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9/5/2024: The 2024 Ardaman-Wissa Lecture (since 1981) by Prof. Jonathan D. Bray will take place on September 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM (ET), Reitz Union Room 2360. Prof. Bray is Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence at UC Berkeley.
TURNING DISASTER INTO KNOWLEDGE
7/23/2024: Song was invited to join the Editorial Board of Computers and Geotechnics (Elsevier). Congratulations and it's a great honor.
5/20/2024 (Service): Song joined the ASCE GI Board - Technical Publications Committee. I am honored and grateful for my distinguished colleagues' recommendation.
5/1/2024 (Prof. Devep.): Song attended the 3-Module Course of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering offered by UC Berkeley Geosystems Faculty in the Spring of 2024 (2/29 - 5/2). Enjoyed the course and thanks!
Module 1: Earthquake Ground Motions & Seismic Site Response.
Module 2: Liquefaction Engineering.
Module 3: Seismic Performance of Slopes and Earthquake Structures.
5/1/2024 (Service): Song joined the editorial board of the Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment (Springer, since 1970) - the official journal of the IAEG. I am honored and grateful for my colleague's recommendation.
4/29/2024 (Prof. Devep.) : Song's P.E. was approved. Congrats and the support of my professional references is highly appreciated!
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; the founder Director of the Geoenvironmental Research Centre (GRC) at the Cardiff University and a UNESCO Professor in the Development of a Sustainable Geoenvironment.
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 the Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, CLP Holdings Professor of Sustainability and a Chair 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.
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12/21/2020: Shashank Menon successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations!
11(Nov)/12/2020: Song presented a seminar on modeling failure in unsaturated geomaterials to the Mechanics and Civil Engineering Group at Ecole Centrale de Nantes in France. Thanks for the invitation!
10/26/2020: Prof. Patricia Culligan delivered the 2020 Ardaman-Wissa Lecture.
Prof. Culligan is Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame.
Topic: Geotechnics and the Climate Challenge
10/9/2020: Song presented a seminar on modeling unsaturated porous media via novel numerical techniques to the Geotechnical Engineering Group at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Thanks for the invitation!
2/25/2020: Song attended the annual 2020 USUCGER meeting via the ZOOM Meeting. Prof. Olson, thank you for providing the ZOOM meeting. Song registered for Geo-Congress 2020 (full registration).
Song also attended Geo-Congress 2019 in Philadelphia and Geo-Congress 2018 in Orlando, respectively.
2/18-2/19/2020: Song attended the NHERI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Natural Hazards Engineering at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT Austin. The financial support provided by DesignSafe CI is highly appreciated.
1/31/2020: Song received the NSF CAREER Award. Honored and grateful for the support. Congratulations!
10/22/2019: Prof. Eduardo Alonso from UPC in Spain visited us and presented the 2019 Ardaman-Wissa (Ardaman) Lecture (since 1981) in geotechnical engineering at the University of Florida. The lecture is titled Dynamics of Landslides.
10/21/2019: Mini-symposium for ASCE EMI annual conference in May 2020 - Recent Advances in Unsaturated Poromechanics.
10/1/2019: ASCE's announcement of Song's ASCE live webinar on Strain Localization in Unsaturated Soil and Its Practical Implications. We highly appreciate the support of the ASCE Geo-Institute - Unsaturated Soil Committee.
http://mylearning.asce.org/diweb/catalog/item/id/3397127/q/t=2125&q=strain*20localization*20&c=79
http://mylearning.asce.org/diweb/catalog/item/id/3402851/q/t=2125&q=strain*20localization*20&c=79
7/11/2019: Our paper entitled "Localized failure in unsaturated soils under non-isothermal conditions" published in Acta Geotechnica, 13(1), pp. 73-85, 2018
has been awarded the Springer Best Paper Award for 2018. Congratulations!
6/19-20/2019: Prof. Song attended the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2019 (ASCE-EMI 2019) co-organized by Caltech. Prof. Song co-chaired the 4th Mini-Symposium on 4M (Modeling of Multiphysics-Multiscale-Multifunctional) Engineering Materials and Structures.
6/9/2019: We welcome Cameron Ketchem from Suncoast Community High School and Brandon Stephens from Suwannee High School to join our group for research experience in scientific computing. Have fun with scientific computing! Cameron and Brandonm.
5/10/2019: Prof. Song attended the 4th Centrifuge Users Workshop on Friday, May 10, 2019, at the University of California at Davis hosted by the UC Davis NHERI Experimental Facility and Geotechnical Engineering Group. The financial support provided by the UC Davis NHERI Experimental Facility is highly appreciated.
4/2019: Kaiqi Wang successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations!
3/26/2019: Prof. Song's ASCE webinar proposal on "Strain localization (shear band bifurcation) of unsaturated soils and practical implications" was approved by ASCE, which is supported by the Geo-Institute - Unsaturated Soil Committee (GI-USC).
3/25/2019: Prof. Song attended 2019 ASCE Geo-Congress in Philadelphia, PA, on 3/25/2019. Prof. Song attended the Geo-Institute - Unsaturated Soil Committee meeting during the 1st day of the Geo-Congress.
2/11-2/15/2019: Prof. Song attended the First International Symposium on “COMPUTATIONAL & GEOENVIRONMENTAL GEOMECHANICS FOR UNDERGROUND AND SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES” in Nancy, France.
9/26/2018: Prof. Song is co-organizing the 4th Mini-Symposium on 4M (Modeling of Multiphysics-Multiscale-Multifunctional) Engineering Materials and Structures on behalf of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Modeling Inelasticity and Multiscale Behavior (MIMB) Committee for the EMI annual conference at CalTech in 2019. Co-organizers: Profs. Yong-Rak Kim (UNL), Chung Song (UNL), Huiming Yin (Columbia Uni.), Qiming Wang (USC), and Xiaoyu Song.
5/22/2018: Prof. Song attended the 2nd Early Career Workshop at CWRU from May 20-22, 2018 held by The United States Universities Council for Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER), with financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
4/2/2018: Prof. Song was invited to be a guest speaker for 2018 Gator Computing Program. The Gator Computing Program is for high school students entering 10th and 11th grade and offers an incredible opportunity to learn from UF’s preeminent research facilities.
3/30/2018: Prof. Song will serve as faculty mentor for the UF Student Science Training Program (SSTP) in 2018. As a faculty mentor, Prof. Song will host 2 minor high-school students in his research lab this summer. This is the third time Prof. Song serves as a faculty mentor and hosts high-school students in his research lab for SSTP.
Summer 2018 will mark the 60th consecutive year of the University of Florida Student Science Training Program (UF-SSTP). More than 5,000 academically talented students from around the world have completed this rigorous summer residential research program since its inception in 1959.
3/12/2018: Prof. Ed Kavazanjian from ASU visited our group and presented the ESSIE Distinguished Lecture in 2018 - Geo-Alchemy (Turning Sand into Sandstone) and other Biogeotechnologies.
12/07/2017: Prof. Song received a Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) research project - RFRP-17/18-002 – Determining Bearing Resistance of Cantilever Sheet Piles.
The total funding is ~$360,000 for three years (1/1/2018-12/31/2020). For this project, the technical approaches involve numerical modeling via the nonlinear finite element method and laboratory experiments. Congratulations and we are grateful for the support of FDOT.
9/25/2017: Prof. Song joined the GEER team to Document Sinkhole Damage in Central and Northeastern Florida from Hurricane Irma on 9/25/2017.
The full report can be found at GEER Association Report No. GEER-056b.
9/7/2017: Prof. Song gave a seminar sponsored by the ASCE Geo-Institute - Unsaturated Soil Committee ($750) to the ASCE chapter in Gainesville, FL, on September 7th, 2017. The seminar is titled "Computational Modeling of Unsaturated Fluid Flow and Deformation in Geological Materials". We thank the ASCE Geo-Institute - Unsaturated Soil Committee for the seminar grant.
7/27/2017: Prof. Song was invited by the Organizing Committee of the PanAm Unsat 2017 - Second Pan-American Conference on Unsaturated Soils (Unsaturated Soil Mechanics for Sustainable Geotechnics) to be the chair of a session entitled "Numerical Modeling - Flow and Deformation 2".