Professor Hashash Research covers a number of topics including: sites response analysis, seismic soil-structure interaction, numerical model and experimentation. The following is a listing of these projects in which Prof. Hashash is or has been involved with:

E-Defesnse: seismic response of underground structures

NGA-East-Geotechnical Working Group

NEESR: Seismic Response of underground Structures

NEESR: Seismic Response of Rigid Foundations due to lateral Spreading

One-Dimesnional Nonlinear site response analysis, DEEPSOIL

Related Publications:

Tsai, C.-C. and Y. M. A. Hashash (2008). “A novel framework integrating downhole array data and site response analysis to extract dynamic soil behavior.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Volume 28(Issue 3): pp 181-197.

Park, D., and Hashash, Y. M. A. (2007). “Rate-dependent soil behavior in seismic site response analysis.” Canadian Geotechnical Journal, in press.

Durrani, A. J., A. S. Elnashai, Y. M. A. Hashash, S.-J. Kim and A. Masud (2005). The Kashmir Earthquake of October 8, 2005. A quick look report. Urbana, Mid-America Earthquake Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 51 p.

Park, D., and Hashash, Y. M. A. (2005). “Estimation of seismic factors in the Mississippi Embayment: I. Estimation of dynamic properties.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 25, pp. 133-144.

Park, D., and Hashash, Y. M. A. (2005). “Estimation of seismic factors in the Mississippi Embayment: II. Probabilistic seismic hazard with nonlinear site effects.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 25, pp. 145-156.

Park, D. and Y. M. A. Hashash (2004). “Soil damping formulation in nonlinear time domain site response analysis.” Journal of Earthquake Engineering 8(2): 249-274.

Hashash, Y. M. A., and Park, D. (2002). “Viscous damping formulation and high frequency motion propagation in nonlinear site response analysis.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 22(7), pp. 611-624.

Hashash, Y. M. A., and Park, D. (2001). “Non-linear one-dimensional seismic ground motion propagation in the Mississippi embayment.” Engineering Geology, 62(1-3), 185-206.

Doctoral Theses:

Tsai, C.-C. (2007). “Seismic Site Response and Interpretation of Dynamic Soil Behavior from Downhole Array Measurements,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana.

Park, D. (2003). ESTIMATION OF NON-LINEAR SEISMIC SITE EFFECTS FOR DEEP DEPOSITS OF THE MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Urbana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 337 p..