Tetra Tech
Scott Anderson has served as a Principal Geotechnical Engineer for several national firms, working with dams and levees across the United States. He has 29 years of experience in preparation of geotechnical engineering analysis and reports addressing design and other geotechnical tasks for a wide variety of projects. Most of his technical professional experience is in the analysis of dams and levees. In particular, I have worked on Isabella Dam, both the main and auxiliary dams, Scoggins dam in Oregon, along with Big Creek Dams 1 and 2, also in Oregon and Oroville dam, where we performed 3D seepage and stability analysis. I have a passion for working on dams and levees and have been lucky to have the opportunity to have worked on them throughout my career. I also have some experience in the design and analysis of nuclear facilities for the Department of Energy. I have also worked in transportation (both design-build and design-bid-build), buildings (high-rise and low-rise structures), bridges (New Tappan-Zee) and earth retaining structures. Additionally, Scott is quite familiar with the implementation and interpretation of In Situ testing devices, such as the cone penetrometer (CPT), flat plate dilatometer, pressuremeter and borehole shear. He specializes in the numerical analysis of earth structures with finite element method (FEM) and finite difference method (FDM) software. Numerical analysis types consist of soil-structure interaction, seismic deformation analysis, 2D and 3D seepage and stability modeling. Scott has used advanced constitutive models, such as; Plasticity Hardening Model, UBCSand, UBCHyst, UBCTot, PM4Sand and PM4Silt.
Cut It Off - Leaky Foundations
Monday, September 23, 2024
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM MT