Faculty - Thomas C. Sandford
Associate Professor
sandford@umit.maine.edu
Ph. D. - 1976
Civil Engineering/University of Illinois
Professor Sandford teaches soil mechanics and geotechnical
engineering at the undergraduate level, while at the graduate
level he teaches retaining earth structures, deep foundations,
earthwork design, and advanced soil mechanics laboratory. His
research interests include reliability-based design,
soil-structure interaction, soil-nail walls, pile foundations, and
flow through fractured rock. Current projects include
Moscow Soil-Nail Project , Brunswick Pile Bitumen Project,
and Brunswick Soil-Nail Project. He is chair of the
Soil-Structure Interaction Committee for the
Transportation Research Board. Professor Sandford was in
engineering practice for 11 years before joining the University of
Maine in 1981.
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