Expert No. 166392 – Engineering Expert – OH
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. – Consulting expert for over 30 years in the field of Geotechnical & Structural Engineering. Professional experience in prediction, measurement, and analysis. Emphasis in areas of Soil and Structural Dynamics; Soil and Structural Vibrations from Blasting, Pile Driving, Machine Foundations, and other Construction and Industrial Sources; Application of Dynamic Methods to Piles; Wave Equation Analysis, Pile Integrity Testing, and Engineering Evaluation of High Strain Dynamic Pile Testing. Prior experience in court deposition, arbitration, and testimony.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Intolerable structural vibrations
- Damage from construction and industrial dynamic sources
- Unknown causes of tolerable vibrations from known dynamic sources
- Effects of dynamic and environmental forces on structures
- Non-vibration damage to structures from dynamic sources
- Claim investigations
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Prediction and calculation of construction vibrations
- Predicting soil and structure vibrations from impact machines
- Engineering judgement in determination of pile capacity by dynamic methods
- Evaluation of uncertainties in high-strain dynamic pile testing
- Detailed drawing of steel structures and computing required material for production of steel structures
- investigation of machine foundation and soil vibrations made in Kharkov Institute to correct the Building Code for Design of Machine Foundations
- Investigations and analysis of foundations and other structures supporting machines with dynamic loads
- Studies of dynamic properties of machine foundation-soil systems
- Industrial seismology
- Design of industrial buildings for different applications such as chemical, metallurgical, and also design of refining plants, machinery shops, etc.
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Civil Engineering (Geotechnical, Structural) | Scientific-Research Institute of Bases and Underground Structures | |
| M.S. | Mathematics | Kharkov State University, Kharkov, USSR | |
| M.S. | Civil Engineering (Structural, Geotechnical) | Kharkov State Transport University |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE)
- International Society of Explosive Engineers (ISEE)
- Deep Foundation Institute (DFI)
Awards & Honors:
| The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy of the USSR Award |
| The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy of the USSR Medal |
Other Career Highlights:
| More than 145 papers published in Proceedings and Journals |
| Three patents |
| More than 100 professional reports |
