John T. Christian

John T. Christian (* in Brooklyn ) is an American civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).

Christian studied and received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He did research and then taught at MIT before joining Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation in the mid 1970s, where he became Vice President. He then went into business for himself and is a consulting engineer in Waban , Massachusetts .

Since the late 1960s at MIT, he has dealt with numerical methods in geotechnical engineering ( e.g. consolidation and elastic / plastic finite element modeling of soils) and later in particular with probability and safety issues in geotechnical engineering. He also dealt with soil dynamics and earthquake security issues. As a consulting engineer, he advised in particular on power plant projects including nuclear power plants. He also served on a commission that learned lessons from Hurricane Katrina for New Orleans.

In 2003 he gave the Terzaghi Lecture . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1999). He was chairman of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (AEC) and was head of the geotechnical department of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), whose Thomas A. Middlebrook Award he received in 1996. He was editor of the ASCE's Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.

Fonts

with Gregory B. Baecher: Reliability and Statistics in Geotechnical Engineering, Wiley 2003
with Chandrakant S. Desai (editor): Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, McGraw Hill 1977 (therein from Christian Introduction and Constitutive Laws with Desai, Two and Three Dimensional Dynamic Analysis with Desai and José Roesset, Shallow Foundations and Two- and Three Dimensional Consolidation )

Web links

Individual evidence

^ John T. Christian Lessons from Hurricane Katrina , National Academy of Engineering, pdf . Christian also published a special issue of the J. of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering of ASCE in 2008 ( Performance of geo-systems during hurricane Katrina ).

personal data
SURNAME	Christian, John T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American geotechnician
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn

[1] John T. Christian Lessons from Hurricane Katrina , National Academy of Engineering, pdf . Christian also published a special issue of the J. of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering of ASCE in 2008 ( Performance of geo-systems during hurricane Katrina ).