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Andrew John Bond, MA MSc PhD DIC CEng MICE
Andrew Bond is a chartered civil engineer with over 25 years' experience
in the field of geotechnical engineering design, analysis, and research.
He has particular expertise in the behaviour of piled foundations and
retaining structures, the design and development of computer software,
all aspects of Eurocode 7, and the effective utilization of the Internet.
Andrew is a UK delegate on the Eurocode 7 committee, a former member of the UK's National Strategy Committee, and co-author of 'Decoding Eurocode 7' and the BSI's 'Extracts from the Structural Eurocodes for students of structural design'. He is a former editor of the Procedeedings of the ICE, 'Geotechnical Engineering'.
Andrew gained first class honours from Cambridge University in 1981, before working for WS Atkins and Partners on a variety of civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering projects. He obtained his MSc from Imperial College in 1984 and his PhD in 1989, for pioneering research into the behaviour of driven piles and design of the Imperial College Pile. He joined Geotechnical Consulting Group in 1989, becoming a Director in 1995. While at GCG, he developed the computer programs ReWaRD® (for embedded retaining wall design) and ReActiv® (for reinforced slope design).
Andrew set up his own company, Geocentrix, in 1999, for whom he has developed the pile design program Repute® and delivered a wide range of Eurocode training courses and lectures, both publically and privately. In 2006, he set up Geomantix (with Andrew Harris), to provide specialist geotechnical consultancy services.
Andrew has created several web sites, including
those for GCG, the International
Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, the British
Geotechnical Society, CIRIA's Safegrounds
Learning Network, and the Wheretogeo
website. He has over 15 years' experience of programming in C++, FORTRAN,
HTML, CFML, and XML. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Surrey University, where he has taught courses on software engineering, web technologies, and object-oriented programming with C++ to students on the degree course on entrepreneurship.
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Publications
Andrew Bond has written over two dozen articles, papers, and other publications covering all aspects of his work.
His research into displacement pile behaviour has produced a dozen publications, including two papers in Géotechnique (Bond & Jardine, 1991 & 1995) and two Offshore Technology Reports: Research on the behaviour of displacement piles in a high OCR clay (1990) and Design of piles in sand in the UK sector of the North Sea (1997).
His interest in the Internet involves him writing a regular column for Ground Engineering entitled "Where to geo on the World Wide Web" (1996-to date); and he is also known for his work on software validation, through the Association of Geotechnical Specialists' Guide to the validation and use of geotechnical software (1994) and the Institution of Structural Engineers ' Guidelines for the use of computers in engineering applications (2000).
Industry involvement
Dr Bond is Chairman of the Institution of Civil Engineers' Geotechnical Engineering Editorial Panel and is the Ground Board's representative on the Computer Applications & Methods Panel. He is also one of the UK's representatives on CEN TC250/SC7, the sub-committee responsible for the drafting of Eurocode 7.
Teaching
Andrew Bond is an invited Lecturer at Surrey University, where he teaches a course for final year students on Object-oreiented programming with UML, C++, and the STL. He regularly gives lectures at Kingston University on pile design and on occasion at other leading educational establishments, including Cambridge, Newcastle, and Southampton Universities and Imperial College, London.
Personal interests
Andrew Bond is happily married to his wife Jenny and has three children, aged 14-21. He played hockey for Epsom Hockey Club and coached the Under-11 to Under-16 Boys' and Girls' sides at Purley-Walcountians Hockey Club. He was an active member of Epsom Round Table, organizing the Epsom Fireworks Display in 1995 and serving as Chairman in 1996-1997.
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Chronology
Andrew Bond won an Entrance Exhibition to study engineering at Churchill College, Cambridge, from 1978-1981, where he obtained first class honours and an Honorary Scholarship.
From 1981-1983, he worked for WS Atkins & Partners on the design and construction of a large commercial development in Croydon and on the construction of the M25 Chertsey-Wisley Section. In 1983, he won the Atkins Scholarship to study for an MSc in Soil Mechanics at Imperial College, London, where he obtained a Distinction.
After the MSc course, Dr Bond worked for Atkins on the design of embedded retaining walls and tension piles for a deep excavation in central London; and on the design of temporary works for a 5m deep basement in Jersey. He designed the site investigation for a proposed nuclear power station in Wales and supervised a site investigation for the proposed extension to the M20 motorway. He qualified as a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1985.
In 1985 Dr Bond took up the post of Research Assistant at Imperial College, where he studied the behaviour of displacement piles in over consolidated clays. He designed and commissioned the Imperial College Instrumented Pile, which has been used at many sites in Britain and abroad. His research resulted in the publication of numerous papers and a Department of Energy Offshore Technology Report. He won the Unwin Prize in 1989 for the best PhD in civil engineering at Imperial College.
Andrew Bond joined the Geotechnical Consulting Group in 1989, where he was involved in the interpretation of site investigation data from five major sites in Britain, including the National Geotechnical Test-Bed Site at Bothkennar, in Scotland, and the Jubilee Line Extension in London. He was made an Associate Director of GCG in 1992. He won the American Society of Testing and Materials' Hogentogler Award in 1993 for the best paper to be published in an ASTM journal.
While at GCG, Dr Bond designed and wrote two commercial software programs: ReWaRD (for embedded retaining wall design - commissioned by British Steel plc) and ReActiv (for reinforced slope design - commissioned by the UK's Transport Research Laboratory). He was made a Director of GCG in 1995, taking responsibility for the company's IT and marketing strategies.
Dr Bond co-authored a report for the Health and Safety Executive on The design of piles in sand in the UK sector of the North Sea and directed a major study for Shell (UK) Exploration and Production into the thermal conductivity of sea-bed soils, involving a review of the literature and a finite element study of heat flow from buried pipelines.
His final project for GCG was the development of a program (Redoubt) for the design of foundations of low-rise buildings, in conjunction with the Building Research Establishment and supported by the UK's Department of Trade and Industry.
Andrew Bond left GCG in 1999 to form a new company, Geocentrix Ltd, to provide software and Internet solutions for geotechnical engineering problems.
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