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: C1748
Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-STR
1 University Station C1748
Austin, TX 78712-0273
Area(s) of Expertise:
Structural Engineering
Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil Engineering1981
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil Engineering, 1979
B.S., Yale University, Civil Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, 1977
Technical Interests:
Structural mechanics; constitutive equations of materials; wave propagation; numerical analysis
Selected Publications:
H.T. Lin and J.L. Tassoulas, "A Hybrid Method for Three-Dimensional Problems of Dynamics of Foundations,'' Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 4, pp. 61-74, 1986
V. Lotfi, J.M. Roesset, and J.L. Tassoulas, "A Technique for the Analysis of the Response of Dams to Earthquakes,'' Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 15, pp. 463-490, 1987
S. Bougacha and J.L. Tassoulas, "Effects of Sedimentary Material on the Response of Concrete Gravity Dams,'' Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 20, No. 9, pp. 849-858, September 1991
A.C. Nogueira and J.L. Tassoulas, "Buckle Propagation: Steady-State Finite Element Analysis,'' Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, 120, No. 9, pp. 1931-1944, September 1994
M.N. Guddati and J.L. Tassoulas, "Characteristics Methods for Transient Analysis of Wave Propagation in Unbounded Media," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 164, pp. 187-206, 1998