Dr. Gerald Miller
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EPSCoR Research Focus:
Sustainable Water & Energy Infrastructure
Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor | Assoc. Director
School of Civil Engineering & Environmental Science
University of Oklahoma
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Education:
B.S. | Civil Engineering | Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY | 1987
M.S. | Civil Engineering | Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY | 1987
Ph.D. | Civil Engineering | University of Mass-Amherst, Amherst, MA | 1994
Research Interests:
Dr. Gerald Miller, professor and associate director in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma, is a member of the OK NSF EPSCoR Track-1 RII Award titled Socially Sustainable Solutions for Water, Carbon, and Infrastructure Resilience in Oklahoma. The $20 million research project is a social science-led, multi-disciplinary collaboration among social, physical, biological, engineering, and computational scientists. More than thirty researchers from across the state are working together on the project, which began July 1, 2020.
Dr. Miller's research in the areas of civil engineering and geotechnical engineering supports the OK NSF EPSCoR project's Focus Area 4: Sustainable Water and Energy Infrastructure (SI). The SI focus area's primary goal is to develop an aggregated resilience model to characterize the influence of diverse stakeholders’ decision-making behavior on the functions of interdependent infrastructure systems. Through the development of this model, the SI focus area will advance understanding of the ways in which Oklahoma’s interdependent water and energy infrastructures interact with severe weather, S2S extremes (pluvial events and droughts), carbon cycle patterns (changing land use and increased frequency and scope of wildfires), and water management/reuse patterns (both surface and subsurface, requiring siting and sizing including increases in storage and pipeline capacities). This understanding will facilitate the development of an array of solution options for enhancing the state's infrastructure resilience that span the project focus areas (weather, water, and carbon/land use), enabling socially sustainable solutions.
Dr. Miller's Research Interests
- Invasive-type in situ testing in unsaturated soils
- Use of in situ test results for foundation design
- Development of innovative in situ testing technology
- Slope stability
- Field testing of prototype foundations
- Field evaluation of soil stabilization and earthwork construction
Key Publications:
- Miller, G. A., Tan, N. K., Collins, R. W., & Muraleetharan, K. K. 2018. Cone penetration testing in unsaturated soils. Transportation Geotechnics. 17:85-99.
- Zheng, Y., Hatami, K. and Miller, G.A., 2017. Influence of Compaction Moisture Content on Wetting-Induced Settlement of Embankments. International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering. 3(1):7.
- Hatami, K., Esmaili, D., Chan, E.C., Miller, G.A., 2016. Moisture Reduction Factors for Shear Strength of Unsaturated Reinforced Embankments. International Journal of Geomechanics. 16(6): D4016001.
- Fleming, B.J., Sritharan, S., Miller, G.A., and Muraleetharan, K.K., 2016. Full-Scale Seismic Testing of Piles in Improved and Unimproved Soft Clay.” Earthquake Spectra. EERI. DOI: 10.1193/012714EQS018M.
- Varsei, M., Miller, G.A., and Hassanikhah, A., 2016. Novel Approach to Measuring Tensile Strength of Compacted Clayey Soil during Desiccation. International Journal of Geomechanics. 16(6): D4016011.
- Miller, G.A., Cerato, A.B., Hassanikhah, A., Varsei, M., Doumet, R., Bourasset, C. Bulut, R. 2015. The Effects of Soil Suction on Shallow Slope Stability. Final Report FHWA-OK-15-04, Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) SPR 2160, 194 p.
- Miller, G.A., Hatami, K., Cerato, A.B. and Osborne, C. 2013. Applied Approach Slab Settlement Research, Design/Construction. Final Report FHWA-OK-13-09, ODOT SPR 2227, 162 p.
- Khoury, C.K. and Miller, G.A. 2012. Influence of Hydraulic Hysteresis on the Shear Strength of Unsaturated Soils and Interfaces. Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM. 35(1):135-149.
- Khoury, C.K., Khoury, N.N. and Miller, G.A. 2011. Effect of Cyclic Suction History (Hydraulic Hysteresis) on Resilient Modulus of Unsaturated Fine-Grained Soil. Journal of the Transportation Research Board. TRR 2232:68-75.
- Miller, G.A., Khoury, C.K., Muraleetharan, K.K., Liu, C. and Kibbey, C.G. 2008. Effects of Soil Skeleton Deformations on Hysteretic Soil Water Characteristic Curves: Experiments and Simulations. Water Resources Research. Vol. 44, Article # W00C06.
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