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> NOTICE OF MEETING
>
> The 6th Ordinary Meeting of the 2001/2002 session will be held on Monday 4
> March 2002 at 7p.m. in the HAWORTH BUILDING, the University of Birmingham
> B15 2TT.
>
> Subject:      Not a lot of people know that!
>
> Speakers:     Professor E. N. Bromhead
>
> Synopsis:     The lecture covers a number of topics of interest to people
> undertaking routine and non-routine slope stability analysis in connection
> with pre-existing landslides. It gives a number of useful labour-saving
> hints, and points out a few subtleties in slope stability analysis that
> are not as well known as they deserve to be - hence one of the two
> justifications for its title. The primary elements of the lecture include:
>
> *     What every engineer needs to know about stability analysis
> *     Bedding control on slip surface shape, grabens and counter-scarps
> *     Why people create landslides - the water balance in landslide
> systems
> *     3D slope stability analysis - when and where this is useful
>
> Biography:
>
> Eddie Bromhead went to 11 schools (he can only remember 10 - and none were
> "approved") and started his first degree with the words "Bromhead, you'll
> never do anything academically" ringing in his ears from one of them. At
> Kingston since 1973, and with no remission in sight for good conduct, he
> looks likely to fulfill the prophecy. He has been a Professor since 1989.
>
> He received his first degree in Civil Engineering at Portsmouth, his MSc
> in Soil Mechanics at Imperial, and having started lecturing at Kingston,
> took a PhD from Imperial College (almost without them noticing) on a
> part-time basis. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Fellow of the
> Geological Society, a Member of BGA and the UK's rep on ISSMGE's Technical
> Committee TC11 dealing with landslides. He brought the millennium year 8th
> International Symposium on Landslides to Cardiff, and led the Organisation
> there.
>
> In Bromhead's career, he has been fortunate enough to work with some of
> the all-time greats, and to work with a number of first-rate geotechnical
> engineers, engineering geologists and geomorphologists whose excellence
> has never been recognised, but whose influence is considerable. He has not
> forgotten them.
>
> He has written numerous papers, some books, and edited Conference
> Proceedings. On occasion, his papers have won prizes from a Cooling Prize
> in 1972 to the BGS Prize in 1998.
>
> He consults widely on landslide problems, and has worked in numerous
> countries in Europe and Asia.
>
> He has been a speaker twice before at the MGS.
>
> Members and visitors should aim to arrive between 6 p.m. and 6.15 p.m. and
> park their cars in a perimeter car park. Normal refreshments (bread, pate,
> cheese and coffee) will be available in the main bar of Staff House before
> the meeting. At about 6.45 p.m. members should walk across to the Haworth
> Chemistry Building.
>
> Honorary Secretary:   Jeff Mosforth
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