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Professional Service
Role in International/National Conferences/Symposia/Workshops
| Member, International Advisory Committee, 5th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held at Nagoya, Japan, April 1-5, 1985. |
| Session Chairman, "Soil-Structure Interaction," 5th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held at Nagoya, Japan, April 1-5, 1985. |
| Organizer and Co-chairman of session "Geomechanics," International Symposium on Variational Methods in Geosciences, held at Norman, Oklahoma, Oct. 15-17, 1985. |
| Co-editor, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Variational Methods in Geosciences, held at Norman, Oklahoma, Oct. 15-17, 1985. |
| Moderator of Session, "Structures," Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (SECTAM) XIII, held at Columbia, South Carolina, April 17-18, 1986. |
| Moderator of Session "Engineering Sciences," 75th Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Science, held at Southeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Nov. 14, 1986. |
| Co-Chairman of Session "Discontinuities, Contacts, Interfaces, Joints," Second International Conference on Constitutive Laws of Engineering Materials: Theory and Application," held at Tucson, Arizona, Jan. 5-8, 1987. |
| Member, Organizing and Steering Committee, ADSC Drilled Foundation Workshop for Engineering Faculty, held in Fort Collins, Colorado, July 12-18, 1987. |
| Reviewer, 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held April 1988 at Innsbruck, Austria. |
| Chairman of Session "Flow and Consolidation," 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held in Austria, April 11-15, 1988. |
| Reviewer, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, held at Chicago, Illinois, 1988. |
| Co-Editor, Newsletter of the International Assoc. for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (1989 - present). |
| Chairman of Session CM-5 "Plasticity and Dynamics in Composite Materials," Energy Tech. Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 14-18, 1990. |
| Member, International Advisory Committee, 7th International Conference on Recent Advances and Comp. Methods in Geomechanics, held in Australia in 1991. |
| Member and Treasurer, Organizing Committee, 32nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, held in Norman, Oklahoma, July 1991. |
| Co-Chairman of Session "General and Cyclic Plasticity," Third International Conf. on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials, held in Tucson, Arizona, Jan. 7-11, 1991. |
| Chairman of Session "Constitutive Modeling," IACMAG-91 Conf., held in Cairns, Australia, May 6-11, 1991. |
| Vice Chairman of Session CM-3 "Dynamics and Experimental Mechanics of Composite Materials II," Energy Technology Conf. and Exhibition (ETCE), held at Houston, Texas, Jan. 26-29, 1992. |
| Chairman of Session 7 "Thermoelasticity," Southeastern Conf. on Theoretical and Appl. Mech. (SECTAM XVI), held at Houston, Texas, Jan. 26-29, 1992. |
| Organizer, "U.S.-Canada Workshop on Recent Accomplishments and Future Trends in Geomechanics in the 21st Century," Co-Organizers: C.S. Desai, University of Arizona, Tucson, and A.P.S. Selvadurai, McGill University, Canada, held in Norman, Oklahoma, October 21-23, 1992. |
| Chairman, "Session SM7 - Solid Mechanics," Second Asian-Pacific Conf. on Computational Mech., held in Sydney, Australia, Aug. 3-6, 1993. |
| Co-Chairman, "8th International Conf. of the Int’l. Assoc. of Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG-94)," held at the West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, May 22-28, 1994. |
| Co-Chairman, "Session - Mechanical and Hydraulic Properties of Rock," 35th U.S. Symp. on Rock Mechanics, held at Lake Tahoe, June 4-7, 1995. |
| Developer of Technical Session and Chair, Third International Conference on Comp. Methods and Water Resources, held in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 25-28, 1995. |
| Member, International Tech. Comm., First International Symp. on Discontinuous Deformation Analysis, held in Berkeley, California, June 12-14, 1996. |
| Organizer and Chair, Session: "Discrete Element Method/DDA," 2nd North American Rock Mech. Symp., held in Montreal, Canada, June 19-21, 1996. |
| Developer of Technical Session on Plasticity of Granular Materials (with Prof. A.R. Kukreti), Sixth International Symp. on Plasticity, held in Alaska, July 14-18, 1997. |
| Member International Advisory Com., 9th IACMAG Conf., held in Wuhan, P.R.C., Nov. 2-7, 1997. Developed two technical sessions: one on Petroleum Rock Mechanics (with Dr. Y. Abousleiman) and the other on Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (with Prof. Salami). |
| Session Chair, "Session D2: Deep Excavation," 9th IACMAG Conf., held in Wuhan, P.R.C., Nov. 2-7, 1997. |
| Co-Organizer (with E.C. Drumm, Univ. of Tennessee) of sessions 238, 272 and 333 at the 78th Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, Jan. 10-14, 1999. |
| Organizer and Chair of Session T4/2 "Neural Networks in Structural Analysis." Fourth Int. Conf. on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials, R.P.I., Troy, New York, July 27-30, 1999. |
| Co-Organizer (with K. Muraleetharan) of Technical Session on "Recent Developments in Unsaturated Soils Including Applications." 80th Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, Jan. 7-11, 2001. |
| Co-Chairman, 10th IACMAG Conf., held in Tucson, Arizona, Jan. 7-12, 2001. |
| Organizer of Technical Session (Computational Mechanics I) at the 14th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, VPI., 28, 2002. |
| Chair, Fifth Int. Conf. on Const. Laws of Eng. Materials (to be held in 2005) |
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Society Offices
| Chairman, ADSC Technical Affiliate Committee (June 1984 to December 1994). |
| Elected Vice-Chairperson (Section I: Engineering Sciences), Oklahoma Academy of Science (Nov. 1986 to Nov. 1987). |
| Co-Chairman of ADSC Joint Contractor-Technical Affiliate Committee (established criteria for research funded by the HBW fund) (1987). |
| Member, U.S. Universities Council for Geotechnical Engineering Research (USUCGER) By-Laws Committee (March 1987 to March 1988). |
| Member, ASCE Deep Foundations Committee (June 1987 – June 1995). |
| Elected Chairperson (Section I: Engineering), Oklahoma Academy of Science (Nov. 1987 to Oct. 1988). |
| Editor, Newsletter, "International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG)" (since 1991) (Co-Editors: Gioda (Italy), Aydan (Japan)). |
| Chair, ASCE Deep Foundation Sub-Committee for Nominating Papers for Awards (June to August, 1993) |
| University Representative, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Science (since September 1993). |
| Board Member, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) (since May 1996). |
| Co-Chair, IACMAG Award Committee (August 1996 - November 1997) |
| Founding Member, American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) (since 1996). |
| Member, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) (since 1997). |
| Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) (since 1997). |
| Member, A2KO5(3): Modeling Techniques in Geomechanics, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Science (since 1996). |
| Member, A2LO2: Soil and Rock Properties, Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Science, (since 1997). |
| Member, A2JO2: Chemical and Mechanical Stabilization. Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Science (since 1999). |
| Contact Member, Transp. Res. Board (since 1998) |
| Member, TRB Committees A2L02 (Soil and Rock Properties) and A2J02 (Chemical and Mechanical Stabilization) |
| Member, Okla. Asphalt Task Force (since 1999) |
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Journal Editorial Board
| Co-Editor (Application Briefs), International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (Dec. 1993 to Dec. 2000). |
| Associate Editor, Petroleum Science and Engineering (since June 1994). |
| Associate Editor, International Journal of Geomechanics (since January 2001). |
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Manuscript Reviews for International Journals
| International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics |
| International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering |
| International Journal of Plasticity |
| Computers and Geotechnics: An International Journal |
| Journal of Engineering Mechanics Div., ASCE |
| Journal of Geotech. and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE |
| Journal of Environmental Engineering Div., ASCE |
| Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering |
| Transportation Research Board (TRB) |
| International Journal of Geomechanics |
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Review of Research Proposals
| National Science Foundation |
| Oklahoma Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute |
| National Academy of Science, Washington, DC |
| North Dakota EPSCoR Program |
| U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) |
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