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John T. Germaine

John T. Germaine

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Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
5226
World Ranking
7545
National Ranking
2574

Overview

John T. Germaine is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States and has focused research contributions primarily within engineering and environmental science.

Their work encompasses several subfields including civil and structural engineering, mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, environmental chemistry, and environmental engineering. The scientist's research topics cover hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics, groundwater flow and contamination studies, rock mechanics and modeling, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with John T. Germaine include Herbert H. Einstein, P. B. Flemings, Peter B. Flemings, Athma R. Bhandari, and Hugh Daigle.

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of venues. Most recurrent publication outlets include Marine and Petroleum Geology, Water Resources Research, Petroleum Geoscience, AAPG Bulletin, and Acta Geotechnica.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by John T. Germaine include:

  • Compression behavior of hydrate-bearing sediments, 2022, AAPG Bulletin
  • Consolidation properties and structural alteration of Old Alluvium, 2021, Acta Geotechnica
  • Velocity-based pore pressure prediction in a basin with late-stage erosion: Delaware Basin, U.S., 2023, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Transport-Controlled Dissolution in an Evolving Fracture: The Extended Purday Solution and Fracture Flow Tests, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • A Three-Dimensional Study of Wormhole Formation in a Porous Medium: Wormhole Length Scaling and a Rankine Ovoid Model, 2022, Water Resources Research

Best Publications

  • PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HYDRATE-BEARING SEDIMENTS

    William F. Waite;J.C. Santamarina;D.D. Cortes;Brandon Dugan

  • Rate-Dependent Undrained Shear Behavior of Saturated Clay

    Thomas C. Sheahan;Charles C. Ladd;John T. Germaine

  • Mechanical properties of calcium-leached cement pastes: Triaxial stress states and the influence of the pore pressures

    F.H Heukamp;F.-J Ulm;J.T Germaine

  • Geotechnical Laboratory Measurements for Engineers

    John T. Germaine;Amy V. Germaine

  • Insights into pore-scale controls on mudstone permeability through resedimentation experiments

    Julia Schneider;Peter Barry Flemings;Ruarri J. Day-Stirrat;John T. Germaine

  • State-of-the-Art Paper: Triaxial Testing of Saturated Cohesive Soils

    JT Germaine;CC Ladd

  • Retrogressive failures recorded in mass transport deposits in the Ursa Basin, Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Derek E. Sawyer;Peter B. Flemings;Brandon Dugan;John T. Germaine

  • Permeability of Disturbed Zone Around Vertical Drains

    Atsuo Onoue;Nai-Hsin Ting;John T. Germaine;Robert V. Whitman

  • Pore pressure penetrometers document high overpressure near the seafloor where multiple submarine landslides have occurred on the continental slope, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico

    P. B. Flemings;H. Long;B. Dugan;J. Germaine

  • A SIMPLE SAMPLE-MOUNTING METHOD FOR RANDOM POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION

    Guoping Zhang;John T. Germaine;R. Torrence Martin;Andrew J. Whittle

  • VOLUME AND DEVIATOR CREEP OF CALCIUM-LEACHED CEMENT-BASED MATERIALS

    Olivier Bernard;Franz-Josef Ulm;John T. Germaine

  • EROSIONAL AND MECHANICAL STRENGTHS OF DEPOSITED COHESIVE SEDIMENTS

    Diana A. Zreik;Bommanna G. Krishnappan;John T. Germaine;Ole S. Madsen

  • POROPLASTIC PROPERTIES OF CALCIUM-LEACHED CEMENT-BASED MATERIALS

    Franz H Heukamp;Franz-Josef Ulm;John T Germaine

  • Factors Affecting the Initial Stiffness of Cohesive Soils

    Marika Santagata;Marika Santagata;John T. Germaine;John T. Germaine;Charles C. Ladd;Charles C. Ladd

  • Visualization of particle behavior within a porous medium: Mechanisms for particle filtration and retardation during downward transport

    Joon Sik Yoon;John T. Germaine;Patricia J. Culligan

  • Sampling Disturbance Effects in Normally Consolidated Clays

    M. C. Santagata;J. T. Germaine

  • Consolidation and overpressure near the seafloor in the Ursa Basin, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

    H. Long;Peter Barry Flemings;J. T. Germaine;D. M. Saffer

  • Index properties of a highly weathered old alluvium

    G. Zhang;J. T. Germaine;A. J. Whittle;C. C. Ladd

  • A new technique for rapid measurement of continuous soil moisture characteristic curves

    Nabi Toker;J.T. Germaine;K.J. Sjoblom;P.J. Culligan

  • Stress Path Tests with Controlled Rotation of Principal Stress Directions

    J. R. F. Arthur;S. Bekenstein;J. T. Germaine;C. C. Ladd

  • Small-strain behavior of frozen sand in triaxial compression

    Glen R. Andersen;Christopher W. Swan;Charles C. Ladd;John T. Germaine

  • Erratum to "Pore pressure penetrometers document high overpressure near the seafloor where multiple submarine landslides have occurred on the continental slope, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico" (Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269/3-4 (2008) 309-32)

    P. B. Flemings;H. Long;B. Dugan;J. Germaine

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Flemings
Peter B. Flemings The University of Texas at Austin
Brandon Dugan
Brandon Dugan Colorado School of Mines
Cédric M. John
Cédric M. John Imperial College London
Jan H. Behrmann
Jan H. Behrmann GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Demian M. Saffer
Demian M. Saffer The University of Texas at Austin
Dale S. Sawyer
Dale S. Sawyer Rice University

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