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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
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2014 Legget Medal Award
Introduction of Dr. Peter Byrne
2014 Legget Medal Award
Recipient
Introduction delivered by Dr.
Ernest Naesgaard
It is a great honour to be invited to
introduce Dr. Peter Michael Byrne for
the Canadian Geotechnical Society
Legget Award. This is the most senior
and prestigious award of the Society
and Dr. Byrne is a much deserving
recipient. Dr. Byrne has led a distin-
guished life on many fronts: academia,
research, consulting, mentoring,
sports, and family.
Dr. Byrne grew up in Ireland where,
in 1959, he obtained a Bachelor of
Engineering from University College
Dublin and was awarded top student
in structural analysis. He worked as a
structural engineer for George Wimpy
in London for a year before seeing his
calling and moving to British Colum-
bia to work as a “Soils Engineer”.
In Vancouver, Dr. Byrne met his wife,
Jane, (a school psychologist, librarian,
superb cook and maker of fabulous
Welsh cakes), and raised their two
sons, Craig and Sean. Like their
parents, the boys desired to travel and
now one is a lawyer living in Italy and
the other an architect in Australia.
Dr. Byrne is an avid sailor. He com-
peted in the Flying Dutchmen class
for Canada in the 1967 Pan American
Games (Bronze medal winner) and in
the 1972 Olympics in Germany. He
also, more than once, was a strategist
on the grueling Victoria-Maui Swifts-
ure Yacht race. Many summers, Peter,
Jane and the boys, and later Peter and
Jane, could be found on their own
sailboat “Excalibur” plying the coast
of British Columbia. This was Peter’s
summer office.
In 1965 Peter returned to school and
obtained a M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. at
University of British Columbia where
he stayed on to become Professor and
later Professor Emeritus. His research
was primarily in numerical analysis
but also in the fields of liquefac-
tion, interpretation of laboratory and
centrifuge testing, and soil-structure
interaction. Dr. Byrne has made many
significant contributions to engineer-
ing practice. He developed hyperbolic
soil models with Prof. Duncan, pro-
grams for lateral pile analyses (LAT-
PILE), several analysis programs and
constitutive models (NLSSIP, SOIL-
STRESS, UBCTOT, UBCHYST and
UBCSAND) and more. Probably the
most important is the development of
the effective stress constitutive model
UBCSAND. Dr. Byrne’s incorpora-
tion of this model in the commercially
available software FLAC, and his will-
ingness to share this approach openly
and freely, was instrumental to the
current adoption of advanced, effec-
tive stress analyses in North America.
These analyses have now become