| Authorised form of name | Schofield; Andrew Noel (1930-2025); geotechnical engineer |
| Dates | 1930-2025 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 01 November 1930 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 27 January 2025 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Funeral service at St. Mary's Church, Great Shelford (17th March 2025) |
| Occupation | Geotechnical engineer |
| Research field | Materials Science |
| Civil engineering |
| Soil science |
| Environmental sciences |
| Engineering |
| Activity | Education: Christs College Cambridge BA (1951); PhD
Career:
Civil engineer in Nyasaland Protectorate, Africa (now Malawi) office of Scott and Wilson Limited (1951-1954); returned to Cambridge as a research student; Assistant Lecturer (1961); elected Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge (1963); chair at the Institute of Science and Technology in Manchester (1968-1974); returned to Cambridge and was appointed a Professor of Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (1974-1997); Emeritus Professor of Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (1998).
Memberships:
Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
Awards/Medals:
US Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award 1979
20th Rankine Lecture 1980
James Alfred Ewing Gold Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers 1993 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 12/03/1992 |
| Age at election | 61 |
| Relationships | Parents: Reverend John Noel Schofield and Winifred Jane Mary Eyles.
Spouse: (m. 1961) Margaret Green. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 6566 |
| OtherInfo | In 1954, developed novel air-photo analyses that located low cost road pavement materials in Malawi.
In 1958 he originated Critical-State Soil-Mechanics and in 1963 the Cam-clay model in the theory of plasticity (it combined Drucker's plastic stability criterion with a dissipation function for a water saturated aggregate of soil grains held together by effective forces at grain contacts to predict plastic volume and shear deformation of granular media).
In UMIST his calculation of costs and benefits of Thames tidal flood prevention (Nature 1970 pp1203/4) led to the building of the Thames Barrier. In UMIST he developed a pore-water pressure transducer that extended the scope of Soviet Maj. Gen. G. I Pokrovski's centrifuge testing to study effectively stress in models.
Modelled both the quasi-static liquefaction of a "Mississippi river crevasse", and the dynamic liquefaction in a water saturated embankment in a model-scale earthquake with data capture of dynamic pore pressures for US Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station (WES).
His Cambridge Phenomenon company Andrew N. Schofield and Associates Limited built the WES Army Centrifuge facility. |
| Source | The Royal Society Fellows Directory, Professor Andrew Schofield FREng FRS, [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/andrew-schofield-12236/; last accessed: 09/09/2025]
Churchill College Cambridge, Professor Andrew Schofield, [URL: https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/obituaries/professor-andrew-schofield/; last accessed: 09/09/2025] |
| Code | NA4784 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/004023 | Schofield, Andrew Noel | 1992 |
| EC/1992/32 | Schofield, Andrew Noel: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1985 |