Sponsored Research and Grants

2023 Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., “Cyclic Response of Soils, King County Metro South Annex Base, Tukwila, WA,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2023 - 2025 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, “Next Generation Liquefaction Susceptibility Database: Expansion of the Laboratory Component to Leverage Pacific Northwest Soils,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2022 - 2023 Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., “Cyclic Response of Soils I-5 / NB Marine View Drive to SR 529, Everett, WA,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2023 - 2028 US Department of Transportation, “Coastal Research and Education Actions for Transportation Equity (CREATE) – Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC),” Christopher C. Higgins (PI; OSU), Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI), David Trejo (Co-PI; OSU); Texas State University Lead Institution, Stacey Kulesza (Lead PI); with co-Institutions Texas A&M University, University of Miami and University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.

2022 - 2023 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, “PEER Workshop on Liquefaction Susceptibility,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), Jonathan P. Stewart (Co-PI; UCLA), and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI)

2021 - 2022 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, “Advancing the Practice of Cyclic Softening Assessments of Silts and Clays,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2021 - 2022 Shannon & Wilson, Inc., “Cyclic Response of Young Silt Soils: Earthquake-Ready Burnside Bridge Project,” T. Matthew Evans (PI, OSU) and Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI)

2021 - 2022 Cascadia Lifelines Program (CLiP), “Site Response and Cyclic Model Calibrations for Oregon’s Silt Soils,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2021 - 2023 Deep Foundations Institute, “Seismic Performance of Rigid Inclusions – Phase II,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and Matthew D. Gibson (Co-PI; Clarity Engineering, Inc.)

2021 Carlson Geotechnical, Inc., “Cyclic Response of Silt Soils, Patton Middle School Seismic Upgrade,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2021 Shannon & Wilson, Inc., “Cyclic Response of Silt Soils Tacoma Dome Link Extension, Sound Transit,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2021 Oregon State University Research Equipment Reserve Fund (RERF), “64 Channel High-Speed Data Acquisition System,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), Jennifer Hutchings (Co-PI; OSU), and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI)

2020 - 2023 National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), “Proposed AASHTO Specifications for Design of Piles for Downdrag,” Richard Coffman (PI, U. Arkansas), Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI), and Aaron Budge (Co-PI, Minn. State U.)

2020 - 2022 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), “Modeling the Undrained Shear Responses of Oregon Soils using CPT Based Methods for Optimized Design,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2020 - 2021 Cascadia Lifelines Program (CLiP) “Advancing the Practice of Cyclic Softening Assessments of Silt Soils,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2020 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) “Cyclic Response of Young Silt and Clay Deposits for the Van Buren Bridge, Corvallis, OR,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2019 – 2022 National Science Foundation “Earthquake Resilience of the Western Power Grid,” Ted Brekken (PI, OSU), Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI), Michael Olsen (Co-PI, OSU), and Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez (Co-PI, OSU)

2019 – 2020 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) “Bridge-Column Performance and Seismic Retrofit Evaluation Considering Soil-Structure Interaction,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and Chris C. Higgins (Co-PI, OSU)

2019 – 2020 National Science Foundation “Role of Spatial Variability in Liquefaction Consequence Severity,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2019 – 2022 National Science Foundation “REU Site: Engineering for Bouncing Back,” Babbar-Sebens, M (PI), Cate., R. (Senior Personnel [SP], OSU), Cox, D. (SP, OSU), Cotilla, E. (SP, OSU), Fischer, E. (SP, OSU), Leshchinsky, B. (SP, OSU), Liu, J. (SP, OSU), Navab-Daneshmand, T. (SP, OSU), Radnieki, T. (SP, OSU), Stuedlein, A. (SP, OSU), and Wengrove, M. (SP, OSU)

2019 – 2019 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) “Cyclic Response of Young Silt and Clay, Salt Creek Bridge OR 153,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2018 - 2020 Deep Foundations Institute, "Seismic Performance of Rigid Inclusions" Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2017 – 2020 National Science Foundation “Collaborative Research: Bridging the In-situ and Elemental Cyclic Response of Transitional Soils,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI), In collaboration with Ken Stokoe and Brady Cox (UT Austin)

2017 – 2019 Port of Portland in Collaboration with the Cascadia Lifelines Program “Deep, In-situ Cyclic Response of Liquefiable Soils,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2017 – 2019 Cascadia Lifelines Program “In-Situ Response of Silt and Silty Soils to Liquefaction: Leveraging a New Experimental Approach,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI)

2017 – 2019 United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service: Tallwood Design Institute “Design of Timber Pile Ground Improvement for Liquefaction Mitigation,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), A. Sinha (Co-PI)

2015 – 2016 Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) “Torsional Safety of Highway Traffic Signal and Signage Support Structures,” Andre Barbosa (PI, OSU) and Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI)

2014 – 2015 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) “Evaluation of Torsional Load Transfer for Drilled Shaft Foundations,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and Andre Barbosa (Co-PI, OSU)

2014 – 2015 Pile Driving Contractor's Association and NCHRP IDEA Program of the National Academy of Sciences, “Drained Timber Pile Ground Improvement for Liquefaction Mitigation,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2014 – 2017 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) “Effects of High Strength Steel Bars and Steel Casing on the Response of Drilled Shafts,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2013 – 2014 Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) “Behavior of Drilled Shafts with High-Strength Reinforcement and Casing,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and Pedro Arduino (Co-PI, U. of Washington)

2013 - 2013 Deep Foundations Institute, "Interpretation of Augered Cast-In-Place Pile Capacity Using Load Tests" Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matt Evan (Co-PI, OSU)

2012 - 2015 National Science Foundation, "Multi-hazard Performance and Design of Ecoroofs," Chris Higgins (PI, OSU), Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI), and Ben H. Mason (Co-PI, OSU)

2012 - 2013 Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), "Characterization of Frictional Interference in Closely-spaced Reinforcements in MSE Walls," Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2012 - 2013 Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), "A Platform for Proactive Risk Based Slope Asset Management," Andrew Metzger (PI, University of Alaska), Michael J. Olsen (Co-PI, OSU), Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI), Pedro Arduino (Co-PI, U. of Washington), and Joseph Wartman (Co-PI, U. of Washington)

2012 - 2013 Oregon State University Research Equipment Reserve Fund (RERF), "Universal Direct Simple Shear/Direct Shear Test Apparatus," Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2011 - 2015 National Science Foundation, "Working Stress Behavior of Very Tall Steel Reinforced Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls," Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2009 - 2012 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), "Analysis and Design of Pipe Ramming Installations," Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)