John Boscawen Burland#
| Membership Number: | 2200 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2003 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor
- Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London
- Professor of Soil Mechanics, Head of the Geotechnics Section, Imperial College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Critical state soil mechanics
- Development of the Modified Cam Clay constitutive model for reconstituted clays
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Kelvin Medal
- 1990 Rankine Lecturer (On the compressibility and shear strength of natural clays, Geotechnique, Band 40, 1990, S. 329-378)
- 1994 Honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University
- 1997 Institution of Structural Engineers Gold Medal
- 2001 Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Gold Medal
- 2002 Higginson Lecture and the Victor de Mello Lecture
- 2003 Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize of the Foundation of Science and Technology
- 2003 Commendadore der Ordine della Stella di Solidarieta Italiana
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2005 Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2005 New Year Honours
- 2016 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
