Steven L. Kramer
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Professor University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2700 ph 206-685-2642 fx 206-685-3836 kramer@u.washington.edu |
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Steve Kramer received all of his degrees from the University of California at Berkeley: his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1977, Master's of Engineering in 1979, and Ph.D. in 1984. Between his Master's and Ph.D. studies, he worked for a consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area, and became registered as a Professional Engineer in California in 1982. He joined the faculty of the University of Wasington in 1984, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990, and to full Professor in 1996. In 1998, he was named as the John R. Kiely Professor of Civil Engineering. Kramer received a Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation in 1988, the Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 1991, and a Walter Huber Research Prize from ASCE in 1996. Kramer is the author of the book, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, co-developer of the educational site response analysis program, EduShake, and author of numerous technical papers and reports. He is a member of many professional societies including ASCE, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the Seismological Society of America, and others, and is a member of the Executive Management Committee of Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) center.
EDUCATION
B.S., University of California, Berkeley, Civil Engineering, 1977
M. Eng., University of California, Berkeley, Geotechnical Engineering, 1979
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Geotechnical Engineering, 1985
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Geotechnical earthquake engineering
Soil dynamics
Foundation engineering
CLASSES TAUGHT
CEE 436 Foundation Design
CEE 366 Basic Soil Mechanics
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Publications
Kramer, S.L. and Lindwall, N.W. (2002). “Dimensionality and Directionality Effects of Newmark Stability Analysis,” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering., in review.
Kramer, S.L., Arduino, P., Baska, D.A., and Malgesini, M. (2003). “A practical constitutive model for free-field analysis of liquefiable soils,” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering., in review.
Kramer, S.L. (2000). "Dynamic Response of Mercer Slough Peat", Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 6, pp. 504-510.
Kim, M-Y, O’Neill, M.W., and Kramer, S.L. (2000). “Performance of Drilled Shafts with Isolation Tubes in an Expansive Soil Environment,” Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 345-357.
Kramer, S.L. and Smith, M.W. (1996). "A Modified Newmark Model for Seismic Displacements of Landfills and Other Compliant Slopes", Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 123, No. 7, pp. 635-644.
Books
Kramer, S.L. and Scawthorn, C.R. (1999): "Geotechnical Earthquake Considerations", Chapter 33 in Earthquake Engineering Handbook, W.F. Chen and L. Duan, eds., CRC Press.
Kramer, S.L. (1996). Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 653 pp.