Thomas F. Wolff, Ph.D., P.E.

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DESIGN

FUNDED ENGINEERING RESEARCH (MSU)

(most recent listed first)

Co-Prinicpal Investigator, Detecting and Quantifying Segregation in Bituminous Pavement and Predicting its Effect on Performance, with Dr. G.Y. Baladi, sponsored by Michigan Department of Transportation, September 1997 - September 1999, $200,328.

Co-Principal Investigator, Engineering Characteristics and Maintenance of Golf Putting Greens, with Dr. J. Crum and others, sponsored by United States Golf Association, May 1998 - May 2001, $75,000.

Co-Principal Investigator, Engineering Characteristics and Maintenance of Golf Putting Greens, with Dr. J. Crum, sponsored by United States Golf Association, May 1996 - May 1998, $40,000 (engineering portion).

Co-Principal Investigator, Test Method to Determine the Existence of Segregation in Bituminous Mixtures, with Dr. G. Y. Baladi, sponsored by Michigan Department of Transportation, September 1995 - September 1997, $120,000.

Principal Investigator, Geotechnical Reliability of Dam and Levee Embankments, sponsored by U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, May – September 1995, $40,000.

Principal Investigator, Reliability of Existing Levees, sponsored by U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, May – September 1994, $19,854.

Principal Investigator, Probabilistic Assessment of Pile Interference, sponsored by U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, July 1993 – June 1994, $44,359

Principal Investigator, Engineering Reliability Assessment of Navigation Systems (Part II), sponsored by U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, January – March 1992, $11,844.

Principal Investigator, Engineering Reliability Assessment of Navigation Systems, sponsored by U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station, April – September 1991. $73,493.

Principal Investigator, Design Guidance for Pile Interference Assessment, sponsored by U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, June – September 1990. $16,045.

Principal Investigator, Interference Assessment for Pile Groups Using Probabilistic Methods, sponsored by U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, May 1989 - April 1990. $21,122.

Principal Investigator, Finite Element Verification of Underseepage Analysis Procedures, sponsored by U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, May – September 1989. $9,021.

Principal Investigator, Improvements to Underseepage Analysis for Special Foundation Conditions, sponsored by U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, August 1988 – May 1989. Includes development of program LEVEEMSU. $24,729.

Principal Investigator, Levee Underseepage Analysis for Special Foundation Conditions, sponsored by U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Mar. – Sep. 1987. $40,712.

Principal Investigator, Uncertainty, Judgment, and Decision in Foundation Design, an Integrated Study, funded by Michigan State University, Jan. – Dec. 1987 $6,575

Research Engineer under Interagency Personnel Agreement with U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg MS (April 1986 – January 1987, $21,914). Drafted chapters and sections of Corps of Engineers' Engineering Manual on design of retaining walls and flood walls, and Engineering Manual on slope stability. Reviewed Corps' design procedures for levee underseepage controls.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE WITH CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 1970 - 1985

Fifteen years of successively increasing responsibility for geotechnical aspects of water resource projects.

Served on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' GCASE (Geotechnical aspects of Computer Aided Structural Engineering) Committee (1980–1985), which provided opinions and advice on computer program development.

Served on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' CASE (Computer Aided Structural Engineering) Committee task group on retaining walls and flood walls, which provided opinions and advice on program development and methods of analysis.

Served on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' CAGE (Computer Aided Geotechnical Engineering) Committee task group on slope stability, which oversaw development of program UTEXAS2.

Project Geotechnical Engineer, Melvin Price Lock and Dam, Mississippi River, Alton, IL. Performed and oversaw analysis and design of foundations and earth structures, including specifications and performance evaluation for two dewatering systems in excess of 100,000 gallons per minute, pile load test program, overwater exploration program, concept development for $1 million research program on instrumented cofferdam cell, concept development for $15 million research program to determine the effects of pile driving adjacent to grouted and ungrouted foundations, technical evaluation of major contract claims, and hydrogeologic analysis to predict change in regional groundwater levels.

Project Geotechnical Engineer, Lock and Dam No. 3, Red River Waterway, Louisiana; engineering analysis and design for semi-gravity dam on Tertiary claystone and sand-founded navigation lock.

Served as team leader, team geotechnical engineer, peer reviewer for numerous inspections of non-federal dams under Corps of Engineers' dam inspection program. Field staff engineer on construction of Rend Lake Dam, Benton, IL.

Performed miscellaneous engineeering analysis and design tasks for many water resources projects, including the Alton-to-Gale, IL levees system, Carlyle Dam, Shelbyville Dam, Clarence Cannon Dam, and Kaskaskia Lock & Dam and Navigation Project.