SEAS Professor Majid Manzari Receives NSF Grant

Professor Majid Manzari of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support a research project, entitled "Multiscale Meshfree Analysis of Failure in Geostructures Founded on or Containing Liquefiable Soils."

The project aims at developing theoretical and computational methods that enable engineers to evaluate the seismic response and stability of civil infrastructure systems such as offshore structures, earthdams, and retaining structures that are founded on or contain liquefiable soils.

The award, which grants Professor Manzari nearly $235,000, is effective August 1, 2008.