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Coastal Erosion-Induced Landslide in South Orange County

Farrington, Katie M., Silver, Gregory P., Varni, Ashley A., 2024, “Coastal Erosion-Induced Landslide in South Orange County”, ASCE/Geo Institute 2024 Geo-Congress: Geotechnics of Natural Hazards, Selected Papers from Sessions of Geo-Congress 2024, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 349

Comparison of Observed and Calculated Earthquake-Induced Settlements at 6 Sites in Christchurch, NZ

Bastani, S.A.,Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Cone Penetrometer Testing, Las Vegas, 2014.

Is the Wasatch Fault Footwall Segmented Over Million-Year Time Scales?

Taylor, A.R., Armstrong, P.A., and Ehlers, T.A., 2004, Is the Wasatch fault footwall (Utah, United States) segmented over million-year time scales?: Geology, v. 32, No. 5, p. 385-388; doi: 1130/G2042.1.

An Investigation into Stabilizing Sulfate-Laden Soils with Lime and Lime/Flyash

Atkinson, D.R., Berger, E.A., Little, D.N., Smith, K.E., Marvin, S.R., Estrada, M., Williams, T., Coover, Jr., R., Nguyen, P.V., Zaremba, T., “An Investigation into Stabilizing Sulfate Laden Soils with Lime and Lime/Flyash, A South Orange County, California Study”.

Post Earthquake Embankment Failure, Seepage-Induced Liquefaction, and Void Ratio Redistribution

Bastani, S.A. and  Kutter, B.L.: Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (11th ICSDEE) and the 3rd International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (3rd ICEGE), UC Berkeley, CA, pp. 412-419, 2004.

Distribution of Peak Horizontal Acceleration and Peak Horizontal Particle Velocity With Depth Measured During Earthquakes

Bastani, S.A. and Sykora, D.W.,Proceedings of Sixth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1998.

Modelling Pipe Bursting-Induced Deformation Propagation

Bastani, S.A.: Proceedings of The 11th International Conference of IACMAG, 2005,

p. 1-6.

Landslide Stabilization Using High Strength Aggregate-Cement Slurry

Silver, Gregory, Bates, Lisa, 2012, “Landslide Stabilization Using High Strength Aggregate-Cement Slurry”, Newport Beach, California, Geo-Congress 2013, ASCE 2013, p. 1683-1696.

Relative Activity of North Branch Splays (NBS) of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone, West Newport Oil Field, Newport Beach, California

Silver, Gregory, Shlemon, Roy J., and Davis, Paul, 2008, Relative Activity of North Branch Splays (NBS) of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone, West Newport Oil Field, Newport Beach, California.

Levelness of Newly Constructed Post-tensioned Slabs for Residential Structures

Lejman, R., Noorany, I., Colbaugh, D., and Miller, M., “Levelness of Newly Constructed Post tensioned Slabs for Residential Structures”, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. Vol.19. No.1, February 1, 2005.

Design, Construction, and Monitoring of a 14.9m High Geosynthetic Reinforced Segmental Retaining Wall In a Seismically Active Region

Silver, G., Trazo, R., Sandri, D., “Design, Construction, And Monitoring Of A 14.9m High Geosynthetic Reinforced Segmental Retaining Wall In A Seismically Active Region”.

Numerical modeling of seepage-induced liquefaction and slope failure

Bastani, S.A. and  Kutter, B.L.: ,” Proceedings of 3rd FLAC Symposium in Sudbury, Canada, 2003.

Some Observations of Geotechnical Aspects of the February 28, 2001, Nisqually Earthquake in Olympia, South Seattle, and Tacoma, Washington

Bastani, Ali, coauthored with Bray, Jonathan D., Sancio, Rodolfo B., Kammerer, Ann Marie, Merry, Scott, Rodriguez-Marek, Adrian, Khazai, Bijan, Chang, Susan, Collins, Brian, Hausler, Elizabeth, Dreger, Douglas, Perkins, William J., and Nykamp, Monique:  Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) 

CPT Based Settlement Prediction Over California Soft Rock

Bastani, S.A., Silver, G.P., and Atkinson, D.R., Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Cone Penetrometer Testing, Las Vegas, 2014.

Geomorphology and Geochronology of the San Juan Creek Terraces

Taylor, A.R., Armstrong, P.A., and Knott, J.R., 2006, Geomorphology and geochronology of the San Juan Creek Terraces: Implications for uplift of the Santa Ana Mountain foothills, Orange County, California: Geology of the Orange County Region, Southern California; South Coast Geological Society Annual Field Trip Guide No. 33.

Permanent Deflection and Performance Study of Drivable Grass

Silver, G.P., Van Thiel, D.C., 2006, “Permanent Deflection and Performance Study of Drivable Grass”.

Centrifuge Modeling of Seismic Soil-Structure-Interaction and Lateral Earth Pressures for Large Near-Surface Underground Structures

Bastani, A., Hushmand, B., Mokarram, N., Dashti, S., Hushmand, A.,  Ghayoomi, M., McCartney, J.S., Zhang, M., Davis, C., Lee, Y., Hu, J.: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013, p. 1-4.

Simulation of Post Earthquake Embankment Failure By Seepage-Induced Liquefaction

Bastani, S.A. and  Kutter, B.L.: Ninth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 26-29 June 2007, p. 1903-1917.

Geotechnical Monitoring of the OII Landfill

Bastani, Seyed Ali, Mundy, Peter K., Nyznyk, John P., Brick, William D., Clark, Jocelyn, and Herzig, Roy, Landfill Closures…Environmental Protection and Land Recovery, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 53, Published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Edited by R. Jeffrey Dunn and Udai P. Singh, 1995, pp. 62-76.

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