John L. Tassoulas, Ph.D.
Professor - Phil M. Ferguson Professor in Civil Engineering

Office: ECJ 4.732
Phone: (512) 471-4553
Fax: (512) 471-7259
Email: yannis@mail.utexas.edu
UT Mail: C1747

Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-STR
301 E. Dean Keeton St. Stop C1747
Austin, TX 78712-1068

Area(s) of Expertise:
Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil Engineering, 1981
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil Engineering, 1979
B.S., Yale University, Civil Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, 1977

Technical Interests:
Soil-Structure Interaction; Flow and Deformation in Porous Media; Wave propagation; Structural Mechanics

Selected Publications:

S.-H. Park and J.L. Tassoulas, "A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Transient Analysis of Wave Propagation in Unbounded Domains," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 191, pp. 3983-4011, August 2002.

H.A. Rasheed and J.L. Tassoulas, "Collapse of Composite Rings Due to Delamination Buckling under External Pressure," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 128, No. 11, pp. 1174-1181, November 2002.

F.A. Hardjanto and J.L. Tassoulas, "Numerical Simulation of the Dynamic Response of Floating Structures," Computational Mechanics, Volume 32, No. 4-6, December 2003.

S. Bougacha and J.L. Tassoulas, "Dam-Water-Sediment-Rock Systems: Seismic Analysis," Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 6-7, pp. 680-693, July 2006.

I. Ikeda, Jr., and J.L. Tassoulas, "Wave Computations in Irregular Layered Media by a Semidiscrete Finite Element Perturbation Method," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 76, No.3, pp. 376-399, 2008.

H.H. Nguyen and J.L. Tassoulas, "Directional Effects of Shear Combined with Compression on Bridge Elastomeric Bearings," Journal of Bridge Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 73-80, 2009.

M.S. Raie and J.L. Tassoulas, "Installation of Torpedo Anchors: Numerical Modeling," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 135, No. 12, pp. 1805-1813, 2009.

L.F.G. Vásquez, D.R. Maniar and J.L. Tassoulas, "Installation and Axial Pullout of Suction Caissons," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 136, No. 8, pp. 1137-1147, 2010.