Civil Engineering North Carolina A&T State University
Miguel Picornell, Ph. D., P.E.
Professor
Contact:
       Office: McNair Hall 436
        Phone: (336) 334-7737 ext. 663
        Fax: (336) 334-7126
        Email: mpicorne@ncat.edu

        Mailing Address:
        North Carolina A&T State University
        Department of CAAE Engineering
        436 McNair Hall
        1601 E. Market Street
        Greensboro, NC 27411
Education:
        Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, December 1985.
        M.E., Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, August 1982.
        B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Madrid Polytechnic University (Spain), June 1969.
Areas of Research Interest:
       Behavior of unsaturated soils and expansive clays, physico-chemical properties of soils, geotechnical aspects of pavement design and rehabilitation, geotechnical aspects of waste disposal, applications of numerical methods in foundation engineering.
Selected Publications:
  1. Kabir, A., V. Tandon, and M. Picornell, “Recycling Fly-ash in Vertical Moisture Barriers,” Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Advanced Technology in the Environmental Field, Gold Coast, Australia, May 1996, pp. 72-75.
  2. Walton, J.C., M.Rahman, D. Casey, M. Picornell, and F. Johnson, “Leakage through Flaws in Geomembrane Liners,” Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 123, No. 6, ASCE, 1997, pp. 535-539.
  3. Muthyamreddy, N. and M. Picornell, “Physico-chemical Effects on the Reclamation of Contaminated Fine Grained Soils by Electroosmosis,” Proceedings, 8th Annual Regional Environmental Conference, Colorado Waste Management Society, 1994.
  4. Tandon, V. and M. Picornell, “Proposed Evaluation of Base Materials for Drainability.” Paper 971314, Transportation Research Record 1997.
  5. Picornell, M. and A. Guerra, “A Comparison of Field and Laboratory Measurements of Hydraulic Conductivity,” ASTM STP 1118, Symposium on Groundwater and Vadose Zone Investigations, 1991.
  6. Baig, S., M. Picornell, and S. Nazarian,” Low Strain Shear Modulus of Cemented Sands,” Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 123, No. 6, ASCE, 1997, pp. 540-545.
  7. Gowdappa, H, C, Ferregut, and M. Picornell, “System for Reliability Analysis of Drilled Piers,” Proceedings, 10th Panamerican Conference of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Guadalajara, Mexico (1995).
  8. Imran, I., S. Nazarian, and M. Picornell, “Crack Detection Using Time-Domain Wave Propagation Technique,” Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 121, No. 2, ASCE, 1995, pp. 198-207.
  9. Krishnaprasad, S., M. Picornell, and C. Ferregut, “A Statistical Description of Crack Patterns in Soils,” Proceedings, 10th Panamerican Conference of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1995.
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