Keynote Lecture: 2nd Offshore Wind Symposium: Cables, pipelines and shallow infrastructure installation, Geological Society Energy Group: Physical and numerical modelling of drag anchor penetration: assessing seabed penetration factors to inform depth of lowering of subsea cables

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• Prizes

• Institution of Civil Engineers Physical Modelling Prize 2026

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

• Activity

• Invited presentation: European Subsea Cables Association, Renewables and Power Cables Subgroup (RPSG), Cable Burial Risk Assessment (CBRA) Modelling

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited presentation: NEXANS Lunch & Learn, Cable Protection Teams European Subsea Cables Association, Cable Burial Risk Assessment (CBRA) Modelling.

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) Aberdeen Evening Meeting Invited Presentation: Gadgets & Widgets: Where Is Your Anchor And How Will It Behave?

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited presentation: Society of Underwater Technology (SUT) Offshore Site Investigation Group (OSIG), Northeast OSIG Geoforum, Newcastle, Centrifuge modelling of drag embedment anchors subjected to inclined loading for floating wind

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Research Outputs

• Characterization of anchor penetration behaviour for Cable burial risk assessment

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Centrifuge modelling of drag embedment anchors subjected to inclined loading for floating wind

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Layered soils in the shallow subsurface (<6.0 m), North Sea: a data report

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• An implicit material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation soil-structure interaction

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• A dynamic implicit 3D material point-to-rigid body contact approach for large deformation analysis

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Comparison of 1g and centrifuge modelling of drag embedment anchors with subsurface wireless tracking

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Regional analysis of layered soils in the shallow subsurface across the North Sea for offshore cable burial

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Three-dimensional modelling of drag anchor penetration using the material point method

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Comparison of the behaviour of a drag embedment anchor using 1-g and centrifuge scale model testing

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Effect of drag rates on drag embedment anchor penetration for cable burial risk assessment

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Projects

• Offshore Cable Burial: How deep is deep enough? (Joint with Durham University and British Geological Survey)

  Project: Research