Person Schofield; Andrew Noel (1930-2025); geotechnical engineer Schofield Andrew Noel geotechnical engineer 1930-2025 British Male Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom 01 November 1930 19301101 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom 27 January 2025 20250127 Funeral: St. Mary's Church, Great Shelford (17th March 2025)

Geotechnical engineer Materials Science Civil engineering Soil science Environmental sciences Engineering 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 Parents: Reverend John Noel Schofield and Winifred Jane Mary Eyles. Spouse: (m. 1961) Margaret Green. 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. Fellow 12/03/1992 61 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] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Schofield%2C+Andrew+Noel RCN 6566 1 Nov 1930 - The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 09/09/2025 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA4784 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 17/03/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 0ca700fe-56af-4253-9cad-d8a247947689