Alan W. Bishop

Alan Wilfred Bishop
Born (1920-05-27)27 May 1920
Whitstable, England
Died 30 June 1988(1988-06-30) (aged 68)
Whitstable, England
Citizenship United Kingdom
Nationality British
Fields Soil Mechanics
Institutions Imperial College London, UK
Alma mater Imperial College London, UK
University of Cambridge, UK
Academic advisors Alec Skempton
Notable students Nicolas Ambraseys, John H. Atkinson, Peter Rolfe Vaughan
Known for Bishop's method of Slope stability analysis
Notable awards 6th Rankine Lecture (1966)

Alan Wilfred Bishop (27 May 1920 – 30 June 1988) MA PhD DIC DSc was a British Geotechnical Engineer and an academic at Imperial College London.

He was known for the Bishop's method[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bishop's method
  2. ↑ Bishop A. W. (1952), The stability of earth dams. PhD Thesis, Imperial College London
  3. ↑ Bishop A. W. (1966), The strength of soils as engineering materials. Rankine Lecture, Geotechnique, 16 (2), 91 – 130

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