Prof Martin Crapper

Professor

Department: Mechanical and Construction Engineering

Civil Engineering defines society: the human race cannot function without clean water, sustainable ways of dealing with waste, transport links, and structures to shelter ourselves and our businesses. Yet the work civil engineers do is generally taken for granted, noticed by the wider public only when something goes wrong.

Throughout my career as a consultant engineer in industry, then an academic, I have sought to deploy Civil Engineering thinking to make the world a better place, working in sediment transport (which affects environmental quality and navigation), transport of particles in fluids more generally (a huge number of industrial processes), water and sanitation in international development, and sustainable management of Civil Engineering assets.

More recently, I have sought to understand our Civil Engineering heritage, using modern thought and techniques to interpret the achievements of the past, and communicate their continuing value, both practically and inspirationally, over succeeding generations. I was a leader of the interdisciplinary project Engineering the Byzantine Water Supply, examining the construction and operation of the aqueducts supplying the Roman city of Constantinople, which was the longest water supply system in the ancient world; I am collaborating with engineering modelling of the water supply and drainage of Pompeii, as well as investigating the hydraulic performance of Roman water pipes excavated from Corbridge.

When not working I fire steam engines on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and I am a fan of Yorkshire and England cricket.

Campus Address

303c Wynne Jones Building

Email Martin

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Heritage Engineering; Asset Management; Water and Sanitation; Multiphase Flow

Key Publications

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The discharge of the pipelines supplying public fountains in Roman Pompeii, Monteleone, M., Crapper, M., Motta, D. 1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Hydraulic engineering analysis of Roman water infrastructure: a review of practice and possibilities, Crapper, M., Motta, D., Keenan-Jones, D., Monteleone, M. 1 Apr 2022, In: Water History
The hydraulic characteristics of Roman lead water pipes: an experimental investigation, Crapper, M., Motta, D., Sinclair, C., Cole, D., Monteleone, M., Cosheril, A., Tree, J., Parkin, A. 2022, In: International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Laboratory Investigation of Geobag Revetment Performance in Rivers, Khajenoori, L., Wright, G., Crapper, M. 22 Jul 2021, In: Geosciences (Switzerland)
The supply of the public lacus of Pompeii, estimated from the discharge of their overflow channels, Monteleone, M., Crapper, M., Motta, D. 1 Jul 2021, In: Water History
Evaluating the performance of geobag revetments in rivers, Khajenoori, L., Wright, G., Crapper, M. 2020, River Flow 2020, London, Taylor & Francis
Self-propelled nanofluids: a coolant inspired from nature with enhanced thermal transport properties, El Hasadi, Y., Crapper, M. 1 Sep 2020, In: Journal of Molecular Liquids
The Valens Aqueduct of Constantinople: Hydrology and Hydraulics, Crapper, M. 1 Dec 2020, In: Water History
Using the byzantine water supply of Constantinople to examine modern concepts of sustainability, Ward, K., Smith, S., Crapper, M. 3 Dec 2020, Sustainable Water Engineering, Elsevier
Agent-Based Modelling for Simulation-Based Design of Sustainable Faecal Sludge Management Systems, Mallory, A., Crapper, M., Holm, R. 28 Mar 2019, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

PGR Supervision

Olufemi Omitade Energy Generation from Domestic Waste. (A Nigeria Case Study) Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 08/07/2021
Olufemi Omitade Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 26/02/2021
Abibat Adedigba Towards Integrated Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Nigerian Cities Start Date: 01/03/2017 End Date: 19/11/2022
M. C. Monteleone An Hydraulic Engineering Analysis of the Public Lacus Fountains in Roman Pompeii Start Date: 01/03/2017 End Date: 25/11/2022

Further Information

I was member of the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) from December 2018 to October 2021.

I served on the Fellowship Panel of the ICE from 2011 to 2019.

I serve on the Academic Panel of the Permanent Way Institution (PWI).

I am a Reviewer, carrying out Chartered Professional Reviews, for both the ICE and the PWI.

Qualifications

Diploma March 06 2019
PhD July 01 1996
Chartered Engineer CEng
Chartered Permanent Way Engineer
Chartered Water and Environmental Manager CWEM
Fellow in the Institution of Civil Engineers FICE
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA
Member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Managers MCIWEM
Member of the Permanent Way Institution MPWI

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