Bruce Lloyd Kutter
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director
Center for Geotechnical Modeling (CGM)
http://nees.ucdavis.edu/
$4.6 M NSF NEES award to the CGM
The (CGM) operates one of the largest geotechnical centrifuge facilities in the world. This center recently received a $4.6 M award from the NSF George E. Brown Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation.
Contact Information
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Davis, CA, 95616
Tel: (530) 752-8099; Fax: (530) 752-7872;
email: blkutter@ucdavis.edu;
Education
Ph.D. Soil Mechanics, Cambridge University, UK, 1983
M.Phil. Soil Mechanics, Cambridge University, UK, 1979
M.S. Geotechnical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 1978
B.S. Civil Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1977
Statement of Teaching and Research Interests
Appointments
1995-present: Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1996-present, Director; Center for Geotechnical Modeling
SOME RECENT PUBS(Link to complete list)
B.L. Kutter and A. Balakrishnan, "Dynamic Model Test Data from Electronics to Knowledge"Keynote Lecture, ISSMFE Centrifuge 98, T. Kimura, O. Kusakabe, and J. Takemura (eds.), Balkema, Rotterdam, Vol. 2, in press, 1999.
A. Balakrishnan and B.L. Kutter, "Settlement, Sliding, and Liquefaction Remediation of Layered Soil," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engr., ASCE, Vol. 125, No. 11, pp. 968-978, November 1999.
R.W. Boulanger, C.J. Curras, B.L. Kutter, D.W. Wilson, and A. Abghari, “Seismic Soil-Pile Structure Interaction Experiments and Analysis” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engr., ASCE, Vol. 125, No. 9, pp. 750-759, September 1999.
B.L. Kutter and D.W. Wilson, "De-Liquefaction Shock Waves", Proc. 7th U.S.-Japan Workshop on Earthquake Resistant Design of Lifeline Facilities and Countermeasures Against Soil Liquefaction, Seattle, August, 1999, Technical Report MCEER-99-0019 (O'Rourke, Bardet, and Hamada eds.), pp. 295-310, November 1999, http://cgm.engineering.ucdavis.edu/Publications/reports/shockpaper.pdf
Wilson, D. W., Boulanger, R. W., and Kutter, B. L.. "Seismic lateral resistance of liquefying sand," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 10, October, 2000.
B.L. Kutter and Y-R. Chen, “Constant p’ and Constant Volume Friction Angles are Different,”
ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, GTJODJ, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 304-316, Sep. 1997.
G.L. Fiegel and B.L. Kutter, "A Mechanism of Liquefaction for Layered Soils," Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 120, No. 4, pp. 737-755, 1994.
B.L. Kutter and N. Sathialingam, "Elastic-Viscoplastic Modeling of Rate-Dependent Behavior of Clays," Geotechnique, 42, No. 3, pp. 427-441, 1992.
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
1. International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, TC2 (Core Member of Committee on Physical Modeling in Geotechnics)
2. Board of Directors, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE).
4. Chairman of NSF sponsored workshop on NEES. Final report title: "Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Experimental Facilities: Establishing a National Network with Structural, Seismological, and Coastal Earthquake Engineering Seismic Simulation Facilities, http://cgm.engr.ucdavis.edu/NEES/
5. Hogentogler Award for Outstanding Paper on Soil or Rock, ASTM, 1992
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED BY PROFESSOR KUTTER
(UCD Degrees and Current positions in parentheses):
A. Balakrishnan (PhD, Fugro), Jonathan Boland (MS, UCD), Jacob Chacko (MS, Fugro), Yie Ruey Chen (PhD, University in Taiwan), Ruben Cruz (PhD, Air Force Academy), Christian Divis (MS, Treadwell & Rollo), Tom Farrell (MS, Anderson Geotech.), Gregg Fiegel (MS/PhD, Cal Poly SLO), Sivapalan Gajan (MS/PhD, UC Davis), Roger Howard (MS, Fugro), Zhihua (Lillian) Li (PhD, UC Davis), Erik Malvick (PhD, UC Davis), Kiran Manda (MS, Software company), Philip Robins (MS, Fugro), Key Rosebrook (MS, UC Davis), N. Sathialingam (MS/PhD, Earth Mechanics), Randolph Settgast (MS, UC Davis), Priyanshu Singh (MS, Fugro), David Stevens (MS, Klienfelder), David Thompson (MS, Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory), Renee Tarin (MS), Eric Vanderbilt (MS, Sacramento County Waste Management Board), Fuxin Wang (MS, CH2MHill), Shaomin Wang (MS), Daniel Wilson (MS, UC Davis).
B. KUTTER'S THESIS ADVISORS
Ph.D. and M.Phil. theses: R.G. James and A.N. Schofield, Cambridge University
M.Sc. Thesis: K. Arulanandan, UC Davis.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty