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Overview

John S. McCartney is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, in the United States. Their primary field of study is engineering, with a significant focus on civil and structural engineering. Their research also spans renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, management, monitoring, policy and law, atmospheric science, and mechanical engineering.

Their work largely focuses on topics related to soil and unsaturated flow, geothermal energy systems and applications, geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics, soil stabilization, underground structures, landslides and related hazards, and issues involving climate change and permafrost.

John S. McCartney has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • E3S Web of Conferences
  • Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment
  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • Geotechnical Testing Journal

Recent representative papers authored or co-authored by John S. McCartney include:

  • Energy geostructures: A review of analysis approaches, in situ testing and model scale experiments (2020), Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment
  • Effect of nearby piles and soil properties on thermal behaviour of a field-scale energy pile (2020), Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Thermal Conductivity of Biocemented Graded Sands (2021), Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Energy pile groups for thermal energy storage in unsaturated soils (2022), Applied Thermal Engineering
  • A novel analytical multilayer cylindrical heat source model for vertical ground heat exchangers installed in layered ground (2020), Energy

Throughout their career, John S. McCartney has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Yu Lu
  • Abdelmalek Bouazza
  • Mohammed Faizal
  • Fernando Saboya
  • Aria Moradshahi

Best Publications

  • Critical Review of Thermal Conductivity Models for Unsaturated Soils

    Yi Dong;John S. McCartney;Ning Lu

  • Centrifuge Modeling of Soil-Structure Interaction in Energy Foundations

    Melissa A. Stewart;John S. McCartney

  • Evaluation of thermo-mechanical and thermal behavior of full-scale energy foundations

    Kyle D. Murphy;John S. McCartney;Karen S. Henry

  • Centrifuge Modeling of End-Restraint Effects in Energy Foundations

    J. C. Goode;John S. McCartney

  • Impact of Heat Exchange on Side Shear in Thermo-Active Foundations

    John S. McCartney;Joshua E. Rosenberg

  • Geosynthetic capillary barriers: current state of knowledge

    Jorge Zornberg;Abdelmalek Bouazza;John McCartney

  • Impact of Hydraulic Hysteresis on the Small-Strain Shear Modulus of Low Plasticity Soils

    Ali Khosravi;John S. McCartney

  • Seasonal Response of Energy Foundations During Building Operation

    K. D. Murphy;John S. McCartney

  • Energy geostructures: A review of analysis approaches, in situ testing and model scale experiments

    Fleur Loveridge;John S. McCartney;Guillermo A. Narsilio;Marcelo Sanchez

  • Axial and Radial Thermal Responses of a Field-Scale Energy Pile under Monotonic and Cyclic Temperature Changes

    Mohammed Faizal;Abdelmalek Bouazza;Chris Haberfield;John S. McCartney

  • Strain Distributions in Full-Scale Energy Foundations (DFI Young Professor Paper Competition 2012)

    John S. McCartney;Kyle D. Murphy

  • Energy geotechnics: Advances in subsurface energy recovery, storage, exchange, and waste management

    John S. McCartney;Marcelo Sánchez;Ingrid Tomac

  • Analysis of a Large Database of GCL-Geomembrane Interface Shear Strength Results

    John S. McCartney;John S. McCartney;John S. McCartney;Jorge G. Zornberg;Jorge G. Zornberg;Jorge G. Zornberg;Robert H. Swan;Robert H. Swan;Robert H. Swan

  • Parameterization of a calibrated geothermal energy pile model

    Robert Caulk;Ehsan Ghazanfari;John S. McCartney

  • Analysis of a Large Database of GCL Internal Shear Strength Results

    Jorge G. Zornberg;John S. McCartney;Robert H. Swan

  • Effects of Cyclic Temperature Variations on Thermal Response of an Energy Pile under a Residential Building

    Mohammed Faizal;Abdelmalek Bouazza;John S. McCartney;Chris Haberfield

  • Municipal solid waste landfills as geothermal heat sources

    Charles J.R. Coccia;Ranjiv Gupta;Jeremy Morris;John S. McCartney

  • Thermal behaviour of unsaturated silt at high suction magnitudes

    N. A. Alsherif;J. S. McCARTNEY

  • Investigation of potential dragdown/uplift effects on energy piles

    John S. McCartney;Kyle D. Murphy

  • Centrifuge Permeameter for Unsaturated Soils. I: Theoretical Basis and Experimental Developments

    Jorge G. Zornberg;Jorge G. Zornberg;John S. McCartney

  • Numerical Modeling of a Soil-Borehole Thermal Energy Storage System

    Nora Catolico;Shemin Ge;John S. McCartney

  • Significance of unsaturated behaviour of geotextiles in earthen structures

    Abdelmalek Bouazza;Jorge G Zornberg;John S. McCartney;Hani Nahlawi

  • Unsaturated geotechnics applied to geoenvironmental engineering problems involving geosynthetics

    Abdelmalek Bouazza;Jorge G Zornberg;John McCartney;Rao Martand Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge G. Zornberg
Jorge G. Zornberg The University of Texas at Austin
Patrick J. Fox
Patrick J. Fox Pennsylvania State University
Abdelmalek Bouazza
Abdelmalek Bouazza Monash University
Yang Xiao
Yang Xiao Chongqing University
Shemin Ge
Shemin Ge University of Colorado Boulder
Hanlong Liu
Hanlong Liu Chongqing University
Moncef Krarti
Moncef Krarti University of Colorado Boulder
Jeffrey D. Spitler
Jeffrey D. Spitler Oklahoma State University
William J. Likos
William J. Likos University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lyesse Laloui
Lyesse Laloui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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