Minor Publications

Last updated 18/12/08.

Copyright of the papers below rests with a variety of different parties. They are made available solely on the same basis that I would supply a single copy of a paper to an individual. It is up to you to ensure that your use of a paper does not infringe copyright law.

The following publications are not included in the main list on a variety of grounds, including limited circulation, brevity, limited technical content or unrefereed content.

1. Houlsby, G.T. (1981)
   "Associated Fields Calculations",
   Symposium for Young Research Workers in Geotechnical Engineering, City University
   Text as pdf (39kB)
2. Houlsby, G.T. (1982)
   "A Variable Shear Modulus for a Critical State Model",
   Preprints of the Workshop on the Implementation of Critical State Soil Mechanics in Finite Element Computations, Cambridge, June 29-July 1
   (published in revised form as paper j12) Text as pdf (420kB)
3. Nageswaran, S. and Houlsby, G.T. (1982)
   "A Study of Consolidation with Radial Drainage",
   Preprints of the Workshop on the Implementation of Critical State Soil Mechanics in Finite Element Computations, Cambridge, June 29-July 1
   Text as pdf (349kB)
4. Houlsby, G.T. (1984)
   "Chamber Tests at Oxford University",
   Seminar on Cone Penetration Testing in the Laboratory, Southampton University, pp 8-12
   Text as pdf (117kB)
5. Houlsby, G.T. (1984)
   "Boundary Conditions in Test Chambers",
   Seminar on Cone Penetration Testing in the Laboratory, Southampton University, pp 22-24
   Text as pdf (100kB)
6. Houlsby, G.T. (1985)
   Book review “Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, San Francisco, 12-16 August 1985”,
   Computers and Geotechnics, Vol. 1, No. 4, p 319, ISSN 0266-352X
   Text as pdf (72kB)
7. Houlsby, G.T. (1985)
   Book review “Mechanics of Engineering Materials, edited by C.S. Desai and R.H. Gallagher, John Wiley, 1984”,
   Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp 559-560, ISSN 0098-8847
   Text as pdf (83kB)
8. Wroth, C.P., Houlsby, G.T. and Hamilton, B. (1986)
   "Gloucester Test Fill – Predictions by PM Geotechnical Analysts Ltd.",
   Unpublished Proceedings of the Workshop on Prediction of the Engineering Performance of the Gloucester Test Fill, Stage II, August 26
   Text as pdf (762kB)
9. Houlsby, G.T. and Wroth, C.P. (1988)
   "Research on the Analysis of the Piezocone at Oxford University",
   Preprints for Speciality Session 13: Piezocone Penetration Test - Probe Development, Testing, Interpretation, 1st International Symposium on Penetration Testing, ISOPT-1, Orlando, Florida, March
   Text as pdf (441kB)
10. Houlsby, G.T. (1988)
    Discussions: Sessions 3 (Piezocone Penetration Test) and 5 (Pressuremeter, Dilatometer and Other Developments), Proceedings of the Geotechnology Conference on Penetration Testing in the U.K., Birmingham, July 6-8, ISBN 0-7277-1377-9, pp 180, 184, 187, 318-319
    Text as pdf (236kB)
11. Houlsby, G.T. (1988)
    Book review “Prediction and Performance in Geotechnical Engineering, edited by R.C. Joshi and F.J. Griffiths, 1987”,
    Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, August, p 633, ISSN 0008-3674
    Text as pdf (153kB)
12. Houlsby, G.T. (1990)
    Discussion: Session 1, Steep Slopes and Walls, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Geotextiles, Geomembranes and Related Products, The Hague, May 28 - June 1, Vol. 3, ISBN 90-6191-122-2, pp 992, 1017-18
    Text as pdf (91kB)
13. Houlsby, G.T. (1991)
    “Critical State Soil Mechanics”,
    Lecture notes at Course on Geotechnical Engineering, Institution of Engineers of Malaysia, 9-12 September
    Text as pdf (1514kB)
14. Houlsby, G.T., (1992)
    Discussions on "Magnus Foundation Monitoring Project",
    Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Large-Scale Fully Instrumented Pile Tests in Clay, London, 23-24 June, Thomas Telford, ISBN 0-7277-1918-1, pp 117 and 119
    Text as pdf (82kB) 
15. Houlsby, G.T. (1995)
    Discussion: Session 4(a), Penetrometers, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Site Investigation Practice, London, 30-31 March, Thomas Telford, ISBN 0-7277-2513-0, p 474
    Text as pdf (50kB) 
16. Houlsby, G.T. (1995)
    “A Brief Introduction to the Cone Penetration Test”,
    Lecture notes at Workshop on Probing and Penetration Testing, Loughborough, 10 May
    Text as pdf (546kB) 
17. Houlsby, G.T. (1998)
    “Caisson Foundations for Offshore Foundations on Sand”,
    Lecture notes at International Conference on “Subsea Geotechnics”,
    Aberdeen, 18-19 November, IBC UK publications
    Summary and slides as pdf (111kB)
18. Houlsby, G.T. (1999)
    “Caisson Foundations for Offshore Foundations”,
    Lecture notes at International Conference on “Seabed Geotechnics”,
    London, 9-10 December, IBC UK publications
    Summary and slides as pdf (317kB)
19. Houlsby, G.T. (2001)
    "Castles of sand",
    Reply to “Last Word”, New Scientist, No. 2276, 3rd February
    Text as pdf (264kB)
1. Republished with additions by M. O'Hare (2007) "How to Fossilise Your Hamster, and Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist", Profile Books Ltd, ISBN 978 1 84668 044 1, pp 188-191
20. Houlsby, G.T. (2003)
    Editorial, Géotechnique, Vol. 53, No. 3, April, p 299, ISSN 0016-8505
    Text as pdf (42kB)
21. Houlsby, G.T. (2004)
    Editorial, Géotechnique, Vol. 54, No. 2, March, p 79, ISSN 0016-8505
    Text as pdf (21kB)
22. Nguyen, D.G. and Houlsby, G.T. (2004)
    "A thermodynamic approach to constitutive modelling of concrete",
    Extended abstracts of 12th  Annual Conference of Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME), Cardiff, 5-6 April
    Text as pdf (72kB), Lecture as pdf (192kB) (presented by Nguyen)
23. Mortara, G. and Houlsby, G.T. (2004)
    "Un Semplice Modello per il Comportamento delle Sabbie Basato sulla Termodinamica" ("A Simple Model for Sand Behaviour Based on Thermodynamics"),
    Incontro Annuale dei Ricercatori di Geotecnica (Annual meeting of the Italian Geotechnical Researchers), IARG 2004, 7-9 July, Trento, Italy
    Text in Italian as pdf (102kB), Text in English as pdf (112kB)
24. Houlsby, G.T. (2004)
    "Wroth, (Charles) Peter",
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press
    Text as pdf (30kB)
25. Houlsby, G.T. (2004)
    Editorial, Géotechnique, Vol. 54, No. 10, December, p 615, ISSN 0016-8505
    1. Reply to discussion by Dean, E.T.R.: Géotechnique, Vol. 55, No. 5, June 2005, pp 416-417
    Text as pdf (270kB)
26. Houlsby, G.T. (2004)
    Editorial, Géotechnique, Vol. 55, No. 10, December, p 707, ISSN 0016-8505
    Text as pdf (21kB)
27. Teh, K.L., Byrne, B.W. and Houlsby, G.T. (2007)
    "Effects of seabed irregularities on loads developed in legs of jack-up units",
    PetroMin, Vol. 33. No. 8, October, ISSN 0129-1122, pp34-45
    Text as pdf (2418kB), also published as paper C89
28. Houlsby, G.T. (2008)
    Letter to "New Scientist", 16 February, Vol. 197, No. 2643, p 22
    Text as pdf (13kB)
29. Houlsby, G.T. (2008)
    Interview on BBC World Service "World Business Report", 5 September
    Audio as mp3 (4.7MB)
30. Houlsby, G.T. (2008)
    Letter to "The Daily Telegraph", 10 October, No. 47698
    Text as pdf (441kB)
31. Merritt, A., Mair, R.J., Houlsby, G.T. and Milligan, G.W.E. (2008)
    "Soil conditioning for EPB tunnelling machines: recent research",
    Going Underground, Issue 2, pp 29-30
    Text as pdf (2.8MB)