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Dr Michael Brown is currently a Reader in the Geotechnics Research Group at the University of Dundee. He graduated from the University of Bradford in 1995 with a first-class Honours degree in Civil & Structural Engineering, and obtained his doctorate from the University of Sheffield in 2004 for work on the rapid load testing (RLT) of piles in fine grained soils (Statnamic). He worked at the University of Sheffield as a research associate, firstly in the Geotechnical Engineering Research Group and then as consortium manager of the SUBR:IM project in the Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group. Prior to this he spent 5 years in industry working for specialist geotechnical contractors and consultants. He is the recent past editor of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Proceedings: Geotechnical Engineering. He is currently a member of ISSMGE Technical Committee TC212 on Deep Foundations, CEN/TC 341/WG 7: Non-static tests on piles and the SUT Offshore Site Investigation Group (OSIG). He sits on the editorial panels of Geotechnique and JGS Soils and Foundations journal.

Professional Biography

BSc (Hons) Civil & Structural Engineering (1st Class), University of Bradford, 1995
PhD, University of Sheffield, 2004

Research

Rapid load Pile testing (Statnamic)

Rate Effects in fine grained soils

Offshore Geotechnics

Pipeline Ploughing and installation

Debris Flows and Landslides

Anchoring and foundations for marine energy generators

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Bachelor of Engineering, University of Bradford

Keywords

TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)

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Projects 2012 2021

3 Active
7 Finished

NPIF EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant

Brown, M., Knappett, J. & Newman, T.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1/10/17 → 30/09/21

Project: Research

Development of Screw Anchors for Floating Marine Renewable Energy Systems Arrays Incorporating Anchor Sharing (SAFS) (Joint with University of Liege)

Brown, M., Cerfontaine, B. & Knappett, J.

1/08/17 → 31/07/19

Project: Research

Supergen Wind Challenge 2015: Screw Piles for Wind Energy Foundation Systems (Joint with Universities of Durham and Southampton)

Brennan, A., Brown, M. & Knappett, J.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

26/02/16 → 25/05/19

Project: Research

Shaking Tunnel Vision (Joint with University of Leeds and Pontificia Unversidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile)

Brown, M. & Knappett, J.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1/02/16 → 31/05/18

Project: Research

Assessing the Risk to Coastal and Rural Road Network in Scotland Due to the Effects of Storms and Extreme Rainfall Events (Joint with Transport Research Laboratory)

Brown, M., Dawson, S. & Knappett, J.

Natural environment research council

1/01/16 → 30/09/16

Project: Research

Research Output 2001 2019

631 Citations
11 h-Index
53 Conference contribution
36 Article
8 Editorial
6 Chapter
14 More

Effect of soil deformability on the failure mechanism of shallow plate or screw anchors in sand

Cerfontaine, B., Knappett, J., Brown, M. & Bradsaw, A. S., 24 Jan 2019, In : Computers and Geotechnics. 109, p. 34-45 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

failure mechanism

Formability

Anchors

anchor

Stress concentration

The effect of tunnel lining modelling approaches on the seismic response of sprayed concrete tunnels in coarse-grained soils

Kampas, G., Knappett, J., Brown, M., Anastasopoulos, I., Nikitas, N. & Fuentes, R., Feb 2019, In : Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 117, p. 122-137 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Tunnel linings

coarse-textured soils

tunnel lining

Seismic response

seismic response

A modified CPT based installation torque prediction for large screw piles in sand

Davidson, C., Al-Baghdadi, T., Brown, M., Brennan, A., Knappett, J., Augarde, C., Coombs, W., Wang, L., Richardson, D., Blake, A. & Ball, J., 13 Jun 2018, Cone Penetration Testing 2018: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing. Hicks, M. A., Pisanò, F. & Peuchen, J. (eds.). 1 ed. CRC Press, p. 255-261 7 p.

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

Open Access

File

Piles

Cones

Sand

Torque

Centrifuges

Centrifuge modelling of optimised screw piles for offshore wind energy foundations

Davidson, C., Al-Baghdadi, T., Brown, M., Knappett, J., Brennan, A., Augarde, C. E., Wang, L., Coombs, W. M., Richards, D. & Blake, A., Jul 2018, Physical Modelling in Geotechnics: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2018), July 17-20, 2018, London, United Kingdom. McNamara, A., Divall, S. & Goodey, R. (eds.). 1 ed. Taylor & Francis, p. 695-700 6 p.

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

Centrifuges

Wind power

Piles

Torque

Offshore wind turbines