Civil Engineer and Expert Witness: Geotechnical Damage Analysis of Structures, Dams, Levees, Soils, Waste Containment Facilities (1221)
Expertise
Registered Professional Civil Engineer, Illinois
Landslides - Design of slopes to causation analyses for litigation
Use of Geosynthetics in Civil Engineering - water resources to retaining walls
Foundation Engineering - design of foundations, settlement, and water effects
Expansive Soils - damage to all types of structures
Geotechnical design of waste containment facilities - static and seismic design
Geotechnical analysis of dams and levees - static and seismic design
Experience
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering: 1999 - to date.
Director, PVC Geomembrane Institute-Technology Program
Program Coordinator, Transportation Networks Program, Mid-America Earthquake Center
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering: San Diego State University, 1987-1991
Staff Engineer: Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Walnut Creek, CA: Subsurface investigations and design of remedial measures for landslides in Contra Costa County, geotechnical and structural design of retaining walls, and lateral load behavior of drilled shaft foundations, 1983
Staff Engineer: Woodward-Clyde Consultants, San Francisco, CA -- Liquefaction analyses, probabilistic seismicity evaluations, and seismic response analysis of power plants and earth dams, 1981-1982
Honors & Publications
Elected Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2005
R.M. Quigley Award, for “best” paper in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal in 2002, "Liquefied Strength Ratio from Liquefaction Flow Failure Case Histories", Canadian Geotechnical Society
Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, “advancing the basic understanding of natural slopes, the stability of man-made slopes, and the evaluation of the strength/stability of soils subjected to earthquake loadings”
"Surviving on Earth: Environmental Geology and Natural Hazards"
5 Patents granted or pending, Stabilized Fluid Barrier Member: Method of Forming
Education
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Geotechnical Engineering
M. Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Geotechnical Engineering
B.S., University of Delaware (with Honors), Civil Engineering
J.D., cum laude, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law