She was of Austrian descent and worked for him by translating a handwritten manuscript in German, dealing with new principles of soil mechanics.
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Prof . Kenji Ishihara also served as the President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering for the period 1997 2001.
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Ambraseys was invited in 2004 to deliver the 44th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Society, titled " Engineering, seismology and soil mechanics ".
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In 1955, he was elevated to the chair of soil mechanics, and from 1957 to 1976 was head of department and professor of civil engineering.
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He worked extensively in the field of experimental Soil mechanics and developed apparati for soil testing, such as the triaxial test and the ring shear.
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Pore water pressure is vital in calculating the stress state in the ground soil mechanics, from Terzaghi's expression for the effective stress of a soil.
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He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from University of Porto and completed a postgraduate programme in soil mechanics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
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Mission Control called up and said they would like the crew to dig a trench to study the soil mechanics and take a core sample.
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In soil mechanics the term " liquefied " was first used by Allen Hazen in reference to the 1918 failure of the Calaveras Dam in California.
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During his career Peck authored over 200 publications, and served as president of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering from 1969 to 1973.
