MPM is a particle-based method that represents material as a collection of material points. Each material point’s movement is determined via solving Newton’s laws of motion. MPM is a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian approach, which uses moving material points and a fixed… Read More »Material Point Method (MPM)
Ph.D. Email: lauren.talbot ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Lauren is a Ph.D. student within the Soga Research Group at Berkeley. Her research area is computational geomechanics, with a focus on the Material Point Method (MPM). Lauren’s current work involves developing new… Read More »Lauren Talbot
Ph.D. Student Email: paola_lorusso ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Paola graduated from the Politecnico di Torino in Italy with both a BS and an MS in Architecture. During her studies, she developed an interest in fire safety engineering and simulations of… Read More »Paola Lorusso
PhD Student Email: joelgiven ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Joel is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley within Prof. Kenichi Soga’s computational geomechanics group. Joel’s research currently focuses on two main areas: MPM MPM modeling is completed with a single-phase explicit… Read More »Joel Given
Ph.D. Candidate Office: 415 Davis Hall Email: bchandra ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Nanda is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Kenichi Soga on computational geomechanics research. Before coming to Berkeley, he obtained his B.Eng in… Read More »Bodhinanda Chandra
Visiting Researcher Email: nonakasa ‘at’ kajima ‘dot’ com Saki is a visiting researcher in the Soga Research Group. She has been working at Kajima Corporation as a research engineer, mainly focusing on fluid analysis. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s… Read More »Saki Nonaka
Visiting Researcher Email: yuya-nakashima ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Yuya Nakashima is a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also worked at Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. for 12 years, where he is in charge of materials engineering… Read More »Yuya Nakashima
The 7th annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium will be held on Friday, November 17, 2023, from 1-5 pm at the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus. The symposium features the research conducted by current Ph.D.… Read More »The 7th Annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium
The Soga Research Group/Center for Smart Infrastructure, in partnership with Caltrans, is employing distributed fiber optic sensing and pore pressure transducers to monitor the geotechnical capacity of Cast-in-Steel-Shell (CISS) concrete piles in relation to soil plug thickness. This research seeks… Read More »Using fiber optic sensing to assess cast-in-steel-shell concrete piles
Students of CE 170A (Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling, taught by Professor Soga, Professor Kayen, and Professor Zekkos) had a lot of fun on September 6th. Model bridge tests were conducted as part of the Infrastructure Sensing module of the course,… Read More »Model Bridge Tests for CE 170A: Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling (Fall 2023)