Eduardo Alonso
Eduardo Alonso (* 1947 ) is a Spanish civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering. He is a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona .
Alonso graduated from the University of Madrid in 1969 with an engineering degree and received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1973 .
Among other things, he dealt with unsaturated and partially saturated soils (and heads the ISSMGE Technical Committee TC 6 on this topic), swellable soils, numerical analysis in soil and rock mechanics and slope stability and risk assessment. He also works as a consulting engineer (including deep construction pits, construction pits for nuclear power plants, sealing walls, earth dams, tunnels, breakwaters, shallow and deep foundations, soil improvement, underpinning, embankments).
He was selected as a Rankine Lecturer for 2017 . In 2003 he gave the Spencer J. Buchanan Lecture at Texas A&M University (Exploring the limits of unsaturated soil mechanics: the behavior of coarse granular soil and rockfill). Alonso received the Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers , the Premio Jose Toran.
Fonts
- with A. Gens, A. Josa: Constitutive model for partially saturated soils, Geotechnique, Volume 40, 1990, pp. 405-430
- with A. Gens: A framework for the behavior of unsaturated expansive clays, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Volume 29, 1992, pp. 1013-1032
- with J. Vaunat, A. Gens: Modeling the mechanical behavior of expansive clays, Engineering Geology, Volume 54, 1999, pp. 173-183
- Risk analysis of slopes and its application to slopes in Canadian sensitive clays, Geotechnique, Volume 26, 1976, pp. 453-472
- with AM Puzrin, NM Pinyol: Geomechanics of Failures, Springer 2010
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| SURNAME | Alonso, Eduardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish geotechnician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |