School of Civil and Structural Engineering - Academic Staff

Updated: Monday, January 14, 2002

Academic Staff - Civil Engineering
		David Simmonds PhD, MA, MSc, CPhys MInstP, ILTM School of Civil and Structural Engineering, Palace Court, Palace Street Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2DE, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233685 Fax: +44 (0)1752 233658 e-mail: D.Simmonds@plymouth.ac.uk
Introduction I am a Senior Lecturer in Coastal Engineering and a member of the School's Coastal Engineering Research Group (more). I am also Programme Leader for our new MSc courses which are due to start in September 2002 (more), and act as Stage 1 tutor for our Civil Engineering BEng and MEng students. I currently lecture in coastal processes, hydraulic engineering, numerical analysis and IT. Previously an experimental physicist, my current research interests lie in the field of coastal engineering. I have previously been involved in three major field projects funded by the EU and EPSRC. These focused on the following areas of study: sediment and hydrodynamic processes on beaches; reflection properties of beaches and coastal structures; the study of transmission through rubble mound breakwaters. I am currently investigating the application of non-linear time-series analysis to field data. Education: 1984 - 87: Pembroke College, Cambridge. BA(Hons) Natural Sciences. 1987 - 88: School of Ocean Sciences, University College of North Wales, Bangor. MSc, NERC studentship in Marine Geotechnics. Project: "Acoustic backscatter from suspended sediment". 1988 - 93: Underwater Acoustics Group, School of Physics, University of Bath. PhD, SERC CASE studentship with Avon Technical Products, Melksham. Thesis: "Acoustic characterisation of polymer materials". Employment: 1991 - 92: Consultancy, Avon Technical Products Ltd, Melksham, Wiltshire. 1992 - 93: Research Officer in Underwater Acoustics Group (six month contract commenced 1st August 1992), School of Physics, University of Bath. 1993 - 95: Research Fellow, Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth. 1995 - 97: Research Fellow, School of Civil & Structural Engineering, University of Plymouth. 1997 - present: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer, School of Civil & Structural Engineering, University of Plymouth.
Teaching Coastal Processes, Hydraulics, Computational methods, Introductory Information Technology.
Research Coastal Engineering (member of CERG), field work.
Publications My recent publications include: Journal Publications Voulgaris, G., Simmonds, D. J., Michel, D., Collins, M. B. and Huntley, D. A., 1998. Measuring and modelling sediment transport on a macrotidal ridge and runnel beach: An intercomparison. Journal of Coastal Research, 14(1), pp315 - 330. Huntley, D. A., Simmonds, D. J. and Tatavarti, R., 1999. Use of collocated sensors to measure coastal wave reflection. Journal of Waterways, Port, Coastal & Ocean Engineering, 125, pp46 - 52. Baldock, T. E. and Simmonds, D. J., 1999. Separation of incident and reflected waves over arbitrary bathymetry. Technical note in Journal of Coastal Engineering, 38, pp167 - 176 Ozanne, F., Chadwick, A. J., Huntley, D. A., Simmonds, D. and Lawrence, J., 2000. Velocity predictions for shoaling and breaking waves with a Boussinesq-type model. Coastal Engineering. 41, No 4, pp 361 - 397. Conference Proceedings Simmonds, D. J. and Humphrey, V. F. (1993), Estimation of the Dynamic Plate Modulus of Viscoelastic Materials by Inversion of Impedance Tube Measurements. Institute of Acoustics Conference 1993, University of Bath. Simmonds, D. J, Voulgaris, G., and Huntley, D. A. (1995), Hydrodynamic controls on a ridge and runnel beach, Proceedings, Coastal Dynamics '95, Gdansk September 1995. ASCE. Simmonds, D. J., O'Hare, T. J., and Huntley, D. A. 1996. The influence of long waves on macrotidal beach morphology. Proceedings, International Conference on Coastal Engineering 1996, Orlando. ASCE. part IV, pp3090 - 3103. Simmonds, D. J., Chadwick, A. J., Bird, P. A. D. and Pope, D. J. 1997. Field measurements of wave transmission through a rubble mound breakwater. Coastal Dynamics '97, Plymouth. pp734 - 743. Mason, T., Voulgaris, G., Simmonds, D. J. and Collins, M. B. 1997. Hydrodynamics and sediment transport on composite (mixed sand/shingle) and sand beaches: A comparison. Coastal Dynamics '97, Plymouth. pp48 - 57. Chapman, B., Ilic, S. Simmonds D. J. and Chadwick, A. 1999. Physical model evaluation of the hydrodynamics produce around a permeable breakwater scheme. Coastal Structures '99, Santander (in preparation). Simmonds D.J., Lawrence J. and Chadwick, A. 2001. Characterization of wave sequencing in surface elecation time series. Proceedings of the fourth conference on Coastal Dynamics 2001, Lund, Sweden. pp82 - 91. Reports, Meetings, Presentations Simmonds, D. J. (1994). Reflectivity of waves off natural beaches. Oceanography '94, Stirling. Simmonds, D. J. and Voulgaris, G. (1994), Hydrodynamics of Ridge & Runnel Beaches. Meeting Sediments Group, Royal Geological Society. October 1994. Simmonds, D. J., Voulgaris, G., Huntley, D. A. and Davidson, M. A., 1995. Hydrodynamic controls on a ridge and runnel beach. MAST EUROMAR market, Sorrento. O'Connor, B. A. (editor) 1996. Circulation and Sediment Transport Around Banks, Handbook and Final Report, Project MAS2-CT92-0024. University of Liverpool Department of Civil Engineering. Report Number CE/05/96. Simmonds, D. J. Co-author, chapters 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Other Activities Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching (ILT) PhD supervision: Francoise Ozanne (1998), Performance of a Boussinesq model for shoaling and breaking waves. PhD supervision: Adrian Pedrozo-Acuna, A New Model for Coastal Sediement Transport (working title).
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