Benoit Jones has just written a thesis with the title "
Stresses in Sprayed Concrete Tunnel Junctions". This
doctorate is being sponsored by
Mott MacDonald's tunnels division and the
EPSRC. Benoit has become a leading authority on stress measurement methods for sprayed concrete lined (SCL) tunnels, the New Austrian
Tunnelling Method (NATM), and numerical modelling of SCL tunnel junctions. His work on how the NATM should be applied
to soft ground is (slowly!) revolutionising the industry.
Benoit is a graduate member of the
Institution of Civil Engineers, an active member of the British Tunnelling Society and British Geotechnical Association, as well as a member of ITA-AITES,
ISSMGE and the ISRM.
Benoit read Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol and obtained a first class honours MEng. He spent the
third year in France at the Institut des Sciences et Techniques de Grenoble studying Geotechnical Engineering. It was there,
in the midst of the Alps, that he first developed his passions for both skiing and geotechnics.
