EIGER FELLOW SINCE JANUARY, 2006

At the finish line of the Seattle to
Portland double century ride in 2005.

EDUCATION

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
M.S., Civil Engineering, 1996

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
B.S. and B.A., Civil Engineering, 1995

ADVISOR

Professor George Filz, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

EIGER INTERNSHIPS

May-June, 2008
Presented at a conference in China in 2008 and meeting with organizers of the Okinawa Deep-Mixing Symposium to coordinate collaboration and trip to Japan in 2009.

May-June, 2009
Presented at the symposium in Okinawa in 2009 and participated in meetings on an international collaborative QA/QC study. Worked to coordinate a follow-on collaborative trip to Tokyo to work with Dr. Kitazume and the Soil Stabilization Division at PARI.

CURRENT RESEARCH

The overall objective is to develop recommendations for the design of levees founded on deep mixed shear walls.  The goal is to determine if numerical methods are necessary to accurately asses the stability of these systems and to provide recommendations for modeling weak joints within the shear walls. 

 CONTACT INFORMATION

teadams@vt.edu

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