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Robb Eric S. Moss, Ph.D. P.E.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering


PUBLICATIONS IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:

(NOTE: many of these can be downloaded as pdf post-prints from http://works.bepress.com/rmoss/ ).

Kelson, K., Witter, R., Tassara, A., Ryder, I., Ledesma, C., Maontalva, G., Frost, D. Sitar, N., Moss, R., Johnson, L.  (2011)  “Patterns of Tectonic Surface Deformation During the 2010 Maule Earthquake and Influences on Damage to Engineered Facilities.”  Earthquake Spectra, under review.

Moss, R.E.S., Chen, G-X., Tong, L-Y.  (2011)  “Comparing Liquefaction Procedures in the U.S. and China.”  Journal of Sichuan University of Science and Engineering (Natural Science Edition), 24(1), Feb.

Schneider, J. A., and Moss, R.E.S.  (2011)  “Linking cyclic stress and cyclic strain based methods for assessment of cyclic liquefaction triggering in sands.”  Geotechnique, accepted in-press.

Ledezma, C., Ashford, S., Hutchinson, T., Moss, R., Arduino, P., Kayen, R., and Olson, S.  (2011)  “Effects of Liquefaction-Induced Ground Failure on Bridges, Roads, Railroads and Lifeline Systems.”  Earthquake Spectra, in review.

Bilge, H. T., Cetin, K. O., and Moss, R. E. S. (2011). "Unified assessment of the effects of overburden and initial static shear stresses on cyclic response of saturated clean sands." Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, in preparation.

Moss, R. E. S. and Crosariol, V.  (2011).  “Shake table testing to quantify seismic soil-structure-interaction of underground structures.”  Earthquake Spectra, in preparation.

Crosariol, V., Moss, R. E. S., Kuo, S., and Meyman, P.  (2011).  “Soil-Structure-Interaction testing on a Shake Table.”  Geotechnical Testing Journal, in preparation.

Ross, Z. and Moss, R. E. S.  (2011)  “Surface Rupture Invariance and Slip Characteristics.” Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, in review.
Moss, R. E. S. and Ross, Z.  (2011)  “Probabilistic Fault Displacement Hazard Analysis for Reverse Faults.” Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 101(4).

Moss, R. E. S.  (2011).  “Teaching Reliability at the Undergraduate Level.”  ASCE GeoRisk Conference, Atlanta, June.

Hayati, H.,  Moss, R. E. S.  (2011).  “Evaluating Methods for Predition Liquefaction-Induced Settlement.”  ASCE GeoRisk Conference, Atlanta, June.

Hollenback, J.C., and Moss, R. E. S.  (2011).  “"Bounding the Probability of Failure for Levee Systems." ASCE GeoRisk Conference, Atlanta, June.

Moss, R. E. S., Kuo, S., Crosariol, V.  (2011).  “Shake Table Testing of Seismic Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction.”  ASCE Geofrontiers Conference, Dallas, March.

Moss, R. E. S., Hollenback, J. C.  (2011).  “Seismic Response of Peaty Organic Soils as a Levee Foundation Material.”  ASCE Geofrontiers Conference, Dallas, March.

Kayen, R. E., Moss, R. E. S., Thompson, E. R., Seed, R. B., Cetin, K. O., Der Kiureghian, A., Tanaka, Y., and Tokimatsu, K. (2011). "Shear Wave Velocity-Based Probabilistic and Deterministic Assessment of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Potential." Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, accepted in-press.

Moss, R. E. S. (2011). "Reduced Sigma of Ground Motion Prediction Equations through Uncertainty Propagation.”  Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, 101(1).

Moss, R. E. S., Kayen, R. E., Tong, L-Y., Lui, S-Y. Cai, G., and Wu, J.  (2011).  “Retesting of Liquefaction/ Nonliquefaction Case Histories from the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake.”  Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 137(4).

Bray, J.D, Frost, D., ed.  (2010).  “Geo-Engineering Reconnaissance of the February 27, 2010 maule, Chile Earthquake.”  Team Leaders, Bray, J.D., Elderidge, T. Frost, D, Hashash, Y., Kayen, R., Ledezma, C., Moss, R.E.S., Verdugo, R.  geerassociation.org.

Moss, R. E. S., Crosariol, V., and Kuo, S.  (2010).  “Shake table testing to quantify seismic soil-structure-interaction of underground structures.”  5th Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, San Diego, May 24-29.

Moss, R. E. S., Hollenback, J. C., and Ng, J. (2010).   “Spatial Variability of Levees as Measured Using the CPT.”  2nd International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing, Huntington Beach, CA, May.

Brandenberg, S.J., Stewart, J.P., and Moss, R.E.S. (2010)  “Seismic Deformation Potential of Levees on Peaty Organic Soil in the Sacremento-San Joaquin Delta.“  ASCE Geo-Strata Magazine, March/April.

Moss, R. E. S.  (2009).  “Reduced Uncertainty of Ground Motion Prediction Equations through Bayesian Variance Analysis.”  PEER Report No. 2009/105, November.

Moss, R.E.S., Kayen, R.E., Tong, L., Songyu, L., Cai, G., and Wu, J.  (2009).  “Reinvestigation of Liquefaction and Nonliquefaction Case Histories from the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake.”  PEER Report No. 2009/102, August.
http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports/reports_2009/reports_2009.html

Moss. R.E.S.  (2009).  “Uncertainty Propagation in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.”  Invited paper for the 6th Intl. Conf. on Urban Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, March.

Moss, R. E. S. (2009). "Reduced Uncertainty of Ground Motion Prediction Equations through Bayesian Variance Analysis." Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, PEER, Report (in press).

Moss, R.E.S., Hollenback, J.C. (2009). Discussion of “Analyzing Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreads using Strength Ratios” by Scott M. Olsen and Cora I. Johnson, Vol. 134, No. 8, pp. 1035-1049." J. Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, December.

Moss, R. E. S. (2008). "Quantifying Measurement Uncertainty of Thirty Meter Shear Wave Velocity (VS30)." Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, June.

Moss, R. E. S., and Chen, G. (2008). "Comparison of Liquefaction Procedures in the US and China ." 14th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering Beijing .

Moss, R. E. S., Kayen, R. E., Liu, S., Tong, L., Du, G., Cai, G., Cao, Z., and Lijing, S. (2008). "Re-investigating liquefaction case histories from the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake." 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering Beijing

Moss, R.E.S., Thornhill, D.M., Nelson, A.I., and Levulett, D.A. (2008) “Influence of Geologic Aging on Liquefaction Po tential: Preliminary Results.” Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Sacremento, May.

Seed, R.B., Bea, R.G., Athanasopoulos, A.G., Boutwell, G.P., Bray, J.D., Cheung, C., Cobos-Roa, D., Harder, L.F., Moss, R.E.S., Pestana, J.M., Porter, J., Riemer, M.F., Rogers, J.D., Storesund, R., Vera-Grunauer, X., and Wartman, J.E. (2008) “ New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina: III - The 17th Street Drainange Canal.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 134(5).

Moss, R.E.S., Seed, R.B., Kayen, R.E., Stewart, J.P., and Der Kiureghian, A. (2006) “CPT-Based Probabilistic Assessment of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Initiation.” Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center Report # 2005/15, April.

Moss, R.E.S. and Der Kiureghian, A. (2006) “Incorporating Parameter Uncertainty
into Attenuation Relationships.” 8th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake 100th Anniversary.

Moss, R.E.S. and Travasarou, T. (2006) “Tsunamigenic Probabilistic Fault Displacement
Hazard Analysis For Subduction Zones.” 8th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake 100th Anniversary.

Moss, R.E.S., Seed, R.B., and Olsen, R.S. (2006) “Normalizing the CPT for Overburden Stress.” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 132(3).

Seed et al. (2006) “Investigations of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protections Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29th 2005.” NSF Independent Levee Investigation Team, Draft Final Report, Report No. UCB/CCRM-06/01, May. www.ce.berkeley.edu/~new_orleans/report

Moss, R.E.S., Seed, R.B., Kayen, R.E., Stewart, J.P., and Der Kiureghian, A. (2006) “Probabilistic Seismic Soil Liquefaction Triggering using the CPT.” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 132(8).

Moss, R.E.S., Seed, R.B., Kayen, R.E., Stewart, J.P., and Tokimatsu, K. (2005) “Probabilistic Liquefaction Triggering based on the Cone Penetration Test.” ASCE GeoFrontiers Conference, Austin, Jan.

Moss, R.E.S., Collins, B., Whang, D.H, and Stewart, J.D..(2004) “Retesting of Liquefaction and Non-Liquefaction Case Histories in the Imperial Valley with the CPT.” PEER Report No. 2005/15.

Cetin, K. O., Seed, R. B., Der Kiureghian, A., Tokimatsu, K., Harder, L. F. Jr, Kayen, R. E., and Moss, R. E. S. (2004). “SPT-Based Probabilistic and Deterministic Assessment of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Potential.” ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering, 130(12).

Moss, R.E.S., Collins, B., & Whang, D.H. (2004) “Retesting of Liquefaction and Non-Liquefaction Case Histories in the Imperial Valley with the CPT.” Earthquake Spectra, 21(1).

2004 Moss, R.E.S., and Seed, R.B. (2004) “Probabilistic Assessment of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Using the CPT” 11thICSDEE and 3rdICEGE.

Kayen, R., Thompson, E., Minasian, D., Collins, B. Moss, R.E.S., Sitar, N., and Carver, G. (2004) “Geotechnical Observations of the November 3, 2002 M7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake.” Proc. 5th Int. Conf. Case Histories in Geotech. Engr., New York , April.

Kayen, R., Thompson, E., Minasian, D., Moss, R.E.S., Collins, B., Sitar, N., and Carver, G. (2004) “Geotechnical Observations of the November 3, 2002 M7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake.” Earthquake Spectra, 20(3).

Suzuki, M., Tokimatsu, K., Moss, R.E.S., Seed, R.B., Kayen, R.E. (2003) “CPT-Based Liquefaction Field Case Histories from the 1995 Hyogoken-Nambu ( Kobe) Earthquake , Japan .“ Geotechnical Engineering Research Report No. UCB/GE-2003/03, University of California Berkeley .

Harp, E.L., Jibson, R.W., Kayen, R.E., Keefer, D.K., Sherrod, B.S., Carver, G.A., Collins, B.D., Moss, R.E.S., Sitar, N. (2003). “Landslides and Liquefaction Triggered by the M 7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake of 3 November 2002.” GSA Today, 13(4).

Moss, R.E.S., Seed, R.B., Kayen, R.E., Stewart, J.P., Youd, T.L., and Tokimatsu, K. (2003) "Field Case Histories for CPT-Based In Situ Liquefaction Potential Evaluation." Geoengineering Research Report No.UCB/GE-2003/04.

Moss, R. E. S., Cetin, K. O., and Seed, R. B. (2003) “Seismic Liquefaction Triggering Correlations within a Bayesian Framework .” 9th Intl. Conf. Application of Statistic and Probability in Civil Engineering.

Moss, R.E.S., Cetin, K.O., and Seed, R.B. (2003) “Seismic Liquefaction Triggering Correlations within a Bayesian Framework. “ ICASP9.

Moss, R.E.S. (2003) CPT-Based Probabilistic Assessment Of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Initiation. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California Berkeley .

Seed, R.B., Cetin, K.O., Moss, R.E.S., Kammerer, A., Wu, J., Pestana, J. and Riemer, M., Sancio, R.B., Bray, J.D., Kayen, R.E., and Faris, A. (2003) "Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Engineering: A Unified and Consistent Framework." Queen Mary Lecture.

Seed, R.B., Cetin, K.O., Moss, R.E.S., Kammerer, A., Wu, J., Pestana, J. and Riemer, M., Sancio, R.B., Bray, J.D., Kayen, R.E., and Faris, A. (2003) "Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Engineering: A Unified and Consistent Framework.” Earthquake Engineering Research Center Report No. EERC 2003-06.

Moss, R. E. S. and Seed, R. B. (2002). "Probabilistic Evaluation of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Potential Using CPT." 8th U.S.-Japan Lifelines Workshop.

Seed, R. B. Umesh Dayal, P. L. Narula, R. E. S. Moss, L. F. Harder, Jr., and Uday Patil. (2002). “Performance of Earth Dams During the Bhuj Earthquake of January 26, 2001.” Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 18, Supplement A.

Seed, R.B., Cetin, K.O., Moss, R.E.S. (2001) “Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Hazard Assessment.” XV International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering: Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Satellite Conference, Istanbul , Turkey , August.

Bardet, J. P., Deaton, S., Frost, D., Goel, P., Lettis, W., Moss, R., Patel, U., Rathje, E., Seed, R., Singh, J.P., Stewart, J., Vandhana, S.V., and Wright, R.H. (2001). “Initial Geotechnical Observations of the Bhuj, India , Earthquake of January 26, 2001.” http://geoinfo.usc.edu/gees/

Pestana, J. M., Sancio, R. B., Bray, J. D., Romo, M. P., Mendoza, M. J., Moss, R.E.S., Mayoral, J. M., and Seed, R. B. (2001). “Geotechnical Engineering Aspects of the June 1999 Central Mexico Earthquakes.” Earthquake Spectra, 18(3).

Sancio, R. B., Mayoral, J. M., Moss, R. E. S., Pestana, J. M., Seed, R. B., & Bray, J. D. (2001) “Attenuation of Peak Ground Acceleration with Distance of the June 15, 1999, Tehuacan , Mexico , Earthquake.” Fourth International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, San Diego , March 26-31.

Seed, R. B., Cetin, K. O., Moss, R. E. S., Kammerer, A. M., Wu, J., Pestana, J. M., & Riemer, M. F. (2001) “Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Engineering and Seismic Site Response Evaluation.” 4th Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

Cetin, K. O., Seed, R. B., Moss, R. E. S., Der Kiureghian, A., Tokimatsu, K., Harder, L. F. Jr., & Kayen, R. E. (2000) “Field Case Histories for SPT-Based In Situ Liquefaction Potential Evaluation.” Geotechnical Engineering Research Report No. UCB/GT-2000/09, U.C. Berkeley.

Seed, R. B., Stewart, J. S., Moss, R. E. S., & Cetin, K. O. (2000). “Lessons and Opportunities Regarding Liquefaction Presented by the 921 Earthquake.” International Workshop on Annual Commemoration of Chi-Chi Earthquake, Taipei, Taiwan , ROC, September.

Seed, R.B. & Moss, R.E. S. (1999) “Recent Advances in U.S. Codes and Policy with Regard to Seismic Geotechnics.” Proc. 2nd International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Lisbon , Portugal , p.1111-1116.

Pestana, Mendoza , Mayoral, Moss, Sancio, Seed, Bray, & Romo. (1999) “Preliminary Report on the Geotechnical Engineering Aspects of the June 15 and June 21, 1999, Mexico , Earthquakes of the Churches.” EERI Newsletter.

Pestana, Mendoza , Mayoral, Moss, Sancio, Seed, Bray, & Romo. (1999) “Preliminary Report on the Geotechnical Engineering Aspects of the June 15 and June 21, 1999, Mexico , Earthquakes of the Churches.” Geotechnical Engineering Research Report No. UCB/GT-99/17, July 14.

Moss, R.E.S., Rawlings, M.A., Caliendo, J.A., & Anderson , L.R. (1998) “Cyclic Lateral Loading of Model Pile Groups in Clay Soil.” Geotechnical Special Publication No. 75, Volume One, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics III Specialty Conference, Aug.

Moss, R. E. S., Caliendo, J. A., & Anderson, L. R.. (1998) “Investigation of a Cyclic Laterally Loaded Model Pile Group.” Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Special Issue Volume 17, No. 7-8, October/December.

Caliendo, J.A., Rawlings, M.A., Moss, R.E.S., Steed, C., & Anderson , L.R.. (1997) “Cyclic Lateral Loading of a Model Pile Group in Clay Soil.” Proceedings from the 8th International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Volume of Extended Abstracts, Istanbul , Turkey, July 20-24.

Moss, R.E.S. (1997) Cyclic Lateral Loading of Model Pile Groups in Clay Soil: Phase 2B. Masters Thesis, Utah State University .

 

INVITED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

ASCE Geofrontiers Conf., Dallas, TX., March 14-16, 2011.

NRC Seismic Information Workshop, San Luis Obispo, CA, Sept. 8-9, 2010.

CPT Liquefaction Workshop, Huntington Beach, CA, May 12, 2010.

CPT Liquefaction Workshop, Huntington Beach, CA, May 12, 2010.

CPT’10, Huntington Beach, CA (co-organizer/speaker), May 9-11, 2011

Seismological Society of America, Monterey, CA, April, 2009.

6th Intl. Conf. on Urban Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, March, 2009.

14 th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing , October 16, 2008.

Seismological Society of America, Santa Fe, NM, April 16, 2008.

Visiting Professor, Southeast University of Nanjing , July 26, 2007.

Association of Environmental Professionals, Shell Beach, CA, April 23, 2007.

Association of Engineering Geologists, Goleta, CA, July 27, 2006.

1906 San Francisco Earthquake 100th Anniversary Conference,San Francisco, April 12-16, 2006.

ASCE Geofrontiers Conference, Austin TX, January 23-26, 2005.

11th Int. Conf. Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering and 3rd Int. Conf. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, January 7-9, Berkeley, California, 2004.

ASCE, Bay Area Branch Monthly Meeting, February 12, 2003.

Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Middle East Technical University , Ankara , Turkey , Jan-Feb, 2002.

GeoInstitute Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics III, August 3-6, 1998, Seattle , Washington .

8th International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, July 20-24, 1997, Istanbul , Turkey .

32nd Annual Conference on Geologic and Geotechnical Engineering, Spring, 1997, Boise , Idaho .

 


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