Sibel Pamukcu

Sibel Pamukcu
Associate Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fritz Engineering Laboratory
Lehigh University
13 East Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
Phone: (610) 758-3220
Email: sp01@lehigh.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Civil/Geotechnical Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1986
M.S. Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1981
B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1978

Teaching Areas:

Soil Mechanics
Soil Dynamics
Soil Behavior
Foundation Engineering

Research and Scholarship Areas:

Mass Transfer in Porous Media
Soil Decontamination/Restoration Technologies
Solidification/Stabilization of Earth-Like Materials; Re-use of Residual Materials
Non-Destructive Characterization/Identification of Subsurface Granular Materials

Significant Honors and Awards:

Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society of International Scholars
Alfred Noble Robinson Award, Lehigh University
Who's Who in North East (USA), Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Turkey

Professional Society Memberships:

ASCE, American Society of Civil Engineers
ASTM, (Committee D-18) American Society for Testing and Materials
TRB, Transportation Research Board (Committee A2L02, Soil and Rock Properties: Chairperson (1994-2000))

Other Professional Activities:

Organizing Committee: Mediterranean Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Izmir, Turkey, May, 1992
Panel: Franco-American Workshop on Environmental Geomaterials, Orleans, France, October, 1992.
Steering Committee: 7th International Conference of Low Volume Roads, TRB, 1996-99
Technical Committee: ISOPE, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering
Editorial Board: EGJE, Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, http://geotech.civen.okstate.edu/ejge/

Representative Recent Publications:

"Electro-Chemical Technologies for In-situ Restoration of Contaminated Subsurface Soils," Pamukcu, S., Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, http://geotech.civen.okstate.edu/ejge/, Fall'1997.
"Electrochemical Separation and Stabilization of Selected Inorganic Species Porous Media," Pamukcu, S., Weeks, A. and Wittle, J.K." Journal of Hazardous Materials, 55, pp. 305-318, Elsevier Science B.V., (1997)
"Ground Rubber: Sorption Media for Groundwater Contaminated with Benzene and O-Xylene," Kershaw, D.S., Crouthamel-Kulik, B. and Pamukcu, S., Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol 123, No. 4, pp. 324-334, (1997).
"Ground Rubber: Reactive Permeable Media," Kershaw, D. and Pamukcu, S., ASCE, Geotechnical Special Publication, No.71, In-Situ Remediation of the Geoenvironment, pp 26-40 (1997).
"Prediction of Dynamic Properties by Low Strain Excitation of Residual Materials," Romero, S. and Pamukcu, S. ASTM, Special Technical Publication 1275, Testing Soil Mixed with Waste or Recycled Materials, pp. 79-92 (1997).
"Characterization of Granular Systems by Digital Signal Processing of Low Strain Wave Response," Romero S., and Pamukcu S., Transportation Research Record, No. 1548, Small Magnitude Measurements in Geotechnical Engineering, TRB, Washington, DC, pp. 38-45, (1996)
"Prediction of Dynamic Properties of Granular Material by Low Strain Dynamic Excitation and ANN," Romero, S. and Pamukcu, S., ASCE Geotechnical Specialty Conference, No. 58, Uncertainty in Geological Environment: From Theory to Practice, Vol. 2, pp.1134-1148, (1996).
"Non-destructive Determination of Coupled Flow Parameters Under Constant Thermal Potential", Pervizpour, M. and Pamukcu, S., ASCE Specialty Conference, The Geoenvironment 2000, pp. 242-255, (1995).
"The Role of Electroosmosis in Transporting PAH Compounds in Contaminated Soils," Pamukcu, S., Filipova, I. and Wittle J.K., Proc. of the Symp. on Electrochemical Technology Applied to Environmental Problems, The Electrochemical Society, PV 95-12, pp. 252-266, (1995)