CEE professors Youssef Hashash and Scott Olson (BS 94, MS 95, PhD 01) have won the 2024 Hogentogler Award from ASTM International. The award is given annually to the authors of an ASTM paper of outstanding merit on soil or rock.
The winning paper, “A Multidirectional Cyclic Direct Simple Shear Device for Characterizing Dynamic Soil Behavior,” appeared in the ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal. Co-authors include CEE alumni Lopamudra Bhaumik (PhD 18) of Jacobs Engineering Group; Ozgun Numanoglu (MS 14, PhD 19) of Schnabel Engineering; and Alfonso A. Cerna-Diaz (MS 12, PhD 18) of AECOM.
Additional co-authors are Cassandra J. Rutherford of Iowa State and Thomas Weaver of the Office of Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The award will be presented in June at the Main Meeting of Committee D18 in Philadelphia.