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Overview

Gholamreza Mesri is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant contribution to civil and structural engineering, as well as safety, risk, reliability, and quality. The subfields they specialize in include management, monitoring, policy, and law as related to engineering contexts.

The main topics of Mesri's work center around geotechnical engineering, particularly in areas such as soil stabilization, soil mechanics, underground structures, geotechnical analysis, landslides and related hazards, and soil and unsaturated flow.

Mesri's recent publications demonstrate active engagement with applied geotechnical subjects. Notable papers include:

  • Discussion of "Field study of pile - prefabricated vertical drain (PVD) interaction in soft clay", 2021, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Meaning, measurement, and field application of fully softened shear strength of stiff clays and clay shales, 2021, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Discussion of "Evaluation of installation effects on set-up of field displacement piles in sand", 2021, Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Discussion of "Stress History-Dependent Secondary Compression of San Francisco Bay Region Old Bay Clays" by Nathaniel Wagner, Micaela Largent, Jonathan P. Stewart, Christine Beyzaei, Debra Murphy, Jeremy Butkovitch, and John A. Egan, 2022, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Discussion of "Measuring strength and consolidation properties in lacustrine clay using piezocone and self-boring pressuremeter tests", 2024, Canadian Geotechnical Journal

They frequently publish in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, having contributed four papers, and have also published in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and Géotechnique.

Mesri collaborates regularly with several researchers, most frequently with Thierno Kane, with whom they have co-authored three works. Other co-authors include Cai Wang, L. Zhang, Wangcheng Zhang, and Yutao Pan.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms Controlling the Permeability of Clays

    Gholamreza Mesri

  • Time and Stress-Compressibility Interrelationship

    Gholamreza Mesri;Paul M. Godlewski

  • Engineering Properties of Fibrous Peats

    G. Mesri;G. Mesri;M. Ajlouni;M. Ajlouni

  • The coefficient of earth pressure at rest

    Gholamreza Mesri;T. M. Hayat

  • Secondary compression of peat with or without surcharging

    G. Mesri;T. D. Stark;M. A. Ajlouni;C. S. Chen

  • MECHANISMS CONTROLLING COMPRESSIBILITY OF CLAYS

    Roy E. Olson;Gholamreza Mesri

  • Residual shear strength mobilized in first-time slope failures

    G. Mesri;M. Shahien

  • Postdensification Penetration Resistance of Clean Sands

    G. Mesri;T. W. Feng;J. M. Benak

  • Compression of granular materials.

    Gholamreza MesriG. Mesri;Gholamreza MesriG. Mesri;Barames VardhanabhutiB. Vardhanabhuti;Barames VardhanabhutiB. Vardhanabhuti

  • THEORY OF CONSOLIDATION FOR CLAYS

    Gholamreza Mesri;Anoushiravan Rokhsar

  • Settlement analysis of embankments on soft clays

    Gholamreza Mesri;Y. K. Choi

  • UNDRAINED SHEAR STRENGTH OF LIQUEFIED SANDS FOR STABILITY ANALYSIS

    Timothy D. Stark;Gholamreza Mesri

  • Shear stress-strain-time behaviour of clays

    G. Mesri;E. Febres-Cordero;D. R. Shields;A. Castro

  • Consolidation Characteristics of Montmorillonite

    Gholamreza Mesri;Roy E. Olson

  • COEFFICIENT OF SECONDARY COMPRESSION

    G Mesri

  • Composition and compressibility of typical samples of Mexico City clay

    G. Mesri;A. Rokhsar;B. F. Bohor

  • Residual shear strength of clays and shales

    G. Mesri;A. F. Cepeda-Diaz

  • Shear Strength of Montmorillonite

    G. Mesri;R. E. Olson

  • Settlement of Embankments on Soft Clays

    Gholamreza Mesri;Dominic O. Kwan Lo;Tao-Wei Feng

  • Discussion of “New Design Procedure for Stability of Soft Clays”

    Gholamreza Mesri

  • NEW DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR STABILITY OF SOFT CLAYS

    G Mesri

  • Closure of "Undrained Shear Strength of Liquefied Sands for Stability Analysis"

    Timothy D. Stark;Gholamreza Mesri

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy D. Stark
Timothy D. Stark University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Raymond B. Seed
Raymond B. Seed University of California, Berkeley
Pierre-Yves Hicher
Pierre-Yves Hicher École Centrale de Nantes

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