朗金讲座60年(Rankine Lecture 1961-2022)

1 引言

朗金讲座(Rankine Lecture)是岩土工程领域最早设立的著名邀请讲座，由英国岩土工程协会[British Geotechnical Association (BGA)]举办。该讲座为了纪念格拉斯哥大学(Glasgow University)土木工程教授WJM Rankine对土力学和岩土工程作出的重大贡献---特别是挡土墙的土压力理论。朗金讲座设立于1961年，比太沙基讲座的设立早两年。太沙基讲座的部分学者也是朗金讲座的邀请者，根据统计共有14位，他们是：

(1) Ralph B. Peck

(2) Arthur Casagrande

(3) Lauritis Bjerrum

(4) H. Bolton Seed 

(5) T. William Lambe

(6) Nathan M. Newmark

(7) Ronald F. Scott

(8) James K. Mitchell

(9) Norbert R. Morgenstern

(10) Evert Hoek 

(11) Suzanne Lacasse

(12) Harry Poulos 

(13) R. Kerry Rowe

(14) Thomas D. O'Rourke

自从1961年讲座设立以来，至今年为止，总共经历了62年，2020年和2021年由于新冠疫情没有举行朗金讲座，因此2022年是朗金讲座的60周年。

第60届朗金讲座将于2022年3月16日在伦敦帝国学院(Imperial College London)举行,

由牛津大学(University of Oxford)工程科学系的访问教授Stephan Jefferis主讲。他的演讲题目是：The Unusual And The Unexpected In Geotechnical Engineering: Observation – Analogy – Experiment (岩土工程中的不寻常和意外: 观察-类比-实验)

2 朗金讲座

2022 Prof. Stephan Jefferis: The Unusual And The Unexpected In Geotechnical Engineering: Observation – Analogy – Experiment

2021 No Rankine Lecture was held (due to restrictions of the Covid-19 Pandemic)

2020 No Rankine Lecture was held (due to restrictions of the Covid-19 Pandemic)

2019 Prof. G Gazetas: Benefits of Unconventional Seismic Foundation Design

2018 Dr N. O'Riordan: Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction - Understanding the Holocene, Instrumenting the Anthropocene

2017 Prof. E. Alonso: Triggering and Motion of Landslides

2016 Prof. R. J. Jardine: Geotechnics and Energy

2015 Dr. Suzanne Lacasse: Hazard, Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Practice

2014 Prof Guy Houlsby: Interactions in Offshore Foundation Design

2013 Prof. M. Jamiolkowski: Soil Mechanics and the observational method: Challenges at the Zelazny Most copper tailings disposal facility

2012 Prof M. D. Bolton: Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering

2011 Prof. S. W. Sloan: Geotechnical stability analysis

2010 Prof. C. R. I. Clayton: Stiffness at small strain - research and practice.

2009 Prof. T. O’Rourke: Geohazards & Large Geographically Distributed Systems

2008 Dr A. Charles: The engineering behaviour of fill - the use, misuse and disuse of case histories

2007 Prof. A. Gens: Soil-environment interactions in geotechnical engineering

2006 Prof. R. J. Mair: Tunnelling and geotechnics - new horizons

2005 Prof. R. K. Rowe: Long term performance of contaminant barrier systems

2004 Prof. N. N. Ambraseys: Engineering, seismology and soil mechanics

2003 Prof. M. F. Randolph: Science and empiricism in pile foundation design

2002 Prof. D. M. Potts: Numerical analysis: a virtual dream or practical reality?

2001 Prof. H. Brandl: Energy foundations and other thermo-active ground structures

2000 Prof. J. H. Atkinson: Non-linear soil stiffness in routine design

1999 Prof. S. Leroueil: Natural slopes and cuts: movement and failure mechanisms

1998 Dr D.W. Hight: Soil characterisation: the importance of structure and anisotropy

1997 Prof. G.E. Blight: Interactions between the atmosphere and the Earth

1996 Prof. S.F. Brown: Soil mechanics in pavement engineering

1995 Prof. R.E. Goodman: Block theory and its application

1994 Prof. P.R. Vaughan: Assumption, prediction and reality in geotechnical engineering

1993 Prof. K. Ishihara: Liquefaction and flow failure during earthquakes

1992 Dr B. Simpson: Retaining structures: displacement and design

1991 Prof. J.K Mitchell: Conduction phenomena: from theory to geotechnical practice

1990 Prof. J.B. Burland: On the compressibility and shear strength of natural clays

1989 Prof. H.G. Poulos: Pile behaviour – theory and application

1988 Prof. H.B. Sutherland: Uplift resistance in soils

1987 Prof. R.F. Scott: Failure

1986 Dr A.D.M. Penman: On the embankment dam

1985 Prof. N. Janbu: Soil models in offshore engineering

1984 Prof. C.P. Wroth: The interpretation of in situ soil tests

1983 E. Hoek: Strength of jointed rock masses

1982 Dr D.J. Henkel: Geology, geomorphology and geotechnics

1981 Prof. N.R. Morgenstern: Geotechnical engineering and frontier resource development

1980 Prof. A.N. Schofield: Cambridge geotechnical centrifuge operations

1979 Prof. H. Bolton Seed: Considerations in the earthquake-resistant design of earth and rockfill dams

1978 Dr W.H. Ward: Ground supports for tunnels in weak rocks

1977 V.F.B. de Mello: Reflections on design decisions of practical significance to embankment dams

1976 Dr A.C. Meigh: The Triassic rocks, with particular reference to predicted and observed performance of some major foundations

1975 Prof. J. Kerisel: Old structures in relation to soil conditions

1974 Prof. R.E. Gibson: The analytical method in soil mechanics

1973 Prof. T.W. Lambe: Predictions in soil engineering

1972 Prof. P.W. Rowe: The relevance of soil fabric to site investigation practice

1971 Prof. J.C. Jaeger: Friction of rocks and stability of rock slopes

1970 Prof. K.H. Roscoe: The influence of strains in soil mechanics

1969 Prof. R.B. Peck: Advantages and limitations of the observational method in applied soil mechanics

1968 R. Glossop: The rise of geotechnology and its influence on engineering pracice

1967 Dr L. Bjerrum: Engineering geology of Norwegian normally-consolidated marine clays as related to settlements of buildings

1966 Prof. A.W. Bishop: The strength of soils as engineering materials

1965 Prof. N.M. Newmark: Effects of earthquakes on dams and embankments

1964 Prof. A.W. Skempton: Long-term stability of clay slopes

1963 A. Mayer: Recent work in rock mechanics

1962 Dr L.F. Cooling: Field measurements in soil mechanics

1961 Prof. A. Casagrande: Control of seepage through foundations and abutments of dams