Dr Jerry Love
Dr Jerry Love is a chartered civil engineer with over 40 years experience in practice both in the UK and overseas. His area of expertise includes ground investigation, earthworks, slope stability, embankments, roads, excavations, subsidence, drainage, soft soil, foundations, piling, ground improvement, basements, retaining walls, underpinning, grouting, sinkholes, railways, pipelines, tunnelling, soil nailing, reinforced soil, horizontal directional drilling, and tree root damage.
He has frequently been retained as an Expert in disputes and has given evidence in Court both in England and Scotland, as well as overseas.
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- Love, J. P. (1984). Model testing of geogrids in unpaved roads, D.Phil Thesis, Oxford University.
- Milligan, G. W. E and Love, J. P. (1984). Model testing of geogrids under an aggregate layer on soft ground, Proc. Symp. Polymer Grid Reinforcement in Civil Engineering, ICE, London.
- Love, J. P. (1984). Current British research in reinforced earth with grids, Ground Engineering, April, 1984
- Love, J. P. (1986). Third International Conference on Geotextiles, Vienna, Ground Engineering, July, 1986.
- Love, J. P., Burd, H. J., Milligan, G. W. E. and Houlsby, G. T. (1987). Analytical and model studies of reinforcement of a layer of granular fill on a soft clay subgrade, Can. Geotech. Jnl, 24, 611-22.
- Palmer, A., Konuk, I., Love, J. P., Been, K. and Comfort, G. (1989). Ice Scour Mechanisms, Procs. POAC 89, 10th Int. Conf. on Port and Ocean Eng. under Arctic Conditions, Luleå, 1, 123 – 132.
- Love, J. P. (1989). Discussion – Steep Embankments, Proc. Symp. Reinforced Embankments Theory and Practice, Cambridge, Sep, 1989, Thomas Telford.
- Stallerbrass, S. E., Springman, S. M. and Love, J. P. (1992). Recollections from the Wroth Memorial Symposium: Predictive Soil Mechanics, Proc. Wroth Memorial Symp, Oxford, July, 1992, Thomas Telford.
- Burland, J. B., French, D. and Love, J. P. (1992). Field trials of a novel piling system – The Wedge Pile, Proc. Conf. Piling Europe, ICE, London.
- Harris, D. I., Mair, R. J., Love, J. P., Taylor, R. N. and Henderson, T. O. (1994). Observations of ground and structure movements for compensation grouting during tunnel construction at Waterloo station. Géotechnique Vol 44, No 4, Dec, 691 – 714.
- Mair, R. J., Harris, D. I., Love, J. P., Blakey, D. and Kettle, C. (1994). Compensation grouting to limit settlements during tunnelling at Waterloo Station, Tunnelling ’94, ICE, London.
- Design methods for the reinforcement of highway slopes by reinforced soil and soil nailing techniques, HA 68/94, Design Manual for Roads and Bridges, HMSO, Feb, 1994.
- Love, J. P. (1995). Reinforced soil and soil nailing for slopes, Proc. Symp. Practice of Soil Reinforcing in Europe, ICE, May, 1995, Thomas Telford.
- Love, J. P. (1995). Parameters for Design – Session report, Conf. Advances in Site Investigation Practice, ICE, March, 1995.
- Love, J. P. and Milligan, G. W. E. (1995). Reinforced soil and soil nailing for slopes – Advice Note HA 68/94, Ground Engineering, May, 1995.
- Love, J. P. (2003). The use of settlement reducing piles to support a flexible raft structure in West London. Proc. Conf. Foundations: Innovations, Observations, Design and Practice. Dundee. Thomas Telford, London.
- Love, J. P. and Milligan, G. W. E. (2003). Design methods for basally reinforced pile-supported embankments over soft ground. Ground Engineering, March, 2003.
- Love, J. P. (2003). Use of settlement reducing piles to support a raft structure. Procs. ICE. Geotechnical Engineering 156. October 2003. Issue GE4, pp177-181
Areas of expertise
- Ground investigation
- Earthwork
- Excavations and retaining walls
- Subsidence
- Drainage
- Soft soil
- Foundations
- Ground improvement
- Basements and retaining walls
- Underpinning
- Grouting
- Tunnelling
- Soil nailing
- Reinforced soil
- Horizontal directional drilling
- Tree root damage
- Forensic investigations
- Expert witness