Abigail Bateman

Abigail Bateman is a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Southampton's Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering. She contributes to the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Supergen Hub and the ROBOCONE project, focusing on geotechnical challenges in offshore energy infrastructure.

• PhD in Civil Engineering (2024), University of Bristol
• BEng in Civil Engineering, University of Bristol

Research Interests:

• Reliability of offshore renewable energy structures
• Performance-based design of piled foundations
• Simplified analytical/semi-analytical solutions to soil-structure interaction problems

Her publications since 2020 demonstrate expertise in nonlinear soil behavior modeling, pile foundation analysis, and offshore structure reliability. Key methods include t-z, p-y, and m-θ curves for predicting pile response in clay soils.