Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Jeramy C. Ashlock

Assistant Professor
Voice: 515-294-6176
jashlock@iastate.edu
Office: 474 Town

Education

PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006
MS, Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2000
BS, Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997

Experience

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Geotechnical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007-2008.
 
Engineering Assistant, Goble, Rausche, Likins & Associates (GRL) and Bridge Diagnostics Inc., Boulder CO, 1994-1997.

Publications

“Experimental Response of Piles in Sand under Compound Motion”, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, in press, accepted September 2008  (J.C. Ashlock and R.Y.S. Pak).
 
“Parametric Gmax Sounding of Granular Soils by Vibration Methods”, Geotechnique, Vol. 58, No .7, 2008, pp. 571-580 (R. Y. S. Pak, J. C. Ashlock, S. Kurahashi, and F. Abedzadeh).
 
“Tensionless contact of a flexible plate and annulus with a smooth half-space under axisymmetric loads by integral equations”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 50, 2008, pp. 1004– 1011 (Ronald Y. S. Pak, B. M. Simmons, and J. C. Ashlock).
 
“A Fundamental Platform for Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction by Linearized Theory”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, under review, 2008, ( R. Y. S. Pak , and J. C. Ashlock).
 
“Method of Adaptive Gradient Elements for Computational Mechanics”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 1, 2007, pp. 87-97 (R. Y. S. Pak and J. C. Ashlock).
 
“Dynamic Hybrid-Mode Test of a Pile on a Centrifuge”, Physical Modeling in Geotechnics, 6th Int.  Conf. on Physical Modeling in Geotechnics, August 2006, pp. 1037-1042 (R. Y. S. Pak, J. C. Ashlock, F. Abedzadeh and N. Turner).
 
“Accuracy and Error Quantification in Boundary Element Analysis”, Proc. McMat Joint ASME/ASCE/SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, June 2005, Paper No. 823, 6 pgs.   (R. Y. S. Pak and J. C.  Ashlock).
 
“Use of Slender Elements in Boundary Integral Equation Methods for Elasticity”, Proc. 17th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, June 2004, Paper No. 401, 7 pgs. (R.Y.S. Pak, J.C. Ashlock, F. Abedzadeh).
 
“In-situ Soil Modulus Determination for Sand by Foundation Vibration”, Proc. 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 2003, Paper No. 877, 7 pgs. (R.Y.S. Pak, S. Kurahashi, J.C. Ashlock, and F. Abedzadeh).
 
 “Comparison of Continuum Theories with Measurements for Piles under Dynamic Loads”, Proc. 16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, July 2003, Paper No. 876, 7 pgs.(R. Y. S. Pak, J. C. Ashlock, F. Abedzadeh, and N. Turner).
 
“Fundamental Dynamic Behavior of Foundations on Sand”, Soil Dynamics and Liquefaction 2000, Geotechnical Special Publication Number 107, Geo-Institute, ASCE, 2000, pp. 10-19 (R. Y. S. Pak and J. C. Ashlock).
 
“Concept of Impedance Modification Factors for Foundations on Cohesionless Soils”, Proc. 14th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, May 2000, 4 pgs. (R. Y. S. Pak and J. C. Ashlock).

Research Interests

Soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering, dynamic soil-structure interaction, geomechanics, pile foundations, experimental modeling, foundation vibration, continuum mechanics, computational methods, non-destructive evaluation, mechanistic-empirical pavement design, field-scale and small-scale static and dynamic structure-foundation testing, in-situ measurements of soil and subgrade properties, wave propagation in geo-materials, hybrid experimental-analytical modeling.