News

1/18/2026: Prof. Song was selected to attend the 2026 ASDC Faculty Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts. Congratulations and thank you for this great opportunity. 

9/11/2025: The 2025 Ardaman-Wissa Lectures:

1) Soil and Rocks Subjected to Multiphysics Repetitive Loads - Asymptotic States 

Prof. Carlos Santamarina at Georgia Tech

2) Rigid Inclusion Systems for Embankment and Building Support: Past, Present, and Future

Prof. Jie Han at University of Kansas

3) Stability of Tailings Dams

Dr. Allen Marr at GeoComp (PE, NAE)

9/5/2024: The 2024 Ardaman-Wissa Lecture by Prof.  Jonathan D. Bray  will take place on September 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM (ET), Reitz Union Room 2360. 

Turning Disaster into Knowledge

3/28/2024: Song received the Top Reviewer 2022 Award COGE - Computers and Geotechnics (Elsevier). Congratulations!

6/28/2023: Zhe Zhang defended his dissertation successfully today! Congratulations!!! Zhe's research work is on molecular dynamics modeling of the nanoscale multiphysics, breakage, and creep of clay. 

3/21/2023:  The 2023 Ardaman-Wissa Lecture by Prof.  Andrew  Whittle  will  take place on April 12, 2023 at 4:00 PM (ET), Reitz Union G320. Prof. Whittle is the Edmund K. Turner Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT.  

Recent Advances in Modeling Stability, Consolidation and Creep

10/25/2022: The  2022 Ardaman-Wissa Lecture by Prof. Hywel Thomas will take place on November 17, at 11:00 am (EST) on Zoom.  Prof. Hywel Thomas is Professor of Civil Engineering at the Cardiff University.

Energy and the Ground: Some Geoenvironmental Considerations.

4/15/2021: Prof. Charles WW Ng  from HKUST delivered the 2021 Ardaman-Wissa Lecture on April 15, 2021, at 8:00 PM (ET) on Zoom.  Prof. Ng is Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at HKUST.

Mechanisms and Performance of Cyclic Non-symmetric Thermally Loaded Floating Energy Pile Groups and Piled Rafts.