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During strong earthquakes, shaking soils can behave like liquids and flow. Dr. Naesgaard's study of these phenomena and his development of engineering design procedures and computer models for analysis, will assist in building safer soil structures.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD) - graduated in 2011