Roy E. Olson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus

Office: ECJ 9.228
Phone: (512) 471-4149
Fax: (512) 471-6548
Email: olson@mail.utexas.edu
UT Mail: C1792

Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-GEO
1 University Station C1792
Austin, TX 78712-0273

Area(s) of Expertise: 
Geotechnical Engineering

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Civil Engineering, 1960
M.S., University of Minnesota, Civil Engineering, 1955
B.S., University of Minnesota, Civil Engineering, 1953

Technical Interests:
Foundation engineering; consolidation; settlement of embankments; capacities of piles and design of earth retaining structures; expansive clays

Selected Publications:
Iskander, M. G., R. E. Olson, and J. A. Bay (2001), “Design and Performance of an Electro-Pneumatic Pile Hammer for Laboratory Applications”, ASTM, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 72-82.

Olson, R. E., R. E. Rauch, A. F. Tassoulas, C. P. Aubeny, and W. R. Murff (2001), “Toward the Design of New Technologies for Deep-Water Anchorages”, International Symposium on Offshore and Polar Engineering, Scavenger, Norway, June.

Rauch, A. F., Olson, R.E., Mecham, E. C., Pedersen, R.C. (2001). "A Laboratory Facility for Testing Model Suction Caissons." Proc., OTRC 2001 Intl Conf. on Geotechnical, Geological, Geophysical Properties Deepwater Sediments, Houston, Tx, April. pp. 198-216.

Olson, R. E. (2002), “Axial Load Capacity of Driven Piles”, 50th Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference, University of Minnesota, pp. 161-178.

Pedersen, R. C., R. E. Olson, and A. F. Rauch (2003), “Shear and Interface Strength of Clay at Very Low Effective Stress”, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, paper GTJ200310648-261.

Rauch, A. F., R. E. Olson, A. M. Luke, and E. C. Mecham (2003), “Measured Response During Laboratory Installation of Suction Caissons”, International Symposium on Offshore and Polar Engineering, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Luke, A. M., A. F. Rauch, R. E. Olson, and E. C. Mecham (2003), “Behavior of Suction Caissons Measured in Laboratory Pullout Tests”, Proc. OMAE03, 22nd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Cancun, Mexico.