Congratulations to Mian for receiving this award. Mian’s research is focused on the application of novel geosynthetic material (nano-polymeric alloy geocell) to reinforce road bases to mitigate freeze-thaw damages to …
Wenyu “Owen” Jiang successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Static and Seismic Responses of Pile-Supported Marine Structures under Scoured Conditions”. In his dissertation, he develops methods for evaluation of combined …
Congratulations to Yunjie “Jay” Lin who passed his Master’s thesis defense on August 19, 2019! His thesis is concerned about the lateral responses of pile foundations (single piles and pile …
Jay’s paper titled “Effects of scour-hole dimensions on lateral behavior of piles in sands” is published online on Computers and Geotechnics. Congrats.
An article titled “Driven Piles Support LNG Tank” coauthored by Dr. Lin is featured on cover of DFI Magazine on Jan/Feb, 2019 Issue. This article highlights the comprehensive geotechnical investigation, field …
Prof. Fellenius, a well-known expert in pile foundations, visited our lab and presented us a lecture that he will give as an Arthur Casagrande Lecture to Boston Geotechnical Society in Nov. …
Dr. Lin has accepted the invitation by the editors of Canadian Geotechnical Journal to be an editorial board member of the journal.
Sanat Pokharel, Ph.D., P.Eng, the principal engineer with Stratum Logics paid a visit to our lab and listened to Mian’s research progress on our collaborative project “Behavior of geocell reinforced …
Our research paper titled “Evaluation of Vertical Effective Stress and Pile Lateral Capacities Considering Scour-Hole Dimensions” appeared online on Canadian Geotechnical Journal.
Our lab devotes to exploring fundamentals of water-soil-structure interactions using experimental and numerical tools, and applying them to the practices. Our goal is to contribute to improvement in sustainability and …