David Hight

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David Hight
FICE
Hight in 2016
Born (1943-08-17) 17 August 1943 (age 80)
Maidenhead, England[3]
Alma materImperial College London (BSc, MSc, PhD)
AwardsRankine Lecture (1998)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisLaboratory investigations of sea-bed clays (1983)
Academic advisorsAlan W. Bishop
John Burland[2]
Websitegcg.co.uk

David William Hight

FICE[4] (born 17 August 1943)[3][5] is a senior consultant at the Geotechnical Consulting Group,[5] a company providing high-level expertise in the field of geotechnical engineering and well known for bridging the gap between research and engineering practice.[4][6]

Education

Hight was educated at Imperial College London, where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees[5] followed by a PhD in 1983[2] carried out in the soil mechanics section of the civil engineering department, headed by Alan W. Bishop and John Burland.[2]

Career

Hight served as a lecturer at Imperial College between 1975 and 1983, and has been visiting professor at Imperial College (1993–2012), at the National University of Singapore (2000) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983).[4]

He has synthesised the causes and effects of disturbance to soil samples and introduced methods to minimise sample disturbance and to assess sample quality. This has enabled him to become an expert in characterising the real behaviour of natural soils, including quantifying their scale of anisotropy of strength and stiffness.[4]

Using this expertise Hight has specialised in forensic engineering, investigating geotechnical failures of tunnels, embankments, road pavements, and port constructions; work that has opened up new avenues of research and led to new approaches to design and construction, including participating in the introduction of compensation

Rio–Antirrio bridge in Greece[5] and Heathrow Terminal 5.[7]

Awards and honours

Hight was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016
.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-8031-0983-4
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  2. ^
    EThOS uk.bl.ethos.308735. Free access icon
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U287291. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ a b c d e f Anon (2016). "Dr David Hight FREng FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ a b c d Anon (2016). "David William Hight CV" (PDF). London: gcg.co.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 May 2016.
  6. ^ David Hight publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. doi:10.1680/geot.2007.57.1.3
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