Geotechnical Engineering Faculty

Faculty Member Technical Interests
El Mohtar, Chadi
  • Pore fluid engineering
  • Non-Aqueous flow through porous media
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Liquefaction
  • Fatigue life and behavior of asphalt concrete
Gilbert, Robert
  • Performance reliability and risk management for geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems
  • Waste containment
  • Site remediation
  • Slope stability
  • Offshore foundations
Rathje, Ellen
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Seismic response of earth structures
  • Solid-waste landfills
  • Liquefaction evaluation
Stokoe, Kenneth
  • Geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics
  • Non-destructive testing of pavements, soils and structures
  • Offshore geotechnical engineering
Tonon, Fulvio
  • Geomechanics
  • Rock engineering
  • Underground excavations and tunneling
  • Uncertainty modeling and design
Woodruff, Charles
  • Engineering geology
Zornberg, Jorge
  • Soil mechanics
  • Soil reinforcement and improvement
  • Environmental geotechnics
  • Geosynthetics
  • Numerical and physical (centrifuge) modeling of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems
   
Emeritus Faculty Technical Interests
Matlock, Hudson
  • Laterally and axially loaded foundation piles and pile groups
  • Foundations for offshore structures
  • Experimental methods
  • Discrete-element methods of numerical analysis of structures and structural elements
Olson, Roy E.
  • Foundation engineering
  • Consolidation
  • Settlement of embankments
  • Capacities of piles and design of earth retaining structures
  • Expansive clays
Wright, Stephen
  • Slope stability
  • Foundations for offshore structures
  • Computer aided engineering and design

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