Brian Shackel graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Sheffield, Britain, in 1962 and immediately thereafter joined the Department of Main Roads, New South Wales, Australia. In 1964 he was appointed Shire Engineer to Central Darling Shire, the largest local government area in New South Wales. He left municipal engineering in 1966 to accept a Teaching Fellowship at the University of New South Wales, and took the degrees of M.Eng.Sc. and Ph.D. He was Head of the Department of Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering at that University from 1989 to 1993 and was subsequently Director of the Munro Centre for Civil and Environmental Engineering for several years.
Between 1978 and 1981, after a period as Visiting Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Tokyo University, Japan, he joined the National Institute for Transport and Road Research, CSIR, South Africa, as Senior Chief Research Officer whilst on extended leave from his university post. Dr Shackel has also held visiting appointments at the Technical Universities of Delft, Vienna, Copenhagen and Nihon University, Japan. He has published more than 100 research papers dealing with geomechanics and pavement engineering. More than 60 of these papers are concerned with interlocking concrete block paving and helped win Dr. Shackel an award of the Concrete Institute of Australia for "an advancement in concrete".Dr Shackel's book "The Design and Construction of Interlocking Concrete Block Pavements" was published by Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, London and New York (publisher is now Chapman and Hall), in 1990 and, subsequently in a Japanese edition, in Tokyo in 1992. A revised edition in German was published by Beton-Verlag in 1996. Dr Shackel also contributed to the book "Concrete Pavements" edited by A F Stock and published by Elsevier Applied Science in 1988.
Dr. Shackel has been retained as a consultant for a variety of major road, airport and industrial projects around the world.
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