Telford Gold Medal given to Núria M. Pinyol, Mauricio Alvarado, Eduardo Alonso and Francisco Zabala for the paper: “Thermal effects in landslide mobility” published in Géotechnique (2018).
The Telford Medal is given by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE, United Kingdom). It is the Institution’s highest award for a paper. It was introduced in 1835 following a bequest made by Thomas Telford (1757-1834), the Institution’s first President.
Awarded paper: A thought-provoking paper, written to a very high standard with clear diagrams, which applies a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical methodology to the prediction of triggering and development of landslides. The analyses are presented in a rigorous way and are aided by very clear diagrams illustrating the modelled mechanisms. The approach is used to explain the Vajont landslide, a great geotechnical disaster.
Free access to the paper: https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/10.1680/jgeot.17.P.054
Further information: https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/page/authors/awards-2019