Faculty
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Bernard Amadei, Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Rock mechanics, geological engineering, Earth Systems Engineering, Engineering for Developing Communities. |
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Shideh Dashti, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Liquefaction Mechanisms, Foundation Engineering |
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Hon-Yim Ko, Emeritus Professor, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology. Soil and rock mechanics, centrifuge modeling, earthquake engineering, constitutive relations, multiaxial testing. |
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John S. McCartney, Associate Professor, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin. Geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, unsaturated soil mechanics, geosynthetic engineering, centrifuge modeling, thermally active geotechnical systems. |
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Ronald Y.S. Pak, Professor, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology. Soil dynamics, earthquake engineering, soil-structure interaction, wave propagation, continuum mechanics, impacts and vibrations, analytical and numerical methods, centrifuge modeling. |
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W. Tad Pfeffer, Professor, Ph.D. University of Washington. Dynamic glaciology; heat and mass transfer in snow, ice and porous media; mechanics and thermodynamics of continuous media; fluid dynamics; numerical and experimental methods. |
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Richard A. Regueiro, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University. Theoretical and computational solid mechanics as applied to geologic materials; discrete, length-scale dependent failure modeling; finite deformation inelasticity; generalized continua; mixture theory; finite element and meshless methods. |
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Stein Sture, Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder. Soil and rock mechanics, constitutive relationships, numerical methods in geomechanics, dynamics, laboratory modeling. |
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Dobroslav Znidarcic, Professor,
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder. Soil mechanics, earth
structures, flow processes in soils, contaminant transport, unsaturated
soil mechanics, centrifuge modeling, numerical modeling. |
Laboratory Staff
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Min Zhang, Ph.D., Technical University of Hong Kong, Centrifuge engineer. |











