Publications

  1. Prashar, Y., Chalian S., McLeod M., Stability Evaluation of Deep Foundation System for Aqueducts in Sacramento San-Joaquin Delta, California, Eleventh U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering Integrating Science, Engineering & Policy, Los Angeles, California. June 25- 29, 2018.

  2. Prashar, Y., Chen A., McMullin M., Irias X., Main Shock, and AfterShock Impact to Water System Seismic Fragility of Embankment Dams, Tank Reservoirs, and Large Diameter Pipelines, AWWA Annual Conference, Taiwan, October 2017.

  3. Prashar, Y., Chalian, S., McLeod, M., Settlement Analysis of Aqueduct No 1 and 3 in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta, Poster Presentation Pipelines 2017 Annual Conference, Phoenix AZ., September 2017.

  4. Prashar, Y., Lewis, B., Settlement Evaluation of Large Water Storage Tanks Under Challenging Foundation Conditions, 41st Annual Deep Foundation Conference, New York, NY, October 2016.

  5. Prashar Y., Wong R., Geospatial Tools for Routine Dam Safety Monitoring and Response Applications During Emergencies, United States Society of Dams, 2017 Annual Conference, Anaheim, California. July 2017.

  6. Prashar, Y, Short, R.D., SRT System Stabilizes Leve at Power Plant, 62nd Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference at the University of Minnesota, Presented on February 28, 2014.

  7. Prashar, Y., McMullin, R., Chen A., and Irias, X. J Water System Seismic Fragility of Embankment Dams, Tank Reservoirs, and Large Diameter Pipelines," presented at the AWWA, 2013

  8. Prashar, Y., McMullin, R., Cain, W., and Irias, X. J. 2012. "Pilot Large Diameter Pipeline Seismic Fragility Assessment," presented at the 2012 ASCE Pipelines Conference, August 20-22, 2012.

  9. Webinar: Water System Seismic Fragility, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Cone Penetrating Testing (CPT) result in the greater Oakland and Alameda area to develop seismic fragility of pipelines subject to liquefaction-induced spatial differential settlements, To Be Presented: Tuesday, September 16, 2014, @ 1:00 PM CDT @ http://www.gita.org/events/event_details.asp?id=488350.

  10. Prashar, Y., Fallah, A., and McMullin, R., Liquefaction Induced Settlement and its Impact on Pipelines in Alameda and West Oakland, Annual Conference: Pipelines 2014, Portland, Oregon, August 2014.

  11. Prashar, Y., Yiadom, A., Bialek, E. (2012) "Developing Embankment Dam Fragilities for Emergency Modeling and Response for 29 East Bay Municipal Utility District Reservoirs," New Orleans, LA, USSD.

  12. Developing Pipeline Fragilities for fault crossings, wave propagation and permanent ground deformation effects for East Bay Municipal Utility District Reservoirs, San Diego, Ca, Pipelines 2012.

  13. USSD 2012, Developing Embankment Dam Fragilities for Emergency Modeling and Response for 29 East Bay Municipal Utility District Reservoirs, New Orleans, LA, USSD 2012.

  14. Short, R. D., Prashar, Y. and Kane K. P. 2012. Plate Pile Slope Stabilization Design Guidelines – Second Edition, Slope Reinforcement Technology: California.

  15. JWWA 2011, Japanese Water Works Association Conference, Rapid Modeling of Seismic Damage to Water Infrastructure, October 2011.

  16. 16. North Carolina Department of Transportation, 2011, Repairing Landslides in a Rainstorm, The Sixth Geo^3T^2 Conference, Sponsored by the North Carolina DOT - Geotechnical Engineering Unit, Raleigh, North Carolina April 5-6, 2011.

  17. Geo-Frontiers 2011, Modeling A Full-Scale Landslide Test using 3D Numerical Modeling Methods, Dallas, TX, March 2011.

  18. Pipelines 2009, ASCE Geo-Institute, East Bay Municipal Utility District's Aqueduct System in the Sacramento San-Joaquin Delta: Hazard Evaluation, Annual Conference Proceedings, Houston, TX, August 2009.

  19. GEESD 2008, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics IV, Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction of Buried U-Wall for BART Tunnel in San Jose, California, May 2008.

  20. ASDSO 2006, Rapid Drawdown and Seismic Stability Evaluations of a Dam Using Two Different Undrained Shear Strength Envelopes, Association of State Dam Safety Officials Annual Conference, Boston, Ma, September 10 to 14, 2006.

  21. EERI 2006, Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction of Soil Pressures on a Transportation Tunnel in California, 100th Anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, San Francisco, California, April 2006.

  22. Pipelines 2005, ASCE Geo-Institute, Permanent Ground Deformations to a Natural Gas Pipeline Due to a Fault Crossing, Annual Conference Proceedings, Houston, TX, August 2005.

  23. Geo-Frontiers 2005, ASCE Geo-Institute, Permanent Ground Deformations to a Natural Gas Pipeline Due to Liquefaction induced Lateral Spreading, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Conference Proceedings, Austin, Texas, January 2005.

  24. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, 84th Annual Meeting, Repairing Railway Spur Roadbed Failure Using Geotextile-Encased Columns, Washington DC, January 2005.

  25. GeoTrans 2004, ASCE Geo-Institute, Slope Stability and Lateral Spreading Forces on Piles for Highway Bridge Abutment, Los Angeles, CA, July 27-31, 2004.

  26. Finite Difference Modeling of the Pseudo-Static Pile Load Test Procedure Using FLAC, Deep Foundations Institute ~ 27th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2002.

  27. Structural Engineer Magazine, February 2002, Geotechnical Aspects of Port of Long Beach Pier G, Cover Story, Mercor Media, Inc, Alpharetta, GA, 2002.

  28. Deep Foundations Institute ~ 25th Annual Meeting, A Comparison of Static & Pseudo-Static Pile Load Testing Methods, New York, NY, 2000.

  29. First International Site Characterization Conference, Site Characterization of Tinemaha Dam for Seismic Stability Analysis, Atlanta, GA, 1998.

  30. First International Site Characterization Conference, Site Characterization of Hollywood Tanks for Dynamic Analysis, Atlanta, GA, 1998.

  31. Association of Dam Safety Officials Annual Conference Proceedings, CPT and SPT method of evaluating Liquefaction Potential of Tinemaha Dam, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997.

  32. Earthquake Engineers and Geophysics Society Annual Conference Proceedings, Seismic Refraction & Reflection Surveys of Tinemaha Dam, Reno, NV, 1996.