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Dr Peter Helm

Researcher in Infrastructure Deterioration and Resilience

  • Email: peter.helm@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Civil and Geospatial Engineering
    School of Engineering
    Stephenson Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background


Background

I am a geotechnical engineer and engineering geologist with experience in the computer modelling of shallow mining subsidence (as part of my PhD) and significant experience of the hydrological and mechanical modelling of slopes and slope stability as part of my postdoctoral work.

I am currently employed as a research associate within the UKRI and DfT funded National Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable, and Resilient Transport Infrastructures () where I work to address transport infrastructure resilience.

Prior to this, I have worked at 缅北禁地 as a research assistant on the , In 2011 I undertook a 1 year secondment into the geotechnics group of 缅北禁地 office working on slope stability modelling and then worked as an assistant lecturer teaching on both undergraduate and postgraduate modules in geotechnical engineering. From 2013 to 2018 I worked as a research associate on the funded . I recently finished working on the (Dec. 2023) programme grant, where my research primarily focussed on the modelling of the deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure subject to annual weather cycles.

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Invited Speaker

  • Modelling deterioration in cut slopes: Geotechnical Asset Owners Forum (April 2021)
  • ACHILLES - Deterioration of long linear assets: Geotechnical Asset Owners Forum (Nov 2019)
  • , XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Reykjavik Iceland (Sept 2019)

Qualifications

  • 2002 - BSc - Geology - Durham University
  • 2004 - MSc - Geotechnical Engineering - 缅北禁地
  • 2011 - PhD - Analysis of the stability of shallow abandoned colliery workings - 缅北禁地

Memberships

  • TUD COST Action TU1202 member
  • Fellow of The Geological Society
  • Member of the British Geotechnical Association

Grants / Awards

  • Co-organiser of an International Training School entitled ‘The Vadose Zone Workshop’. An event for European Early Stage Researchers convened at Durham University (15,000 EUR) - Responsible for the numerical modelling component of the workshop
  • Awarded funding to undertake a collaborative scoping study into improving the derivation of vegetation parameters for numerical modelling (£9910)

Teaching

I have experience of teaching on the following undergraduate Civil Engineering and postgraduate MSc Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology modules:

  • CEG2201: Geotechnics
  • CEG2001: Design of Sustainable Engineering Systems 2
  • CEG3001: Design of Sustainable Engineering Systems 3
  • CEG8201: Geomechanics
  • CEG8202: Ground Investigation - Design, Principles and Practice
  • CEG8208: Geotechnical Design
Research

Research to date has focused on applied computational geomechanics to investigate shallow mining subsidence as well as rainfall induced slope instability, using software such as the FDM and FEM codes FLAC 3D and PLAXIS as well as LE codes such as SLOPE.

I currently work within the Research Hub for Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures () funded by UKRI and the Department for Transport with my work focusing on the long term weather and climate driven deterioration and resilience of infrastructure. Previous research () primarily focused on the modelling of the deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure subject to annual weather cycles.

My typical work involves the modelling of the effects of meteorological parameters on pore water pressures in infrastructure slopes and how this in turn affects their stability. This is primarily undertaken with the hydrological code SHETRAN and the geomechanics modelling code FLAC (with the two phase flow add on to allow the modelling of partially saturated flow behaviour).

In the past I worked as a research associate on the ESPRC iSMART project and as a research assistant on the BIONICS project (Biological and engineering impacts of climate on slopes) and was seconded into a consultancy firm where I undertook validation of their finite element software for use in slope stability analysis.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Oakley JL, Svalova A, Helm P, Prangle D, Rouainia M, Glendinning S, Wilkinson D. . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C 2026, epub ahead of print.
    • Monforte L, Rouainia M, Helm P, Najdi A, Glendinning S. . Géotechnique 2025, 75(8), 1021–1035.
    • Morsy A, Helm P. . Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 2024, 150(12), 04024128.
    • Helm PR, Svalova A, Morsy AM, Rouainia M, Smith A, El-Hamalawi A, Wilkinson DJ, Postill H, Glendinning S. . Transportation Geotechnics 2024, 44, 101155.
    • Armstrong J, Helm P, Preston J, Loveridge F. . Transportation Geotechnics 2024, 45, 101185.
    • Postill H, Helm PR, Dixon N, El-Hamalawi A, Glendinning S, Take WA. . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering 2023, 176(3), 254-273.
    • Briggs KM, Helm PR, Smethurst JA, Smith A, Stirling R, Svalova A, Trinidad González Y, Loveridge FA, Glendinning S. . Transportation Geotechnics 2023, 43, 101130.
    • Morsy A, Helm P, El-Hamalawi A, Smith A, Hughes P, Stirling R, Dijkstra T, Dixon N, Glendinning S. . Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 2023, 149(8), 04023062.
    • Stirling RA, Toll DG, Glendinning S, Helm PR, Yildiz A, Hughes PN, Asquith JD. . Géotechnique 2021, 71(11), 957-969.
    • Svalova A, Helm P, Prangle D, Rouainia M, Glendinning S, Wilkinson DJ. . Data-Centric Engineering 2021, 2, e12.
    • Postill H, Helm PR, Dixon N, Glendinning S, Smethurst JA, Rouainia M, Briggs KM, El-Hamalawi A, Blake AP. . Engineering Geology 2020, 280, 105912.
    • Rouainia M, Helm P, Davies O, Glendinning S. . Acta Geotechnica 2020, 15(10), 2997-3016.
    • Elia G, Cotecchia F, Pedone P, Vaunat J, Vardon PJ, Pereira C, Springman SM, Rouainia M, Esch JV, Koda E, Josifovski J, Nocilla A, Askarinejad A, Stirling R, Helm P, Lollino P, Osinski P. . Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 2017, 50(3), 249-270.
    • Matthews C, Farook Z, Helm P. Slope stability analysis – limit equilibrium or the finite element method?. Ground Engineering 2014, 22-28.
    • Glendinning S, Hughes P, Helm PR, Chambers J, Mendes J, Gunn D, Wilkinson P, Uhlemann S. . Acta Geotechnica 2014, 9(5), 799-816.
    • Helm PR, Davie CT, Glendinning S. . Engineering Geology 2013, 154, 6-19.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Morsy A, Helm PR. . In: Geotechnical Frontiers 2025. 2025, Louisville, Kentucky: ASCE.
    • Morsy AM, Helm PR, El-Hamalawi A, Smith A, Stirling RA. . In: Geo-Congress 2024. 2024, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: American Society of Civil Engineers.
    • Briggs K, Trinidad Gonzalez Y, Morsy A, Smith A, El-Hamalawi A, Blake A, Smethurst J, Helm P, Glendinning S. . In: Geo-Resilience 2023. 2023, Cardiff, UK: British Geotechnical Association.
    • Huang W, Loveridge F, Johnston I, Helm P, Dixon N. . In: Geo-Resilience 2023. 2023, Cardiff, UK: British Geotechnical Association.
    • Armstrong J, Preston J, Helm PR, Svalova A. . In: Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis. 2023, Belgrade, Serbia.
    • Svalova A, Helm P, Prangle D, Rouainia M, Glendinning S, Wilkinson D. . In: 8th International Symposium for Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR). 2022, 缅北禁地, Australia: Research Publishing.
    • Armstrong J, Preston J, Helm P, Svalova A. . In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Railway Symposium. 2021, Aachen, Germany.
    • Stirling R, Helm P, Glendinning S, Asquith J, Hughes P, Toll D. . In: 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE 2017). 2017, Seoul, Korea.
    • Helm P, Stirling RA, Glendinning S. . In: 3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics. 2016, Guimaraes, Portugal: Elsevier.
    • Glendinning S, Helm PR, Rouainia M, Stirling RA, Asquith JD, Hughes PN, Toll DG, Clarke D, Powrie W, Smethurst J, Hughes D, Harley R, Karim R, Dixon N, Crosby C, Chambers J, Dijkstra T, Gunn D, Briggs K, Muddle D. . In: International Symposium on Geohazards and Geomechanics. 2015, Warwick, UK: IOP Publishing.
    • Helm PR, Davie CT, Glendinning S. . In: Advances in transportation geotechnics : proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics. 2008, Nottingham, UK: Taylor & Francis.

  • Reports

    • Armstrong A, Loveridge F, Helm PR. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2023.
    • Loveridge F, Svalova A, Helm PR, Armstrong A, Oakley J. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2023.
    • Helm PR, Smith A, Loveridge F, Huang W, Johnston I. . 缅北禁地, 2023.
    • Helm PR, Morsy AM, Postill H, El-Hamalawi A, Stirling R, Rouainia M, Briggs KM. . 缅北禁地: 缅北禁地, 2023.
    • Helm P. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 2022. SaM‐Ext‐1.1‐Apr‐2022.

  • Research Datasets/Databases

    • Morsy AM, Helm PR. . 2024. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地.
    • Helm P, Svalova A, Morsy A, Rouainia M, Smith A, El-Hamalawi A, Wilkinson D, Postill H, Glendinning S. . 2024. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 6.57MB.
    • Morsy A, Helm P, El-Hamalawi A, Smith A, Hughes P, Stirling R, Dijkstra T, Dixon N, Glendinning S. . 2023. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 缅北禁地 Data Repository, 2.2MB.
    • Helm P, Postill H, Dixon N, El-Hamalawi A, Glendinning S, Take A. . 2021. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: 缅北禁地, 缅北禁地 Data Repository, 2.8 MB.