Dr. Kenneth H. Stokoe, II (right) receiving a golden apple from Geotechnical Group Chair Gianni Chieruzzi at the end of the lecture.

Dr. Kenneth H. Stokoe, II is the holder of the Jennie C. and Milton T. Graves Chair in Engineering in the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been working in the areas of field seismic measurements, dynamic laboratory measurements, and dynamic soil-structure interaction for more than 40 years.

In this lecture, Dr. Stokoe presented a brief background on seismic measurements in the field as well as in the laboratory. He also presented a number of example applications, ranging from investigations of a tunnel, an earth dam, hard-to-sample soils such as gravels and cemented alluvium, and deeper profiling (> 100 m) in soil and rock. Recent advances in field measurements of nonlinear shear modulus and soil liquefaction were also briefly presented.

Summary by Nidal AbiSaab, photo by Michael Chow