John Knapton

Consulting civil structural and highway engineer

mail@john-knapton.com

(Updated 10^th February 2021)

Specialising in:

Concrete & Asphalt Pavements

Structural Engineering

Aircraft, Port, & Highway Pavements

Port, Highway & Aerodrome Civil Engineering Infrastructure

Industrial Floors & Hardstandings

Historic Bridges

Reinforced & Prestressed Concrete

Durability of Concrete

Concrete & Brick Pavers

Permeable Paving and Sustainable Drainage

Slope Stability, Site investigation

Click here for cv

During January 2004, JK drove a distance of 6,000 miles from Newcastle, UK to his village of Ekumfi-Atakwa in Ghana with BBC's Mark Batey. Click here for a detailed account of the 16 days journey.

9/11 20 Years On:

WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK

Click here for structural engineering background to the attack.

Here for JK's WTC teaching web page.

Here for JK's role in the WTC investigation.

PENTAGON ATTACK

Click here to read "THE PENTAGON REPORT"

More items of engineering interest:

JK's design method for permeable pavements or here to see his published paper

Information on JK's books on industrial floors, hardstandings and roads

 Important source of information on concrete block paving

JK's work in Ghana

Local newspaper report on "Winking Eye" bridge

JK's design method:  Structural design of port & industrial pavements

Main menu

INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS (These pages were developed by JK during the 1990s for use by his civil and structural engineering students and also for his students of architecture. They remain as an early example of the use of the web in teaching.)	STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING CASE STUDIES (These pages were used by JKs students in the 1990s as real world examples of structures which embodied many of the concepts which he taught to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Newcastle University)	PAVEMENTS & FLOORS
Elementary Structural Design (CIV131)	Reinforced concrete bridge collapse, Ghana	Paraguayan Pavers
Elementary Structural Design Coursework (CIV131)	Cragside Iron Bridge, Rothbury, UK	The streets of Pompeii & Paestum
Structural Modelling & Testing (CIV135)	Volta Bridge & Lake, Ghana	Permeable Pavements for Supermarket Car Parks
Reinforced concrete notes (CIV235)	Three Northumbrian Bridges, Northumberland, UK	Paving through the ages
Structural Modelling & Testing (2) (CIV135)	Leazes Arcade Refurbishment, Newcastle, UK	Permeable Pavement Full Scale Trials
Structures III for Stage 3 Architects (CIV338)	Rialto Bridge, Venice	Permeable paving at Santos Container Yard, Brazil (1996)
Matrix Analysis of Structures (CIV833) Theory of Structures C (CIV334)	St. James' Park, Newcastle United FC	Structural design of highways surfaced with pavers
Specialist Structures (CIV438)	Industrial Building, Tyneside, UK	Structural design of port & industrial pavements
Newcastle Students in Ekumfi-Atakwa, Ghana	Collection of bridges	Research into innovative pavers
	Stability of memorials in cemeteries	International Conference Papers
World Trade Center Attack	Segedunum Observation Tower, Wallsend, UK	Paver bedding sands
Steel section properties	Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield, UK	JK's books on floors and external hardstandings

JK designed a new stand for his local football club, Whitley Bay FC, click here for details.