Rankine Lecture

Die Rankine Lecture ist eine Ehrung für Leistungen in der Geotechnik der British Geotechnical Association und gilt in diesem Bereich als eine der höchsten Ehrungen. Sie werden seit 1961 gehalten und in der Zeitschrift Géotechnique veröffentlicht. In geradzahligen Jahren kommt der Geehrte aus Großbritannien, in ungeradzahligen aus dem Ausland. Bis 1972 wurden sie im Sitz der Institution of Civil Engineers gehalten, danach am Imperial College. Sie sind nach dem Pionier der Bodenmechanik William John Macquorn Rankine benannt.

Preisträger

1961 Arthur Casagrande: Control of seepage through foundations and abutments of dams
1962 Leonard Frank Cooling: Field measurements in soil mechanics
1963 Armand Mayer: Recent work in rock mechanics
1964 Alec Skempton: Long-term stability of clay slopes
1965 Nathan M. Newmark: Effects of earthquakes on dams and embankments
1966 Alan W. Bishop: The strength of soils as engineering materials
1967 Laurits Bjerrum: Engineering geology of Norwegian normally-consolidated marine clays as related to settlements of buildings
1968 Rudolph Glossop: The rise of geotechnology and its influence on engineering practice
1969 Ralph Peck: Advantages and limitations of the observational method in applied soil mechanics
1970 Kenneth Harry Roscoe: The influence of strains in soil mechanics
1971 John Conrad Jaeger: Friction of rocks and stability of rock slopes
1972 Peter Rowe: The relevance of soil fabric to site investigation practice
1973 T. William Lambe: Predictions in soil engineering
1974 R. E. Gibson: The analytical method in soil mechanics
1975 Jean Kerisel: Old structures in relation to soil conditions
1976 A. C. Meigh: The Triassic rocks, with particular reference to predicted and observed performance of some major foundations
1977 Victor de Mello: Reflections on design decisions of practical significance to embankment dams
1978 William Hallam Ward: Ground supports for tunnels in weak rocks
1979 Harry Bolton Seed: Considerations in the earthquake-resistant design of earth and rockfill dams
1980 Andrew Noel Schofield: Cambridge geotechnical centrifuge operations
1981 Norbert R. Morgenstern: Geotechnical engineering and frontier resource development
1982 David Henkel: Geology, geomorphology and geotechnics
1983 Evert Hoek: Strength of jointed rock masses
1984 Peter Wroth: The interpretation of in situ soil tests
1985 Nilmar Janbu: Soil models in offshore engineering
1986 Arthur Penman: On the embankment dam
1987 Ronald F. Scott: Failure
1988 Hugh B. Sutherland: Uplift resistance in soils
1989 Harry Poulos: Pile behaviour – theory and application
1990 John Burland: On the compressibility and shear strength of natural clays
1991 James K. Mitchell: Conduction phenomena: from theory to geotechnical practice
1992 Brian Simpson: Retaining structures: displacement and design
1993 Kenji Ishihara: Liquefaction and flow failure during earthquakes
1994 Peter Rolfe Vaughan: Assumption, prediction and reality in geotechnical engineering
1995 Richard E. Goodman: Block theory and its application
1996 Stephen F. Brown: Soil mechanics in pavement engineering
1997 Geoffrey E. Blight: Interactions between the atmosphere and the Earth
1998 David Hight: Soil characterisation: the importance of structure and anisotropy
1999 Serge Leroueil: Natural slopes and cuts: movement and failure mechanisms<ref>Zunächst war J. R. Booker von der Universität Sydney zum Rankine Lecturer für 1999 ernannt worden, starb aber vorher.</ref>
2000 John H. Atkinson: Non-linear soil stiffness in routine design
2001 Heinz Brandl: Energy foundations and other thermo-active ground structures
2002 David M. Potts: Numerical analysis: a virtual dream or practical reality?
2003 Mark F. Randolph: Science and empiricism in pile foundation design
2004 Nicolas Ambraseys: Engineering, seismology and soil mechanics
2005 R. K. Rowe: Long term performance of contaminant barrier systems
2006 Robert Mair: Tunnelling and geotechnics – new horizons
2007 Antonio Gens: Soil-environment interactions in geotechnical engineering
2008 James A. Charles: The engineering behaviour of fill – the use, misuse and disuse of case histories
2009 Thomas O’Rourke: Geohazards and large geographically distributed systems
2010 Chris Clayton: Stiffness at small strain – research and practice
2011 Scott W. Sloan: Geotechnical stability analysis
2012 Malcolm Bolton: Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering
2013 Michele Jamiolkowski: Soil Mechanics and the observational method
2014 Guy T. Houlsby: Interactions in Offshore Foundation Design
2015 Suzanne Lacasse: Hazard, risk and reliability in geotechnical practice
2016 Richard Jardine: Geotechnics and Energy
2017 Eduardo Alonso: Triggering and Motion of Landslides
2018 Nick O’Riordan: Dynamic soil-structure interaction
2019 George Gazetas: Benefits of Unconventional Seismic Foundation Design
2020/2021 ausgefallen
2022 Stephan Jefferis: The Unusual and the Unexpected in Geotechnical Engineering: Observation – Analogy – Experiment
2023 John Carter: Constitutive Modelling in Computational Geomechanics
2024 Lidija Zdravkovic: Geotechnical Engineering for a Sustainable Society
2025 Kenichi Soga: From Geo-monitor to Geo-adapt
2026 William Powrie: The role of behavioural mechanisms and observed performance in affordable, resilient geotechnical infrastructure
2027 Charles Ng<ref>Professor Charles Ng announced as 65th Rankine Lecturer. The British Geotechnical Association, 19. März 2026, abgerufen am 20. März 2026 (Lua-Fehler in Modul:Multilingual, Zeile 153: attempt to index field 'data' (a nil value)). </ref>

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List of Rankine Lecturers

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