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The inaugural Skempton Lecture of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, titled The Role of Distributed Sensing in Understanding the Engineering Performance of Geotechnical Structures, was given by CSIC Co-Investigator Professor Kenichi Soga. The opening day of the conference, hosted by...

Congratulations to James Fern, a PhD student in the Geotechnical and Environmental Group who won first prize in the Dr Masao Stake Memorial Symposium on Granular Mechanics Student Poster Competition held at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI 2015) Conference in Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Roads that self-repair, bridges filled with first-aid bubbles, buildings with arteries… not some futuristic fantasy but a very real possibility with ‘smart’ concrete. Skin is renewable and self-repairing – our first line of defence against the wear and tear of everyday life. If damaged, a myriad of repair processes spring...

Tanvir Qureshi, a PhD student in the Geotechnical and Environmental Group won the 2014 Department of Engineering photography competition (Scanning Electron Microscopy category) sponsored by ZEISS. Tanvir’s winning image depicts the evolution of crack bridging within a concrete crack formed by ‘smart’ minerals added within...