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Technical Sessions - May 2017

MORNING SESSION @ 11:00 AM 

Topic: A New Paradigm for Slope Stability Analysis under Variably Saturated Conditions

Speaker: Ning Lu, Ph.D., F.ASCE, Professor, Colorado School of Mines

Ning Lu is professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado School of Mines (CSM) and the director of the joint CSM/US Geological Survey Geotechnical Research Laboratory in Golden, CO. He is a recipient of the ASCE 2007 Norman Medal, the ASCE 2010 Croes Medal, and the ASCE 2017 Ralph B. Peck Award, as well as a fellow of ASCE, Engineering Mechanics Institute, and Geological Society of America. His primary research interests are flow and stress laws in multiphase porous media, rainfall-induced instability of natural and engineered slopes, geologic hazards, energy storage in porous media, and subsurface nuclear waste isolation. He is the senior author of the widely used textbook Unsaturated Soil Mechanics (John Wiley and Sons, 2004) and the recently published textbook Hillslope Hydrology and Stability (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

AFTERNOON TECHNICAL SESSION @ 1:10 PM

Topic: Structural Evaluation of Drilled Shaft Retaining wall located near Terminal D at DFW International  Airport                                               

Speaker:  Peter Kau, P.E., Michael Baker International

Peter Kau is a project manager at Michael Baker International Dallas Office. He graduated with a M.Sc degree in Structural Engineering from Iowa State University and has 16 years of experience in structural design for retaining walls and bridges, routine and fracture critical bridge inspection, load rating, and forensic investigation for various type of structures.