Kimmell-Bernard Chair in Engineering, David Ross Boyd and Presidential Professor

Technical Areas
Civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, earthquake engineering, infrastructure risk and resilience

Research Interests
Simulation of static and dynamic behavior of two- (saturated soils) and three-phase (unsaturated soils) porous media using finite element methods, centrifuge testing, laboratory testing of saturated and unsaturated soils, constitutive modeling, soil-structure interaction, simulation of infrastructure systems subjected extreme events.