Juan M. Pestana
Professor Emeritus
Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate, GeoSystems
Constitutive Modeling of Soil Response, Numerical Simulation of Soil-Structure Interaction, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.
| jmpestana@berkeley.edu |
Office Hours:
Fall 2016:
- CE272: Tu: 3:30-4:30 pm (727 Davis)
- Undergraduate Research: Wed:3:30-4:30pm
- Graduate Research: Tu, Th: 9:30-11:30am
- by appointment
Biography
Professor Pestana's research interests include constitutive modeling of soil behavior, geotechnical engineering, soil properties characterization, numerical modeling of soil-structure interaction, environmental geotechnics and geotechnical earthquake engineering.
Education
Sc.D. - Civil & Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994
M.S. - Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988
B.S. - Civil Engineering, Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (UCAB), Venezuela, 1985