Professor David Potts‘s group in the Geotechnics Section of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has developed software, which was used to help stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
The group’s program modelled the tower and its foundations in order to investigate all of the proposed methods of stabilisation. It played a pivotal role in the final choice of stabilisation method and was used to provide behaviour predictions against which observations were compared as the stabilisation works were carried out.
The Leaning Tower is now safe and was reopened to the public in 2001 following a 10-year closure.
