Professor

Location

2028 GG Brown

2350 Hayward, 2028 GG Brown Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125

Primary Website

Radoslaw Michalowski

Education

• 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

Research Interests

Geomechanics, Flow of Granular Media, Micromechanics of Sand and Constitutive Modeling, Engineering Plasticity and Limit Analysis, Stability of Earth Structures, Buried Lifelines, Reinforced Soil, Freeze-Thaw Cycle in Soils.

Professional Service

• American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow (1988 – )
• American Academy of Mechanics (1988 – )
• Anatole S. and Pamela S. Dekaban Fund, Director and Coordinator
• ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Editor (1997 – 2004), Editorial Board Member (1990 – 1997)
• ASCE Embankments, Dams and Slopes Committee (1994 -)
• ASCE Geotechnics of Soil Erosion (2003 -)
• Computers and Geotechnics, Editorial Board Member (1998 – 2017)
• Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, Elsevier, Editorial Board Member (2014 – )
• Geomechanics and Engineering, Editorial Board Member (2008 – 2016)
• Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Editorial Board Member (2008 – )
• International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (1983 – )
• International Geosynthetics Society (1992 – )
• International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Advisory Board (2004 – )
• Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica, Editorial Board Member, De Gruyter (2015 – present)
• Archives of Civil Engineering, De Gruyter, Editorial Board Member, (2015-present)
• International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (1989 – )
• Technical Advisory Committee Member for the International Centre for Computational Engineering, Rhodos, Greece (2007 – )

Awards

• Elected to the Academy of Engineering, Poland, 2022.
• The J. S. Braun/Braun Intertec Professorship in Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Fall 2015 (also Fall 2008)
• Kersten Lecturer, Minnesota Geotechnical Society and University of Minnesota, 2014
• MTS Visiting Professor of Geomechanics, University of Minnesota, Sept./Oct. 2012 (also 2006)
• Tribute Award (American Polish Engineering Association), 2010
• The life title of Professor awarded by the President of Poland, 2009
• Monroe-Brown Foundation 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
• Elected Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001
• Chi Epsilon, Faculty Member, 2001
• Fulbright Fellow, 1981 – 1984

publications

• Park, D. and Michalowski, R.L. (2018). “Intricacies in three-dimensional limit analysis of earth slopes.” Int. J. Num. Analyt. Meth. Geomech., 42, 1- 21 (https://doi.org/10.1002/nag.2846).
• Wang, Z. and Michalowski, R.L. (2018). “An apparatus for testing static fatigue at sand grain contacts.” Geotechnical Testing Journal, 41, No. 3, 448-458 (https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20170251).
• Michalowski, R.L., Wang, Z. and Nadukuru, S.S. (2018). “Maturing of contacts and ageing of silica sand.” Géotechnique, 68, No. 2, 132-145 (http://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.16.P.321).
• Michalowski, R.L., Wojtasik, A., Duda, A., Florkiewicz, A. and Park, D. (2018). “Failure and remedy of column-supported embankment: Case study.” Journal of Geotech. Geoenv. Engineering, 144, No. 3, 1-14 (https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001839).
• Park, D. and Michalowski, R.L. (2017). “Three-dimensional stability analysis of slopes in hard soil/soft rock with tensile strength cut-off.” Engineering Geology, 229, 73-84 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2017.09.018).