Malcolm D. Bolton
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Malcolm David Bolton (born 1946) is a British soil mechanics engineer and professor of
geotechnical engineering Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics for the solution of its respective engineering problems. It als ...
at the University of Cambridge.


Education

He read engineering at the University of Cambridge. He then studied for a MSc at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and then did research in soil mechanics at Cambridge which led to the award of a PhD.


Career

He currently holds the Chair of Soil Mechanics at the University of Cambridge and his is the Director of the Schofield Centrifuge Centre for Geotechnical Processes and Construction. He published extensively in the field of fundamental soil mechanics, geotechnical centrifuge testing and geotechnical design. For the latter topic, he introduced the mobilisable strength design (MSD) method. In 2012, he was invited to deliver the prestigious 52nd Rankine Lecture, titled "Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering".Professor M D Bolton to give 52nd Rankine lecture
/ref> In 1991 he delivered the 2nd BGA
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 L ...
.


References


External links


Professor Malcolm D. Bolton's web page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bolton, Malcolm D. British civil engineers Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge Living people Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Geotechnical engineers 1946 births