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Mourad Zeghal
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Education:
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Princeton University, 1990
M. A., Civil Engineering, Princeton University, 1985
Engineering Diploma, Civil Engineering, National School of Engineering
(Tunisia), 1983
Career Highlights:
Zeghal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Previously,
he was a senior engineer and leader of the geohazard group at Aon
Risk Technologies. In 1999, he received a National Science Foundation
Career Award. Zeghal is member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE), the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
(NEES), and the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake
Engineering (CUREE).
Research Areas:
Zeghal is involved with a number of geotechnical earthquake engineering
problems related to soil liquefaction and ground failure. These
are two major causes of earthquake damage with a cost in the billions
of dollars. Zeghal’s research has focused on modeling, simulation
and analysis of the seismic response of geosystems based on system
identification of laboratory and field data, as well as micro-mechanical
approaches. These efforts are multidisciplinary in nature and draw
upon the fields of geotechnology, engineering mechanics, data mining,
systems identification, and information technology. In addition
to IPRP, Zeghal is, in this regard, actively involved with the Center
for Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES) and Scientific
Computation Research Center (SCOREC).
Graduate Students:
Ahmed El Mikaty
FNU Brawijaya
Selected Publications:
Zeghal, M. and Oskay, C., “A Local Identification Technique
for Geotechnical and Geophysical Systems,” International
Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics,
Volume 27, Issue 11, pp. 967-987, 2003.
Elgamal, A.-W., Zeghal, M., Parra,
E., and Gunturi, R., “Identification and Modeling of Earthquake
Ground Response. I: Site Amplification,” Soil Dynamics
and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 499-522, 1996.
Zeghal, M., Elgamal, A.-W., and Parra,
E., “Identification and Modeling of Earthquake Ground Response.
II: Site Liquefaction,” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering,
Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 523-547, 1996.
Zeghal, M., Elgamal, A.-W., Tang,
H. T., and Stepp, J. C., “Lotung Downhole Seismic Array: Evaluation
of Soil Nonlinear Properties,” Journal of Geotechnical
Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 121, No. 4, pp. 363-378, 1995.
Elgamal, A.-W., Zeghal, M., Tang,
H. T., and Stepp, J. C., “Lotung Downhole Seismic Array: Evaluation
of Site Dynamic Properties,” Journal of Geotechnical Engineering,
ASCE, Vol. 121, No. 4, pp. 350-362, 1995.
Contact Information:
Mourad Zeghal
4028 Jonsson Engineering Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, N.Y. 12180
(518) 276-2836
zeghal@rpi.edu
http://www.rpi.edu/~zeghal/
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