J. Rodney Turner

• MA, MSc, DPhil (Oxon), BE (Auck)
• Kingston University

China has been investing heavily in infrastructure development to help fuel its economic growth. However, many projects fail to deliver the expected benefits because: (1) the expected returns were over-estimated, (2) key components of the new asset required to realize the full benefit have not been implemented and (3) the realization of benefits po...

This paper demonstrates that project management is a developing field of academic study in management, of considerable diversity and richness, which can make a valuable contribution to the development of management knowledge, as well as being of considerable economic importance. The paper reviews the substantial progress and trends of research in t...

Projects are undertaken to add value to the sponsoring organisation. In the private sector this ultimately means increasing the value of shares to the holders of equity in the company. One technique, shareholder value analysis, calculates the value of equity in a company from eight value drivers. This paper analyses what impact the three traditiona...

Performance and productivity need to be improved in industry. The UK and Norwegian practices of Coopers and Lybrand have developed an approach to project management which encourages the project manager to manage the achievement of goals.

We investigate the potential of Cosserat plate theory to give physically acceptable solutions to a number of practical plate problems involving unilateral constraints. Example solutions to three problems are obtained by the finite element method. These are the Signorini problem of a plate bent over a rigid parabolic obstacle, the problem of a plate...

A variational formulation is derived for contact problems with friction. The problem of contact between a rigid, circular, cylindrical indentor and an isotropic, homogeneous, linearly elastic half-space is then considered. Using the above variational formulation numerical solutions are obtained to the problems of frictionless contact, adhesive cont...

A convergence proof is given for the finite-element solution of the infinite dimensional quadratic programming problem of minimizing a quadratic functional subject to linear constraints. The proof for the unconstrained problem is briefly reviewed, and then extended to the constrained case. Only the first part of the proof is given, in which necessa...