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Dr Philip Smith

Phil Smith

Dr Smith is a geotechnical engineer with 27 years of experience, including in research as well as practical industry applications. He has particular experience and expertise in site investigation, including for geotechnical and geoenvironmental aspects.

Dr Smith is also particularly experienced in dealing with issues related basement and subsurface construction, and the effects this can have on existing structures. He also has a specific interest in UXO risk assessment.

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  1. AGS/ICE (2024/2025: In preparation). Effective Ground Investigation Procurement. Association of Geotechnical Specialists (AGS) / ICE Publishing (Member of the working group).
  2. Smith, P. (2023). Chapter 42: Geotechnical reporting, in ICE Manual of Geotechnical Engineering 2nd Edition. ICE Publishing (Emerald Publishing).
  3. Smith, P. (2023). Chapter 43: Geotechnical reporting, in ICE Manual of Geotechnical Engineering 2nd Edition. ICE Publishing (Emerald Publishing).
  4. Smith, P. (2023). Chapter 50: Geotechnical reporting, in ICE Manual of Geotechnical Engineering 2nd Edition. ICE Publishing (Emerald Publishing).
  5. AGS/ICE (2022). UK Specification for Ground Investigation, 3rd Edition. Association of Geotechnical Specialists (AGS) / ICE Publishing (Member of the working group).
  6. Menkiti, C, Smith, P & Black, M (2022). Pore pressure monitoring for underground infrastructure: lessons from large-scale field trials for Crossrail. 11th International Symposium on Field Monitoring in Geomechanics. Organised by ISSMGE, Imperial College, London
  7. Higgins, K, Smith, P. G. C. & Gasparre, A. (2017). Domestic Basements in ‘Geotechnical issues in construction: short paper series and sixth conference held on 2 March 2015, at CIRIA, London” CIRIA X533, 2017.
  8. Tsiampousi, A., Smith, P. G. C. & Potts, D. M. (2017). Coupled consolidation in unsaturated soils: From a conceptual model to applications in boundary value problems. Computers and geotechnics 84(2017) 256-277.
  9. Tsiampousi, A., Smith, P. G. C. & Potts, D. M. (2017). Coupled consolidation in unsaturated soils: An alternative approach to derive the Governing Equations. Computers and geotechnics 84(2017) 238-255.
  10. Cabarkapa, Z. & Smith, P. G. C. (2016) Foundation design and construction for store in Zagreb, Croatia. ICE Proceedings. Geotechnical Engineering, Vol 169, GE4, pp346-354.
  11. Smith, P. G. C., Lawrence, U., Terry, S. & Cooke, S. (2013). Unexploded ordnance risk assessment on Crossrail project in London – pre-empting best practice. ICE proceedings, Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 166, GE4, pp333-342, and re-published in ‘Crossrail Project: Infrastructure design and construction’ Volume 1, 2015, ICE publishing/Crossrail.
  12. Scholes, H. & Smith, P. G. C. (2012). Chapter 50: Geotechnical reporting, in ICE Manual of Geotechnical Engineering. ICE Publishing (Thomas Telford Ltd).
  13. Smith, P. G. C., Potts, D. M. & Addenbrooke, T. I. (2008). A precipitation boundary condition for finite element analysis, Unsaturated Soils: Advances in Geo-Engineering. Proceedings of the First European Conference on Unsaturated Soils, E-UNSAT 2008, Durham, UK (ed. Toll, D.G., Augarde, C.E., Gallipoli, D. & Wheeler, S.J.). CRC Press, pp. 773-778.
  14. Smith, P. G. C. (2003). Numerical analysis of infiltration into partially saturated soil slopes. Ph.D Thesis, University of London (Imperial College), 397pp.
  15. Smith, P. G. C., Addenbrooke, T. I. & Potts, D. M. (2002) Coupled finite element analysis of infiltration into unsaturated soils, Unsaturated Soils. Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Unsaturated Soils (UNSAT 2002), Recife, Brazil (ed. Jucá, J.F.T., de Campos, T.M.P. and Marinho, F.A.M.), Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, Vol. 1, pp. 3-8.
  16. Smith, P. G. C. (1995). Gas generation and its effects on the stability of sewage sludge tips. M.Sc. dissertation, Univ. of London (Imperial College).

Areas of expertise

  • Site investigations
  • Geotechnical & geoenvironmental characterisation
  • Substructures
  • Ground movement impact assessments
  • UXO risk assessment
  • Forensic investigations
  • Expert witness
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