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52
Citations
11249
World Ranking
3591
National Ranking
189

Overview

J. R. Booker is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their academic work focuses primarily on the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Water Science and Technology, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their research topics encompass a variety of areas such as Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Energy and Environment Impacts, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps.

Recent publications by J. R. Booker include:

  • Understanding sustainable operation of micro-hydropower: a field study in Nepal, 2020, Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable development
  • Micro-Hydropower in Nepal: Analysing the Project Process to Understand Drivers that Strengthen and Weaken Sustainability, 2021, Sustainability
  • A review of probabilistic structural integrity assessment in the nuclear sector and possible future directions, 2021, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures
  • Hydrological Vulnerability Assessment of Riverine Bridges: The Bajo Grau Bridge Case Study, 2023, Water
  • Building national disaster resilience: assessment of ENSO-driven disasters in Peru, 2023, International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment

J. R. Booker often collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including Alain Jorge Espinoza Vigil, Sam Williamson, Joe Butchers, R. Bradford, and Biraj Gautam.

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as Preprints.org, Designs, Water, Development Engineering, and the AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum.

Best Publications

  • Barrier Systems for Waste Disposal Facilities

    J.R. Booker;Richard Brachman;R.M. Quigley;R. Kerry Rowe

  • Clayey Barrier Systems for Waste Disposal Facilities

    J.R. Booker;R.M. Quigley;R.K. Rowe

  • Cavity expansion in cohesive frictional soils

    J. P. Carter;J. R. Booker;S. K. Yeung

  • Surface settlements due to deformation of a tunnel in an elastic half plane

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  • Rapid inversion of two‐ and three‐dimensional magnetotelluric data

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  • Analysis of rigid rafts supported by granular piles

    N. P. Balaam;J. R. Booker

  • Onset of convection in a variable-viscosity fluid

    Karl C. Stengel;Dean S. Oliver;John R. Booker

  • The Magnetotelluric Phase Tensor: A Critical Review

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  • 1‐D Pollutant Migration in Soils of Finite Depth

    R K Rowe;J R Booker

  • An investigation of the stability of numerical solutions of Biot's equations of consolidation

    J.R. Booker;J.C. Small

  • Consolidation around a point heat source

    J. R. Booker;C. Savvidou

  • SHAKEDOWN OF PAVEMENTS UNDER MOVING SURFACE LOADS

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  • The analysis of finite elasto-plastic consolidation

    J. P. Carter;J. R. Booker;J. C. Small

  • Barrier Systems for Waste Disposal

    R Kerry Rowe;Robert M Quigley;Richard W I Brachman;John R Booker

  • Removal of singularities in tresca and mohr–coulomb yield functions

    S. W. Sloan;J. R. Booker

  • Thermal convection with strongly temperature-dependent viscosity

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  • Optimal one-dimensional inversion and bounding of magnetotelluric apparent resistivity and phase measurements

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  • Elasto-plastic consolidation of soil

    J.C. Small;J.R. Booker;E.H. Davis

  • A THEORY OF FINITE ELASTIC CONSOLIDATION

    J.P. Carter;J.C. Small;J.R. Booker

  • Elastic consolidation around a deep circular tunnel

    J.P. Carter;J.R. Booker

  • Effect of stone column yield on settlement of rigid foundations in stabilized clay

    N. P. Balaam;J. R. Booker

  • A method of computing the consolidation behaviour of layered soils using direct numerical inversion of Laplace transforms

    J. R. Booker;J. C. Small

  • Finite layer analysis of consolidation. I

    J. R. Booker;J. C. Small

  • Finite element analysis of coupled thermoelasticity

    J.P. Carter;J.R. Booker

  • The behaviour of an elastic non-homogeneous half-space. Part I-line and point loads

    J. R. Booker;N. P. Balaam;E. H. Davis

  • Consolidation around a spherical heat source

    J.R. Booker;C. Savvidou

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Carter
John P. Carter University of Newcastle Australia
R. Kerry Rowe
R. Kerry Rowe Queen's University
Ian D. Moore
Ian D. Moore Queen's University
Harry G. Poulos
Harry G. Poulos University of Sydney
Musharraf Zaman
Musharraf Zaman University of Oklahoma
Hai-Sui Yu
Hai-Sui Yu University of Leeds

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