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Current Affiliation

Professor

Contact Information

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mail Stop 258
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557-0258
T: (775) 784-6835
F: (775) 784-1390

Education

Research Interests

• Deep foundations
• Seismic foundation behavior
• Soil property characterization
• Liquefaction
• Past chairman of the Soil Properties Committee of ASCE
• Presented S-O-A paper on "Seismic Bridge Pile Foundation Behavior" at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) International conference on Deep Foundations
• Ongoing pile foundation research for Caltrans
• Liquefaction research for the Army Corps of Engineers
• Instructor for National Highway Institute's Soils Module

Recent Publications

• Norris, G.M., Siddharthan, R., Zafir, Z., and Madhu, R., "Liquefaction and Residual Strength of Sands from Drained Triaxial Tests," Journal of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Division, ASCE, March 1997, Vol. 123, No. 3, pp. 220-228.
• Ashour, M., Norris, G., and Pilling, P., “Lateral Loading of a Pile in Layered Soil Using the Strain Wedge Model,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 124, No. 4, April, 1998, pp. 303-315.
• Ashour, M. and Norris, G., “Liquefaction and Undrained Response Evaluation of Sands From Drained Formulation,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 125, No. 8, August, 1999, pp. 649-658.
• Ashour, M., and Norris, G. M., “Modeling Lateral Soil-Pile Response Based on Soil-Pile Interaction.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 5, May, 2000, pp. 420-428.
• Khaleghi, B. and Norris, G,M,, “Performance of Bridge Structures in the January 26, 2001 India Earthquake,”  PCI Journal, Nov-Dec.
• Ashour, M., Pilling, P. and Norris, G. M., “Strain Wedge Model Capability of Analyzing the Behavior of Laterally Loaded Piles, Drilled Shafts, and Pile Groups.”  Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2002.
• Ashour, M., and Norris, G. M.  “Lateral Load Pile Response in Liquefiable Soil.”  Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 129, No. 5, 2003, pp. 404-414.
• Ashour, M., Pilling, P., and Norris, G. M.  “Lateral Behavior of Pile Groups in Layered Soils.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 130, No. 6, 2004, pp .

Courses Taught

Other Activities within Engineering and Teaching Professions

• Coordinator for UNR Summer Co-op Work for NDOT
• Member of Deep Foundations Committee of ASCE
• Member of CUREE
• UNR Tibbitts Teacher (1997) and Carnegie CASE Nevada Professor of the Year (1997)