Staff profile

Chapter in book

• Muguda, S., Lucas, G., Hughes, P., Augarde, C., Cuccurullo, A., Perlot, C., …Gallipoli, D. (2018). Advances in using biological stabilisers and hypercompaction for sustainable earthen construction materials. In Earthen Dwellings and Structures. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5883-8_17
• Stirling, R., Hughes, P., Davie, C., & Glendinning, S. (2014). Cyclic relationship between saturation and tensile strength in the near-surface zone of infrastructure embankments. In N. Khalili, A. Russell, & A. Khoshghalb (Eds.), Unsaturated soils : research and applications : proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2014 (1501-1505). CRC Press/Balkema. https://doi.org/10.1201/b17034-219
• Hen-Jones, R., Hughes, P., Glendinning, S., Gunn, D., Chambers, J., Wilkinson, P., & Uhlemann, S. (2014). Determination of moisture content and soil suction in engineered fills using electrical resistivity. In N. Khalili, A. Russell, & A. Khoshghalb (Eds.), Unsaturated soils : research and applications : proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2014 (1695-1699). CRC Press/Balkema. https://doi.org/10.1201/b17034-247
• Toll, D., Mendes, J., Gallipoli, D., Glendinning, S., & Hughes, P. (2012). Investigating the impacts of climate change on slopes: field measurements. In T. Radford (Ed.), EARTHWORKS IN EUROPE (151-161). https://doi.org/10.1144/egsp26.17

Conference Paper

• Hughes, P., Hen-Jones, R., Stirling, R., Glendinning, S., Gunn, D., Chambers, J., …Flesjo, K. (in press). Challenges in monitoring and managing engineered slopes in a changing climate. In P. Delage, Y. J. Cui, S. Ghabezloo, J. M. Pereira, & A. M. Tang (Eds.),
• Muguda, S., Lucas, G., Hughes, P., Augarde, C., Cuccurullo, A., Bruno, A. W., …Gallipoli, D. (2019). Advances in the Use of Biological Stabilisers and Hyper-compaction for Sustainable Earthen Construction Materials. In B. V. Reddy, M. Mani, & P. Walker (Eds.), Earthen dwellings and structures (191-201). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5883-8_17
• Muguda, S., Hughes, P., Augarde, C., Perlot, C., Bruno, A., & Gallipoli, D. (2019). Geotechnical characterisation of recycled biopolymer-stabilised earthen materials.
• Muguda, S., Booth, S., Hughes, P., Augarde, C., Perlot, C., Bruno, A., & Gallipoli, D. (2018). Preliminary study on use of biopolymers in earthen construction.
• Cuccurullo, A., Gallipoli, D., Bruno, A., La Borderie, C., Augarde, C., & Hughes, P. (2018). The effect of ambient humidity on the stiffness and strength of a hyper-compacted silty clay for earth building.
• Stirling, S., Helm, P., Glendinning, S., Asquith, J., Hughes, P., & Toll, D. (2017). Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure: the influence of asset aging through environmental cycling.
• Toll, D., Asquith, J., Hughes, P., & Osinski, P. (2016). Soil Water Retention Behaviour of a Sandy Clay Fill Material. . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.039
• Toll, D., Hughes, P., & Asquith, J. (2016). Soil water retention behaviour for an instrumented embankment. . https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20160910013
• Proceedings of the International Conference held in Nottingham, UK, 25-27 August 2008 (501-506). https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203885949.ch68
• Proceedings of the International Conference held in Nottingham, UK, 25-27 August 2008 (495-499). https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203885949.ch67
• Glendinning, S., Hughes, P., Hughes, D., Clarke, D., Smethurst, J., Powrie, W., …Mendes, J. (2008). Biological and engineering impacts of climate on slopes - learning from full-scale. In Z. Chen, J. M. Zhang, Z. K. Li, F. Q. Wu, & K. Ho (Eds.), Landslides and Engineered Slopes. From the Past to the Future. Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, 30 June - 4 July 2008, Xi'an, China (1553-1558). https://doi.org/10.1201/9780203885284-c211

Journal Article

• Dias, A. S., Hughes, P. N., & Toll, D. G. (2023). Soil–Water Retention Curve Prediction for Compacted London Clay Subjected to Moisture Cycles. Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-023-02706-z
• Dias, A. S., Hughes, P. N., Toll, D. G., & Glendinning, S. (2023). A simple method to determine soil–water retention curves of compacted active clays. Transportation Geotechnics, 43, 101138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2023.101138
• Wang, J., Hughes, P. N., & Augarde, C. E. (2023). Effects of fibre additions on the tensile strength and crack behaviour of unsaturated clay. Ground Improvement, 176(2), 108-120. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgrim.21.00006
• Wang, J., Hughes, P. N., & Augarde, C. E. (2023). Towards a predictive model of the shear strength behaviour of fibre reinforced clay. European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1080/19648189.2023.2214596
• Cuccurullo, A., Gallipoli, D., Bruno, A., Augarde, C., Hughes, P., & La Borderie, C. (2022). Earth stabilisation via carbonate precipitation by plant-derived urease for building applications. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 30, Article 100230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2020.100230
• Muguda, S., Hughes, P., Augarde, C., Perlot, C., Bruno, A., & Gallipoli, D. (2022). Cross-linking of biopolymers for stabilising earthen construction materials. Building Research and Information, 50(5), 502-514. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2021.2001304
• Stirling, R., Toll, D., Glendinning, S., Helm, P., Yildiz, A., Hughes, P., & Asquith, J. (2021). Weather-driven deterioration processes affecting the performance of embankment slopes. Géotechnique, 71(11), 957-969. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.19.sip.038
• Cuccurullo, A., Gallipoli, D., Bruno, A., Augarde, C., Hughes, P., & La Borderie, C. (2021). A comparative study of the effects of particle grading and compaction effort on the strength and stiffness of earth building materials at different humidity levels. Construction and Building Materials, 306, Article 124770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.124770
• Cuccurullo, A., Gallipoli, D., Bruno, A. W., Augarde, C., Hughes, P., & La Borderie, C. (2020). Influence of particle grading on the hygromechanical properties of hypercompacted earth. Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation, 5(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41024-019-0066-4
• Muguda, S., Lucas, G., Hughes, P., Augarde, C., Perlot, C., Bruno, A., & Gallipoli, D. (2020). Durability and hygroscopic behaviour of biopolymer stabilised earthen construction materials. Construction and Building Materials, 259, Article 119725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.119725
• Davis, C., Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Kunwar, R., Forlin, P., Weise, K., …Schmidt, A. (2020). Identifying archaeological evidence of past earthquakes in a contemporary disaster scenario: Case-studies of damage, resilience and risk reduction from the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and past seismic events within the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal). Journal of Seismology, 24(4), 729-751. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09890-7
• Kumar, A., Hughes, P. N., Sarhosis, V., Toll, D., Wilkinson, S., Coningham, R., …Maskey, P. N. (2020). Experimental, numerical and field study investigating a heritage structure collapse after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Natural Hazards, 101(1), 231-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-03871-7
• Sargent, P., Rouainia, M., Diambra, C., Nash, D., & Hughes, P. (2020). Small to large strain mechanical behaviour of an alluvium stabilised with low carbon secondary minerals. Construction and Building Materials, 232, Article 117174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.117174
• Dixon, N., Crosby, C., Stirling, R., Hughes, P., Smethurst, J., Briggs, K., …Hudson, A. (2019). In situ measurements of near-surface hydraulic conductivity in engineered clay slopes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 52(1), 23-135. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2017-059
• Dawson, R. J., Thompson, D., Johns, D., Wood, R., Darch, G., Chapman, L., …Hall, J. W. (2018). A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2121), Article 20170298. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0298
• Tang, A., Hughes, P., Dijkstra, T., Askarinejad, A., Brenčič, M., Cui, Y., …Van Beek, V. (2018). Atmosphere–vegetation–soil interactions in a climate change context; impact of changing conditions on engineered transport infrastructure slopes in Europe. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 51(2), 156-168. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2017-103
• Muguda, S., Booth, S. J., Hughes, P. N., Augarde, C. E., Perlot, C., Bruno, A. W., & Gallipoli, D. (2017). Mechanical properties of biopolymer-stabilised soil-based construction materials. Géotechnique Letters, 7(4), 309-314. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgele.17.00081
• Smethurst, J., Smith, A., Uhlemann, S., Wooff, C., Chambers, J., Hughes, P., …Hughes, D. (2017). Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(3), 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2016-080
• Hen-Jones, R., Hughes, P., Stirling, R., Glendinning, S., Chambers, J., Gunn, D., & Cui, Y. (2017). Seasonal effects on geophysical-geotechnical relationships and their implications for Electrical Resistivity Tomography monitoring of slopes. Acta Geotechnica, 12(5), 1159-1173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-017-0523-7
• Sargent, P., Hughes, P., & Rouainia, M. (2016). A new low carbon cementitious binder for stabilising weak ground conditions through deep soil mixing. Soils and Foundations, 56(6), 1021-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sandf.2016.11.007
• Gunn, D., Chambers, J., Uhlemann, S., Wilkinson, P., Meldrum, P., Dijkstra, T., …Glendinning, S. (2015). Moisture monitoring in clay embankments using electrical resistivity tomography. Construction and Building Materials, 92, 82-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.06.007
• Stirling, R., Hughes, P., Davie, C., & Glendinning, S. (2015). Tensile behaviour of unsaturated compacted clay soils — A direct assessment method. Applied Clay Science, 112-113, 123-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2015.04.011
• Glendinning, S., Hughes, P., Helm, P., Chambers, J., Mendes, J., Gunn, D., …Uhlemann, S. (2014). Construction, management and maintenance of embankments used for road and rail infrastructure: implications of weather induced pore water pressures. Acta Geotechnica, 9(5), 799-816. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-014-0324-1
• Sargent, P., Hughes, P., Rouainia, M., & White, M. (2013). The use of alkali activated waste binders in enhancing the mechanical properties and durability of soft alluvial soils. Engineering Geology, 152(1), 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2012.10.013
• Hughes, P., N, G., S, M., D, A., C, W., & M, L. (2011). Use of red gypsum in soil mixing engineering applications. Geotechnical Engineering, 164(3), 223-234. https://doi.org/10.1680/geng.10.00061
• Hughes, P., Glendinning, S., Manning, D., & Noble, B. (2010). Production of `green' concrete using red gypsum and waste. Engineering Sustainability, 163(3), 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2010.163.3.137
• Glendinning, S., Loveridge, F., Starr-Keddle, R., Bransby, M., & Hughes, P. (2009). Role of vegetation in sustainability of infrastructure slopes. Engineering Sustainability, 162(2), 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2009.162.2.101
• Kilsby, C., Glendinning, S., Hughes, P., Parkin, G., & Bransby, M. (2009). Climate-change impacts on long-term performance of slopes. Engineering Sustainability, 162(2), 59-66. https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2009.162.2.59
• Hughes, P., Glendinning, S., Mendes, J., Parkin, G., Toll, D., Gallipoli, D., & Miller, P. (2009). Full-scale testing to assess climate effects on embankments. Engineering Sustainability, 162(2), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.1680/ensu.2009.162.2.67