Dr Binh Le
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Background
Binh Le is a Lecturer in Geotechnical engineering and Programme director of BEng/MEng Civil & Infrastructure Engineering. After completing his PhD, Binh worked as Post-doctoral Research Fellow at City, University of London. Before rejoining City St George's, Binh worked as Course Director at ARU, and as Head of Civil Engineering Lab in Ho Chi Minh City, University of Transport.
Binh's main interests are sustainable tunnel and shaft construction.
Research interests
Binh believes that cross-disciplinary research is the key to open the doors to new knowledge. His research interests are:
- Tunnelling-induced soil displacements and building deformations
- Soil deformations induced by shaft installation
- Two and three-dimensional tunnelling analyses (centrifuge, FEM and case studies).
- Newly developed research interest: machine learning for tunnelling induced ground displacements and building deformations
Areas of research supervision
Binh supervises bachelors, masters and PhD research projects related to his research interests.
Teaching
- CVM432 Advanced Analytical Methods
- EG2302 Sensor Systems, Instrumentation, and Surveying
- EG2700 Engineering Design II - Infrastructure
Qualifications
- PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, City University of London, UK
- BSc (Hons) Transportation Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport
Memberships, editorial boards
- International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
- The Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council
Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange
- 2020-22: Research on the effects of Tunnel Boring Machine tunnelling to soil displacements and deformations of surrounding buildings in line 1 Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien. Sponsor: Ministry of Science and Technology (NAFOSTED). Position: PI.
- 2020-22: Adoption of BIM for Railway infrastructure management for Management Authority of Urban Railway (MAUR) of Ho Chi Minh City. Sponsor: Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee. Position: Co-I, Project Coordinator.
- 2021: Reducing the risk of long-term damage to buildings caused by tunnelling-induced settlement in soft soils in low lying South East Asian cities. Sponsor: GCRF seeding fund.
- 2018-19: Case study of tunnelling project in Metro line 1 Ben Thanh Suoi Tien, Ho Chi Minh city. Sponsor: Ministry of Transport. Position: PI.
- 2017-18: Research into the effects of shaft constructions to ground deformations and buried structures. Sponsor: Leverhulme Trust. Role: Co-Investigator.
Other grants/honours:
- Travel grant: For the XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Reykjavik, Iceland. Amount: 2,000GBP. Sponsor: Nafosted.
- Travel grant: For the XIX International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Soul, Korea. Amount: 2,000GBP. Sponsor: ISSMGE.
- Young Geotechnical Engineer Symposium - Runner Up. Awarded by: British Geotechnical Association (BGA).
Qualifications
- PhD, City, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2013 - March 2017
Postgraduate training
- PG Cert HEA, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Employment
- Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, City, University of London, United Kingdom, January 2025 - present
- Course Director, Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom, January 2022 - January 2025
- Head of Civil Engineering Lab, Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport, Vietnam, March 2018 - January 2022
- Post-doctoral Research Fellow, City, University of London, United Kingdom, June 2017 - March 2018
- Civil Engineer, VTCo, Vietnam, July 2012 - July 2013
- Civil Engineer, TLF Construction and Steel Group, Vietnam, March - July 2012
Languages
English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and Vietnamese (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review)
Publications
Publications by category
Conference papers and proceedings (9)
- Le, B., Divall, S., Taylor, N. and Standing, J.R. (2026). Building response to tunnelling in sandy soil of the Line 1 Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien. The 6th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development 26-27 November, Hanoi, Vietnam.
- Le, B., Divall, S., Stallebrass, S. and Taylor, N. (2026). Holistic analysis methods used to support education in geotechnical engineering: tunnel stability. 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering 14-19 June, Vienna, Austria.
- Le, B.T., Nguyen, N.T., Divall, S., Goodey, R.J. and Taylor, R.N. Modified gap method for prediction of TBM tunnelling-induced soil settlement in sand - a case study. .doi:10.1201/9780429321559-76
- Le, B.T., Kuriki, M., Phan, Q. and Taylor, N. An empirical analysis on measured ground surface settlement induced by TBM tunnelling in Ho Chi Minh city. .doi:10.1007/978-981-15-2184-3_38
- Le, B.T., Bui, N.T., Nguyen, T.A., Nguyen, T.C., Kuriki, M., Phan, Q.D.H.... Taylor, R.N. Soil displacements due to TBM tunnelling in Ho Chi Minh city – Vietnam. .doi:10.32075/17ECSMGE-2019-0506
- Le, B.T., Nadimi, S., Goodey, R.J., Taylor, R.N., McNamara, A.M., Divall, S.... Panchal, J.P. A study on performance of three-dimensional imaging system for physical models. .
- Le, B.T. and Taylor, R.N. The reinforcing effects of Forepoling Umbrella System in soft soil tunnelling. .
- Le, B.T. and Taylor, R.N. (2016). A study on the reinforcing capabilities of Forepoling Umbrella System in urban tunnelling. The 3rd European Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics 1-3 June, Nantes, France.
- Le, B.T., Divall, S. and Taylor, R.N. The effect of a forepole umbrella system on the stability of a tunnel face in clay. .doi:10.1680/ecsmge.60678.vol2.056
Journal articles (9)
- Le, B.T., Divall, S., Nguyen, T. and Davies, M.C.R. (2026). Short-term surface settlements induced by EPBM twin tunnelling in saturated sandy soils. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 171, pp. 107482-107482. doi:10.1016/j.tust.2026.107482
- Arjmandazar Varjovi, M., Rahmanpour, M., Khosravi, M.H., Majdi, A. and Le, B.T. (2024). Performance Evaluation of Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Regression in Tunneling-Induced Settlement Prediction Incorporating Umbrella Arch Method Characteristics. International Journal of Engineering, 37(8), pp. 1510-1521. doi:10.5829/ije.2024.37.08b.05
- Divall, S., Goodey, R.J., ., M.C.R.D., Le, B.T. and Nguyen, T.T.T. (2023). Twin-tunnelling: Case studies in clay. Journal of Mining and Earth Sciences, 64(6), pp. 66-78. doi:10.46326/jmes.2023.64(6).08
- Goodey, R.J., Divall, S. and Le, B.T. (2023). Surface settlements arising from elliptical shaft excavation in clay. International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, 23(5), pp. 262-271. doi:10.1680/jphmg.21.00080
- Le, B.T., Nguyen, T.T.T., Divall, S. and Davies, M.C.R. (2023). A study on large volume losses induced by EBPM tunnelling in sandy soils. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 132, pp. 104847-104847. doi:10.1016/j.tust.2022.104847
- Le, B.T. and Taylor, R.N. (2019). Ground response to tunnelling incorporating soil reinforcement system. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 56(11), pp. 1719-1728. doi:10.1139/cgj-2018-0075
- Le, B.T., Goodey, R.J. and Divall, S. (2019). Subsurface ground movements due to circular shaft construction. Soils and Foundations, 59(5), pp. 1160-1171. doi:10.1016/j.sandf.2019.03.013
- Le, B.T. and Taylor, R.N. (2018). Response of clay soil to three-dimensional tunnelling simulation in centrifuge models. Soils and Foundations, 58(4), pp. 808-818. doi:10.1016/j.sandf.2018.03.008
- Le, B.T., Nadimi, S., Goodey, R.J. and Taylor, R.N. (2016). System to measure three-dimensional movements in physical models. Géotechnique Letters, 6(4), pp. 256-262. doi:10.1680/jgele.16.00073