GSI Fellowship Status for 2018-’19 Academic Year

Class 11

No.	Recipient	University	Advisor	Topic
1-18	Alsharabaili, Alaa	U. of South Carolina	Charles Pierce	Strain hardening method to evaluate the crack resistance of virgin and aged geomembranes
2-18	Faterna, Nuzhath	Syracuse U.	Shobha Bhatia	Role of geotextiles in dewatering tests
3-18	Goudarzi, Anahita	Texas A&M	Jean-Louis Briaud	Experimental and numerical simulation of geosynthetic reinforcement soil interaction
4-18	Hanumasagar, Sangy	Georgia Tech	David Frost	Experimental and numerical evaluation of lateral confinement of aggregates in geogrid stabilized flexible pavements
5-18	McCafferty, Conor	Drexel U.	Grace Hsuan	Numerical modeling to simulate dewatering process of GT tubes filled with fine-grained slurries
6-18	Norris, Anna	Colorado State U.	Joseph Scalia	Indicator parameter test development for screening the hydraulic compatibility of enhanced bentonites
7-18	Rahmaninezhad, Seyed	U. of Kansas	Jie Han	Bearing capacity and deformation of GS walls with flexible facing subjected to footing loads
8-18	Ryoo, Sung	U. of Maryland	Ahmet Aydilek	Hydraulic compatibility of GT compost systems in landfill covers
9-18	Sheikh, Bahman	Penn State	Tong. Qiu	Breakwater design guidelines for GT tube applications
10-18	Thabo, Mosta	National Pingtung U.	Wayne Hsieh	Effects of grass and rolled erosion control products at different growth stages on the Manning’s coefficient in channel flow
11-18	Ullah, Saad	George Mason U.	Burak Tanyu	Experimental methodology to evaluate long-term performance of GT to minimize the migration of soft clay into highway base courses
12-18	Wang, Dongfang	U. of Mass Amherst	Guoping Zhang	Improvement of GCLs with super hydrophobic hybrid organic-inorganic polymeric powder
13-18	Wright, Jason	U. of Georgia	Sonny Kim	Utilization of accelerated pavement layers due to use of GS materials
14-18	Xia, Xiaolong	Missouri U.	Xiong Zhang	Photogrammetric method to measure 3D full field displacement of GS during the tensile test