Sam Helwany - Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Address:
EMS W230A
3200 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: 414-229-4131
Fax: 414-229-6958
Email: helwany@uwm.edu
WWW: http://www.uwm.edu/~helwany
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 784
Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993
M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Colorado, Denver, 1987
B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Denver, 1985
Research Interests
Geo-technical engineering, geo-synthetic reinforced soil structures, soil-structure interaction, finite element analysis, flexible pavement design, seismic stability of retaining walls.
Selected Publications
- Applied Soil Mechanics (with Abaqus Applications), Author: Helwany,
S., 400 pages, John Wiley and Sons, March 2007. - Wu and Helwany "Full-Scale Model Tests for Examining the Effects of Reinforcement in USFS Deep Patch Landslide Repair Technique," Transportation Research Record, 2001. Recent Development of Design, Construction and Analysis of Reinforced Walls and Slopes.
- Helwany and McCallen, "Seismic Analysis of Segmental Retaining Walls-II: Effects of Facing Details," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 127, No. 9, pp. 750-756, 2001.
- Helwany, Budhu, and McCallen, "Seismic Analysis of Segmental Retaining Walls-I: Model Verification," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 127, No. 9, pp. 741-749, 2001.