Dr. T. A. Newson - Profile
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Honorary Research Fellow of the Scottish Crop Research Institute.
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International Panel Member (Canada) for the ICE Geotechnical Proceedings Journal.
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Core Member ISSMGE TC38 Soil-Structure Interaction.
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Chair, Soil Mechanics & Foundations Division, Canadian Geotechnical Society.
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International Society for Offshore & Polar Engineering - Technical Program Committee.
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Society for Underwater Technology / Offshore Site Investigations & Geotechnics Committee - Corresponding Member.
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Acts as specialist consultant to offshore, civil engineering and mining industry.
EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT
1998-2004 Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, Division of Civil
Engineering, University of Dundee.
1994-1998 Research Fellow, Geomechanics Group, University of Western
Australia.
1992-1994 Assistant Geotechnical Engineer, Sir William Halcrow & Partners,
Cardiff and Hong Kong.
1988-1992 Research Assistant and PhD. Geotechnical Engineering, University
of Wales, United Kingdom.
1985-1988 BSc. Civil & Structural Engineering, University of Wales, United
Kingdom.
HONOURS AND AWARDS
2007 Stermac Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society
BACKGROUND
Dr Tim Newson has recently moved to the Geotechnical Research Centre
from Scotland, where he was an Assistant Professor of Geotechnical
Engineering for seven years at the University of Dundee. In Scotland, he
managed the Geotechnical Laboratory Facilities and was the Director of
the Dundee Geotechnical Centrifuge Centre. Before joining the University
of Dundee, he spent four years in Perth as a post-doctoral fellow at the
University of Western Australia, where he was responsible for the
execution of a MERIWA research project entitled: ‘Saline Tailings
Disposal and Decommissioning’. Prior to this, he worked for Sir William
Halcrow and Partners in the UK as a geotechnical engineer on a variety
of projects in South Wales and Hong Kong.
His doctorate was completed at the University of Wales, College of
Cardiff. This study involved an experimental investigation of the
stress-strain behaviour of anisotropically consolidated soft clays. His
research interests and consulting activities include in situ testing,
constitutive modelling of clays, disposal of mine wastes, centrifuge and
laboratory testing techniques, dynamic soil-structure interaction,
contaminant and pathogen movement through soils, offshore engineering
and soils, fracture behaviour in clayey soils, dynamic compaction of
soils and the biomechanics of the eye.
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