George Gazetas

George Gazetas (* before 1973) is a Greek civil engineer specializing in geotechnical engineering.

Gazetas studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens with the degree in 1973, received a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 , where he received his doctorate in 1976 with the dissertation Random vibration analysis of inelastic multi-degree-of-freedom systems subjected to earthquake ground rotations . In 1978 he became an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University , in 1981 Associate Professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in 1985 Professor at the National Technical University of Athens. He was also a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1989 to 1993 .

He deals with geotechnical issues related to earthquakes and soil dynamics, for example earth dams.

For 2019 he was selected for the Rankine Lecture . In 2009 he gave the Coulomb Lecture of the French Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and in 2013 he was Ishihara Lecturer of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering . He received the James Croes Medal, the Walter L. Huber Prize, and the Alfred Noble Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Web links

• Website at the NTUA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Gazetas: Seismic response of earth dams: some recent developments: state-of-the-art, Soil dynamics and earthquake engineering , Volume 6, 1987, Special Issue (Keynote Address, 2nd International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 1985).