Scott Brandenberg

Scott Brandenberg

PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

4731D Boelter Hall

Email: sjbrandenberg@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-9819

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My research interests are geotechnical earthquake engineering, geophysical imaging, data acquisition and signal processing, and numerical analysis. My current research projects are:
(1) developing fragility functions for bridges in liquefied and laterally spreading ground,
(2) developing design guidelines for pile foundations in liquefied ground,
(3) evaluation of the seismic levee deformation by destructive cyclic field testing,
(4) centrifuge modeling of the large-strain site response behavior of soft clays,
(5) CPT-based ultrasonic imaging of jet grout columns, and
(6) developing correlations between shear wave velocity and penetration resistance at Caltrans bridge sites.
EDUCATION
  • Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Davis
  • M.S. (2002), University of California, Davis
  • B.S. (2000), California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • 2022: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award
  • 2013: Shamsher Prakash Research Award
  • 2012: ASCE Student Chapter Outstanding Professor Award