Recently, the CPTU research team in the geotechnical engineering discipline at the School of Transportation of Southeast University has been awarded the R. M. Quigley Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society for their paper Development and validation of a method to predict the soil thermal conductivity using thermal piezocone penetration testing (T-CPTU) which was published in one of the top international geotechnical engineering journals, the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, in 2022. Dr. Liu Xiaoyan is the first author of the paper, and co-authors include Professor Cai Guojun and Professor Liu Songyu. The paper describes the development and application of a method to predict soil thermal conductivity using thermal piezocone penetration testing (T-CPTU).
On October 2, 2023, Professor Anand J. Puppala from Texas A&M University and Assistant Professor Surya S. C. Congress from Michigan State University, who are co-authors of the paper, attended the GeoSaskatoon 2023 annual meeting of the Canadian Geotechnical Society and received an award.
The R. M. Quigley Award was established in 1995 to commemorate the outstanding contributions of R. M. Quigley, a renowned Canadian geotechnical engineering scholar (1934-1995), in the field of geotechnical engineering. The award aims to recognize excellent papers published in the previous year in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, and one paper is selected annually from around the world.
This is the second time that the geotechnical engineering discipline of Southeast University has received academic awards from the Canadian Geotechnical Society. In 2019, the paper Engineering properties and microstructural characteristics of cement-stabilized zinc-contaminated kaolin by Professors Du Yanjun, Jiang Ningjun, Liu Songyu, and others was published in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3, 289-302, and won the Fredlund Award. Established in 2018, the award is named after Delwyn G. Fredlund, a renowned international scholar in the field of geotechnical engineering and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. It aims to reward highly cited papers published in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal five years ago, with one paper being selected annually from around the world.