Radoslaw L. Michalowski

Professor

Office: 
2364 GG Brown
Phone: 
(734) 763-2146
Fax: 
(734) 764-4292
Email: 

rlmich@umich.edu

Visit my homepage at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rlmich/

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2350 Hayward, 2356 GG Brown
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125

  • Ph.D., Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (Polish Academy of Sciences), Warsaw, and Tech. Univ. Poznan (Poland), 1980
  • M.S., Technical University of Poznan, 1974
  • Education Excellence Award, UM College of Engineering, 2005.
  • Teacher of the Year Award, UM Student Chapter of ASCE, 2004.
  • James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award, Great Lakes District, Chi Epsilon, 2003.
  • ASCE Faculty Advisor Award (National), 2001, 2002.
  • Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001.
  • Chi Epsilon, Faculty Member, 2001.
  • Silver Medal, Polish Association of Civil Engineers, 1985.
  • Fulbright Fellow, 1981 1984 .
  • Higher Education Award, 1980.
  • Scholastic Achievement Award, 1972, 1973.
  • American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow (1988` -).
  • ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Editor (1997 - 2004), Editorial Board Member (1990 - 1997).
  • ASCE Embankments, Dams and Slopes Committee (1994 -).
  • American Academy of Mechanics (1988 -).
  • International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (1989 -).
  • International Geosynthetics Society (1992 -).
  • International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (1983 -) .
  • Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1978 -).
  • Computers and Geotechnics, Editorial Board Member (1998 - ).
  • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Advisory Board (2004 -).

Geomechanics, Flow of Granular Media, Soil Mechanics and Constitutive Modeling, Engineering Plasticity and Limit Analysis, Stability of Earth Structures, Foundation Engineering, Reinforced Soil, Frost Action in Soils.

Michalowski, R.L. and Drescher, A. (2009) “Three-dimensional stability of slopes and excavations.” Géotechnique, 59, No. 10, 839-850.

Michalowski, R.L. (2009). “Critical pool level and stability of slopes in granular soils.” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 135, No. 3, 444-448.

Michalowski, R.L. (2008). “Limit analysis with anisotropic fiber-reinforced soil.” Géotechnique, 58, No. 6, 489-501.

Michalowski, R.L. (2007). “Displacements of multi-block geotechnical structures subjected to seismic excitation.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 133, No. 11, 1432-1439.

Michalowski, R.L. and Zhu, M. (2006). “Frost heave modeling using porosity rate function.” Int. J. Num. Analyt. Meth. Geomech., 30, No. 8, 703-722.