Alexander Puzrin (0000-0002-9566-8841)

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Alexander M. Puzrin is Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich. He is engaged in the constitutive modeling of geomaterials and the analysis of progressive and catastrophic failure in soils, with applications to creeping terrestrial and tsunamigenic submarine landslides. His interests include applications of novel sensor technologies to geotechnical monitoring and development of innovative chemical and biological soil improvement techniques. He has been involved as an expert and consultant in large-scale geotechnical projects in the UK, the US, Russia, Mexico, Azerbaijan, Israel and Switzerland. He is a co-founder of the ETH Zurich spin-off company Marmota Engineering AG, which provides high-tech fibre-optics geotechnical monitoring services to the industry. Alexander Puzrin was a recipient of the ETH Excellence in Teaching Award (Goldene Eule) in 2009 and 2013. His papers were awarded with Geotechnical Research Medals in 2004 and 2013, and the George Stephenson Medal in 2013 by the UK Institution of Civil Engineers. He served as the Editor of the international journal Géotechnique and the Chairman of the Géotechnique Advisory Panel from 2012–2015.

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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: Zurich, CH

2004 to present | Professor and Chair of Geotechnical Engineering (Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)

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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich: Zurich, CH

Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta, GA, US

Technion Israel Institute of Technology: Haifa, IL

Research Institute of Underground Structures (NIIOSP): Moscow, RU

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Technion Israel Institute of Technology: Haifa, IL

Moscow State University of Civil Engineering: Moscow, RU

Works (50 of 125)

LS-DEM Guided Analysis of Geotechnical Tests: Exploring Strength Anisotropy and Stress Dependency

Reply to: Creep deformation does not explain the Brumadinho disaster

Characterisation, remediation and valorisation of contaminated sediments: a critical review

Strain mode measurement of asphalt pavements using distributed fibre optic sensor data

Experimental Study of the Earth Pressure Evolution on a Model Wall Rotating about Its Base

Use of shells for the mechanical stabilisation of sediments: a valuable geomechanical perspective?

The slip surface mechanism of delayed failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in 2019

A Framework for Simulating the Evolution of Underwater Landslides and Its Application to Slope Failures in Swiss Lakes

Limit-state solutions for the active earth pressure behind walls rotating about the base

Construction on Slow-Moving Landslides: Effects of Excavation on Neighboring Structures

Rate, Water Pressure, and Temperature Effects in Landslide Shear Zones

Effects of bio-chemo-mechanical processes on the properties of contaminated marine sediments

Mechanics of coseismic and postseismic acceleration of active landslides

Basin Sediments Geometry and Strength as Controls for Post‐Failure Emplacement Style of Alpine Sub‐Lacustrine Landslides

Closure to “Piping Criteria for Hydraulically Stable Anisotropic Slopes” by Alexander M. Puzrin

Mechanism of Co‐Seismic Deformation of the Slow‐Moving La Sorbella Landslide in Italy Revealed by MPM Analysis

Author Correction: Post-publication careers: follow-up expeditions reveal avalanches at Dyatlov Pass

Post-publication careers: follow-up expeditions reveal avalanches at Dyatlov Pass

Piping Criteria for Hydraulically Stable Anisotropic Slopes

Controlling factors for post-failure evolution of subaqueous landslides

Landslide influence zone – a hidden hazard

Mechanisms of slab avalanche release and impact in the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959

Monitoring of ground displacements using borehole-embedded distributed fibre optic sensors

The mechanism of delayed release in earthquake-induced avalanches

Ultimate loads on buildings in landslides

Sedimentation as a Control for Large Submarine Landslides: Mechanical Modeling and Analysis of the Santa Barbara Basin

Application of the shear band propagation method to slope stability analysis of a palaeo-landslide in the caspian sea

Catastrophic failure in planar landslides with a fully softened weak zone

Effects of pore water pressure dissipation on rate dependency of shear strength in localised failure of soils

Effects of shear band propagation on early waves generated by initial breakoff of tsunamigenic landslides

Geotechnical challenges in the Caspian sea

GIS-Based probabilistic slope stability assessment using shear band propagation

Pre-stressing of soil and structures due to jet grouting

Inclinodeformeter pressure measurements in creeping landslides: Analytical solutions and field applications

The 'I<inf>3</inf>' generalization of the Galileo-Rankine tension criterion

Use of fibre-optic sensors for simple assessment of ground surface displacements during tunnelling

Combining biomineralization with chemically enhanced drainage in soils

Design of protection structures: The role of the grainsize distribution

Detection of ground movements using soil-embedded distributed fiber optic sensors

Effects of dispersing foams and polymers on the mechanical behaviour of clay pastes

Effects of time dependency on earth pressure measurements taken by inclinodeformometer

Pavement structural health evaluation based on inverse analysis of three dimensional deflection bowl

Reduction of the clogging potential of clays: New chemical applications and novel quantification approaches

Effect of soil conditioners on the pressure and rate-dependent shear strength of different clays

Evolution of stabilised creeping landslides

Interactions of clay minerals and a layered double hydroxide with water stable, nano scale fullerene aggregates (nC 60)

Simple approach to predicting ground displacements caused by tunneling in undrained anisotropic elastic soil

Stickiness and adhesion of conditioned clay pastes

A new pressurized vane shear apparatus

Distributed fiber optic sensor development, testing and evaluation for geotechnical monitoring applications