# Scott Brandenberg

PROFESSOR
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

4731D Boelter Hall

Email: sjbrandenberg@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-9819
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Websites

- Personal Website

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My research interests are geotechnical earthquake engineering, geophysical imaging, data acquisition and signal processing, and numerical analysis. My current research projects are:
(1) developing fragility functions for bridges in liquefied and laterally spreading ground,
(2) developing design guidelines for pile foundations in liquefied ground,
(3) evaluation of the seismic levee deformation by destructive cyclic field testing,
(4) centrifuge modeling of the large-strain site response behavior of soft clays,
(5) CPT-based ultrasonic imaging of jet grout columns, and
(6) developing correlations between shear wave velocity and penetration resistance at Caltrans bridge sites.

##### IN THE NEWS

- How The Delta Conveyance Project Would Make California’s Water Supply More Resilient Against Earthquakes | California Dept. of Water Resources, July 2023
- First Field-Based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta | Maven's Notebook, October 2021
- Southern California hasn't had a big earthquake since 1857. Here's what would happen if a mega earthquake hit California. | Business Insider, September 2021
- Earthquake Preparation for Resilience | Planetizen, October 2020
- Weaving earthquake risk into city resiliency plans | Smart Cities Dive, October 2020

##### EDUCATION

- Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Davis
- M.S. (2002), University of California, Davis
- B.S. (2000), California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- 2022: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award
- 2013: Shamsher Prakash Research Award
- 2012: ASCE Student Chapter Outstanding Professor Award