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Susan Gourvenec is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within Engineering, with a significant focus on Civil and Structural Engineering. They have contributed extensively to subfields including Ocean Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of their scholarly work encompass Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures, and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization. Additional areas of research include Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis, Wave and Wind Energy Systems, Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies, and Coastal and Marine Management.

Frequent coauthors working with Susan Gourvenec include David White, Katherine Kwa, Benjamin Cerfontaine, Noor Laham, and Xiaowei Feng.

They have been published in several notable venues, with multiple publications appearing in Computers and Geotechnics, Ocean Engineering, and Géotechnique. Other common publication venues include the Symposium on Energy Geotechnics 2023 and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Susan Gourvenec include:

  • Global assessment of historical, current and forecast ocean energy infrastructure: Implications for marine space planning, sustainable design and end-of-engineered-life management, 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Anchor geotechnics for floating offshore wind: Current technologies and future innovations, 2023, Ocean Engineering
  • Offshore decommissioning horizon scan: Research priorities to support decision-making activities for oil and gas infrastructure, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Probabilistic failure envelopes of strip foundations on soils with non-stationary characteristics of undrained shear strength, 2021, Géotechnique
  • Episodic direct simple shear tests to measure changing strength for whole-life geotechnical design, 2020, Géotechnique Letters

Best Publications

  • Offshore Geotechnical Engineering

    Mark Randolph;Susan Gourvenec

  • Effect of strength non-homogeneity on the shape of failure envelopes for combined loading of strip and circular foundations on clay

    Susan Gourvenec;Mark Randolph

  • Challenges of offshore geotechnical engineering

    Mark Randolph;Mark Cassidy;Susan Gourvenec;Carl Erbrich

  • Effect of embedment on the undrained capacity of shallow foundations under general loading

    Susan Gourvenec

  • Recent advances in offshore geotechnics for deep water oil and gas developments

    Mark F. Randolph;Christophe Gaudin;Susan M. Gourvenec;David J. White

  • Undrained failure envelope for skirted foundations under general loading

    Susan Gourvenec;S. Barnett

  • Undrained Bearing Capacity of Square and Rectangular Footings

    Susan Gourvenec;Mark Randolph;Oliver Kingsnorth

  • Failure envelopes for offshore shallow foundations under general loading

    Susan Gourvenec

  • The undrained bearing capacity of a spudcan foundation under combined loading in soft clay

    Youhu Zhang;Britta Bienen;Mark J. Cassidy;Susan Gourvenec

  • Shape effects on the capacity of rectangular footings under general loading

    S. Gourvenec

  • A generalised failure envelope for undrained capacity of circular shallow foundations under general loading

    Cristina Vulpe;Susan Gourvenec;M Power

  • Design approach for rectangular mudmats under fully three-dimensional loading

    Xiaowei Feng;Mark Randolph;Susan Gourvenec;R. Wallerand

  • Three-dimensional finite-element analysis of diaphragm wall installation

    S. M. Gourvenec;W. Powrie

  • Inclined pull-out capacity of suction caissons

    Chairat Supachawarote;Mark Randolph;Susan Gourvenec

  • Consolidation beneath Circular Skirted Foundations

    Susan Gourvenec;Mark. F. Randolph

  • Undrained vertical bearing capacity factors for shallow foundations

    Susan M. Gourvenec;D. S. K. Mana

  • Critical Skirt Spacing for Shallow Foundations under General Loading

    Divya S. K. Mana;Susan Gourvenec;Christopher M. Martin

  • Experimental study of uplift resistance of shallow skirted foundations in clay under transient and sustained concentric loading

    Susan Gourvenec;Hugo Acosta-Martinez;Mark Randolph

  • Engineering and legal considerations for decommissioning of offshore oil and gas infrastructure in Australia

    John Chandler;David White;Erika J. Techera;Susan Gourvenec

  • Determining orthogonal and similar chromatographic systems from the injection of mixtures in liquid chromatography-diode array detection and the interpretation of correlation coefficients color maps.

    E Van Gyseghem;I Crosiers;S Gourvénec;D.L Massart

  • Undrained Bearing Capacity of Deeply Buried Flat Circular Footings under General Loading

    Youhu Zhang;Britta Bienen;Mark J. Cassidy;Susan Gourvenec

  • A method for predicting the consolidated undrained bearing capacity of shallow foundations

    Susan Gourvenec;Cristina Vulpe;T.G. Murthy

  • Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (IS-FOG 2005), 19-21 Sept 2005, Perth, WA, Australia

    Mark Cassidy;Susan Gourvenec

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Randolph
Mark Randolph University of Western Australia
Mark Cassidy
Mark Cassidy University of Melbourne
David White
David White University of Southampton
Conleth O'Loughlin
Conleth O'Loughlin University of Western Australia
Desire L. Massart
Desire L. Massart Vrije Universiteit Brussel
William Powrie
William Powrie University of Southampton
Robert J. Mair
Robert J. Mair University of Cambridge
Kenichi Soga
Kenichi Soga University of California, Berkeley
Malcolm D. Bolton
Malcolm D. Bolton University of Cambridge
Rasmus Bro
Rasmus Bro University of Copenhagen

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