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BISHOP LECTURE
Bishop
Lecture was established in commemoration to late Professor Alan W.
Bishop, to be delivered by the world's most distinguished
figures in experimental soil mechanics. The Lecture is organised as a main
keynote event in each Symposium. The 1st Bishop Lecture was
delivered by Professer Fumio Tatsuoka at the 5th International
Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials in Seoul,
South Korea.
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Professor Alan Wilfred Bishop (1920-1988)
Professor
Bishop was a British geotechnical engineer and an academic at Imperial
College London. 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 apparatus for soil
testing, such as the triaxial apparatus.
He was invited in
1966 to deliver the 6th Rankine Lecture of the British
Geotechnical Association titled "The strength of soils as engineering
materials".
A part of the Soil Mechanics Laboratories at Imperial College is
named after him in recognition of his long time work at the College.
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1st Bishop Lecture:
"Laboratory stress-strain tests for developments in geotechnical engineering research and practice"
by Professor Fumio Tatsuoka
Seoul, South Korea, 2 Sep, 2011
Professor
Tatsuoka obtained his Doctoral degree from University of Tokyo in 1972.
After working at Pubric Work Research Institute for five years, he
joined the faculty of Civil Enginnering, University of Tokyo. He has
since been a central figure in Japanese and international geotechnical
community, publishing more than 200 papers in international journals
only, receiving numerous awards from domestic and overseas societies,
and being invited to deliver highly renowned lectures such as
Terzaghi Lecture. He is the first chairman of TC29 (current TC101). His
interest spans a wide specrum of issues, including stress-strain-time
and strength characteristics of geomaterials, geosynthetics, soil
stabilisation and foundation designs. Currently he teaches at Tokyo
University of Science.
See lecture slides
Download lecture video
Low movie quality: 97 MB
High movie quality: 253 MB
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2nd Bishop Lecture:
"Advanced laboratory testing in research and practice" by Professor Richard J. Jardine
Paris, France, 2 Sep, 2013
Professor
Richard Jardine took his degrees at Imperial College London, joining
the staff in 1984, becoming Professor of Geomechanics in 1998 and
Dean/College Consul for Engineering in 2012. His research covers
offshore geotechnics, soil characterisation, field instrumentation,
geohazards and recently, climate change impact on permafrost. His
current work with INP Grenoble and Zhejiang (China) involves
experimental studies of pile ageing and cyclic loading. He has
published over 200 papers and sits on six International Committees.
Recent keynotes covered micro-mechanical behaviour (IS-Shanghai 2010),
deep foundations (Mong Lecture, Hong Kong 2011), Offshore Geotechnics
(London 2012) and Advanced Soil behaviour (Zeng Lecture China 2008,
Tunisia 2012 etc). Richard is a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow
(from 2002) and has won a dozen National and International Prizes. He
has been a visiting Professor in Singapore, Japan and now China as a
Ministry of Education Overseas Distinguished Professor. He has
consulted on many major International and UK projects.
Read paper (ICE Geotechncial Research page)
See lecture slides
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 | 3rd Bishop Lecture:
"Advanced testing and modelling of granular materials with and without
viscous glue: Research and practical implication" by Professor Hervé di
Benedetto
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 17 Nov, 2015
Professor
Hervé Di Benedetto received his Diploma of Civil Engineer from the
"Ecole Nationale des TPE" (ENTPE) and his PhD (1981) and Habilitation
thesis (1987) from the University of Grenoble, France. Prof. Di
Benedetto’s research focuses on mechanical, thermo-mechanical and
structural behaviour of geomaterials. He is working in the fields of
soil mechanics and road engineering and teaches at ENTPE/University of
Lyon. He has been the Supervisor of more than 50 PhD students and of a
large volume of research works in collaboration with various private
and public partners. He has published over 200 papers, books and
reports. He has been frequently Invited or Keynote Speaker for
international conferences and has been visiting professor of different
universities in Europe, America and Asia. Among others, he chaired
TC101 of the ISSMGE from 2009 to 2013 and was President from 2013 to
2015 of the International Society of Asphalt Pavement. He is co-founder
and Editor-in-Chief of the SCI International Journal “Road Materials
and Pavement Design”.
See lecture slides
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| 4th Bishop Lecture:
"Modelling and testing" by Professor David Muir Wood
Seoul, South Korea, 18 Sep, 2017
David
Muir Wood graduated from Cambridge University in 1970 and completed a
PhD at Cambridge in 1974 under the supervision of Peter Wroth. He
has subsequently held academic posts at Cambridge, Glasgow, Bristol and
Dundee Universities. His
research has ranged from laboratory testing of soils in triaxial,
simple shear, true triaxial and hollow cylinder apparatus to
development of constitutive models inspired by these experimental
observations and physical and numerical modelling of boundary value
problems on shaking table and geotechnical centrifuge. He is
presently part of an interdisciplinary team studying the mechanical
interaction of soil and plant roots. He
has written several books including Soil behaviour and critical state
soil mechanics (1990), Geotechnical modelling (2004), Soil mechanics: a
one-dimensional introduction (2009). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Read paper (ISSMGE website)
See lecture video
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| 5th Bishop Lecture:
"Several challenges in advanced laboratory testing of geomaterials with
emphasis on unconventional types of liquefaction tests" by Professor
Junichi Koseki
Glasgow, United Kingdom, 27 Jun 2019
Professor
Junichi Koseki is a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of
the University of Tokyo. He was a senior researcher at the Public Works
Research Institute of Ministry of Construction in Japan before joining
the University of Tokyo in 1994. Professor
Koseki served as chair of TC101 for term 2013-2017, and contributed
immensely to its recent development. His expertise spans from highly
advanced laboratory testing on deformation and strength characteristics
of various geomaterials to full-scale problems such as seismic
stability of structures, liquefaction and geosyntherics applications.
His publications have been awarded with numerous prizes – he is a
5-time winner of Best Paper Prize of JGS (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012 and
2016) and 2-time C. A. Hogentogler Award (2000 and 2014), among many
other prizes. His keynote lectures are without exception well received,
including 2010-2011 Mercer Lecture, and among others, Keynote Lecture
in one of our symposia, IS-Atlanta (2008). He has also been Vice
President of the Japanese Geotechnical Society. He is currently Editor
in Chief of the journal ‘Soils and Foundations’.
See lecture slides
See lecture video (105MB)
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| 6th Bishop Lecture:
"The assessment of geotechnical properties in the information age" by Professor
Carlos Santamarina
Sydney, Australia, 4 May 2022
J.
Carlos Santamarina graduated from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and
completed graduate studies at the Universities of Maryland and Purdue.
He taught at NYU-Polytechnic, the University of Waterloo and at the
Georgia Institute of Technology before joining King Abdullah University
of Science and Technology KAUST in 2015. His research team combines
experimental and numerical methods to study geomaterials in the context
of energy geo-science and engineering, with contributions from resource
recovery to energy and waste geostorage. He delivered the 50th Terzaghi
Lecture on Energy Geotechnology, was a British Geotechnical Association
Touring Lecturer, is member of both Argentinean National Academies, and
a recipient of ASTM’s Hogentogler Award, the Korean Geotechnical
Society Award, and Saudi Arabia’s Tarek al-Qasabi Award.
See lecture slides
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| 7th Bishop Lecture:
"The mechanics of coarse grained geomaterials at meso- and micro-scales" by Professor
Matthew Coop
Porto, Portugal, 4 Sep 2023
Matthew
has about 40 years’ experience, concentrating on the behaviour of soils
and weak rocks as revealed through high quality laboratory testing.
Following industrial practice in offshore foundations and his Doctorate
at Oxford University, he was instrumental in developing the research
laboratory at City University, London. He moved to Imperial College in
2000, where he worked on a greater range of soils and weak rocks,
notably the London clay and other important UK mudrocks. In 2010
Matthew moved to City University, Hong Kong where he established a
laboratory specialising in the micro-mechanics of soils, developing new
apparatus to apply discrete rather than continuum mechanics approaches.
In 2016 he returned to the UK and is now at University College London.
He published numerous highly-cited journal papers as well as winning
many prizes; the British Geotechnical Association prize three times,
the Geotechnical Research Medal of the UK Institution of Civil
Engineers twice as well as George Stephenson Medal, a Telford Premium
and a Best Research Paper Award of the Japanese Geotechnical Society.
As you are aware, Matthew has been chairing TC101 since 2017.
See lecture video (1.3 GB)
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