Professional Services

Role in International/National Conferences/Symposia/Workshops

  1. Co-Chair, GeoChina International Conference 2021, held in Nan-Chang, China on July 19-21, 2021.
  2. Co-Chair, 16th IACMAG InterFnational Conference, held in Torino, Italy, Aug. 30 – Sept. 2, 2022.
  3. Co-Chair, IACMAG International Symposium, held in Gandhinagar, India on March 5-7, 2019.
  4. Co-Chair, GeoChina Conference, held at HangZhou, China on July 23-25, 2018.
  5. Co-Chair, 2016 GeoChina International Conference, held in Shandong, China on July 25-27, 2016.
  6. Executive Committee Member, 2016 International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure and Materials, held in Xian, China on July 16-18, 2016.
  7. Co-Chair, 15th IACMAG International Conference, to be held in Wuhan, China on October 20-23, 2017.
  8. Organizer, Transportation-Climate Summit, held in Norman, Oklahoma, September 30, 2014.
  9. Co-Chair, GeoHubei International Conference, Hubei, China, July 20-22, 2014.
  10. Co-Chair, 14th IACMAG Conference, held in Kyoto, Japan, September 22-25, 2014.
  11. Co-Chair, 13th IACMAG Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, May 9-13, 2011.
  12. Chief Proctor, EIT Exam. (ELSES) (2002 – 2012).
  13. Co-Chair, 12th IACMAG Conference, held in Goa, India, October 1-6, 2008.
  14. Co-Chair, 11th IACMAG Conference, held in Turin, Italy, 2005.
  15. Member of the Organizing Committee, Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Association Conf., 2004.
  16. Organizer, Asphalt Pavement Recycling Workshop (with OCAST, ODOT and Koch Pavement Solutions), September 16, 2003.
  17. Organizer of Technical Session “Computational Mechanics 1” at the 14th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Virginia Tech., 2002.
  18. Co-Chair, 10th IACMAG Conference, held in Tucson, Arizona, 2001.
  19. 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.
  20. Co-Organizer (with E.C. Drumm, Univ. of Tennessee) of sessions 238, 272 and 333 at the 78th Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, January 10-14, 1999.
  21. 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.
  22. Session Chair, “D2: Deep Excavation”, 9th IACMAG Conf., held in Wuhan, P.R.C., November 2-7, 1997.
  23. Member, International Advisory Com., 9th IACMAG Conf., held in Wuhan, P.R.C., November 2-7, 1997. Also, developing two technical sessions, one on Petroleum Rock Mechanics (with Dr. Y. Abousleiman) and the other on Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (with Prof. Salami).
  24. Session Chair, Discrete Element Methods II, 2nd North American Rock Mech. Symp., held in Montreal, Canada, June 19-21, 1996.
  25. Session Organizer, Session: Discrete Element Method/DDA, 2nd North American Rock Mech. Symp., held in Montreal, Canada, June 19-21, 1996.
  26. Member, International Tech. Comm., First International Symp. on Discontinuous Deformation Analysis, held in Berkeley, California, June 12-14, 1996.
  27. Developer of Technical Session and Chair, Third International Conference on Comp. Methods and Water Resources, held in Beirut, Lebanon, September 25-28, 1995. 24.
  28. Co-Chairman, “Session – Mechanical and Hydraulic Properties of Rock”, 35th U.S. Symp. on Rock Mechanics, held in Lake Tahoe, June 4-7, 1995.
  29. Co-Chairman, “International Conf. of the Int’l. Assoc. of Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG-94),” held at West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, May 22-28, 1994.
  30. Chairman, “Session SM7 – Solid Mechanics”, Second Asian-Pacific Conf. on Computational Mech., held in Sydney, Australia, August 3-6, 1993.
  31. Co-Organizer, “U.S.-Canada Workshop on Recent Accomplishments and Future Trends in Geomechanics in the 21st Century,” held in Norman, Oklahoma, October 21-23, 1992.
  32. Chairman of Session 7 “Thermoelasticity,” Southeastern Conf. on Theoretical and Appl. Mech. (SECTAM XVI), held in Houston, Texas, January 26-29, 1992.
  33. Vice Chairman of Session CM-3 “Dynamics and Experimental Mechanics of Composite Materials II,” Energy Technology Conf. and Exhibition (ETCE), held in Houston, Texas, January 26-29, 1992.
  34. Chairman of session “Constitutive Modeling”, IACMAG-91 Conf., held in Cairns, Australia, May 6-11, 1991.
  35. Co-Chairman of session “General and Cyclic Plasticity”, Third International Conf. on constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials, held in Tucson, Arizona, January 7-11, 1991.
  36. Co-Editor, Newsletter of the International Assoc. for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (1989 – present).
  37. Member and Treasurer, Organizing Committee, 32nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, held in Norman, Oklahoma, July 1991.
  38. Member, International Advisory Committee, 7th International Conference on Recent Advances and Comp. Methods in Geomechanics, held in Australia in 1991.
  39. Chairman of Session CM-5 “Plasticity and Dynamics in Composite Materials,” Energy Tech. Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 14-18, 1990.
  40. Reviewer, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, held at Chicago, Illinois, 1988.
  41. Chairman of Session “Flow and Consolidation,” 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held in Austria, April 11-15, 1988.
  42. Reviewer, 6th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held April 1988 at Innsbruck, Austria.
  43. Co-Chairman of session “Discontinuities, Contacts, Interfaces, Joints,” Second International Conference on Constitutive Laws of Engineering Materials: Theory and Application,” held in Tucson, Arizona, January 5-8, 1987.
  44. Moderator of session “Engineering,” 75th Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Academy of Science, held at Southeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, November 14, 1986.
  45. Moderator of session, “Structures,” Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (SECTAM) XIII, held in Columbia, South Carolina, April 17-18, 1986.
  46. Co-editor, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Variational Methods in Geosciences, held in Norman, Oklahoma, October 15-17, 1985.
  47. Member, Organizing and Steering Committee, ADSC Drilled Foundation Workshop for Engineering Faculty, held in Fort Collins, Colorado, July 12-18, 1987.
  48. Organizer and co-chairman of session “Geomechanics,” International Symposium on Variational Methods in Geosciences, held in Norman, Oklahoma, October 15-17, 1985.
  49. Session Chairman, “Soil-Structure Interaction,” 5th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held in Nagoya, Japan, April 1-5, 1985.
  50. Member, International Advisory Committee, 5th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, held in Nagoya, Japan, April 1-5, 1985.

Society Offices

  1. Member, The Oklahoma Academy (since 2014) (Oklahoma’s Premiere Research and Public Policy Organization).
  2. Executive Vice-President, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics. (since 2008).
  3. Board of Advisors, Physics and Biomedical Eng. Dept., UCO. (since 2008).
  4. Vice President, International Assoc. for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomech. (since 2008).
  5. Executive Committee Member, Council of University Transportation Center. (2016 – 2020)
  6. Member, Warm Mix Asphalt Task Force (since Oct. 2011).
  7. Interim Technical Director, Oklahoma Transportation Center (January – December 2009).
  8. Chair, OTC Education and Outreach Committee (since 2007).
  9. Member, Council of University Transportation Center (CUTC) (since 2006).
  10. Chair, Oklahoma Transportation Center Technical Committee (2006 – 2007).
  11. OU Director, Oklahoma Transportation Center (October 2003 – December 2004).
  12. Member (OU), Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Task Force (since 2002).
  13. Member, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) (since 1997).
  14. Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) (1997 – 2000).
  15. Member, A2JO2 (Chemical and Mechanical Stabilization), Transportation Research Board (2001-2010).
  16. Member, A2K05 (Modeling Techniques in Geomechanics; sub-committee on Neural Network).
  17. Member, A2L02 (Soil and Rock Properties), Transportation Research Board (1997-2003).
  18. Founding Member, American Rock Mechanics Association (since 1996).
  19. Co-Chair, IACMAG Award Committee (since August 1996).
  20. Board Member, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) (since 1996).
  21. Co-Chair, 8th IACMAG Conference, Morgantown, West Virginia (1994).
  22. University Representative, Transportation Research Board (since September 1993).
  23. Chair, ASCE Deep Foundation Sub-Committee for Nominating Papers for Awards (June-August, 1993).
  24. Editor, Newsletter of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) (since 1991) (Co-Editors: Gioda, Ichikawa).
  25. Elected Chairperson (Section I: Engineering), Oklahoma Academy of Science (November 1987 – November 1988).
  26. Member, U.S. Universities Council for Geotechnical Engineering Research (USUCGER) By-Laws Committee (March 1987 – March 1988).
  27. Co-Chairman of ADSC Joint Contractor-Technical Affiliate Committee (for establishing criteria for research to be funded by the HBW fund) (1987).
  28. Chairman, ADSC Technical Affiliate Committee (June 1984 – December 1994).
  29. Elected Vice-Chairperson (Section I: Engineering), Oklahoma Academy of Science (November 1986 – November 1987).
  30. Member, ASCE Deep Foundations Committee (June 1987 – 1996).

Journal Editorial Board

  1. Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology (2023 – Present)
  2. Co-Editor, International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE. (since April 2020).
  3. Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE (January 2009 – March 2020).
  4. Editorial Board Member, Soils and Foundation (Elsevier) (2017-2021).
  5. Editorial Review Board Member, Studies in Surveying and Mapping Science. (since 2012).
  6. Associate Editor, Journal, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. (2011-2022).
  7. Co-Editor (Application Briefs), International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (until 2000).
  8. Associate Editor, International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE (until 2008)
  9. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering (since 2007).
  10. Associate Editor, Journal of Pavement Research and Technology.
  11. Editorial Com. Member, J. of Shandong Univ. (Engineering Science; 2011-2015).
  12. Guest Editor (with Dr. Suzuki) of special IJOG issue titled “Geomechanics Applications in Disaster Mitigation” (October 2016).
  13. Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering.
  14. Associate Editor, Petroleum Science and Engineering