Sponsored Research and Grants

2026-2027 Cascadia Lifelines Program (CLiP), “Effect of Multi-directional Shaking on Liquefaction Susceptibility,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2026-2027 Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc “Cyclic Response of Soils, West Seattle Link Extension, Seattle, WA,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2025-2027 Oregon Department of Transportation, “Empirical Modeling for Improved Ground Failure Analysis Planning,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2025-2027 National Science Foundation, “Dynamic in-situ Responses and Liquefaction of Gravelly Soil Deposits,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and Amalesh Jana (Co-PI; Montana State University)

2025-2026 Shannon & Wilson, Inc., “Cyclic Response of Silt Soils, Hood River-White Salmon Bridge Replacement Project, Hood River, OR / White Salmon, WA,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI, OSU)

2024-2028 U.S. Federal Highways Administration, “Next Generation Liquefaction Project Database and Model Development in Support of Improved Liquefaction Hazard Assessments,” Kristin Ulmer (PI for SwRI) and John Stamatakos (Co-PI, SwRI), Armin W. Stuedlein (PI for OSU) and T. Matthew Evans (Co-PI; OSU), Jonathan P. Stewart (PI for UCLA), Scott Brandenberg (Co-PI; UCLA), Steven L. Kramer (Consultant; U. Washington)

2024-2029 Department of Energy, “Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) DOE Funding for activities at the National Marine Energy Centers,” Pacific Marine Energy Center; Bryson Robertson (PI, OSU and overall Grant), Armin W. Stuedlein and T. Matt Evans (Co-PIs, equipment sub-grant)

2024-2025 National Science Foundation, Seed Grant Program under the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT), “Soil-Specific Ground Motion Model for the Equivalent Number of Loading Cycles for Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Cyclic Failure Assessments,” Amalesh Jana (PI; Montana State University) and Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI)

2024-2025 Cascadia Lifelines Program (CLiP), “Towards Probabilistic Liquefaction Susceptibility Determinations,” Armin W. Stuedlein (PI)

2024-2025 Cascadia Lifelines Program (CLiP), “A Tale of Two Landslide Events: Seasonality of the Big One,” Ben A. Leshchinsky (PI) and Armin W. Stuedlein (Co-PI)

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)

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)