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Ellen M. Rathje is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans areas within engineering and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on civil and structural engineering, geophysics, and computational mechanics. They have contributed significantly to various subfields such as management, monitoring, policy and law, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

Their primary research topics include seismic performance and analysis, geotechnical engineering and underground structures, seismic waves and analysis, landslides and related hazards, geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics, earthquake and tectonic studies, and geotechnical engineering and analysis.

Among their recent papers are the following publications:

  • InSAR Reveals Complex Surface Deformation Patterns Over an 80,000 km2 Oil-Producing Region in the Permian Basin, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • An exploration of the use of machine learning to predict lateral spreading, 2021, Earthquake Spectra
  • A comparison of artificial neural network and classical regression models for earthquake-induced slope displacements, 2021, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Distinguishing the Causal Factors of Induced Seismicity in the Delaware Basin: Hydraulic Fracturing or Wastewater Disposal?, 2022, Seismological Research Letters
  • Generic Predictive Model of Earthquake-Induced Slope Displacements Derived from Finite-Element Analysis, 2022, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Earthquake Spectra
  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

They have collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Brent Sordo
  • Jonathan P. Stewart
  • Alexandros Savvaidis
  • Krishna Kumar
  • Youssef M. A. Hashash

Best Publications

  • Simplified Frequency Content Estimates of Earthquake Ground Motions

    Ellen M. Rathje;Norman A. Abrahamson;Jonathan D. Bray

  • Empirical Predictive Models for Earthquake-Induced Sliding Displacements of Slopes

    Gokhan Saygili;Ellen M. Rathje

  • NONLINEAR COUPLED SEISMIC SLIDING ANALYSIS OF EARTH STRUCTURES

    Ellen M. Rathje;Ellen M. Rathje;Jonathan D. Bray

  • Empirical Relationships for Frequency Content Parameters of Earthquake Ground Motions

    Ellen M. Rathje;Fadi Faraj;Stephanie Russell;Jonathan D. Bray

  • Earthquake-Induced Displacements of Solid-Waste Landfills

    Jonathan D. Bray;Ellen M. Rathje

  • Unit weight of municipal solid waste

    Dimitrios Zekkos;Jonathan D. Bray;Edward Kavazanjian;Neven Matasovic

  • DesignSafe: New Cyberinfrastructure for Natural Hazards Engineering

    Ellen M. Rathje;Clint Dawson;Jamie E. Padgett;Jean-Paul Pinelli

  • PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER

    Albert R. Kottke;Ellen M. Rathje

  • Influence of Input Motion and Site Property Variabilities on Seismic Site Response Analysis

    Ellen M. Rathje;Albert R. Kottke;Whitney L. Trent

  • A unified model for predicting earthquake-induced sliding displacements of rigid and flexible slopes

    Ellen M. Rathje;George Antonakos

  • An examination of simplified earthquake-induced displacement procedures for earth structures

    Ellen M. Rathje;Jonathan D. Bray

  • A Semi-Automated Procedure for Selecting and Scaling Recorded Earthquake Motions for Dynamic Analysis

    Albert Kottke;Ellen M. Rathje

  • Landslides Triggered by the 14 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand

    C. Massey;D. Townsend;Ellen M. Rathje;Kate E. Allstadt

  • Application of Single-Station Sigma and Site-Response Characterization in a Probabilistic Seismic-Hazard Analysis for a New Nuclear Site

    A. Rodriguez-Marek;E. M. Rathje;J. J. Bommer;Frank Scherbaum

  • Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for the Sliding Displacement of Slopes: Scalar and Vector Approaches

    Ellen M. Rathje;Gokhan Saygili

  • Probabilistic assessment of earthquake-induced sliding displacements of natural slopes

    Ellen M. Rathje;Gokhan Saygili

  • Simplified Seismic Design Procedure for Geosynthetic-Lined, Solid-Waste Landfills

    J.D. Bray;E.M. Rathje;A.J. Augello;S.M. Merry

  • The influence of different simplified sliding-block models and input parameters on regional predictions of seismic landslides triggered by the Northridge earthquake

    Daniel Dreyfus;Ellen M. Rathje;Randall W. Jibson

  • Evaluation of one-dimensional site response techniques using borehole arrays

    Georgios Zalachoris;Ellen M. Rathje

  • Pore Pressure Generation of Silty Sands due to Induced Cyclic Shear Strains

    Kenan Hazirbaba;Kenan Hazirbaba;Ellen M. Rathje;Ellen M. Rathje

  • Geotechnical Aspects of Failures at Port-au-Prince Seaport during the 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake

    Russell A. Green;Scott M. Olson;Brady R Cox;Glenn J. Rix

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth H. Stokoe
Kenneth H. Stokoe The University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan D. Bray
Jonathan D. Bray University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan P. Stewart
Jonathan P. Stewart University of California, Los Angeles
Youssef M. A. Hashash
Youssef M. A. Hashash University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Randall W. Jibson
Randall W. Jibson United States Geological Survey
Ross W. Boulanger
Ross W. Boulanger University of California, Davis
Paolo Bazzurro
Paolo Bazzurro Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
Jonathan W. Godt
Jonathan W. Godt United States Geological Survey
Russell A. Green
Russell A. Green Virginia Tech
Scott M. Olson
Scott M. Olson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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