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. (2003). Use of settlement reducing piles to support a raft structure. Procs. ICE. Geotechnical Engineering 156. October 2003. Issue GE4, pp177-181
- 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). 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. (1995). Reinforced soil and soil nailing for slopes – Advice Note HA 68/94, Ground Engineering, May, 1995.
- Love, J. P. (1995). Parameters for Design – Session report, Conf. Advances in Site Investigation Practice, ICE, March, 1995.
- Love, J. P. (1995). Reinforced soil and soil nailing for slopes, Proc. Symp. Practice of Soil Reinforcing in Europe, ICE, May, 1995, Thomas Telford.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Love, J. P. (1989). Discussion – Steep Embankments, Proc. Symp. Reinforced Embankments Theory and Practice, Cambridge, Sep, 1989, Thomas Telford.
- 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., 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.
- Love, J. P. (1986). Third International Conference on Geotextiles, Vienna, Ground Engineering, July, 1986.
- Love, J. P. (1984). Current British research in reinforced earth with grids, Ground Engineering, April, 1984
- 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). Model testing of geogrids in unpaved roads, D.Phil Thesis, Oxford University.
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