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) $17,100

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) $75,000

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) $10,976

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. $1,875,000 (OSU) / $10,000,000 (Total)

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) $20,000 + $20,000 match from the COE @ OSU.

2021 - 2022 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, “Advancing the Practice of Cyclic Softening Assessments of Silts and Clays,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) $50,000

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) $36,655

2021 - 2022 Cascadia Lifelines Program (CLiP), “Site Response and Cyclic Model Calibrations for Oregon’s Silt Soils,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) $58,473

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.) $30,000

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) $12,860

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) $24,500

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) $45,012

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.) $420,000

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) $39,000

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) $58,473

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) $16,000

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) $433,792

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) $470,000

2019 – 2020 National Science Foundation “Role of Spatial Variability in Liquefaction Consequence Severity,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) $97,849

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); $360,000

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) $16,000

2018 - 2020 Deep Foundations Institute, "Seismic Performance of Rigid Inclusions" Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), $30,000

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); $634,391, In collaboration with Ken Stokoe and Brady Cox (UT Austin; $488,405)

2017 – 2019 Port of Portland in Collaboration with the Cascadia Lifelines Program “Deep, In-situ Cyclic Response of Liquefiable Soils,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI); $349,689

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); $50,000

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); $125,000

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) $80,856

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) $60,000

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), $322,073

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), $329,896

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), $400,000

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), $17,000

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), $335,000

2012 - 2013 Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans), "Characterization of Frictional Interference in Closely-spaced Reinforcements in MSE Walls," Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), $40,000

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), $465,000

2012 - 2013 Oregon State University Research Equipment Reserve Fund (RERF), "Universal Direct Simple Shear/Direct Shear Test Apparatus," Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), $37,619

2011 - 2015 National Science Foundation, "Working Stress Behavior of Very Tall Steel Reinforced Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls," Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), $326,768

2009 - 2012 Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), "Analysis and Design of Pipe Ramming Installations," Armin W. Stuedlein (PI), $328,000