Poul V. Lade, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Department of Civil Engineering

The Catholic University of America 

Washington D.C. 20064

 

Telephone: (202) 319-5164; Fax: (202) 319-6677

Email: Lade@cua.edu

http://faculty.cua.edu/lade

 

 Ph.D., Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1972

 M.S., Civil Engineering, The Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, 1967

 

Poul Lade’s research interests include application of appropriate experimental methods to determine the three-dimensional stress-strain and strength behavior of soils and the development of constitutive models for frictional materials such as soils, concrete, and rock. 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 200 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 five international journals on geotechnical engineering, 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. “Implementation algorithm for a single hardening constitutive model for frictional materials,” International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 26, 2002, pp. 661-681.