Contributors

Ahmet H. Aydilek, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Mary-
land, College Park, Maryland

Michael Burrow, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K.

Braja M. Das, Ph.D.

Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University,
Sacramento, California

Tuncer B. Edil, Ph.D., P.E.

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Gurmel S. Ghataora, Ph.D., MIMM, MILT

Lecturer, Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K.

R.L. Handy, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental
Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Sanjeev Kumar, Ph.D., P.E.

Professor and Distinguished Teacher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois

Priti Maheshwari, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
India

Marcus Pacheco, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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