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RICARDO DOBRY,
Sc.D.
Professor, Dept. of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
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Ricardo Dobry earned his B.S. from the University of Chile, his
M.S. from the National University of Mexico, and his Sc.D. from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in civil
engineering. He has taught at MIT, U. of Chile, U. of Texas,
Austin, and since 1977 has been a member of the faculty at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he currently serves as
Director of the Center for Earthquake Engineering Research which
includes the NEES RPI centrifuge experimental site.
Dr. Dobry’s research interests include soil dynamics,
geotechnical earthquake engineering and geotechnical dynamic
centrifuge testing. He was a participant of the group that wrote
the new seismic provisions on local site amplification in the
1990’s now incorporated in U.S. building codes. He is one of the
authors of the 20-year research plan in earthquake engineering
prepared in 2003 by the Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S.
Since 2000 he has directed the Rensselaer geotechnical
centrifuge experimental site of the Network for Earthquake
Engineering Simulation (NEES), one of 15 electronically
interconnected experimental nodes funded by NSF to revolutionize
earthquake engineering research in the U.S. He served as a
member of the first Board of Directors of NEES in 2003-04. He
has written more than 200 technical papers and research reports
and has directed 40 PhD and MS theses at Rensselaer.
Dobry has served as consultant and member of consulting boards
of a number of civil engineering projects, including offshore
oil platforms in Venezuela and Australia, earth dams and dikes
in California, Puerto Rico and South America, seismic
retrofitting of several large bridges in New York City (NYC),
seismic guidelines for design of new bridges in NYC, and design
of the new Rion-Antirion Bridge in Greece. The Rion-Antirion
Bridge was named the 2005 Outstanding Civil Engineering
Achievement by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Dobry has been an invited state-of-the-art and keynote speaker
at international meetings in the U.S., Mexico, South America,
Europe, Japan and Australia. He earned the J. James Croes Medal
of ASCE in 1985, and was elected member of the U.S. National
Academy of Engineering in 2004 “for fundamental contributions to
multiple aspects of geotechnical earthquake engineering.”
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2006
Terzaghi
Lecture is entitled:
"Dredged Materials Friend or Foe"
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RAYMOND
KRIZEK, Ph.D.
Professor and Holder of the Stanley F. Pepper Chair, Dept. of Civil
Engineering
Northwestern University
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Professor Raymond
Krizek is Professor and Holder of the Stanley F. Pepper Chair in the
Department of Civil Engineering at Northwestern University. He received
his B. E. in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1954,
his M. S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1961
and his PhD in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University in 1963.
In 1963 he accepted a position of Assistant Professor at Northwestern
University where he rose through the ranks and became Professor in 1970.
In 1980 he became Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering a
position he held until 1992.
His research and
consulting interests include soil-structure interaction, buried
conduits, groundwater flow, disposal of slurry wastes, grouting, soil
cement, pavement subbases, dredged materials, and the engineering
properties of soils. Professor Krizek has published over 300 articles in
journals and proceedings and is the editor of about ten books. Among
other awards, he received the Hogentogler Award from ASTM, the Walter L.
Huber Prize from ASCE, the Terzaghi Award and the Wallace Hayward-Baker
Award from the Geo-Institute of ASCE.
Professor Krizek
was the first President of the Geo-Institute of ASCE. He was elected to
the National Academy of Engineering in 2001, became an Honorary Member
of ASCE in 2002, and delivered the Terzaghi Lecture in 2006. He is a
registered professional engineer.
November 9th, 2007
College Station Hilton
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