Donald Burmister
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Donald Burmister's Degrees
- Masters Electrical Engineering Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Donald M. Burmister was a professor of civil engineering and a pioneer in the field of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. Career Donald Burmister served as faculty member at Columbia University for 34 years, beginning in 1929. He was a consultant on the foundation design for many notable construction projects including the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Verazanno-Narrows Bridge, Tappan Zee Bridge, first New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, and reconstruction of the White House in 1950.
Donald Burmister's Published Works
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- The General Theory of Stresses and Displacements in Layered Soil Systems. II (1945) (400)
- THE THEORY OF STRESS AND DISPLACEMENTS IN LAYERED SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS (1944) (249)
- PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES OF SOIL IDENTIFICATION (1950) (48)
- STRESS AND DISPLACEMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF A TWO-LAYER RIGID BASE SOIL SYSTEM: INFLUENCE DIAGRAMS AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS (1956) (48)
- EVALUATION OF PAVEMENT SYSTEMS OF THE WASHO ROAD TEST BY LAYERED SYSTEM METHODS (1958) (45)
- The Application of Controlled Test Methods in Consolidation Testing (1952) (35)
- Principles of Permeability Testing of Soils (1955) (20)
- APPLICATIONS OF LAYERED SYSTEM CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES TO INTERPRETATIONS AND EVALUATIONS OF ASPHALT PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE AND TO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION (1962) (16)
- Environmental Factors in Soil Compaction (1965) (13)
- Laboratory Investigations of Soils at Flushing Meadow Park (1942) (8)
- Physical, Stress-Strain, and Strength Responses of Granular Soils (1962) (8)
- Prototype Load-Bearing Tests for Foundations of Structures and Pavements (1962) (7)
- Symposium on Consolidation Testing of Soils (1952) (7)
- Suggested Methods of Test for Identification of Soils (1970) (4)
- The Importance of Natural Controlling Conditions upon Triaxial Compression Test Conditions (1951) (3)
- Graphical Distribution of Vertical Pressure Beneath Foundations (1938) (3)
- Discussion of Classification and Identification of Soils by Arthur Casagrande (1948) (2)
- Strain-Rate Behavior of Clay and Organic Soils (1960) (2)
- The Place of the Direct Shear Test in Soil Mechanics (1953) (2)
- Discussion of "Military Airfields: A Symposium: Design of Drainage Facilities" (1945) (1)
- STABILITY OF BRIDGE PIERS (1939) (1)
- Discussion of Empirical Damping Constants for Sands and Clays by Harry M. Coyle and Gary C. Gibson (1971) (0)
- DIRECT SHEAR DEVICES - BOX (1939) (0)
- Discussion of "Essential Consideration in the Stabilization of Soil" (1938) (0)
- Discussion of "Earth Pressure and Shearing Resistance of Plastic Clay: A Symposium: Earth Pressure on Tunnels" (1943) (0)
- FIXED RUBBER COMPRESSION DEVICES (1939) (0)
- LAYERED SYSTEM DESIGN AS APPLIED TO CONCRETE PAVEMENTS (1963) (0)
- FACTORS OF SAFETY TO BE APPLIED IN THE UTILIZATION OF SHEAR TEST DATA (1940) (0)
- Closure of "Graphical Distribution of Vertical Pressure Beneath Foundations" (1938) (0)
- STATIC AND DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF GRANULAR SOILS. PART I AND PART II (1963) (0)
- CAPILLARITY DEVICES: OPEN TUBE: NEGATIVE HEAD (1939) (0)
- SECTION OF MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING: PROBLEMS OF ANALYSIS OF STRESSES IMPOSED BY FOUNDATION LOADS IN SOILS SUPPORTING STRUCTURES* (1955) (0)
- Discussion of Graphical Representation of the Mechanical Analyses of Soils by Frank B. Campbell (1939) (0)
- VARIABLE HEAD PERMEAMETERS (1939) (0)
- NEEDLE PENETRATION DEVICES: CONE PENETRATION DEVICES (1938) (0)
- Discussion of Practical Application of Soil Mechanics: A Symposium: Quabbin Dike Built by Hydraulic Fill Method by Stanley M. Dore (1938) (0)
- Discussion of Relation of Undisturbed Sampling to Laboratory Testing by P. C. Rutledge (1944) (0)
- INFLUENCE DIAGRAMS FOR STRESSES AND DISPLACEMENTS IN THREE-LAYER PAVEMENT SYSTEMS FOR AIRFIELDS. PART 2 (1966) (0)
- Discussion of General Wedge Theory of Earth Pressure by Karl Terzaghi (1941) (0)
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