The Catholic University of America

Poul V. Lade, Ph.D.

Professor
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Education
M.S., Civil Engineering, The Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, 1967
Ph.D., Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1972

Biography

Poul Lade’s research interests are centered in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics. The aim of his research is to determine the behavior of soils and other frictional materials such as soils, concrete, and rock under various three-dimensional static loading conditions, to develop accurate constitutive models for this behavior, and to employ these constitutive models with numerical methods to predict soil-structure interaction and behavior of prototype geotechnical structures. The laboratory experiments involve monotonic loading and large three-dimensional stress reversals, and include studies of stability, instability and liquefaction of granular materials, and time effects. The constitutive models are based on elasticity and work-hardening, isotropic and kinematic plasticity theories. Dr. Lade has written over 275 publications based on research performed with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). He serves on the editorial boards of seven international journals on geotechnical engineering and geomechanics, he was elected member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (2001), and he was awarded Professor Ostenfeld’s Gold Medal from The Technical University of Denmark (2001).

Representative Publications
Lade, P.V., "Instability and Liquefaction of Granular Materials", Computers and Geotechnics, Vol. 16, 1994, pp. 123-151.
 
Lade, P.V., and Kim, M.K., "Single Hardening Constitutive Model for Soil, Rock and Concrete," International Journal of Solids and Structures, Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 32, No. 14, 1995, pp. 1963-1978.
 
Yamamuro, J.A. and Lade, P.V. “Steady State Concepts and Static Liquefaction of Silty Sands,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 124, No. 9, 1998, pp. 868-877.
 
Lade P.V. and Kirkgard, M.M. “Effects of Stress Rotation and Changes of b-Values on Cross-Anisotropic Behavior of Natural K0-Consolidated Soft Clay,” Soils and Foundations, Vol. 40, No. 6, December 2000, pp. 93-105.

Jakobsen, K.P. and Lade, P.V. (2002) "Implementation algorithm for a single hardening constitutive model for frictional materials," International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 26: 661-681.

Lade, P.V. (2003) "Analysis and Prediction of Shear Banding Under 3D Conditions in Granular Materials," Proceedings of IS-Lyon on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, published as special issue of Soils and Foundations, 43(4): 161-172.

Lade, P.V. (2006) "Assessment of Test Data for Selection of 3-D Failure Criterion for Sand" International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 30(4): 307-333.


Lade, P.V. (2008) "Failure Criterion for Cross-Anisotropic Soils," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 134(1): 117-124.

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