Geotechnical Engineering
Research in geotechnical engineering focuses on understanding and advancing the state of knowledge on the effects that soils and soil deposits have on the performance, stability, and safety of civil engineering structures. Areas of research include laboratory investigations of soil behavior under static and dynamic loads, constitutive modeling of soil behavior, behavior of structural foundations under static and dynamic loads, soil improvement techniques, response of soil deposits and earth structures to earthquake loads, and the investi-gation of geotechnical aspects of environmental engineering.
Faculty and Lecturers
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Idil Akin, Ph.D. idilakin@g.ucla.edu 4731H Boelter Hall Post-wildfire slope stability, biogeotechnics, unsaturated soil mechanics, expansive clay behavior and applications. |
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Yousef Bozorgnia, Ph.D., P.E. yousef.bozorgnia@ucla.edu 5731 Boelter Hall (310) 825-2471 Structural engineering, earthquake engineering, engineering seismology. |
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Scott J. Brandenberg, Ph.D., Vice Chair sjbrandenberg@ucla.edu 5731D Boelter Hall (310) 825-9819 Geotechnical earthquake engineering with a focus on soil-structure interaction, liquefaction, data acquisition and processing, and numerical analysis. |
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Jonathan P. Stewart, Ph.D., P.E., Chair jstewart@seas.ucla.edu 5731 Boelter Hall (310) 206-2990 Geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, and engineering seismology. |
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Mladen Vucetic, Ph.D. vucetic@seas.ucla.edu 5750 Boelter Hall (310) 206-6260 Geotechnical engineering, soil dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, laboratory testing of soils |
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Robert E. Kayen, Ph.D., P.E. rkayen@ucla.edu 5732 Boelter Hall (650) 329-4195 Geomatics and Terrestrial Laser-Topographic Modeling, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Engineering Geology, Applied Geophysics. |
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George Mylonakis, Ph.D. mylo@upatras.gr 5731 Boelter Hall Geotechnical earthquake engineering, Soil structure interaction |
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Daniel E. Pradel, Ph.D., G.E. dpradel@ucla.edu 5732E Boelter Hall (310) 825-2843 Geotechnical engineering, slope stability, constitutive modeling |
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Robert L. Nigbor, Ph.D., P.E. nigbor@ucla.edu 6679 Boelter Hall (310) 825-3492 Experimental Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics |
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Christine A. Goulet, Ph.D. goulet@ucla.edu 5731 Boelter Hall (310) 825-1346 Geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering seismology in the context of performance-based design, ground motion characterization, probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, site response effects, and ground motion selection for nonlinear structural analyses. |
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Suji Somasundaram, Ph.D., PE, GE ssomasundaram@ucla.edu 5732 Boelter Hall (949) 379-2465 Geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, waste containment systems |
| Paolo Zimmaro, Ph.D. pzimmaro@ucla.edu 5731 Boelter Hall (310) 825-2471 Geotechnical engineering, seismic hazard and risk analysis, system reliability of distributed infrastructure and lifelines, soil liquefaction and its effects on civil infrastructure, and geotechnical system monitoring and characterization with multidisciplinary approaches and innovative field testing |
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