Kenneth H. Stokoe
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Jennie C. and Milton T. Graves Chair in Engineering
Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Professorship in Civil Engineering
Phone: (512) 471-4929
Fax: (512) 471-6548
Email: k.stokoe@mail.utexas.edu
Dr. Stokoe’s Web site
Dr. Kenneth Stokoe earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Michigan in 1972. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1973. He directs the Geotechnical Engineering Center. Stokoe is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the nation's highest honor for engineering professionals. In 2004, he was the Distinguished Lecturer for the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
Dr. Stokoe has been working in the areas of in situ (in place) seismic measurements, laboratory measurements of dynamic material properties, and dynamic soil-structure interaction for the past 35 years. He is an expert in evaluating the soil properties beneath building foundations to determine their vulnerability to earthquakes. Stokoe was instrumental in developing the crosshole seismic method for in situ shear wave velocity measurement. This method is used by geotechnical engineering firms worldwide for evaluating geotechnical materials for site characterization and dynamic soil-structure interaction. The method has been adopted as one of the standards by the American Society for Testing and Materials. Stokoe also devised a torsional shear/resonant column system which is now used by many universities and private firms in the United States, Europe and Asia to evaluate dynamic material properties.
Research Interests:
- Resonant column/torsional shear (RCTS) equipment
- Dynamic soil properties
- Rolling dynamic deflectometer (RDD)
- Earthquake vulnerability of soils