Prof. Victor N. Kaliakin



Prof. Victor N. Kaliakin is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, where he has served on the faculty since 1990.  Professor Kaliakin received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Davis, and his M.Sc. degree in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics of American Society of Civil Engineers, and as the Chair of Inelastic Behavior Committee of ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division.
 
In addition to research in constitutive modeling of soils and computational geomechanics, Professor Kaliakin has conducted research on the constitutive modeling of polymeric reinforcement (geosynthetics) and the numerical simulation of geotechnical problems involving geosynthetics.