Lehigh University

 

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Tae Sup Yun, Ph.D.

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

13 East Packer Avenue

Bethlehem, PA 18015

Phone: 610-758-4936

Email: taesup@lehigh.edu   

 

 

** Graduate Research Assistantship available NOW**

Please contact me for opportunities

 

Education

Ph.D.   2005           Geosystems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S.    2003           Geosystems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003

B.S.    1997            Geology, Yonsei University, 1997

 

Employment

2007 - present         Assistant Professor, Lehigh University

2005 - 2007             Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology

                              (coordination of JIP, DOE and JOI projects on gas hydrates)

2005                       Adjunct Instructor, Southern Polytechnic State University

2002 - 2005             Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Research Interests

Energy related topics and gas hydrate

Coupled behavior of gas hydrate bearing sediments: mechanical, thermal and chemical interaction, carbon dioxide sequestration, fluid flow in porous media

Innovative sensor technology and integrated field applications (collaboration with Dr. Sibel Pamukcu)

Fiber optics, in-situ measurement instrumentation

Wave-based process monitoring and non-destructive methods

Mechanical and electromagnetic waves, electrical resistivity tomography

Smart and sustainable geo-materials (on-going)

 

Teaching

Soil mechanics

Foundation engineering

Geo-environmental engineering (2008 Spring)

 

Publications

Yun, T. S., and Santamarina, J. C. (2007). Fundamental study of thermal conduction in dry soils. Granular Matter, DOI 10.1007/s10035-007-0051-5 (in print).

Lee, J.Y., Yun, T.S., Santamarina, J.C., and Ruppel, C. (2007). Observations related to tetrahydrofuran and methane hydrate for laboratory studies of hydrate-bearing sediments. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems - G3, 8(6), Q06003, doi:10.1029/2006GC001531.

Yun, T.S., Ruppel, C. and Santamarina, J.C. (2007). Mechanical properties of sand, silt, and clay containing tetrahydrofuran hydrate. Journal of Geophysical Research: B-Solid Earth, 112, B04106, doi:10.1029/2006JB004484.

Yun, T.S., Narsilio, G.A. and Santamarina, J.C. (2006). Physical characterization of Gulf of Mexico sediments. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 23, p. 893-900.

Yun, T.S., Narsilio, G.A., Santamarina, J.C. and Ruppel, C. (2006). Instrumented pressure testing chamber for characterizing sediment cores recovered at in situ hydrostatic pressure. Marine Geology, 229, p. 285-293.

Yun, T.S. and Santamarina, J.C. (2005). Decementation, softening and collapse: Changes in small-strain shear stiffness in Ko-loading. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 131(3), March, p. 350-358.

Yun, T.S., Francisca, F.M., Santamarina, J.C. and Ruppel, C. (2005). Compressional and shear wave velocities in uncemented sediment containing gas hydrate. Geophysical Research Letters, 32(10), May, L10609 (doi:10.1029/2005GL022607).

Francisca, F.M., Yun, T.S., Ruppel, C. and Santamarina, J.C. (2005). Geophysical and geotechnical properties of near-surface sediments in the northern Gulf of Mexico gas hydrate province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 237, p. 924-939 (doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.050).

Geo-energy Group

(coming soon)

 

Georgia Tech