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Overview

Scott M. Olson is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States and specializes in the field of engineering, with a primary focus on civil and structural engineering.

Their research spans several subfields including civil and structural engineering, management, monitoring, policy and law, safety, risk, reliability and quality, mechanics of materials, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Olson's main research topics cover a range of areas:

  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Recent publications demonstrate engagement with the geotechnical engineering community through several papers, including:

  • "Common-Origin Approach to Assess Level-Ground Liquefaction Susceptibility and Triggering in CPT-Compatible Soils Using ΔQ", 2021, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • "Practical Considerations Regarding the Probability of Liquefaction in Engineering Design", 2021, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • "Response of Sands to Multidirectional Dynamic Loading in Centrifuge Tests", 2020, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • "Predictive model for shear wave velocity of gravelly soil and its application to liquefaction triggering assessment", 2024, Engineering Geology
  • "A Multidirectional Cyclic Direct Simple Shear Device for Characterizing Dynamic Soil Behavior", 2023, Geotechnical Testing Journal

Their frequently appearing publication venues further illustrate their focus areas:

  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Geotechnical Testing Journal
  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Engineering Geology
  • Geo-Congress 2022

Within collaborative research efforts, Olson frequently works with several coauthors. The most common collaborators include:

  • Jiarui Chen
  • Soham Banerjee
  • Yves Dubief
  • Mandar M. Dewoolkar
  • Youssef M. A. Hashash

The scope of Olson's contributions, especially in geotechnical engineering disciplines, emphasizes dynamic soil behavior, soil liquefaction susceptibility, and methodical characterization of soil responses under various loading conditions.

Best Publications

  • Liquefied strength ratio from liquefaction flow failure case histories

    Scott M Olson;Timothy D Stark

  • Liquefaction Resistance Using CPT and Field Case Histories

    Timothy D. Stark;Scott M. Olson

  • Field occurrences of liquefaction-induced features: A primer for engineering geologic analysis of paleoseismic shaking

    Stephen F. Obermeier;Scott M. Olson;Russell A. Green

  • YIELD STRENGTH RATIO AND LIQUEFACTION ANALYSIS OF SLOPES AND EMBANKMENTS

    Scott M. Olson;Timothy D. Stark

  • Critical state friction angle of sands

    A. Sadrekarimi;A. Sadrekarimi;Scott Michael Olson

  • 1907 Static Liquefaction Flow Failure of the North Dike of Wachusett Dam

    Scott Michael Olson;Timothy D Stark;William H. Walton;Gonzalo Castro

  • Particle damage observed in ring shear tests on sands

    Abouzar SadrekarimiA. Sadrekarimi;Scott M. OlsonS.M. Olson

  • Evaluation of reliquefaction resistance using shaking table tests

    Ik Soo Ha;Scott M. Olson;Min Woo Seo;Myoung Mo Kim

  • A New Ring Shear Device to Measure the Large Displacement Shearing Behavior of Sands

    Abouzar Sadrekarimi;Scott Michael Olson

  • 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

  • Liquefaction Analysis of Level and Sloping Ground Using Field Case Histories and Penetration Resistance

    Scott Michael Olson

  • Shear Band Formation Observed in Ring Shear Tests on Sandy Soils

    Abouzar Sadrekarimi;Scott M. Olson

  • DIFFERENTIAL MOVEMENT AT EMBANKMENT-BRIDGE STRUCTURE INTERFACE IN ILLINOIS

    James H. Long;Scott M. Olson;Timothy D. Stark;Emile A. Samara

  • Engineering geologic and geotechnical analysis of paleoseismic shaking using liquefaction effects: field examples

    Russell A. Green;Stephen F. Obermeier;Scott M. Olson

  • Documenting Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading Triggered by the 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake

    Scott M. Olson;Russell A. Green;Samuel Lasley;Nathaniel Martin

  • Behavior of concrete-faced rockfill dams during initial impoundment

    Min Woo Seo;Ik Soo Ha;Yong Seong Kim;Scott M. Olson

  • Use of laboratory data to confirm yield and liquefied strength ratio concepts

    Scott M Olson;Timothy D Stark

  • Analyzing Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreads Using Strength Ratios

    Scott M. Olson;Cora I. Johnson

  • Geotechnical analysis of paleoseismic shaking using liquefaction features: A major updating

    Scott M. Olson;Russell A. Green;Stephen F. Obermeier

  • Shear wave velocity- and geology-based seismic microzonation of port-au-prince, Haiti

    Brady R. Cox;Jeff Bachhuber;Ellen Rathje;Clinton M. Wood

  • Geo-Engineering Reconnaissance of the 2010 Maule, Chile Earthquake

    Pedro Arduino;Scott Ashford;Dominic Assimaki;Jonathan Bray

Frequent Co-Authors

Youssef M. A. Hashash
Youssef M. A. Hashash University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Timothy D. Stark
Timothy D. Stark University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Russell A. Green
Russell A. Green Virginia Tech
Tara C. Hutchinson
Tara C. Hutchinson University of California, San Diego
Ellen M. Rathje
Ellen M. Rathje The University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan D. Bray
Jonathan D. Bray University of California, Berkeley
Jerome F. Hajjar
Jerome F. Hajjar Northeastern University
George Mylonakis
George Mylonakis University of Bristol
Larry A. Fahnestock
Larry A. Fahnestock University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Sitar
Nicholas Sitar University of California, Berkeley

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