Publications

“Road Tunnel Design Guidelines”; Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); August 2004.

“Soil-Structure Interaction”; Guest Speaker, SEAONC’s (Structural Engineers Association of Northern California) Spring Seminar on Foundations, March 14, 2001.

“A Study of the Pile-Superstructure Connection at the Port of Oakland”, with A. Krimotat, H. Sedarat, E. Abrahamson, T. Labasco; presented at the ASCE/PIANC PORTS ’01 Conference, Norfolk, VA, April 29-May 2, 2001.

“Analysis of Existing Piles with Missing Data in Seismic Retrofit Design at the Port of Oakland”, with S. Abe, A. Kozak, E. Abrahamson; presented at the ASCE/PIANC PORTS ’01, Norfolk, VA, April 29-May 2, 2001.

“Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Existing Berths, Using Methodology Incorporating Non-linear 3D Time History Analysis”, with A. Krimotat and H. Sedarat; to be presented at the 1^st MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, Cambridge, MA, June 2001

“Three Case Histories; EPB, TBM-Driven, Mixed-Ground, Sub-sea Tunnels”; North American Tunneling Conference, April 21-24, 1996; Published by Balkema Press.

“An MSE Knoll Remediation Wall for the H3 Tunnel Project, Hawaii” 32^nd Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering, Boise, Idaho, March 1997.

“A Soil Nailed Wall for the H3 Tunnel Project, Hawaii” 22^nd Annual Southwest Geotechnical Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1997.

“Conversion of the Hawaii H3 Exploratory Tunnel into a Maintenance Tunnel”, with P.G. Bibbes and T.M. Richardson.  Presented at the World Tunnel Congress ’98 - Tunnels and Metropolises, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April, 1998.

“H-3 Exploratory Tunnel and TOC Construction” with Tom Richardson and Jan Reichelderfer; presented by Tom Richardson at the AEG Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, September 1999.

"Seal Design Alternatives Study”, with L.L. Sambeek, M.S. Lin, W. Ostrowski. Submitted to Sandia National Laboratories, February 1993.

"Need for a Company-Wide Posture on the Estimation of Lateral Earth Pressures for Use in Excavation Support Design," presented at the Annual GZA In-House Geotechnical Conference, Norwood, Massachusetts, January 1991.

"Looking for an Intrinsic Key for Sands," with Jean-Paul Tisot.  Presented to the International Conference on the Micromechanics of Granular Media, Clermont-Ferrand, France, September 1989.

"Behaviour of the Interface between Granular Soil and Steel," Ph.D. Thesis, INPL, Nancy, France, June 1989.

"A Comprehensive Study of the Interface between Granular Soil and Steel," presented at the Vieme Rencontres A.U.G.C, Rennes, France, April 1989.

"A Theoretical Pressuremeter Test, Geared Towards the Measurement of Pile Skin Friction," research proposal submitted to the Laboratoire Centrale des Ponts et Chaussees, Nantes, France, 1988.

"Adaptation of a New In-Situ Direct Shear Test (The Phicometer) to the Measurement of Pile Skin Friction in Cohesionless Soils," Internal Report, Laboratoire de Geomecanique, Nancy, France, 1987.