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    Arthur Casagrande was an influential American-Austrian civil engineer known as a pioneer in geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics. He developed important testing apparatus and soil classification systems while working with Karl Terzaghi at MIT. Throughout his career, Casagrande consulted on major construction projects and served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation. He is renowned for his research on soil behavior under load and liquefaction. Casagrande retired as a professor emeritus at Harvard in 1973 after making seminal contributions to the field over nearly five decades.

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    Arthur Casagrande was an influential American-Austrian civil engineer known as a pioneer in geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics. He developed important testing apparatus and soil classification systems while working with Karl Terzaghi at MIT. Throughout his career, Casagrande consulted on major construction projects and served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation. He is renowned for his research on soil behavior under load and liquefaction. Casagrande retired as a professor emeritus at Harvard in 1973 after making seminal contributions to the field over nearly five decades.

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    Arthur Casagrande was an influential American-Austrian civil engineer known as a pioneer in geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics. He developed important testing apparatus and soil classification systems while working with Karl Terzaghi at MIT. Throughout his career, Casagrande consulted on major construction projects and served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation. He is renowned for his research on soil behavior under load and liquefaction. Casagrande retired as a professor emeritus at Harvard in 1973 after making seminal contributions to the field over nearly five decades.

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    VILLAN, JERIC MIKAELO D.

    CE563
    BSCE - 3

    Arthur Casagrande

    Arthur Casagrande was an American-Austrian civil engineer famous for his


    achievement and development in geotechnical field. He was born on August 28, 1902 in

    modern day Slovenia, Austria which was once part of the Italian section during the
    Austrian-Hungry Empire in 1902. During his education, war broke out against Central

    Powers (Austria included) and the Allied powers. Despite this, in 1924 he graduated with
    a degree in civil engineering from Technische Hochschule, Vienna specializing in

    hydraulics.

    After the death of his father at the end of WW1, he move to United States and
    later worked as a steel detailer and draftsman for Carnegie Steel in New Jersey. He then

    became a professor in hydraulic in MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) where


    he met Karl Terzaghi, now known as the “father of soil mechanics.” Together they

    developed the shear box, hydrometer test and the liquid limit apparatus. Casagrande
    made numerous studies that focused on soil classification, shear testing and frost action

    in soils while working as a consultant in the U.S Bureau of Public Roads.

    Because of the real world applications of Casagrande's work, much of his career
    was spent consulting on a variety of large-scale construction projects. His recognition

    soon earned him a position in the Army Corps of Engineering and Bureau of
    Reclamation as the second World War was looming. During which he was able to derive

    a unified classification system of soils.

    In 1963, during the Casagrande’s career as a professor in Harvard, he organized


    the First International Conference in Soil Mechanics and published his most influential
    paper on the characteristic of cohesionless soils affecting the stability of slopes and

    earth fills. The paper addresses the problem of liquefaction, a phenomenon in which the
    strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading.

    Casagrande's fundamental research eventually led to the formulation of criteria and


    tests that defined the growing understanding of soil behavior under load.

    With his nearly five decades of civil works and teachings, in 1973 Casagrande retired and
    became a professor emeritus.

    Casagrande’s work entails his character as great practitioner of the civil works,

    not only that but a passionate civil engineer. His research and development is
    something to astound from with his great ingenuity. Seeing and living through both

    World Wars and even serving in the Army Corps Engineering shows his strong will and
    unbreakable spirit, and even more his great leadership that led to 400 officers being

    trained by his hands on the soil mechanics aspect of airfield construction, and this
    officers was later assigned to aviation engineer battalion in many parts of the world. It

    was known through his colleges that he was an excellent teacher who was devoted to
    his student, both in and out of classroom. He has great pride for his students for later

    having a successful career.

    On September 6, 1981, Arthur Casagrande passed away at the age of 79 living


    behind his legacy of works and achievement serving both as modern and practical

    application in soil mechanics and foundation engineering; and inspiration for engineers
    for years to come.
    Source:

    http://www.ejge.com/People/Casagrande/Casagrande.htm

    http://nysspe.org/2016/11/21/arthur-casagrande-nysspes-engineer-week/

    https://www.asce.org/templates/person-bio-detail.aspx?id=9915

    Arthur Casagrande, BSCE Journal, September 29, 1981

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