Education

Teaching

• Soil Mechanics
• Geotechnical Engineering

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Civil Engineering BS, BS/MS
• Engineering and Applied Science PhD

Research

Research awards

• $ 282,835 awarded by National Science Foundation for Collaborative Research: Analyzing Deployable Torque-Activated Structural Mechanisms for Enhanced Tension Capacity of Geosystems
• $ 35,329 awarded by NGI INC. for Piling in Glauconitic Sand JIP

Research

Research interests

• Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
• Offshore Foundations and Anchors
• Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
• Calcareous Sediments

Select publications

• Beemer, R. D., Bandini-Maeder, A., Shaw, J., Cassidy, M. J. (2019).
  Volumetric Particle Size Distribution and Variable Granular Density Soils
  Geotechnical Testing Journal
  
• Murali, M.. Grajales, F. J., Beemer, R. D., Aubeny, C., Biscontin, G. (2019).
  Capacity of Short Piles and Caissons from Geotechnical Centrifuge Tests
  Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 145(10)
  
• Beemer, R. D., Biscontin, G., Murali, M., Aubeny, C. (2018).
  Use of a MEMS Accelerometer to Measure Orientation in a Geotechnical Centrifuge
  International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics, 18(5)
  

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