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Scott J. Brandenberg, Ph.D.      Assistant Professor 5731D Boelter Hall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593 sjbrandenberg@ucla.edu Phone: (310) 825-9819      Fax: (310) 206-2222      Profile       Teaching       Research       Publications       Professional Affiliations and Service       Current Students    Education  |  Statement of Research Interest  |  Research Projects Statement of Teaching Interest  |  Selected Awards and Honors  Education • B.S., (2000), California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo • M.S., (2002), University of California, Davis • Ph.D., (2005), University of California, Davis  Statement of Research Interest   My research interests are geotechnical earthquake engineering, geophysical imaging, data acquisition and signal processing, and numerical analysis. My current research projects are: (1) developing fragility functions for bridges in liquefied and laterally spreading ground, (2) developing design guidelines for pile foundations in liquefied ground, (3) evaluation of the seismic levee deformation by destructive cyclic field testing, (4) centrifuge modeling of the large-strain site response behavior of soft clays, (5) CPT-based ultrasonic imaging of jet grout columns, and (6) developing correlations between shear wave velocity and penetration resistance at Caltrans bridge sites.  Research Projects • NEESRII: Evaluation of Seismic Levee Deformation Potential by Destructive Cyclic Field Testing Sponsor: National Science Foundation through NEESR program; co-PI's Jonathan P. Stewart (UCLA), Robb E.S. Moss (Cal Poly). • Fragility Functions for Bridges in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground. Sponsor: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center; co-PI: Jian Zhang (UCLA). • Evaluation of Nonlinear Site Response of Soft Clay using Centrifuge Models. Sponsor: United States Geological Survey; co-PI: Jonathan P. Stewart (UCLA) • Innovative Topics: CPT-based p-wave Reflection Imaging of Embedded Objects. Sponsor: Caltrans. • Design Practice for Pile Foundations in Laterally Spreading Ground. Sponsor: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Lifelines Program; PI: Scott Ashford (Oregon State University), co-PI: Ross Boulanger, (UC Davis) • Simulation of Global Bridge Response to 3-D Shaking and Lateral Spreading. Sponsor: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Transportation Systems Research Program; co-PI: Jian Zhang (UCLA). • Shear Wave Velocity as a Statistical Function of Penetration Resistance and Vertical Effective Stress at California Bridge Sites. Sponsor Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Lifelines Program. • Centrifuge Studies of Behavior of Pile Foundations in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground  Statement of Teaching Interest   I strive to make my courses exciting and challenging for students. I utilize data from real-world engineering projects in my courses, which challenges students to handle the uncertainties and heterogeneities that exist in geologic materials that are often neglected in overly-simplified classroom assignments. I devote considerable one-on-one effort to each student, often holding meetings outside of my scheduled office hours. I realize that different students adopt different approaches to learning and I do my best to vary my lecturing style to accommodate.  Selected Awards and Honors • 2010 ASCE Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award • 2004 UC Davis prize for excellence in geotechnical engineering • 2000 California Geotechnical Engineers Association scholarship Education  |  Statement of Research Interest  |  Research Projects Statement of Teaching Interest  |  Selected Awards and Honors

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