Publications

AL-BAGHDADI, T., BROWN, M.J., KNAPPETT, J. A. & ISHIKURA, R. (2015). Modelling of laterally loaded screw piles with large helical plates in sand. In V. Meyer (eds) 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics, Oslo, Norway, 10-12th June 2015. Taylor & Francis Group, London, United Kingdom, pp. 503-508. ISBN: 978-1-138-02848-7

AL-BAGHDADI, T., BROWN, M.J., KNAPPETT, J. A. & HUMAISH, A. (2017). Effects of vertical loading on lateral screw pile performance. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 170, No. 3, pp. 259-272. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.16.00114

AL-BAGHDADI, M.J., DAVIDSON, C., BROWN, M.J, KNAPPETT, J.A., BRENNAN, A., AUGARDE, C., COOMBS, W.M., Wang, L., RICHARDS, D.J. & BLAKE, A.P. (2017). CPT based design procedure for installation torque prediction for screw piles installed in sand. 8th International Conference on Offshore Site Investigation & Geotechnics, 12-14th September 2017, London, United Kingdom, pp. 346-353.

AUGRANDE, C.E., BING, Y., CHARLTON, T.J., COOMBS, W.M., CORTIS, M. , BROWN, M.J.Z. & BRENNAN, A. (2018).  Issues with the Material Point Method for geotechnical modelling, and how to address them, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE 2018), June 25-27th 2018, Porto, Portugal, pp. 593-601.

BROWN, M.J., AL-BAGHDADI, T. & KNAPPETT, J.A. (2016). Development of an inflight centrifuge screw pile installation and loading system. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, 1st-3rd June 2016, Nantes, France, pp. 239-244. ISBN 978-2-85782-716-0

BROWN, M.J. (2019). Screw pile research at the University of Dundee. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications (ISSPEA), 27-28th May 2019, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom, pp. 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20933/100001123

CERFONTAINE B, BROWN M.J., KNAPPETT J.A. & DAVIDSON C. (2019). Finite element modelling of the uplift behaviour of screw piles in sand. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications (ISSPEA), 27-28th May 2019, Dundee, United Kingdom, pp. 69-75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20933/100001123

CERFONTAINE, B., KNAPPETT, J.A., BROWN, M.J. & BRADSHAW, A. (2019). Design of plate and screw anchors in sand: failure mechanism, capacity and deformation. 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS Glasgow 2019), 26-28th June 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Vol. 92, 2019. EBS Webconference. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199216010

CERFONTAINE, B., KNAPPETT, J.A., BROWN, M.J. & BRADSHAW, A.S. (2019). Effect of soil deformability on the failure mechanism of shallow plate or screw anchors in sand. Computers and Geotechnics, Vol. 109, pp. 34-45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2019.01.007. ISSN: 0266-352X

CERFONTAINE, B., KNAPPETT, J.A., BROWN, M.J., DAVIDSON, C. & SHARIF, Y. (2019). Screw pile design optimisation under tension in sand. 17th European Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 1st-6th September 2019, Reykjavik, Iceland. DOI: http://doi.org/10.32075/17ECSMGE-2019-0696

COOMBS, W.M., AUGARDE, C.E., BRENNAN, A.J., BROWN, M.J., CHARLTON, T.J., KNAPPETT, J.A., MOTLAGH, Y.G. & WANG, L. (2019). Lagrangian mechanics and the material point method for large deformation elasto-plasticity. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 358, 1 January 2020, 112622. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.112622

DAVIDSON, C., AL-BAGHDADI, T., BROWN, M.J., KNAPPETT, J., BRENNAN, AUGARDE, C.E., A., COOMBS, W.M.,WANG, L., RICHARDS, D. , BLAKE, A. & BALL, J. (2018). A modified CPT based installation torque prediction for large screw piles in sand. 4th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing, 21st-22nd June 2018, Delft, Netherlands, pp. 255-261. 

DAVIDSON, C., AL-BAGHDADI, T., BROWN, M.J., KNAPPETT, J., BRENNAN, AUGARDE, C.E., A., WANG, L., COOMBS, W.M., RICHARDS, D. & BLAKE, A. (2018). Centrifuge modelling of optimised screw piles for offshore wind energy foundations. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2018), 17-20th July 2018, London, United Kingdom, pp. 695-700.

DAVIDSON, C., BROWN, M.J., BRENNAN, A., KNAPPETT, J., CERFONTAINE, B. & SHARIF, Y. (2019). Physical modelling of screw piles for offshore wind energy foundations. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications (ISSPEA), 27-28th May 2019, Dundee, United Kingdom, pp. 31-38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20933/100001123

KNAPPETT, J.A., BROWN, M.J., BRENNAN, A. & HAMILTON, L. (2014). Optimising the compresive behaviour of screw piles in sand for marine renewable energy applications. International Conference On Piling & Deep Foundations, 21-23st May 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, Article #1904; publication #100 (IC-2014).

CERFONTAINE B, BROWN M.J., KNAPPETT J.A. & DAVIDSON C. (2019). Finite element modelling of the uplift behaviour of screw piles in sand. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications (ISSPEA), 27-28th May 2019, Dundee, United Kingdom, pp. 69-75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20933/100001123

RICHARDS, D.J, BLAKE, A.P., WHITE, D.J, BITTAR, E.M, & LEHANE, B.M. (2018). Field tests assessing the installation performance of screw pile geometries optimised for offshore wind applications. Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Screw Piles for Energy Applications (ISSPEA), 27-28th May 2019, Dundee, United Kingdom, pp. 47-54. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20933/100001123

SHARIF, Y., CIANTIA, M., BROWN, M.J., KNAPPETT, J. & BALL, J.D., (2019). Numerical techniques for the fast generation of samples using the particle refinement method. 8th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods, 21-26 Jul 2019, Enschede, Netherlands. 

WANG, L., COOMBS, W.M., AUGARDE, C.E., BROWN, M., KNAPPETT, J.A, BRENNAN, A., RICHARDS, D.J. & BLAKE, A.P. (2017). Modelling screwpile installation using the MPM, Procedia Engineering, Vol. 175, pp. 124-132.

WANG, L., COOMBS, W.M., AUGARDE, C.E. & BROWN, M. (2017). Implicit MPM with second-order convected particle domain interpolation. Proceedings of the 25th UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference on Computational Mechanics, 11-13th April 2017, Birmingham, United Kingdom, pp. 264-267.

WANG, L., COOMBS, W.M., AUGRANDE, C.E., BROWN, M.J., KNAPPETT, J.A, BRENNAN, A., DAVIDSON, C., RICHARDS, D. & BLAKE, A. (2018).  On the use of the material point method to model problems involving large rotational deformation. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE 2018), 25-27th June 2018, Porto, Portugal, pp. 585-592.

WANG, L., COOMBS, W.M., AUGARDE, C.E., CORTIS, M., CHARLTON, T., BROWN, M.J., KNAPPETT, J., BRENNAN, A., DAVIDSON, C., RICHARDS, D. & BLAKE, A. (2019). On the use of domain-based material point methods for problems involving large distortion. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Journal, Vol. 355, pp. 1003-1025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.07.011

WANG, L., CORTIS, M., COOMBS, W.M., AUGARDE, C.E., BROWN, M.J. KNAPPETT, J., BRENNAN, A., DAVIDSON, C., RICHARDS, D. & BLAKE, A. (2019) On implementation aspects of implicit MPM for 3D analysis. 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method for Modelling Soil-Water-Structure Interaction, 8-10 January 2019, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 97-102.