Office: CEC 450C
Phone: (405) 325-5625
Email Dr. Cerato
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Research: Microscale soil properties used to predict macroscale soil behavior, expansive and unsaturated soil behavior, shrinkage characteristics of fine-grained soils, helical anchor capacity
Teaching: Foundation engineering, soil mechanics, engineering geology, laboratory and in situ testing
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Faculty
The University of Oklahoma's Geotechnical Engineering Program has six faculty who teach and perform research in various avenues of unsaturated soil mechanics, foundation engineering, constitutive modeling, geosynthetic applications, rock mechanics, clay mineralogy, engineering geology and pavement design. To learn more about each faculty member, please go to their respective home pages.
Amy B. Cerato, Professor
Kianoosh Hatami, Professor
Office: CEC 450B
Phone: (405) 325-3674
Email Dr. Hatami
McMaster University
Research: Static and seismic analysis of reinforced-soil retaining walls and foundations, applications of modern materials (i.e., geosynthetics)
Teaching: Earthquake engineering, statics and dynamics, geosynthetics
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Gerald (Jerry) Miller, Professor
Office: CEC 332A
Phone: (405) 325-4253
Email Dr. Miller
University of Massachusetts
Research: Invasive-type in situ testing in unsaturated soils; use of in situ test results for foundation design; development of innovative in situ testing technology; slope stability; field testing of prototype foundations, and field evaluation of soil stabilization and earthwork construction
Teaching: In situ and laboratory testing, advanced soil mechanics, unsaturated soil mechanics
K.K. "Muralee" Muraleetharan, Professor
Office: CEC 332B
Phone: (405) 325-4247
Email Dr. Muralee
University of California, Davis
Research: Simulation of static and dynamic behavior of two- (saturated soils) and three-phase (unsaturated soils) porous media using finite element methods; centrifuge testing; laboratory testing of saturated and unsaturated soils; constitutive modeling; soil-structure interaction; and infrastructure resilience
Teaching: Soil-structure Interaction, Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials, Soil Dynamics, Environmental Geotechnology
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Musharraf Zaman, Professor
Office: CEC 213A
Phone: (405) 325-4682
Email Dr. Zaman
University of Arizona
Research: Soil dynamics, rock mechanics, soil structure interaction, flow through porous media, mine system design and ground control, bridge approach settlements
Teaching: Pavement design, strength of materials
