Overview

The Department of Civil Engineering at UNC Charlotte provides opportunities for discipline specific and multidisciplinary graduate-level education in civil engineering.  Advanced course work and research are used to enhance professional competency through a master's degree.  Doctoral studies leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) are available through a cooperative arrangement with North Carolina State University (NCSU).  Research and teaching assistantships and tuition remission are available in the Department of Civil Engineering at UNC Charlotte (place link here to the Dept.) on a competitive basis to highly qualified applicants.  The Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Program within the Department of Civil Engineering offers graduate study in several areas including in situ testing, shallow and deep foundations, site characterization, ground improvement, groundwater modeling, contaminant transport, landfill design and remediation (Click to learn more about College of Engineering and UNC Charlotte).

Facilities

The Department of Civil Engineering is located in the Smith Building on the UNC Charlotte campus.  Facilities available for research and instruction in civil engineering are located in Smith and Kennedy Buildings, and the C.C. Cameron Applied Research Center (CARC).  Geotechnical and geoenvironmental research is primarily housed in the Smith and CARC Buildings and equipment includes consolidation, permeability, and shear strength testing with a dedicated data acquisition system, two load frames, a geosynthetic pull-out box, a large-scale direct shear machine and a N2-specific surface area machine. Additional field equipment includes augers, a Marchetti Flat Dilatometer and a PENCEL pressuremeter. 

Faculty

J. Brian Anderson, Assistant Professor, 2002, Ph.D., University of Florida, EI.  Analysis and Engineering of Deep Foundations, Laboratory and In Situ Determination of Soil Properties,  Site Characterization, Finite Element Analysis of Geotechnical Problems (jbanders@uncc.edu)

John L. Daniels, Assistant Professor, 2001, D.Eng., University of Massachusetts Lowell, PE.  Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Testing, Contaminant Transport, Waste Management, Material Reutilization  (jodaniel@uncc.edu)
Rajaram Janardhanam, Professor, 1981, Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.  Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Liquefaction of Soils, Pollution Migration Through Soils, Flowable Flyash, Roller Compacted Concrete, Construction Materials and Engineering. (rajaram@uncc.edu)

Vincent O. Ogunro, Assistant Professor 2001, Ph.D., Institut National des Sciences Appliques (INSA), Lyon, France Long-Term Deterioration of Waste Containment Systems, Waste Containment Barrier Material Properties and Durability, Geosynthetics in Reinforced Structures & Waste Containment Systems, Leachability processes of contaminants from materials, Utilization of Wastes as Construction Materials. (vogunro@uncc.edu)
 

Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Graduate Students

Raghuram Cherukuri, Gautham Das, Umamaheshwari Udayasankar, Vinod Keshava, Raghuveer Peddishree, Kendal McAteer

Undergraduate Assistants

Robie Goins, Johnnie May

 Recent Projects

- Permeable reactive layers (Duke Energy)
- Lime-fly ash mixtures (Duke Energy)
- Test pad instrumentation (Duke Energy)
- Pile Capacity (Florida DOT)
- Finite Element Modeling (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
- Reliability Modeling (National Science Foundation)

 

Selected Publications

Pinto, P. L., Anderson, B., and Townsend, F. C., ?Comparison of Horizontal Load Transfer Curves From Strain Gages and Slope Inclinometer: A Case Study,? Symposium on Field Instrumentation for Soil and Rock, ASTM STP 1358, G.N. Durham and W.A. Marr, Eds., American Society for Testing and Materials, pp 3-15,  1999.

Hand, R., Bloomquist, D. G., and Anderson, J. B.,  ?Development of a Cemented Sand Module for the Electronic Cone Penetrometer,? Transportation Research Record 1675, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp 10-16, 1999.

Anderson, J. B. and Townsend, F. C., ?Validation of P-y Curves from Pressuremeter Tests at Pascagoula, Mississippi,? XI Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 1999.

Anderson, J. B., Grajales, B., Townsend, F. C., and Brown, D., ?Validation of P-y Curves from Pressuremeter and Dilatometer Tests at Auburn, Alabama,? Behavioral Characteristics of Residual Soils, ASCE GSP 92, Bill Edelen ed., ASCE, pp 77-87, 1999.

Daniels, J.L., Inyang, H.I. and Iskandar, I. 2003 Durability of Boston Blue Clay in Waste Containment Applications, ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 15(2), 144-152.

Daniels, J.L. and Inyang, H.I. ?Contaminant Barrier Material Textural Response to Interaction with Aqueous Polymers? ASCE Journal Materials in Civil Engineering (accepted)

Daniels, J.L., Chien, C.C., Ogunro, V.O. and Inyang, H.I. 2000. A comparative analysis of contaminant migration models using barrier material data, Journal of Soil and Sediment Contamination pp. 9:5:487-501.

Daniels, J.L., Das, G.P. and Goins, R.J. ?Heavy Metal Sorption Characteristics of a Flue Gas Desulfurization Material? Twentieth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 15-19, 2003 (On CD)

Inyang, H.I., Daniels, J.L. and Chien, C.C. 2000. Methods of analysis of contaminant migration in barrier materials In: Remediation of Hazardous Waste Contaminated Soils, 2nd Edition, Wise et al., editors, pp. 63-82.

Janardhanam, R. "Strength and Deformation Characteristics of Chemically Stabilized Soils" - Paper accepted for presentation and publication, TRB, Jan., 1998. (with Alagiya)

Janardhanam, R. "Behavioral Response of Partially Buried Polyurethane Tank" - paper accepted for publication at the 13th International Conference of ISPE, Dec. 1997, Columbia, SA (with Y. Hari)

Janardhanam, R. "A Study on Fiber Reinforced Roller Compacted Concrete", paper presented at the NC Section of ASCE Annual Meeting, October 1996. (with Nagaraju)

Janardhanam, R. "Utilization of Flyash in MSW Landfill Liner System - An Economic Feasibility Study", paper presented at the NC Section of ASCE Annual Meeting, Oct. 1996. (with Ken Johnson)

Inyang, H.I. and Ogunro, V.O. (editors), 2000. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology and Global Sustainable Development. June 2000. Volume 1 (862 pages). Volume 2 (751 pages)

Inyang, H.I., Ogunro, V.O., Hooper, F. 2000. Simplified calculation of maximum allowable contaminant concentration in waste-amended construction materials. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Environmental Geotechnology and Global Sustainable Development, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Bollo-Kamara, N., Bourdeau, Y., Bahloul, F., Ogunro, V. O. 1995. A study of friction mobilization at a soil-geotextile interface using a bidimensional analogic model.  Geosynthetics '95 Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. pp. 1071-1084.

Bourdeau, Y., Ogunro, V. O., Lar?al, P., Riondy, G. 1994. Use of strain gages to predict soil-geotextile interface in pullout tests. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Geotextiles, Geomembranes and Related Products, Singapore.