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Citizenship
  
United Kingdom

Fields
  
Nationality
  
British

Academic advisors
  
Academic advisor
  
Name
  
Alan Bishop


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Born
  
27 May 1920Whitstable, England (
1920-05-27
)

Institutions
  
Alma mater
  
Imperial College London, UKUniversity of Cambridge, UK

Known for
  
Bishop's method of Slope stability analysis

Died
  
June 30, 1988, Whitstable, United Kingdom

Books
  
The Measurement of Soil Properties in the Triaxial Test

Education
  
Imperial College London, University of Cambridge

Notable students
  

Alan Wilfred Bishop, MA, PhD, DIC, DSc (27 May 1920 – 30 June 1988) was a British geotechnical engineer and academic, working at Imperial College London.

He was known for the Bishop's method of analysing soil slopes. After his graduation from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Bishop worked under Alec Skempton and obtained his PhD in 1952 with his thesis title being: The stability of earth dams. He worked extensively in the field of experimental Soil mechanics and developed apparati for soil testing, such as the triaxial test and the ring shear.

His contribution to the science was widely acknowledged and he was invited in 1966 to deliver the 6th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Association titled: The strength of soils as engineering materials.

Nowadays, a part of the Soil Mechanics Laboratories at Imperial College is named after him in recognition of his long-time work at the College.

References

Alan W. Bishop Wikipedia


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