Scott W. Sloan

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Scott Sloan
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Scott Sloan in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
Born Scott William Sloan
1954 (age 69–70)[1]
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Institutions University of Newcastle (Australia)
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Thesis Numerical analysis of incompressible and plastic solids using finite elements (1982)
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Scott William Sloan FRS[4] is Laureate Professor[5][6][7] of Civil Engineering at the University of Newcastle (Australia).[2][8][9][10][11]

Education

Sloan was educated at Monash University where he was awarded Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees.[3] He went on to study at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 1981 for numerical analysis of incompressible and plastic solids using finite elements.[12][13]

Awards and honours

Sloan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:[4]

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Professor Sloan is distinguished for the development of pioneering new methods which can be used to predict the ultimate limit states of geostructures such as tunnels, dams, highways and foundations. Being able to estimate the limit load accurately is complicated by the fact that the behaviour of geomaterials is dilatant, nonlinear, heterogeneous, anisotropic and dependent on the pore pressures and ground water conditions. His work is based on the limit theorems of plasticity, applied via novel finite element techniques. His research has made fundamental contributions to the science of geomechanics, enabling engineers to model complex geomaterial behaviour in a robust manner, leading to cheaper and safer civil infrastructure worldwide.

References

  1. ↑ Scott William Sloan at Library of Congress Authorities, with catalog records
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Scott W. Sloan's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
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  5. ↑ Scott W. Sloan's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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  7. ↑ Scott Sloan directs the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering on YouTube
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