Annalingam Anandarajah
Professor of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Phone: (410) 516-8682
e-mail: rajah@cevax5.ce.jhu.edu
- Constitutive modeling of soils; finite element modeling of nonlinear dynamic soil-structure interaction; in situ determination of stress-strain properties of soils; laboratory study of stress-strain behavior of soils; environmental geotechnology; micromechanics of soils; discrete soil particle analysis; testing and modeling of piles.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1982
M.Sc., University of California, Davis, 1980
B.Sc., University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya, 1977
EXPERIENCE
- Professor of Civil Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1995-present
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1991-1995
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, 1984-1991
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 1982-1984
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
Committee Member, Inelastic Behavior Commitee, Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE
Co-organized sessions for 1996 and 1997 ASCE/ASME Joint Conferences
Co-organized two sessions for the 11th EMD, ASCE Specialty Conference
Organized and Chaired a session on constitutive modeling at the EMD/ASCE Specialty; Conference held in VPI, Blacksburg, 1988
Organized and Chaired a session on Shear LOcalization at the Mechanics ASCE/ASME; Conference held in San Diego, 1989
Reviewer, Inelastic Behavior Committee (ASCE/EMD), Materials Committee; (ASCE/EMD), Dynamics Committee (ASCE/EMD), Geotechnical Engineering Journal (ASCE/GT), Elasticity Committee (ASCE), Computational Mechanics Committee (ASCE/EMD), International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, Journal of American Society of Teting Materials (ASTM), International Journal of Analytical and Numerical Methods in Geomechanics and Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), International Journal of Solids and structres; Powders and Technology, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Chair, Session on Constitutive Modelling of Geomaterials, ASCE/EMD Meeting, 1988
Secretary, Adjudication Committee, Joint NSF VELACS Project
- Anandarajah. A. and J. Chen. "Van der Waals attractive force between clay particles
in water and contaminant." Soils Found Jpn Soc Soil Mech Found Eng, 1997 (in press).
Anandarajah, A. and J. Chen. "Theoretical and experimetnal investigation of the bahavior of contanimated clays." 3rd Intl Symp Environ Geotech, edited by H-Y. Fang and H.I. Inyang, 170-179. San Diego: Technomic Publishing Co., June 10-12, 1996.
Anandarajah, A. and D. Zhao. "Stress-strain behavior of contaminated kaolinite." 3rd Int Symp Environ Geotech, edited by H-Y. Fang and H.I. Inyang., 180-188. San Diego: Technomic Publishing Co., June 10-12, 1996.
Anandarajah, A., N. Kuganethira, and D. Zhao. "Variation of fabric anisotropy of kaolinite in triaxial loading." J Geo Eng Div ASCE 122, no. 8(1996): 633-640.
Chen J. and A. Anandarajah. "Van der Waals attractive force between spherical particles." J Colloid Interface Sci 180(1996): 519-523.
Anandarajah, A. "Verification of an elasto-plastic earthquake analysis procedure." In Proc 3rd Int Conf Recent Adv Geotech Earthquake Eng Soil Dyn, edited by S. Prakash, 107-116. St. Louis: University of Missouri-Rolla Press, April 2-7, 1995.
Anandarajah, A. "Physico-chemical interactons between clay particles." In Proc 5th Int Symp Numer Models Geomech, edited by G.N.Pande and S. Pietruszczak, 89-94. Davos, Switzerland: A.A. Balkema Publishers, September 6-8, 1995.
Anandarajah, A. and J. Chen. "Single correction function for retarded Van der Waals attraction." J Colloid Interface Sci 176, no. 2(1995): 293 -300.
Anandarajah, A. and N. Kuganethira. "Some aspects of fabric anisotropy of soils." Geotechnique 45, no. 1(1995): 69-81.
Anandarajah, A., K. Sobhan, and N. Kuganenthira. "Incremental stress-strain behavior of a granular soil." J Geotech Eng Div ASCE 121, no. 1(1995): 57-68.
Anandarajah, A. "A constitutive model for granular materials based on associated flow rule." Soils Found, Jpn Soc Soil Mech Found Eng 34, no. 3(1994): 81-98.
Anandarajah, A., H. Rashidi, and K. Arulanandan. "Elasto-plastic finite element analyses of earthquake pile-soil-structure interaction problems tested in a centrifuge." Comput Geotechnics 17(1995): 301-325.
Anandarajah, A. and J. Chen. "Double-layer repulsive force between two inclined platy particles according to Gouy-Chapman theory." J Colloid Interface Sci 168(1994): 111-117.
Anandarajah, A. "Procedures for elasto-plastic liquefaction modeling of sands." J Eng Mech Div ASCE 120, no. 7(1994).
Anandarajah, A. "Discrete element method for simulating behavior of cohesive soils." J Geotech Eng Div ASCE 120, no. 9(1994).
Anandarajah, A. and N. Kuganenthira. "Some aspects of fabric anisotroy of soils." Geotechnique 44, no. 2 (1994).
Anandarajah, A. "Dynamic analysis of axially-loaded footings in time domain." J Soils Found Jpn Soc of Soil Mech Found Eng 33, no. 1(1993): 40.
Anandarajah, A. "Computer-aided calibration of a soil plasticity model: i-method." Int J Numer Anal Methods Geomech 15(1991): 835-856.
Anandarajah, A. and N. Lu. "Structural analysis by the distinct element method." J Eng Mech Div, ASCE 117, no. 9(1991): 2156.
Anandarajah, A. "Time-domain radiation boundary for finite element analysis of semi-infinite solids." Int J Numer Methods Eng 29(1990): 1049-1063.
Anandarajah, A., N.J. Meegoda, and K. Arulanandan. "Electrical in situ measurements for predicting behavior of soils." In Proc In Situ '86 ASCE Spec Conf. ASCE, 1986.