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Professor A. W. Bishop's Finest Papers - A Commemorative Volume (Paperback)
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Professor A. W. Bishop's Finest Papers - A Commemorative Volume (Paperback)
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This volume brings together a selection of key papers by this soil
mechanics pioneer. The papers have been selected on the basis of
their importance in the development of soil mechanics and to
highlight the nature and range of subjects that Bishop investigated
during the thirty-seven years of his career. Bishop's most
influential paper was presented at an ASCE (American Society of
Civil Engineers) conference in Boulder, Colorado, in 1960, and
while it made a big impression at the time, it is now in danger of
disappearing from sight. In addition, two of Bishop's very
significant papers were published in the late 1970s in the
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, not normal reading
for the soil mechanics fraternity, and thus became known to only a
few people. That has remained the case to this day, and the fact
that these two papers have not been republished was the initial
motivation for creating this volume. In addition, it is nearly 40
years since Bishop retired from his professorial position at
Imperial College and a fitting time to remember Bishop with both a
biography, The Bishop Method, and this volume of his papers. In
addition to the Bishop papers, there is a paper by Laurie Wesley
and Richard Pugh reflecting their research with Bishop. Separate
papers were to have been written after the completion of their
PhDs, with Bishop as the lead author, but because of his illness
this didn't happen. The opportunity has now been taken to present
the comprehensive research in these papers, as a tribute to their
supervisor and mentor.
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