David Toll
BSc (Wales), DIC, PhD (London), MICE, CEng
School of Engineering
Durham University
Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
Tel: (+44/0) 191 334 2388
Fax: (+44/0) 191 334 2390
Email: davidtoll@geotechml.com
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David Toll is Chair of Joint Technical Committee 2 of the Federation of International Geo-Engineering Societies. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Durham University, UK.
His
research interests lie in the application of information technology in geotechnical engineering. He has been actively involved in developing a web-based
markup language for exchanging geotechnical data. He has carried out work on knowledge-based systems for the interpretation of site investigation data and design of foundations, using rule-based and case-based approaches.
He has developed the
TRIAX computer control system for stress path testing which is now in
use in research laboratories across the world. He was a partner
in the GeotechniCAL project, a major UK project to develop CAL
materials for the geotechnical engineering curriculum within civil
engineering BEng/MEng degrees.
He also carries out experimental research into the behaviour of
tropical and unsaturated soils, with applications relating to rainfall-induced landslides and low-volume road construction. This work has included testing of residual soils, laterites,
calcretes, pulverised fuel ash and artificially bonded
soils.
- Chair of a Joint Technical Committee JTC2 of ISSMGE, IAEG, ISRM on "Representation of Geo-Engineering Data in Electronic Form" (http://geotechml.com/JTC2.apsx)
- Member of IAEG Commission C18 on "Collapsible Soils" (1999-2006)
- Board
member, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geo-Mechanics
(IACMAG) (http://www.iacmag.org/)
- Member of Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists Data Format Committee and AGSML sub-committee (http://www.ags.org.uk/agsml)
- Member of Construction Industry Research and Information Association Working Group on Data Exchange Formats
- Research Supervisor for the European Research Training Network Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils for Engineering (MUSE) (http://muse.dur.ac.uk)
- Partner in the EPSRC funded project, Biological and Engineering Impacts of Climate Change on Slopes (BIONICS) (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/bionics)
- Member of the editorial board of the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
- Member of the editorial advisory board of Geotechnique (1997-1999)
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