Richard Finno

Professor

A128 Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

E-mail address: r-finno@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-5885
Fax: (847) 491-4011

Curriculum Vitae:

Education

• Ph.D., Stanford University, Civil Engineering
• M.S.C.E., Stanford University, Geotechnical Engineering
• B.S.., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Civil Engineering

Research

Professor Finno has long has been involved in combining theory and practice to reconcile full-scale field performance with analytical and numerical predictions. As a consequence, he has conducted research in the areas of full-scale performance of deep excavations and tunnels, numerical analysis, self-updating constitutive models and constitutive responses of soft clays. He has treated deep foundations as wave guides to study non-destrucitve evaluation of concrete drilled shafts and driven piles.

• Condition Monitoring of Urban Infrastructure
• Concrete Evaluation Using Guided Waves
• Non-Destructive Evaluation of Foundations

Teaching Activities

• CIV_ENG-250 Introductory Soil Mechanics
• CIV_ENG-451 Engineering Properties of Soils
• CIV_ENG-450-1 Soil Mechanics I - Mechanical Behavior of Soil
• CIV_ENG-450-2 Soil Mechanics II - Foundation Engineering
• CIV_ENG-450-3 Soil Mechanics III - Earth Retaining Structures and Slope Stability
• CIV_ENG-454 Soil Rheology
• CIV_ENG-458 Soil Dynamics (w/ Prof. Dowding)
• CIV_ENG-495 Underground Construction (w/ Prof. Dowding)

Honors and Awards

• Karl Terzaghi Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009
• Civil Engineer of the Year, American Society of Civil Engineers, Illinois Section, 2007
• Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004 and 1993
• Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1994
• Arthur Casagrande Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990
• Environment Award, W170 Committee , US EPA, 1990

Selected Publications

• Finno, R.J., "Adaptive Management of Excavation-induced Ground Movements," Keynote lecture, Proceedings, International Symposium on Urban Geotechnics, Incheon, Korea, September, 2009.
• Cho W. and Finno, R.J., "Stress-Strain Response of Block Samples of Compressible Chicago Glacial Clays," accepted for publication, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 2009.
• Finno, R.J., "Use of monitoring data to update performance predictions of supported excavations," theme lecture in the Proceedings, FMGM 2007, International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics, ASCE, Boston, September, 2007.
• Jung, Y.-H., Cho, W. and Finno, R.J., “Defining Yielding from Bender Element Measurements in Triaxial Stress Probe Experiments,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, accepted for publication.
  
• Finno, R.J., Blackburn , J.T. and Roboski, J.F., “Three-dimensional Effects for Supported Excavations in Clay,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 1, January, 2007.
  
• Roboski, J.F. and Finno, R.J., “Distributions of Ground Movements Parallel to Deep Excavations,” Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 43 (1), 2006, 43-58.
  
• Finno, R.J. and Xu, T. “Selected Topics in Numerical Simulation of Supported Excavations,” Numerical Modeling of Construction Processes in Geotechnical Engineering for Urban Environment, keynote lecture at the International conference of Construction Processes in Geotechnical Engineering for Urban Environment, Th. Triantafyllidis, ed., Bochum, Germany, March, 2006, Taylor & Francis, London, 3-20.
  
• Finno, R.J., Voss. F.T., Jr., Rossow, E., and Blackburn , J.T., “Evaluating Damage Potential in Buildings Affected by Excavations,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 131, No. 10, October, 2005, 1119-2100.
  
• Finno, R.J. and Chao, H.-C., “Shear Wave Velocity in Concrete Cylinders (Piles): the Universal Mode Method,” ACI Materials Journal, ACI International, Vol. 102, No. 3, 2005, 154-162.
  
• Finno, R.J. and Calvello, M., "Supported Excavations: the Observational Method and Inverse Modeling," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 131, No. 7, July, 2005, 826-836.