: the Oxford connection",
    Centenary Lecture, Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, 22 January
    Lecture as pdf (4.8MB), audio of lecture as mp3 (39.5MB), video of lecture as mp4 (139MB)
22. Cotter, O., Houlsby, G.T. and Byrne, B.W. (2008) (presented by Cotter)
    "Suction caisson installation in sand and clay over sand",
    2nd British Geotechnical Association International Conference on Foundations, ICOF 2008, Dundee, 24-27 June
    Lecture as pdf (208kB), paper as pdf (219kB)
23. Bienen, B., Byrne, B.W. , Houlsby, G.T. and Cassidy, M.J. (2008) (presented by Bienen)
    "3D modelling of a jack-up and its foundations",
    2nd British Geotechnical Association International Conference on Foundations, ICOF 2008, Dundee, 24-27 June
    Lecture as pdf (354kB), paper as pdf (239kB)
24. Houlsby, G.T. (2008)
    "Foundation options for offshore wind turbines",
    National Telford Institute workshop, University of Dundee, 20 October
    Lecture as pdf (2.0MB)