Thursday, December 10 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory by Yongsub Jung, PhD student, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan. For more information click here.

More information can be found here. Congratulations Mustafa!

Thursday, December 3 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory, by Richard Woods, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan. For more information click here.

Thursday, November 19, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory, by Andrew G. Heydinger, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toledo. For more information click here.

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory, by Rachid Hankour, PhD, PE, , Vice President and Director of Lab Systems, Geocomp Inc. Boxborough, MA. For more information click here.

Thursday, November 05, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory, by Mike Flanagan, NTH Consultants, Indianapolis, IN. For more information click here.

Friday, October 30, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory, by Rodrigo Salgado, Professor of Civil Engineering, Purdue University. For more information click here.

Thursday, October 22, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory, by Ibraheem Shunnar, senior Vice President, NTH Consultants. For more information click here.

His lecture title is: "Earthquake Engineering Design Near Active Faults”. The lecture will take place this coming Thursday, October 15th, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, 2355 GG Brown Building. For more information click here.

Thursday, October 8, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory, by William Haneberg, PhD, Consulting Engineering Geologist, Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information click here.

Thursday, September 17th, 2009, 15:00 – 16:00, 2355 GG Brown Building, by Donald H. Gray, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan. For more information click here.

Thursday, September 24, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, Room 2355 G.G. Brown Laboratory. History of the University of Michigan geotechnical engineering program by Richard Woods, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan & Ethics in graduate engineering studies by Roman Hryciw, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan. For more information click here.

The University of Michigan geotechnical group of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the U-M EERI Student Chapter are pleased to host Prof. Youssef Hashash, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His lecture title is: "New developments in nonlinear site response analysis”. For more information click here. The lecture will take place this coming Thursday, September 17th, 2009, 15:00 – 16:00, 2355 GG Brown Building.

The geotechnical group of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & the Department of Geological Sciences are pleased to host the 2009 AEG/GSA Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering Geology, Dr. Edmund Medley, PE, CEG, F.ASCE. His lecture title is: "Of Elephants, Earthquakes, Caves and Hot Rock - Recent Geological Engineering Adventures”. For more information click here. The lecture will take place this coming Thursday, September 10th, 2009, 12:00 – 13:00, 2355 GG Brown Building. This is the first lecture of the geotechnical lecture series.

The geotechnical group of the University of Michigan established a mailing list group that intends to facilitate interaction and information circulation among geoengineers in the state of Michigan. Geoengineers in the state of Michigan are invited to join this group. More information is provided in the "Industry Partnerships" page of the geotechnical group's webpage.

Thaweesak Jirathanathaworn's Doctoral Defense will be held on this Monday July 6th at 9:00AM in 2355 GG Brown. Dissertation title: Experimental Study of Mechanical Aging of 2-Dimensional Granular Assemblies by Photoelasticity. Click here for summary of research.

Michigan CEE faculty and students attend the NSF conference in Hawaii. Faculty and students from U-Michigan CEE Department attended the 2009 CMMI NSF-Grantees Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Professor Michalowski represented the geotechnical group from Michigan, and he presented a lecture titled: "Damage detection of segmental concrete pipeline intersecting a ground fault".

Professor Dimitrios Zekkos has co-authored a paper on the Shear Strength of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). The paper, published in the June issue of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, presents the results of comprehensive large-scale laboratory testing of MSW using large-scale triaxial, direct shear and simple shear devices that systematically investigated the factors that affect the shear strength of MSW. A new shear strength envelope, based on more than 100 large-scale tests from this study and the literature, is proposed. For a copy of the paper, contact Prof. Zekkos.

Professor Radoslaw Michalowski will deliver a lecture: Damage Detection and Health Monitoring of Buried Concrete Pipelines, at the International Symposium on Prediction and Simulation Methods for Geohazard Mitigation in Kyoto, Japan (May 25 – 27, 2009). The lecture will contain a report from testing a segmental concrete pipeline at the NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulations) facility at Cornell University. Teams from the University of Michigan, Purdue University, and Merrimack College participated in the test, as well as staff from Cornell University.

Professor Radoslaw Michalowski will deliver a feature lecture “Limit Analysis of Anisotropic soils” at the First International Symposium on Computational Geomechanics (ComGeo I). The Symposium will be held in Juan-les-Pins, Cote d'Azur, France, April 29 – May 1st, 2009.

Professor Roman Hryciw was elevated to be among the prestigious list of individuals who are recognized as chapter honor members of Chi Epsilon at the University of Michigan. Prof. Hryciw was honored for his commitment to the principles that Chi Epsilon represents (scholarship, character, practicality, socialibility) through his role as a teacher and researcher, and his commitments to service and outreach both within and outside of the University. Congratulations Roman!

Critical pool level in earth dams appears to be slightly below half of the slope height. However, granular slopes (sand/gravel) have no well-defined critical pool level. Safety of the slope with any level of the water is characterized with the same factor, and this safety factor is lower than the one traditionally considered. Read more on the subject in a recent note (Michalowski 2009).

Our PhD geotechnical student, David Saftner, is the recipient the 2008-2009 College of Engineering Graduate Distinguished Leadership Award. The Distinguished Leadership Award is conferred upon College of Engineering students who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and service to the College, University, and community.

Prof. Woods, Hryciw, Athanasopoulos-Zekkos and Zekkos will be attending the IFCEE'09 in Orlando Florida on March 15-19 2009.

Professor Gray's involvement in a watershed and streambank restoration work in Ann Arbor is featured in an article in the Ann Arbor observer. A mew article titled "Soft healing at the Arb" is also available by the Arborweb - the website of the Ann Arbor Observer. Click here for more.

The presentation is titled: "Levees: Learning from the past - Looking to the future" and will take place in 2305 GG Brown from 12:30pm to 1:30pm.

Summary:

The vast majority of river cities, now growing at increasing rates, are protected from flooding by earthen levees. Recent natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina have provided warnings with regard to the need to maintain and upgrade our aging and deteriorating flood protection systems. Furthermore, for seismic regions like California, the combined seismic and non-seismic risks are creating a new class of engineering problems, with regard to safe levee design, that need to be addressed. In this presentation key findings and lessons learned from the investigation of the levee failures in New Orleans will be presented, and ongoing efforts to improve flood management nationwide will be discussed.

 

on Friday, November 14, 2008 at 3:30 pm, 1013 Herbert H. Dow Building. Photos to be posted soon.