Richard Finno
Richard J. Finno is an American civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).
Finno studied civil engineering at the University of Illinois (Bachelor 1975) and Stanford University , where he received his master’s degree in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. In 1983 he became an assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and in 1986 at Northwestern University , where he became an associate professor in 1989 and a professor in 1993.
From 1976 to 1978 he was a soil mechanics engineer at Sargent and Lundy in Chicago. 1979/80 he was Assistant Project Engineer and 1981 Project Engineer at Woodward-Clyde Consultants in Chicago and San Francisco . He also advised numerous companies such as STS Consultants and Geosyntec Consultants.
Finno combined field measurement methods on geotechnical constructions (such as tunnels and deep excavations) and made comparisons with numerical and analytical modeling, which he developed into an adaptive observation method, for example in deep excavations.
In 2009 he received the Terzaghi Award . In 1994 he received the Walter Huber Research Award, the Harry Schnabel Jr. Award, the Middlebrooks Award (twice, including 2004) and the Casagrande Award (1990) from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and was Engineer of the Year in the Illinois Section in 2007 the ASCE, whose geotechnical department he headed in 1987/88. From 1994 to 1998 he was Chairman of the Committee for Earth Retaining Structures of the Geotechnical Engineering Division of ASCE.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Finno, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finno, Richard J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil engineer (geotechnical engineering) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |