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Books (Texts and Proceedings)

Editorial/Journals, Book Series

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE (Geo-Institute),
2002-

General (Chief) Editor, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Published by John Wiley & Sons, U.K., 1977- 2000

Member, Editorial Boards

Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, 1974 1980.

International Journal on Advances in Water Resources, England, 1975 1988.

International Journal on Advances in Engineering Software, England, 1978

International Journal for Engineering Computations, U.K., 1983 1990.

Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal on Communications in Applied Numerical Methods, U.K., 1987 1998.

International Journal for Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, 1985 1989.

International Journal of Applied Mathematical Modelling, U.K., 1987 1993.

International Journal of Science and Technology, Scientica Iranica, Tehran, Iran, 1992-

Consulting Editorial Board Member, Lecture Notes in Engineering, Springer Verlag, Berlin, West Germany, 1981-1998.

Editorial Board, Computers & Structures, U.K., 1996-

Committees (Societies and Conferences) (Selected)

President, International Association of Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 1991 -

Chairman, International Committee on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics. 1976 1990.

Chairman, Organizing Committee, Symp. on Applications of Finite Element Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1972.

Chairman, and Control Group member, Committee on Computer and Numerical Methods, GT Engineering Division, ASCE, 1976 1982.

Chairman, Organizing Committee, 2nd Intl. Conf. on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1976.

Trustee, (Elected), Board of Trustee, Deep Foundations Institute, Clifton, New Jersey, 1978 1980.

Co-Chairman, Fourth Intl. Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Edmonton, Canada, 1982.

Co-Chairman, International Conference on Constitutive Laws of Engineering Materials, Tucson, Arizona, 1983.

Co-Chairman, Fifth Intl. Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Nagoya, Japan, 1985.

Co-Chairman, Workshop on Interactive Computer Modelling and Graphics for Design and Optimization of Field and Laboratory Experiments in Geotechnical Engineering, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York, May 1986.

Co-Chairman, Second International Conference on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials and Short Course: Theory and Application, January 1987.
Co-Chairman, Sixth Int. Conf. on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Innsbruck, Austria, 1988.

Member, Founding Council, Int. Association for Computational Mechanics, 1982 .

Chairman, Int. Course on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics Including Constitutive Modelling, Organized by Int. Centre for Mechanical Sciences in Europe (CSIM), Udine, Italy, Fall 1989.

Co-Chairman, 7th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Cairns, Australia, April 1991.

Chair, Organizing Committee, NSF Workshop on Recent Developments and Future Trends in Geomechanics in the 21st Century, Norman, OK, October 1992.

Member, Expert Task Group (ETG), Strategic Highway Research, Dept. of Transportation, Washington, DC, 1992.

Co-chair, 4th Int. Conf. on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Material, RPI, Troy, NY, 1999.

Coordinator: Track 9: Fracture, Damage and Disturbance Models, INTERPAK 99: The Pacific Rim/ASME International Electronic Packaging Conference, Hawaii, June 13-17, 1999.

Chair, 10th Int. Conf. on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, Tucson, Arizona, January 2001.

Co-chair, 11 IACMAG Conference, Turin, Italy, June 2005.

Member, Technical Publications Committee, Geo Instititute , ASCE, 2003-