Thomas F. Zimmie

Ph.D.

Civil Engineering, University of Connecticut, 1972

M.S.

Civil Engineering, University of Connecticut, 1962

B.S.

Civil Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Inst., 1960

1973-Present

Faculty, Civil Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1993-Present

President and Owner, Civrotech Engineering, P.C.

1988-1990

Program Director, Geomechanics, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (Leave of absence from Rensselaer)

1984-1988

Vice President, Arch Engineering, Troy, New York

1983-1985

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste—Hazardous waste site investigations, remediations (Sabbatical from Rensselaer)

1973-1980

Partner in firm of Wang and Zimmie

1967-1972

Private Consultant in the Northeast Connecticut area. Town Engineer, Town of Mansfield, CT.

1964-1967

Linde Division, Union Carbide Corporation, Buffalo, New York area, Engineering Department, Project Management

1962-1964

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Commissioned Officer, West Germany, Military engineering and construction

1961

U.S. Navy Oceanographic Office, Civil Engineer

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

(more than 150 publications)

"Estimation of Dynamic Frictional Properties of Geonet Interfaces," Proceedings, Geosynthetics '99 Boston, April, 1999, Vol. 1, with A. De, pp. 545-558.

“Centrifuge Modeling to Study Stability of Dams,” (1996), 13th Annual Conf., Assoc. of State Dam Safety Officials, Seattle, with A. De, pp. 630-639.

“Instrumentation for Centrifuge modeling of Geotextile Reinforced Slopes,” (1996), Intl. Symposium on Earth Reinforcement, IS KYUSHU ´96, Japan, with M. Mahmud, pp. 216-222.

“Centrifuge Modeling to Study Dynamic Friction at Geosynthetic Interfaces,” (1994), Proceedings, Fifth International Conference on Geotextiles, Geomembranes and Related Products, Vol. I, with A. De and M.B. Mahmud, pp. 415-418.

“Simulation of Long Term Performance of Landfill Covers,” Proceedings of the International Conference: Centrifuge ´94, Singapore, Editors C.F. Leung, F.H. Lee, and T.S. Tan, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, with M.B. Mahmud and A. De, pp. 375-380.

Zimmie, T. F. and Saarela, J. (Eds.) (1999) (1998)(1997) Proceedings, 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd Intl. Workshops on the Use of Paper Industry Sludges in Environmental Geotechnology and Construction, Finland (1997, 1999), RPI (1998).

“Geo-Environmental Research Using Centrifuges,” (1995), The Encyclopedia of Environmental Control Technology, (P.N. Cheremisinoff, ed.), Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, TX, Vol. 9, Chapter 10, pp. 335-366.

 “Accelerated Groundwater Transport Studies Using a Geotechnical Centrifuge,” (1994), Transportation Research Record, No. 1434, Transportation Research Board, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., with A. De and M.B. Mahmud, pp. 47-54.

 “Accelerated Physical Modelling of Radioactive Waste Migration in Soil,”  (1994), Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 5, with M.B. Mahmud and A. De, pp. 683-691.

“Laboratory Testing to Evaluate Changes in Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Clays Caused by Freeze-Thaw: State-of-the-Art,” (1994), Hydraulic Conductivity and Waste Contaminant Transport in Soils, ASTM STP 1142, ASTM, Philadelphia, with M.A. Othman, C.H. Benson and E.V. Chamberlain, pp. 227-254.