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Steven L. Kramer

John R. Kiely Professor of Civil Engineering  
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering  

265 Wilcox Hall, Box 352700  
Seattle, Washington, 98195-2700, USA  
(206) 685-2642  FAX: (206) 685-3836  
E-Mail: kramer@u.washington.edu 
 

Education

  • B.S.C.E, University of California, Berkeley, 1977
  • M.Eng., University of California, Berkeley, 1979
  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1984
 

Honors and Awards

  • Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society
  • Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1988
  • Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award, ASCE, 1991
  • Walter Huber Research Prize, ASCE, 1996
 

Research Interests

  • Geotechnical earthquake engineering
  • Engineering seismology
  • Foundation engineering
 

Biography

Steve Kramer received his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977, 1979, and 1985, respectively. His research interests include geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, and foundation engineering. He joined the University of Washington in 1984 and now holds the John R. Kiely Professorship in Civil Engineering. Kramer has been the recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award from ASCE, and a Walter Huber Research Prize from ASCE. He is the author of the book Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (at last count, ranked 95,384 on Amazon.com's best-seller list), co-developer of the computer programs, ProShake and EduShake, and member of the Executive Management Committee of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center. Kramer recently led the National Science Foundation's Advance Reconnaissance Team for the Ji-Ji (Taiwan) earthquake. Kramer also serves as a consultant on projects in the U.S. and abroad.    

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Selected Publications

    • Kramer, S.L. (1996). Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 653 pp.
    • Kramer, S.L. and Smith, M.W. (1996). "A Modified Newmark Model for Seismic Displacements of Landfills and Other Compliant Slopes", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 123, No. 7, pp. 635-644.
    • Baska, D. A., Kramer, S.L., and Silva, W. J. (1998), "Ground Motions in Washington State from Subduction Zone Earthquakes, Proceedings, Geo-Institute Specialty Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, Seattle, Vol. 1, pp. 54-65.
    • Stark, T. D., Olson, S. M., Kramer, S. L., and Youd, T. L. (1998) "Shear Strength of Liquified Soil", Proceedings, Geo-Institute Specialty Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, Seattle, Vol. 1, pp. 313-324.
    • Kramer, S.L. (1999): "Geotechnical Earthquake Considerations", Chapter 33 in Earthquake Engineering Handbook, W.F. Chen and L. Duan, eds., CRC Press, in press.
    • Kramer, S.L., Wang, C.H., and Byers, M.B. (1999). “Experimental Measurement of the Residual Strength of Particulate Materials,” Physics and Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction, Lade, P.V. and Yamamuro, J.A., eds., Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 249-259.
    • Kramer, S.L. and Arduino, P. (1999). “Constitutive Modeling of Cyclic Mobility and Implications for Site Response,” Proceedings, Second International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Lisbon, Portugal, Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, Vol. 3, pp. 1029-1034.
 

Miscellaneous

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