CONTACT INFORMATION:

EDUCATION:

• B.Sc., University of Manchester, Civil Engineering
• M.S., University of California, Berkeley, Geotechnical Engineering
• Ph.D., University of Manchester, Civil Engineering
• D.Sc., University of Manchester, Numerical Methods in Geomechanics

PROFESSIONAL:

• Region 7 Governor of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006-2011
• Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 2002
• President, ASCE, Colorado Section, 2000-2001
• P.E.(Colorado), Reg.No. 32895
• Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (London)
• British Chartered Engineer, C.Eng., Reg. No. 346110

RESEARCH FOCUS:

• Oil resource geomechanics.
• Probabilistic geotechnics.
• Soil mechanics and foundation engineering.
• Finite element software development.

TEACHING:

• Foundations, Fall 2009 EGGN 464
• Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering, Fall 2009 EGGN 598
• Finite Element Methods for Engineers, Spring 2010 EGGN 542
• Engineering Systems Seminar (Civil), Fall 2009, Spring 2010: EGGN 504
• Independent Study. Available all semesters: EGGN 499
  
  
• Numerical methods for engineers, First Field Term 2010: EGGN 560/460
  The course can be used as a Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Technical Elective
  
  

UPCOMING SHORT COURSES:

• Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering (ASCE, 1.5 days, 1.1 CEUs)
  New Orleans, LA, January 14-15, 2010
  San Francisco, CA, April 22-23, 2010
  
  
• Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering (ASCE, 1.5 days, 1.1 CEUs).
  Las Vegas, NV, December 10-11, 2009
  
  
• Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering (GeoFlorida 2010, 1 day)
  West Palm Beach, FL, February 20, 2010
  
  
• Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering (Minnesota Geotechnical Society, 1 day)
  Minneapolis, MN, February 25, 2010
  
  
• Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering
  International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, July 10-14, 2006
  The course notes have been published as a Springer-Verlag textbook (2007)

PUBLICATIONS:

• Publications of D.V. Griffiths
• Publications on Probabilistic Geotechnics with G.A. Fenton
• Web of Science
• Google Scholar

FEATURED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

• "Finite element analyses of walls, footings and slopes"
  Symp Comp Appl Geotech Prob Highway Eng, ed. M.F. Randolph, pp.122-146, Pub. PM Geotech Analysts Ltd., Cambridge, UK (1980)
• "Slope stability analysis by finite elements"
  Geotechnique 49, No.3, pp.387-403, (1999)
• "Stability analysis of highly variable soils by elasto-plastic finite elements"
  Course notes given at a Short Course on Advanced numerical applications and plasticity in geomechanics.
  June 26-30, 2000, International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy.
• "Bearing capacity of spatially random soil: the undrained clay Prandtl problem revisited"
  Geotechnique 51, No.4, pp.351-459, (2001)
• "Probabilistic geotechnical analysis: How difficult does it need to be?"
  Keynote paper presented at the UEF Conference on Probabilistics in Geotechnics:
  Technical and economic risk estimation. Graz, Austria, Sept 15-19, 2002.
• "Probabilistic slope stability analysis by finite elements"
  J Geotech Geoenv Eng, Vol.130, No.3, pp.507-518, (2004)
• "Reliability of passive earth pressure"
  Georisk, Vol.2, No.2, pp.113-121, (2008)

TEXTBOOKS (and associated software):

• "Programming the finite element method"
  I.M. Smith and D.V. Griffiths, 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2004, reprinted 2006,2008
  "Link to programs"
  
  
• "Numerical methods for engineers",
  D.V. Griffiths and I.M. Smith, 2nd ed., Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2006
  "Link to programs"
  
  
• "Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering",
  Gordon A. Fenton and D.V. Griffiths, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
  "Link to programs"

OTHER SOFTWARE:

• "FORM analysis of wellbore stabilitty"
• "Slope stability program"
• "Software derived using Computer Algebra Systems"
• "Infinite slope software"
• "FORM software"

CIVIL AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING AT MINES:

• "Graduate Study in Geotechnical Engineering at CSM"

MISCELLANEOUS:

• "Scott Joplin"