Robert D. Holtz

Robert D. Holtz (* around 1940 ) is an American civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).

Holtz studied civil engineering at the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a master's degree in 1962. In 1966 he completed a postgraduate course in soil mechanics at Harvard University with Arthur Casagrande . In 1970 he received his PhD from Northwestern University . He taught at Purdue University and California State University in Sacramento before becoming Professor at the University of Washington in 1988 , where he is now Professor Emeritus. He also worked for the Swedish Geotechnical Institute, the California Department of Water Resources, the National Research Council of Canada. He worked as a consulting engineer in Milan, Paris and Chicago.

He deals specifically with geosynthetics and soil improvement (such as reinforced soil, Geotextile Reinforced Soil (GRS)).

In 2010 he was Terzaghi Lecturer ( Reinforced Soil Technology: from experimental to the familiar ). In 2000/01 he was President of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He was president of the North American Geosynthetics Society.

Fonts

• with William D. Kovacs, Thomas C. Sheahan An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering , Prentice-Hall, 2nd edition 2011 (first with Kovacs 1981, the book was also translated into French, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal 1991)
• with Michele Jamiolkowski , Lancelotta, Pedroni Prefabricated vertical drains , Butterworths 1991

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Washington