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| Mladen Vucetic, Ph.D. |
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5750 Boelter Hall
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
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| vucetic@seas.ucla.edu |
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| Phone: (310) 206-6260 Fax: (310) 206-2222 |
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Education | Selected Awards and Honors | Research Interests |
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| • | B.S., (1976), University of Zagreb, Croatia
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| • | M.S., (1981), University of Zagreb, Croatia
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| • | Ph.D., (1986), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY |
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| • | Norwegian Government Intrernational Research Fellowship for research at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway, 1980
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| • | The Thomas Archibald Bedford Prize, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986
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| • | Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA, 1992 |
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| | Reserch interest and reserch conducted: (a) Stress-strain conditions in the NGI type direct simple shear test, (b) Fundamental aspects of the cyclic and dynamic behavior of clays, silts and sands under uniform and irregular cyclic loads, (c) Small-strain cyclic and dynamic behavior of soils, (d) Liquefaction mechanism using nonlinear computer models and case history studies, (e) Behavior of soil-nailed excavations during earthquakes using centrifuge modelling, (f ) Development of geotechnical site data bases and their utilization in seismic microzoning using GIS. |
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