PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS
Wolff, T. F. (1995), Spreadsheet Applications in Geotechnical Engineering, PWS-Kent, Boston, 1995
PUBLICATIONS - BOOK CHAPTERS
Wolff, T. F.(1994), "Soil Mechanics," and "Foundations and Retaining Structures," in Principles and Practice of Civil Engineering—PE Exam Review Manual, Merle Potter, ed., Great Lakes Press, 1994, 1996.
Wolff, T. F.(1995, 2002), "Soil Relationships and Classification," in The Civil Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, Inc., 1995. Second edition, 2002.
Wolff, T. F.(1996), "Geotechnical Engineering," in Fundamentals of Engineering, Discipline-Specific FE/EIT Exam Review, Merle Potter, ed., Great Lakes Press, 1996 Nine editions through 2000.
Wolff, T.F. (2007), "Applications of Reliability Analysis to Levees," in Reliability-Based Design in Geotechnical Engineering, K.K. Phoon, ed., Spon Press (in preparation).
PUBLICATIONS - SPECIAL REPORTS
Seed, R.B., Nicholson, P.G., … Wolff, T.F., (22 authors) (2005), Preliminary Report on the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. Joint report of teams from ASCE and the University of California Berkeley. Berkeley report No. UCB/CITRIS – 05/01, November 17, 2005. Report was submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Committee on Environment and Public Works.
PUBLICATIONS - PERIODICALS
Crum, J. R., Wolff, T.F., and Rogers, J.N. III (2004), "Agronomic and Engineering Properties of USGA Putting Greens, USGA Green Section Record, Vol. 42, No. 2, March-April 2004, pp. 11-14. http://www.usga.org/turf/green_section_record/2004/march_april/agronomic.html Also in USGA's Turfgrass and Environmental Research Online, http://usgatero.msu.edu, article http://turf.lib.msu.edu/tero/v02/n15.pdf
PUBLICATIONS - JOURNALS
Klostermann, M.J., Wolff, T.F., and Jahren, N.G. (1982), "Quantitative Relationship of Grouting to the Reduction of Groundwater Flow through Rock Foundations," Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, Vol. XIX, No. 1, 1982, pp. 15-24.
Wolff, T. F., (1991), "Embankment Reliability versus Factor of Safety: Before and After Slide Repair," International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Volume 15, Issue No.1, January 1991.
Wolff, T. F., (1993), "Probabilistic Assessment of Pile Interference," Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 119, No. 3, March 1993, pp. 525-542.
Gabr, M.A., Wolff, T.F., Brizendine, A. L., and Taylor, H.M. (1996), "Underseepage Analysis of Levees on Two-Layer and Three-Layer Foundation," Computers and Geotechnics, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 88-107, 1996.
Hassan, A. M., and Wolff, T.F., (1999), "Search Algorithm for Minimum Reliability Index of Slopes," Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 124, No. 4, April 1999, pp. 301-308.
Buch, N., and Wolff, T.F. (2000), "Classroom Teaching through Inquiry," ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering ,July, 2000.
Henderson, J.J., Crum, J.R., Wolff, T.F., and Rogers, J.N. III (accepted for publication) Effects of Silt and Clay on the Agronomic and Engineering Properties of a Sand Textured Root Zone Material. Subimtted to Crop Science.
Henderson, J.J. Crum, J.R., Wolff, T.F., and Rogers, III, J.N..
(2005) "Effects of Particle Size Distribution and Water Content at Compaction on
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity and Strength of High Sand Content Root Zone
Materials. Soil Science, 170(5):315-324, May 2005
PUBLICATIONS - JOURNAL DISCUSSIONS
Wolff, T. F., and Conroy, P. J., (1992), discussion of "Improved Design Procedures for Vertically Loaded H-Piles in Sand," by H.M. Coyle and R. Ungaro, Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, Vol 118, No. 7, July 1992.
Duncan, M.J., Navin, M., and Wolff, T.F. (2003) discussion of "Probabilistic Slope Stability for Practice," by H. El-Ramly, N.R. Morgenstern and D.M. Cruden, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, vol. 39, pp. 665-683, 2002. http://article.pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ppv/RPViewDoc?_handler_=HandleInitialGet&journal=cgj&volume=40&calyLang=eng&articleFile=t03-030.pdf
PUBLICATIONS - CONFERENCES
Wolff, T. F., and Harr, M.E., (1987), "Slope Design for Earth Dams," in Reliability and Risk Analysis in Civil Engineering 2, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Soil and Structural Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May, 1987, pp. 725 - 732 (refereed).
Wolff, T. F., Hempen, G. L., Dirnberger, M. M., and Moore, B. H., (1988), "Probabilistic Analysis of Earthquake-Induced Pool Release," Second International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla, June 1988, pp. 787-794. (refereed)
Wolff, T. F. (1989), "Geotechnical Judgment in Foundation Design," in Foundation Engineering: Current Principles and Practices, Proceedings of the 1989 ASCE Foundation Engineering Congress, Evanston, IL, June, 1989, F.H. Kulhawy, ed., pp. 903-917. (refereed)
Wolff, T. F. (1989), "Pile Capacity Prediction Using Parameter Functions," in Predicted and Observed Axial Behavior of Piles, Results of a Pile Prediction Symposium sponsored by the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, Evanston, IL, June, 1989, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 23, pp. 96 - 106.
Wolff, T.F., and Lamrouex, R. L. (1989), "Microcomputer Simulation and Animation of the Consolidation Test," Proceedings, 7th National Conference on Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, W. E. Carroll and D.S. Leftwich, eds., University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, November, 1989, pp. 102-105.
Wolff, T.F., and Tipton, R.W. (1989), "Spreadsheet Design of Anchored Sheetpiles," Proceedings, 7th National Conference on Microcomputers in Civil Engineering, W. E. Carroll and D.S. Leftwich, eds., University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, November, 1989, pp. 78-82.
Wolff, T. F., (1990), "Spreadsheets in Geotechnical Engineering," in Proceedings of ASCE 1990 National Forum on Education and Continuing Development for the Civil Engineer, Las Vegas, NV, April, 1990
Wolff, T. F., and Wang, W. (1993), "Reliability Analysis of Navigation Structures," in Geotechnical Practice in Dam Rehabilitation, Proceedings of the specialty conference sponsored by the Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, April 25-28, 1993, ASCE Geotechnical Specialty Publication No. 35, pp. 159-173.
Dias, M. S., Pierce, F. J., and Wolff, T. F., (1993), "Soil Compressibility of Three Glacial Soils Relative to Tillage System and Wheel Traffic," Annual Meetings, American Society of Agronomy - Crop Science Society of America - Soil Science Society of America, Cincinnati, OH, November 7-12, 1993
AbMalik, R., and Wolff, T. F., (1994), "Correlation of Safety Measures from Deterministic and Reliability-Based Approaches for Pile Foundation Design," DFI - 94, Fifth International Conference of the Deep Foundations Institute, Brussels, Belgium, June 13-15, 1994.
Wolff, T. F., and AbMalik, R. B., (1994), "Pile Foundation Design: Correlation of Safety Measures from Deterministic and Reliability-Based Approaches Using Spreadsheet Program, First Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Washington, D.C., June 20-22, 1994.
Wolff, T. F. (1996), "Probabilistic Slope Stability in Theory and Practice," in Uncertainty in the Geologic Environment: From Theory to Practice, Proceedings of Uncertainty ’96, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 58, C.D. Shackelford, P. P. Nelson, and M.J.S. Roth, eds., pp. 419-433 (invited paper, refereed).
Wolff, T. F., Demsky, E.C., Schauer, J., and Perry, E. (1996), "Reliability Assessment of Dike and Levee Embankments, in Uncertainty in the Geologic Environment: From Theory to Practice, Proceedings of Uncertainty ’96, ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 58, C.D. Shackelford, P. P. Nelson, and M.J.S. Roth, eds., pp. 636-650 (refereed).
Abeer, N. and Wolff, T. F., (1997), "Development of Knowledge-Based System for the Preliminary Design of Cantilever Retaining Walls," XIV International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Hamburg, Germany, 1997.
Abeer, N. and Wolff, T. F., (1997), "Effect of Earth Pressure Assumptions on the Design of Cantilever Retaining Walls," 37th Annual Convention, the Institution of Engineers, Pakistan, Lahore, April 1997.
Wolff, T.F. (1997), Geotechnical Reliability of Levees, paper 6, Hydrology and Hydraulics Workshop on Risk-Based Analysis for Flood Damage Reduction Studies, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hydrologic Engineering Center,
Crum, J. R., Wolff, T. F., Freeborn, R. A., and Miller, M. (1997), " Engineering Properties of High Sand Content Soils Used in Golf Putting Greens and Sports Fields," 67th Annual Michigan Turfgrass Conference Proceedings, Volume 26, January 20-24, 1997, Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Extension, pp. 73-82.
Hassan, A.M., and Wolff, T.F. (2000), "Effect of Deterministic and Probabilistic Models on Slope Reliability," GeoDenver 2000, ASCE, Denver, CO, August 2000. (referreed).
Henderson, J.J., Crum, J.R., Wolff, T. F., and Rogers, J.N. (2000). "The Effects of Adding Silt and Clay on the Agronomic and Engineering Properties of a Sand Textured Root Zone Material," 70th Annual Michigan Turfgrass Conference Proceedings, vol 29, pp. 164-167.
Chang, C.-M., Baladi, G. Y., and Wolff, T.F. (2001), "Using Pavement
Distress Data to Assess the Impact of Construction on Pavement Performance," Transportation
Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1761, pp. 15-25.
Also presented at, and in proceedings of, 80th Transportation Research Board Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2001.
Zmich, R., and Wolff, T. F. (2001) "The ROSES Program at Michigan State University: History and Assessment," American Society for Engineering Education, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001. (referreed).
Henderson, J.J., Crum, J.R., Wolff, T. F., and Rogers, J.N. (2001). "Athletic Field Root Zone Mixes: What's the Best Mix for Your Field?" 71st Annual Michigan Turfgrass Conference Proceedings, vol 30, pp. 96-99. http://www.lib.msu.edu/turf/mtc2001/96.pdf
Chang, C.-M., Baladi, G. Y., and Wolff, T.F. (2002), "Detecting Segregation in Bituminous Pavements and Relating its Effects to Conditon," 79th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2000. (referreed).
Henderson, J.J., Crum, J.R., Wolff, T. F., and Rogers, J.N. (2002). "Athletic Field Systems Study," 72nd Annual Michigan Turfgrass Conference Proceedings, vol 31, pp. 14-17. http://www.lib.msu.edu/tic/mtc2002/2002mtcproc.pdf
Henderson, J.J., Crum, J.R., Wolff, T. F., and Rogers, J.N. (2003). "Athletic Field Systems Research," 73rd Annual Michigan Turfgrass Conference Proceedings, vol 32, pp. 158-161.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Wolff, T.F. (1998), "Modeling Real World Design, American Concrete Institute National Convention, Session on "Bring Your Course to Life, Los Angeles, CA, October 1998.
Wolff, T. F. (1999), "Preparation for EC 2000," American Society for Engineering Education National Conference, Associate Deans Workshop, Charlotte, NC, June 20-22, 1999.
Chang, C.-M., Wolff, T.F., and Baladi, G.Y. (2000) "Detecting and Quantifying Segregation in Bituminous Pavements and Relating its Effect to Condition," 79th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 9-13, 2000.
Wolff, T.F. (2000), "Enrollment Management in a Limited Enrollment Program," American Society for Engineering Education National Conference, Associate Deans Workshop, St. Louis, MO, June 2000.
Panel Presentation, "Experiences with EC 2000, Big Ten Plus Associate Deans," American Society for Engineering Education National Conference, Associate Deans Workshop, St. Louis, MO, June 2000.
Henderson, J.J., Crum, J.R., Wolff, T. F., Rogers, J.N. III (2001), "The Effects of Adding Silt and Clay on the Agronomic and Engineering Properties of a Sand," 2001 Annual Meeting, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, Charlotte, NC, October 2001.
REPORTS
U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis (USAEDSTL), (1976), "Re-Evaluation of Underseepage Controls, Mississippi River Levees, Alton to Gale, IL, Phase I: Performance of Underseepage Controls During the 1973 Flood."
Pace, M.E., Mosher, R., Williams, D. R., and Wolff, T. F. (1984), "Seepage Analysis of Confined Flow Problems by the Method of Fragments." Instructional Report No. K-84-8, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, September, 1984
Wolff, T. F., (1987), "Levee Underseepage Analysis for Special Foundation Conditions," research report prepared for U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Geotechnical Laboratory. Michigan State University, Division of Engineering Research, September, 1987.
Wolff, T. F., (1988), "Lecture Notes on Retaining Wall Design–Geotechnical Aspects," prepared for Structural Design Criteria Course, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 19-23 May 1986; revised June 1988.
Wolff, T. F., (1988), "Geotechnical Judgment in Foundation Design," Department of Civil Engineering and Division of Engineering Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, May 1988.
Wolff, T. F., (1989), "LEVEEMSU: A Software Package Designed for Levee Underseepage Analysis," research report prepared for U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Geotechnical Laboratory, May 1989.
Wolff, T. F., (1989), "Finite Element Verification of Underseepage Analysis Software," research report prepared for U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Geotechnical Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, September, 1989.
Wolff, T. F. (1989), "Levee Underseepage Analysis for Special Foundation Conditions," Technical Report REMR-GT-11, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, September, 1989, 91 pp.
Wolff, T. F. (1989), "LEVEEMSU: A Software Package Designed for Levee Underseepage Analysis," Technical Report GL-89-13, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS, September, 1989, 74 pp.
Wolff, T. F., (1990), "PILINT: A Software Package Designed for Pile Interference Analysis," prepared for U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, April, 1990. (currently in publication by Corps).
Wolff, T. F., and Soehnlen, G., (1991), "Seepage Analysis of Levees on Three-Layer Irregular Foundations," prepared for Geotechnical Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, August, 1991.
Wolff, T. F., (1991), "Modeling Relief Wells in Program LEVEEMSU," prepared for Geotechnical Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, October, 1991.
Wolff, T. F., and Wang, W., (1992), "Engineering Reliability of Navigation Structures," research report, Michigan State University, for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, January 1992.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (1992), "Pile Layout to Minimize Interference," Engineer Technical Letter ETL 1110-8-17(FR), Department of the Army, US Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC, 20314-1000.
Wolff, T. F., (1992), "Recommended Procedures for Reliability Analyses: Locks and Dam No. 25," prepared for Geotechnical Branch, St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, February, 1992.
Wolff, T. F., (1992) "Slope Stability Analysis Using Microcomputers," course notes for ASDSO short course, Lansing, MI, June 1992.
Wolff, T. F., (1993), "Report on Probabilistic Models for Lock and Dam No. 24," prepared for Geotechnical Branch, St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, January, 1993.
Shannon and Wilson, Inc., and Thomas F. Wolff, Ph.D., P.E., (1994), "Probability Models for Geotechnical Aspects of Navigation Structures," prepared for St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in connection with the Upper Mississippi River Study, January, 1994.
Wolff, T. F., and Ramon, C., (1994), "CPGP2: A New Program for Pile Interference Assessment," prepared for U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, June 1994.
Wolff, T. F., (1994), "Evaluating the Reliability of Existing Levees," prepared for U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Geotechnical Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, September 1994. This is also Appendix B to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ETL 1110-2-556, Risk-Based Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering for Support of Planning Studies, 28 May 1999.
Wolff, T. F. (1996) "Application of Time-Based Reliability Analysis to Corps of Engineers’ Geotechnical Engineering Problems," report prepared for St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under subcontract to Shannon and Wilson, Inc., St. Louis, MO, November 1996.
Wolff, T. F. (1996) "Application of Spatial Averaging and Spatial Correlation to Corps of Engineers’ Geotechnical Engineering Problems," report prepared for St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under subcontract to Shannon and Wilson, Inc., St. Louis, MO, December 1996.
Wolff, T. F., Baladi, G. Y., and Chang, C.-M. (1997), "Test Method to Determine the Existence of Segregation in Bituminous Mixtures," for Michigan Department of Transportation, MSU Pavement Research Center of Excellence report, September 1997.
Wolff, T. F. (1998), "Assessment of Geotechnical Reliability," report prepared for St. Louis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under subcontract to URS-Greiner Woodward-Clyde Consultants, St. Louis, MO, September 1998.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (1999) ETL 1110-2-556, Risk-Based Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering for Support of Planning Studies, 28 May, 1999, with two appendices. Appendix A, An Overview of Probabilistic Analysis for Geotechnical Engineering Problems. Appendix B: Evaluating the Reliability of Existing Levees.
Wolff, T. F., Baladi, G. Y., and Chang, C.-M. (2000), "Detecting and Quantifying Segregation in Bituminous Mixtures and Relating its Effect to Condition," for Michigan Department of Transportation, MSU Pavement Research Center of Excellence report, March 2000.
Wolff, T. F., (2002), "Design and Performance of Underseepage Controls: A Critical Review, " U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, report ERDC/GSL TR-02-19. Originally written in 1986, formally published in September, 2002.
Wolff, T. F., Hassan, A., Khan, R., Ur-Rasul, I., and Miller, M. (2004), "Geotechnical Reliability of Dam and Levee Embankments," Report ERDC/GSL CR-04-1, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, September 2004. (Originally written in 1995, but unpublished).