Professor Stuart Haigh

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Trinity College
  • Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
  • Assistant Director of the Schofield Centre
Available to supervise doctoral students
Available for consultancy
Professor Stuart Haigh

Contact

Location

  • Schofield Centre, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EF

About

Stuart Haigh is Assistant Director of the Schofield Centre and Professor of Geotechnical Engineering. He has a wide range of research interests centred around physical modelling both at 1g and utilising centrifuges and numerical modelling using both FE and MPM. His 25 years of experience in developing complex centrifuge experiments includes developing earthquake actuators, high-g robots and an in-flight Tunnel Boring Machine. He gave the Geotechnique Lecture in November 2021 on Mobilisable Strength design for Flexible Retaining Walls.

Research

Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
  • Liquefaction and Remediation methods
  • Lateral Spreading of Slopes during Earthquakes
  • Earthquake Field Investigations
  • Dynamic Finite Element Analysis
  • Behaviour of piles under cyclic loading
Geotechnical Engineering
  • Cyclic and Monotonic performance of piles
  • Mobilisable strength design of retaining walls
  • Tunnelling effects on structures and foundations
  • Rail-induced vibrations
  • Reinforced earth structures
Offshore Soil Mechanics
  • Pipeline Soil Interaction
  • Upheaval Buckling
  • Behaviour of Blocky Clays
  • Thermal properties of soils
  • Monopile Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines

 

Soil Behaviour
  • Atterberg limits of soils
  • Airfield and Road Pavement Design
  • Microbially-induced calcite precipitation

 

Equipment Development for Geotechnical Research
  • Centrifuge Development
  • Earthquake Actuators for Centrifuge Model Testing
  • Image analysis for 3D displacement measurement
  • In-flight centrifuge excavation of tunnels and basements

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students
  • 3D1 Geotechnical Engineering I
  • 3D2 Geotechnical Engineering II
  • 4D5 Foundation Engineering
  • 4D6 Civil Engineering Dynamics
  • 5R5 Advanced Experimental Methods in Geotechnical Engineering

Collaborators

  1. Carlos Español-Espinel

    Carlos Español-Espinel

    • PhD Student
  2. Chisom Ifeobu

    Chisom Ifeobu

  3. Dr Alexandra Clarà Saracho

    Dr Alexandra Clarà Saracho

    • Affiliated Lecturer in Engineering
  4. Dr Chuhan Deng

    Dr Chuhan Deng

    • Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering, Tianjin University, China
  5. Tianzheng Fu

    Tianzheng Fu

    • PhD Student
  6. Xing Liang

    Xing Liang

    • PhD Student
  7. Xueying Wang

    Xueying Wang

    • PhD Student
  8. Zhijun Xu

    Zhijun Xu

    • PhD Student
  9. Zijing Liu Liu

    Zijing Liu Liu

    • PhD Student