Lidija Zdravković is a Serbian and British civil engineer who is Professor of Computational Geomechanics and Head of Geotechnics in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

. Her research involves the use of the

finite element method Finite element method (FEM) is a popular method for numerically solving differential equations arising in engineering and mathematical modeling. Typical problem areas of interest include the traditional fields of structural analysis, heat tran ...

geotechnical engineering Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics to solve its engineering problems. I ...

, the study of the mechanical behavior of soil and rock in engineering applications. She is a coauthor of the two-volume textbook ''Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering''.

Education and career

Zdravković studied civil engineering at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

, graduating in 1988 and continuing to teach at the same university for the following four years. She joined Imperial College London in 1992 as a graduate student, and completed her PhD there in 1996. Her doctoral dissertation, ''The stress-strain-strength an isotropy of a granular medium under general stress conditions'', was supervised by Richard Jardine. She remained at Imperial as academic staff.

Book

Zdravković is coauthor of: *''Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. I: Theory'' (with David M. Potts, Thomas Telford Publishing, 1999) *''Finite Element Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. II: Application'' (with David M. Potts, Thomas Telford Publishing, 2001)

Recognition

Zdravković and her coauthors David M. Potts and David W. Hight were the 2002 recipients of the

Telford Medal The Telford Medal is a prize awarded by the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for a paper or series of papers. It was introduced in 1835 following a bequest made by Thomas Telford, the ICE's first president. It can be awarded in gold ...

of the

Institution of Civil Engineers The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a Charitable organization, charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters ar ...

. Zdravković was the 2013

Géotechnique Lecture The Géotechnique lecture is an biennial lecture on the topic of soil mechanics, organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after its major scientific journal Géotechnique. This should not be confused with the annual BGA Rankine ...

r and the 2024

Rankine Lecture The Rankine lecture is an annual lecture organised by the British Geotechnical Association named after William John Macquorn Rankine, an early contributor to the theory of soil mechanics. This should not be confused with the biennial BGA Géotech ...

r of the

British Geotechnical Association The British Geotechnical Association is a learned 'Associated Society' of the Institution of Civil Engineers,ICE Associated Societies newsletter, Spring/Summer 2011 (Accessed: 19 July 2013) based in London, England, and a registered UK charity ( ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zdravkovic, Lidija Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British civil engineers British women engineers Geotechnical engineers University of Belgrade alumni Alumni of Imperial College London Academics of Imperial College London