Staff profile

• Sustainable Infrastructure

• Seismic Safety and Kathmandu’s Historic Urban Infrastructure

• 2018: Achillies(£551677.63 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
• 2018: Biopolymer treatment for stabilisation of transport infrastructure slopes(£218231.60 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
• 2017: Reducing Disaster Risk to Life and Livelihoods by Evaluating the Seismic Safety of Kathmandu's Historic Urban Infrastructure(£109301.00 from The British Academy)
• 2015: Rooting for sustainable performance(£2380.00 from Epsrc)

Chapter in book

• Muguda,S, Lucas,G, Hughes,P.N, Augarde,C.E, Cuccurullo,A, Perlot,C, Bruno,A.W & 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.
• Hen-Jones, R.M., Hughes, P.N., Glendinning, S., Gunn, D.A., Chambers, J.C., Wilkinson, P.B. & Uhlemann, S. (2014). Determination of moisture content and soil suction in engineered fills using electrical resistivity. In Unsaturated soils: research & applications: proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2014. Khalili, N., Russell, A.R. & Khoshghalb, A. London: CRC Press/Balkema. 1695-1699.
• Stirling, R.A., Hughes, P.N., Davie, C.T. & Glendinning, S. (2014). Cyclic relationship between saturation and tensile strength in the near-surface zone of infrastructure embankments. In Unsaturated soils: research & applications: proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, UNSAT 2014, Sydney, Australia, 2-4 July 2014. Khalili, N., Russell, A.R. & Khoshghalb, A. London: CRC Press/Balkema. 1501-1505.
• Toll, D. G., Mendes, J., Gallipoli, D., Glendinning, S. & Hughes, P. N. (2012). Investigating the impacts of climate change on slopes: field measurements. In EARTHWORKS IN EUROPE. Radford, TA 26: 151-161.

Conference Paper

• Muguda, S,, Hughes, P.N, Augarde, C.E, Perlot, C, Bruno, A.W, & Gallipoli, D, (2019), Geotechnical characterisation of recycled biopolymer-stabilised earthen materials, The XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Reykjavik Iceland.
• Muguda,S, Booth,S, Hughes, P.N, Augarde,C.E, Perlot,C, Bruno,A.W & Gallipoli,D (2018), Preliminary study on use of biopolymers in earthen construction, 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils. Hong Kong, China.
• Cuccurullo, A, Gallipoli, D, Bruno, AW, La Borderie, C, Augarde, CE & Hughes, PN (2018), The effect of ambient humidity on the stiffness and strength of a hyper-compacted silty clay for earth building, 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils. Hong Kong, China.
• Muguda, Sravan, Lucas, George, Hughes, Paul, Augarde, Charles, Cuccurullo, Alessia, Bruno, Agostino Walter, Perlot, Celine & Gallipoli, Domenico (2018), Advances in the Use of Biological Stabilisers and Hyper-compaction for Sustainable Earthen Construction Materials, in Reddy, B. V. Venkatarama Mani, Monto & Walker, Pete eds, Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering book series (STICEE) International Symposium on Earthen Structures 2018 (ISES2018). Bangalore, India, Springer, Singapore, 191-201.
• Toll, D.G., Asquith, J.D., Hughes, P.N. & Osinski, P. (2016), Soil Water Retention Behaviour of a Sandy Clay Fill Material, 143: 3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics. Guimarães, Portugal, 308.
• Toll, D.G., Hughes, P.N. & Asquith, J.D. (2016), Soil water retention behaviour for an instrumented embankment, 9: 3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils. Paris, 10013.
• Hughes, P N, Hen-Jones, R M, Stirling, R A, Glendinning, S, Gunn, D G, Chambers, J E, Dijkstra, T A, Smethurst, J & Flesjo, K (2016), Challenges in monitoring and managing engineered slopes in a changing climate, in Delage, P Cui, Y J, Ghabezloo, S, Pereira, J M & Tang, A M eds, 3rd European conference on unsaturated soils. Paris, ES3 Web of conferences.
• Hughes, P. N., Glendinning, S., Dixon, N., Dijkstra, T. A., Clarke, D., Smethurst, J., Powrie, W., Toll, D. G., Mendes, J. & Hughes, D. A. B. (2008), Field testing and modelling the effects of climate on geotechnical infrastructure - A collaborative approach, in Ellis, E., Yu, H.S., McDowell, G., Dawson, A. & Thom, N. eds, Advances in Transportation Geotechnics. Nottingham, CRC Press, London, 501-506.
• Glendinning, S., Hughes, P. N., Hughes, D. A. B., Clarke, D., Smethurst, J., Powrie, W., Dixon, N., Dijkstra, T. A., Toll, D. G. & Mendes, J. (2008), Biological and engineering impacts of climate on slopes - learning from full-scale, in Chen, Z., Zhang, J.M., Li, Z.K., Wu, F.Q. & Ho, K. eds, 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Xi'an, China, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1553-1558.
• Hughes, P. N., Glendinning, S., Davies, O. & Mendes, J. (2008), Construction and monitoring of a test embankment for evaluation of the impacts of climate change on UK transport infrastructure, in Ellis, E., Yu, H.S., McDowell, G., Dawson, A. & Thom, N. eds, Advances in Transportation Geotechnics. Nottingham, CRC Press, London, 495-499.

Journal Article

• Wang, Jianye, Hughes, Paul N. & Augarde, Charles E. (2022). Effects of fibre additions on the tensile strength and crack behaviour of unsaturated clay. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Ground Improvement
• Muguda, S., Hughes, P.N., Augarde, C.E., Perlot, C., Bruno, A.W. & Gallipoli, D. (2022). Cross-linking of biopolymers for stabilising earthen construction materials. Building Research and Information 50(5): 502-514.
• Cuccurullo, A., Gallipoli, D., Bruno, A.W., 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: 100230.
• Cuccurullo, A., Gallipoli, D., Bruno, A.W., 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: 124770.
• Stirling, R. A., Toll, D. G., Glendinning, S., Helm, P. R., Yildiz, A., Hughes, P. N. & Asquith, J. D. (2021). Weather-driven deterioration processes affecting the performance of embankment slopes. Géotechnique 71(11): 957-969.
• Muguda, S., Lucas, G., Hughes, P.N., Augarde, C.E., Perlot, C., Bruno, A.W. & Gallipoli, D. (2020). Durability and hygroscopic behaviour of biopolymer stabilised earthen construction materials. Construction and Building Materials 259: 119725.
• Kumar, Ashutosh, Hughes, Paul N., Sarhosis, Vasilis, Toll, David, Wilkinson, Sean, Coningham, Robin, Acharya, Kosh Prasad, Weise, Kai, Joshi, Annie, Davis, Christopher, Kunwar, Ram Bahadur & Maskey, Prem Nath (2020). Experimental, numerical and field study investigating a heritage structure collapse after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Natural Hazards 101(1): 231-253.
• Cuccurullo, Alessia, Gallipoli, Domenico, Bruno, Agostino Walter, Augarde, Charles, Hughes, Paul & La Borderie, Christian (2020). Influence of particle grading on the hygromechanical properties of hypercompacted earth. Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation 5(1): 2.
• Sargent, P., Rouainia, M., Diambra, C., Nash, D. & Hughes, P.N. (2020). Small to large strain mechanical behaviour of an alluvium stabilised with low carbon secondary minerals. Construction and Building Materials 232: 117174.
• Davis, C.E., Coningham, R.A.E., Acharya, K.P., Kunwar, R.B., Forlin, P., Weise, K., Maskey, P.N., Joshi, A., Simpson, I.A., Toll, D., Wilkinson, S., Hughes, P., Sarhosis, V., Kumar, A. & 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.
• Dixon, N., Crosby, C.J., Stirling, R., Hughes, P.N., Smethurst, J., Briggs, K., Hughes, D., Gunn, D., Hobbs, P., Loveridge, F., Glendinning, S., Dijkstra, T. & Hudson, A. (2019). In situ measurements of near-surface hydraulic conductivity in engineered clay slopes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 52(1): 123-135.
• Dawson, Richard J., Thompson, David, Johns, Daniel, Wood, Ruth, Darch, Geoff, Chapman, Lee, Hughes, Paul N., Watson, Geoff V. R., Paulson, Kevin, Bell, Sarah, Gosling, Simon N., Powrie, William & Hall, Jim 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): 20170298.
• Tang, A. M., Hughes, P. N., Dijkstra, T. A., Askarinejad, A., Brenčič, M., Cui, Y. J., Diez, J. J., Firgi, T., Gajewska, B., Gentile, F., Grossi, G., Jommi, C., Kehagia, F., Koda, E., ter Maat, H. W., Lenart, S., Lourenco, S., Oliveira, M., Osinski, P., Springman, S. M., Stirling, R., Toll, D. G. & 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.
• Muguda, Sravan, Booth, Samuel John, Hughes, Paul Neil, Augarde, Charles Edward, Perlot, Celine, Bruno, Agostino Walter & Gallipoli, Domenico (2017). Mechanical properties of biopolymer-stabilised soil-based construction materials. Géotechnique Letters 7(4): 309-314.
• Smethurst, J. A., Smith, A., Uhlemann, S., Wooff, C., Chambers, J., Hughes, P. N., Lenart, S., Saroglou, H., Springman, S. M., Löfroth, H. & 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.
• Hen-Jones, R. M., Hughes, P. N., Stirling, R. A., Glendinning, S., Chambers, J. E., Gunn, D. A. & Cui, Y.J. (2017). Seasonal effects on geophysical-geotechnical relationships and their implications for Electrical Resistivity Tomography monitoring of slopes. Acta Geotechnica 12(5): 1159-1173.
• Sargent, P., Hughes, P. N. & 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.
• Stirling, R. A., Hughes, P. N., Davie, C. T. & Glendinning, S. (2015). Tensile behaviour of unsaturated compacted clay soils — A direct assessment method. Applied Clay Science 112-113: 123-133.
• Gunn, D.A., Chambers, J.E., Uhlemann, S., Wilkinson, P.B., Meldrum, P.I., Dijkstra, T.A., Haslam, E., Kirkham, M., Wragg, J., Holyoake, S., Hughes, P.N., Hen-Jones, R. & Glendinning, S. (2015). Moisture monitoring in clay embankments using electrical resistivity tomography. Construction and Building Materials 92: 82-94.
• Glendinning, S., Hughes, P.N., Helm, P., Chambers, J., Mendes, J., Gunn, D., Wilkinson, P. & 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.
• Sargent, P., Hughes, P. N., Rouainia, M. & White, M. L. (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.
• Hughes, P, N,, Glendinning, S,, Manning, D, A, C, & White, M, L, (2011). Use of red gypsum in soil mixing engineering applications. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 164(3): 223-234.
• Hughes, P. N., Glendinning, S., Manning, D. A. C. & Noble, B. C. (2010). Production of `green' concrete using red gypsum and waste. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY 163(3): 137-146.
• Glendinning, S., Loveridge, F., Starr-Keddle, R. E., Bransby, M. F. & Hughes, P. N. (2009). Role of vegetation in sustainability of infrastructure slopes. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY 162(2): 101-110.
• Kilsby, C., Glendinning, S., Hughes, P. N., Parkin, G. & Bransby, M. F. (2009). Climate-change impacts on long-term performance of slopes. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY 162(2): 59-66.
• Hughes, P.N., Glendinning, S., Mendes, J., Parkin, G., Toll, D.G., Gallipoli, D. & Miller, P. (2009). Full-scale testing to assess climate effects on embankments. Engineering Sustainability: Proc. Institution of Civil Engineers 162(2): 67-79.