Congratulations to Ting Lu and Mircea Mihalache, who graduated with M.S. degrees in June 2018. Ting’s thesis is entitled Failure Envelopes for an Embedded Plate in Plastic Material, and Mircea’s thesis is entitled A Conditional Linear Diffusion Model for Efficient Avalanching Simulations. Watch for forthcoming papers, or feel free to email us for thesis copies.
Author: James Hambleton
Computational Geotechnics
Jim and Zhenhao co-taught a new course entitled Computational Geotechnics that wrapped up with presentations of final projects on June 12. In the photo above, Ritaja Ray is presenting her project proposal. More about the course can be found under Education.
18th USNCTAM with Prof. Kenichi Soga and Prof. Kristian Krabbenhoft
Prof. Kenichi Soga and Prof. Kristian Krabbenhoft visited for our mini-symposium entitled Geomechanics Modeling and Computation (co-organized with Prof. Giuseppe Buscarnera) in the 18th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, in which Zhenhao and Zhefei gave great presentations (details below). In the photo above, Zhefei is showing off the SSI-SMI Lab. Full details: […]
Visit and Osterberg Lecture by Prof. David Muir Wood
We enjoyed an extended visit from Prof. David Muir Wood from May 16 to June 6, and he delivered the Osterberg Lecture on May 22. Watch the lecture on YouTube (above), and keep on the lookout for collaborative work(s) to come.
Visit from Tom Westover, Associate Engineer for Landslide Technology, Division of Cornforth Consultants
Tom Westover visited the lab and gave a talk at the April dinner meeting of the ASCE Geo-Institute Chicago Chapter. Here is the flyer for the meeting, which includes the details of Tom’s talk: GI April 2018 Dinner Meeting-2fl1twp.
Time to Catch Up
Please forgive the anachronism of these next few posts as we catch up on events of the past few months.
Featured in Meteorological Technology International
Jim is featured in the April 2018 issue of Meteorological Technology International in the article “Lay of the Land,” which discusses possibilities and limitations in the prevention of debris flows. Selected excerpts are below: The other problem is that debris flows are so rare that public perception of the dangers they pose remains low, according to Northwestern University […]
Anastasia Nally in Student Spotlight
Ana is being featured in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering‘s Student Spotlight! See for yourself by clicking the link below: http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/civil-environmental/news/articles/2018/student-spotlight-anastasia-nally.html Ana just started her third quarter, and is starting to pile into her research, having submitted her first conference abstract for Geo-Congress 2019 on April 4. If you are a geo-person, maybe […]
Course Documents Uploaded
Find freshly updated course documents, including syllabi and lecture notes, under Education.
Old News #3: NU Career Day for Girls
We had a blast at the annual Career Day for Girls at Northwestern University on February 24. We ran three different thirty-minute demonstrations to groups of students, each with with around 10 girls ranging from middle school to high school. Here is what the girls signed up for: Explore the world beneath your feet in the […]
Old News #2: Featured in Popular Science article on Montecito Mudslides
Here is an excerpt from the article “The Montecito mudslide is a tragic reminder to respect our soil,” by Eleanor Cummins, in Popular Science: Geoengineers are similarly skeptical of whether mudslide prevention will ever truly be possible. James Hambleton, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northwestern University, says that saying no to […]
Old News #1: Best Paper Award and Plenary Lecture, iYCEC6 and 19th ICSMGE, Seoul, Korea
Here is one from the archives–one that belongs in our archives! http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/civil-environmental/news/articles/2016/hambleton-best-paper.html Here are the details for the paper, which is also listed among Publications and in our Research profile: Hambleton, J.P. (2017). Earthmoving through the lens of geotechnical engineering. Proc. 6th International Young Geotechnical Engineers’ Conference (iYGEC6), Seoul, Korea, Sept. 17-22, (iYGEC6 Best Paper Award). engrXiv:10.17605/OSF.IO/6JCD7
We are up and running!
At long last, our website is up and running in earnest. We will spend the next few weeks catching up on the news from our group. For now, it’s “hello world!”