Jorge G. Zornberg, Ph.D.
Professor - Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Engineering #1

Office: ECJ 9.227G
Phone: (512) 232-3595
Fax: (512) 471-6548
Email: zornberg@mail.utexas.edu
UT Mail: C1792
My Website:http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/zornberg/

Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-GEO
301 E. Dean Keeton St. Stop C1792
Austin, TX 78712-1174

Area(s) of Expertise:
Geotechnical Engineering

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Civil Engineering, 1994
M.S., Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil, 1989
B.S., National University of Cordoba, Argentina, Civil Engineering, 1987

Technical Interests:
Soil mechanics; soil reinforcement and improvement; environmental geotechnics; geosynthetics; numerical and physical (centrifuge) modeling of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems

Selected Publications:

Zornberg, J.G., and McCartney, J.S. (2010). "Centrifuge Permeameter for Unsaturated Soils I: Theoretical Basis and Experimental Developments." Journal of Geotechnical and Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 136, No. 8, August, pp. 1051-1063.

McCartney, J.S., and Zornberg, J.G. (2010). "Centrifuge Permeameter for Unsaturated Soils II: Determination of the Hydraulic Characteristics of an Unsaturated Clay." Journal of Geotechnical and Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 136, No. 8, August, pp. 1064-1076.

Liu, C., Zornberg, J.G., Chen, T-C., Ho, Y., and Lin, B. (2009). "Behavior of Geogrid-Sand Interfaces in Direct Shear Mode." Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 135, No. 12, December, pp. 1863-1871.

Costa, Y.D., Zornberg, J.G., Bueno, B.S., and Costa, C.L. (2009). "Failure Mechanisms in Sand over a Deep Active Trapdoor." Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 135, No. 11, November, pp. 1741-1753.

Nogueira, C.L., Azevedo, R.F., and Zornberg, J.G. (2009). "Coupled Analysis of Excavations in Saturated Soil." International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 9, No 2, April, pp. 73-81.