Professor Peter Cleall
Professor - Civil Engineering
- cleall@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5795
- S/2.44, Queen's Buildings - South Building, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Professor of Geo-environmental Engineering and Head of Department of Civil Engineering (ACE). My research activities initially focused on the area of coupled flow and deformation behaviour in soils and have developed to encompass a number of areas in the subject of geoenvironmental and geotechnical engineering including ground energy, thermal fluxes and inter-seasonal heat storage, in-situ resource recovery from geological repositories and behaviour of modified soils. Work in these areas, supported by RCUK and industrial funding has developed a number of specific analytical and numerical models alongside an improved understanding of fundamental processes.
Biography
Honours and awards
- Telford Premium Prize 2021: "A reformulated hardening soil model" ICE Journal: Engineering and Computational Mechanics: 173(1):11–29;
- Awarded 2018 Indian Geotechnical Society IGS-AIMIL Biennial Award
- Teaching of the Year Award 2015/16 School of Engineering
- Teaching of the Year Award 2014/15 School of Engineering
- Secondment to Jacobs Engineering UK (2010-2011)
- Member of Géotechnique Advisory Panel (2010-2013)
- Member of Géotechnique Symposium in Print 2013 “Bio- and Chemomechanical Processes in Geotechnical Engineering” Advisory Sub-Committee
- Editorial Board member, Environmental Geotechnics (2013-2022)
- Advisory Board member, Environmental Geotechnics (2022->)
- MSc External Examiner Imperial College (2012-2016)
- Member of EPSRC Associate Peer Review College
- Management Committee Member of COST Action CA15115 Mining the European Anthroposphere
- Outstanding Reviewer in 2012, Computers and Geotechnics
- Expert reviewer for SKB, Sweden.
- Highly Commended Award for `The influence of drying conditions on convective drying of porous materials in two-stage drying`, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow 12(1):29-46
- Visiting Professor of Zhejiang University
Publications
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| Title | People | Sponsor | Value | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GESPERR - Geobatteries: energy storage in the pedosphere to enable the renewables revolution | Harbottle, M, Sapsford, D, Cleall, P, Weightman, A, Ugalde-Loo, C, | EPSRC | 251,979 |
01/10/2022 - 31/03/2024 |
| ASPIRE - Accelerated Supergene Processes in Repository Engineering | Sapsford, D, Cleall, P, Harbottle, M, Owen, N, Weightman, A | EPSRC | 592345 | 01/03/2021 - 29/02/2024 |
| To develop and market new state-of -the-art facilities in the finite element program LUSAS for soil-structure interaction problems | Jefferson A, Cleall PJ | TSB and FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS | 269368 | 01/07/2013 - 30/06/2016 |
| In Situ Recovery of Resources from Waste Repositories | Sapsford D, Griffiths A, Harbottle M, Mahdi T, Cleall P | NERC | 56803 | 01/04/2013 - 30/09/2013 |
| In situ recovery of resources from waste repositories | Sapsford D, Harbottle M, Cleall P, Mahdi T, Weightman A (BIOSI) | NERC | 671454 | 02/06/2014 - 01/06/2017 |
| Modelling of landfill gas migration | Dr PJ Cleall | Persimmon Homes (West Midlands) Ltd | 5467 | 25/11/2006 - 24/08/2007 |
| Response of pollutant chemistry, pathways and mobility to Short Rotation Forestry on brownfield Sites | Dr PJ Cleall, Dr MJ Harbottle | Forest Research | 27500 | 01/10/2010 - 30/09/2013 |
| Modelling pre-failure shear strain (solifluction) in freezing and thawing soil slopes | Prof HR Thomas, Dr PJ Cleal,l (with EARTH) | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | 192705 | 01/05/2005 - 30/04/2008 |
| 3D virtual reality platform for data analysis of large scale simulation for geoenvironmental problems | Prof HR Thomas, Dr PJ Cleall | Education and Learning Wales | 186548 | 01/12/2001 - 31/07/2002 |
| Co-ordination action on education and training in radiation protection and radioactive waste management [CETRAD] | Thomas HR, Cleall PJ | Commission of European Communities | 50394 | 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2005 |
| A land regeneration, industrial waste management and sustainable development network | Thomas HR, Cleall PJ, Owen DH | The National Assembly for Wales (European Regional Development Fund) | 235779 | 01/11/2002 - 31/10/2005 |
| SUE: Pollutants in the urban environment (PUrE)- scoping study | Thomas HR, Cleall PJ, (with University of Surrey) | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | 18497 | 01/01/2004 - 30/09/2004 |
| A land regeneration, Industrial management and sustainable development network | Thomas HR, Cleall PJ, Owen DH | The National Assembly for Wales (European Regional Development Fund) | 66412 | 14/10/2002 - 13/10/2004 |
| Land regeneration network | Thomas HR, Cleall PJ | Welsh Development Agency | 20000 | 01/11/2005 - 01/04/2006 |
| NF-PRO thermo-hyrdo-mechanical (geochemical) processes in the EBS (RTD3) | Thomas HR, Cleall PJ | Nirex Ltd | 26800 | 01/06/2004 - 31/12/2007 |
| Pollutants in the urban environments (PURE) | Thomas HR, Cleall PJ, (with University of Surrey) | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | 295131 | 01/04/2005 - 31/03/2009 |
| A land regeneration, industrial waste management and sustainable development network | Thomas HR, Cleall PJ, Owen DH | The National Assembly for Wales (European Regional Development Fund) | 156164 | 14/10/2002 - 13/10/2004 |
| Sixth International Conference of environmental geotechnics | Cleall P | Royal Academy of Engineering | 600 | 06/11/2010 - 12/11/2010 |
| Assessment of airport snow and ice management systems | Cleall P J | Jacobs Engineering | 1500 | 14/02/2012 - 13/03/2012 |
| Landfill gas modelling | Cleall PJ, Thomas HR | Persimmon Homes (West Midlands) Ltd | 18950 | 01/05/2003 - 01/05/2006 |
| Understanding and physical and numerical modelling of the key processes in the near-field, and their coupling, for different host rocks and repository strategies (NF-PRO) | Cleall PJ, Thomas HR | Commission of European Communities | 160800 | 01/01/2004 - 31/12/2007 |
Supervised Postgraduate Research Students (28)
Supervising
- Khaled Alshehri “Resource Recovery From Waste Repositories In A Circular Economy” Registered PhD student, Cardiff University
- Tianchi Wu “A Unified Microstructurally Based Constitutive Model Considering Stress-Strain And Water Retention Behaviours Of Unsaturated Soil” Registered PhD student, Cardiff University
- Evan Ricketts “Modelling hydrophobic soils” Registered PhD student, Cardiff University
- Priyanka Katta “Climate Adaptation Composite Barrier Systems In Urban Spaces For Mitigating Long-Term Climate Change Impacts” Registered PhD student, Cardiff University
- Ashley Patton “Investigating The Controls On The Spatio-Temporal Thermal Regime Of Urban Groundwater And Implications For Ground Source Heating And Cooling” Registered PhD student, Cardiff University
- Claudia Peppicelli “In situ processes in resource extraction from waste repositories” Registered PhD student, Cardiff University
- Steven Warwick “Methodologies for the prediction and evaluation of potential resources within landfills” Registered PhD student, Cardiff University
Graduated
- Steven Warwick “Methodologies for the prediction and evaluation of potential resources within landfills” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Syed Muaaz-Us-Salam “Enhanced Biodegradation of Model Lignocellulosic Wastes in Laboratory-Scale Bioreactors & Landfills” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Suhad Abdulsattar Hasan Almahbobi “Effects of wet-dry and freeze-thaw cycles on engineering behaviour of compacted soils-specialisation-civil engineering/geotechnical engineering” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Sahar Satar Abduljabar Al Khyat “Effective stress in unsaturated soils” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Yahya Hamza Jebur Karagoly “Stability of landfill lining systems” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Oniosun, SA 2018 “Long term phytoremediation of LNAPLs and residual oils in the vadose zone and capillary fringe” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Hassanein Jawad Mortada Mobarek 2018 “A numerical and experimental study of near surface ground energy systems including the use of adaptable insulation layers” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Osama Mahdi Abdul-Hussain Al Hussaini 2018 “Volume change behaviour of some geomaterials under combined influence of freeze-thaw and wet-dry cycles: An experimental investigation” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Khabeer Abdulameer Jaber Al Awad 2018 “The effect of biological exudates on the mechanical properties of granular soil” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Huw Mithan 2018 “Quantifying the dynamic response of permafrost and slope stability to a changing climate” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Brubeck Freeman 2017 “A Numerical and Experimental Investigation into Multi-Ionic Reactive Transport Behaviour in Cementitious Materials” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Tom Bower 2017 “Constitutive modelling of soils and fibre-reinforced soils” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Shang K 2016 “The simulation of water uptake by vegetation and its impact on slope stability using an image – based model of plant root architecture” Registered PhD student Cardiff University
- Muñoz Criollo J.J 2014 “An investigation of inter-seasonal near-surface ground heat transfer and storage” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Page, K 2014 “The application Organic Waste Materials as a nutrient source for Short Rotation Coppice” PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Vardon, P.J. 2009 “A three-dimensional numerical investigation of the thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of a large scale prototype repository”, PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Glendinning, M.C. 2007 “Modelling the freezing and thawing behaviour of saturated soils”, PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Singh, R.M. 2007 “An experimental and numerical investigation of heat and moisture movement in unsaturated clays”, PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Yean, T.C. 2005 "An investigation of the thermo/hydraulic/mechanical behaviour of large scale experiments – including parametric studies of various critical factors", PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Melhuish, T.A. 2004 "An investigation of the three-dimensional thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of large scale in-situ experiments", PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Seetharam, S.C. 2003 "An investigation of the thermo/hydro/chemical/ mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils", PhD Thesis, Cardiff University
- Mitchell, H.P. 2002. "A study of the thermo/hydraulic/mechanical behaviour of two large scale, in-situ experiments", PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Supervision
I am interesting in supervising PhDs involving the following areas:
- Modelling coupled processes in geoenvironmental and geotechnical engineering systems including:
- Ground energy
- Barrier systems
- Geological repositories
- Behaviour of modified soils.
- Unsaturated soil behaviour.
- Thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of porous materials.
- Freeze-thaw behaviour of soil.
Even if your idea is not precidely aligned to these areas - please get in touch - it may still be something I can supervise (or co-supervise with a colleague).
