Summary
Dr Antonio Carraro researches Fabric-Sensitive Soil Mechanics and Sustainable, Resilient and Equitable Infrastructure Materials. His research has been sponsored by the American Coal Ash Association, Australian Research Council, BP Exploration & Production, Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment, Colorado Dept. of Transportation, Fugro Singapore, GHD, Golder Associates, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Knight Piésold, MWH Global, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Rio Tinto, SRK Consulting, Technip UK, Tetra Tech, United States Dept. of Transportation, Woodside Energy and WorleyParsons, among others.
Dr Carraro is Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering and has served on the editorial boards of Géotechnique and ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. He is UK-nominated member of ISSMGE TC221 Tailings & Mine Wastes Committee and former member of ASTM D18 Committee on Soil & Rock.
Dr Carraro earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue Univ. in the United States and MSc and BSc degrees in Civil Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. Prior to joining Imperial, he was Associate Professor in the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at The Univ. of Western Australia, in Perth (Australia), and in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept. at Colorado State (United States). In the United States, Dr Carraro taught several undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Civil and Geotechnical Engineering at Purdue and Colorado State universities. He uses High-Quality Experimental Methods and Hands-On Experiential Learning to improve Geotechnical Analysis and Education.
Areas of Expertise:
Fabric-Sensitive Soil Mechanics
- Undisturbed soil properties & geotechnical design
- Fundamental behaviour of tailings & soil mixtures / intermediate soils
- Liquefaction / cyclic loading, undrained instability / phase transformation & specimen reconstitution of tailings, offshore sediments & fluvial / alluvial soils
ESEM microphotograph of clayey sand (Carraro et al. 2009)
Sustainable, Resilient & Equitable Infrastructure
- Recycling & beneficial use of waste materials to develop sustainable, resilient and socially-conscious infrastructure
- Sustainable geomaterials & soil stabilisation, e.g. soil-tyre rubber mixtures; waste lime; waste glass; coal mining waste & class-C, class-F and off-specification fly ashes; rammed earth; tailings & mine waste; recycled concrete
Rubber from waste tyres used to improve road infrastructure (Carraro et al. 2013)
High-Quality Experimental Methods & Hands-On Experiential Learning
- Analysis of experimental uncertainty & error
- Machine learning & adaptive control of testing apparatus
- Cyclic hollow cylinder, triaxial & simple shear testing of soils
- Visual Thinking* in geotechnical design & education
*Grandin T. (2022). Visual Thinking - the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns, and abstractions. Pinguin Random House UK, ISBN: 9781846046872
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Shi J, Xiao Y, Carraro JAH, et al., 2023, Anisotropic small strain stiffness of lightly biocemented sand considering grain morphology, Geotechnique, ISSN:0016-8505, Pages:1-34
Dominguez-Quintans C, Harb Carraro JA, Zdravkovic L, 2023, A critical assessment of the effect of initial fabric on key small-strain design parameters of slurry-deposited silts and sands, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol:149, ISSN:1090-0241, Pages:1-16
Liu D, O'Sullivan C, Carraro JAH, 2023, The influence of particle size distribution on the stress distribution in granular materials, Geotechnique, Vol:73, ISSN:0016-8505, Pages:250-264
Quinteros VS, Harb Carraro JA, 2023, The initial fabric of undisturbed and reconstituted fluvial sand, Geotechnique, Vol:73, ISSN:0016-8505, Pages:1-15
Liu D, O'Sullivan C, Harb Carraro JA, 2022, Use of combined static and dynamic testing to quantify the participation of particles in stress transmission, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol:148, ISSN:0733-9410
Tastan EO, Harb Carraro JA, 2022, The effect of principal stress rotation and intermediate principal stress changes on the liquefaction resistance and undrained cyclic response of Ottawa sand, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol:148, ISSN:0733-9410, Pages:1-12
Liu D, Morimoto T, Carraro JAH, et al., 2022, A semi-empirical re-evaluation of the influence of state on elastic stiffness in granular materials, Granular Matter, Vol:24, ISSN:1434-5021, Pages:1-22
Kazmi D, Serati M, Williams DJ, et al., 2022, Kaolin clay reinforced with a granular column containing crushed waste glass or traditional construction sands, International Journal of Geomechanics, Vol:22, ISSN:1532-3641
Barnett N, Rahman MM, Karim MR, et al., 2021, Equivalent state theory for sand with non-plastic fine mixtures: A DEM investigation, Geotechnique, Vol:71, ISSN:0016-8505, Pages:423-440
Liu D, O'Sullivan C, Harb Carraro JA, 2021, Influence of particle size distribution on the proportion of stress-transmitting particles and implications for measures of soil state, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol:147, ISSN:0733-9410, Pages:04020182-1-04020182-14
Consoli NC, Carretta MS, Leon HB, et al., 2020, Behaviour of silty sands stabilised with cement subjected to hard environmental conditions, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, Vol:173, ISSN:1353-2618, Pages:40-48
Lim GT, Pineda J, Boukpeti N, et al., 2019, Effects of sampling disturbance in geotechnical design, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol:56, ISSN:0008-3674, Pages:275-289
Mashiri MS, Vinod JS, Sheikh MN, et al., 2018, Shear modulus of sand-tyre chip mixtures, Environmental Geotechnics, Vol:5, ISSN:2051-803X, Pages:336-344
Lim GT, Pineda JA, Boukpeti N, et al., 2018, Predicted and measured behaviour of an embankment on PVD-improved Ballina clay, Computers and Geotechnics, Vol:93, ISSN:0266-352X, Pages:204-221
Carraro JAH, 2017, Analysis of simple shear tests with cell pressure confinement, Geomechanics and Geoengineering: An International Journal, Vol:12, ISSN:1748-6025, Pages:169-180
Tastan EO, Carraro JAH, 2013, A New Slurry-Based Method of Preparation of Hollow Cylinder Specimens of Clean and Silty Sands, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol:36, ISSN:0149-6115, Pages:811-822
Prezzi M, Bandini P, Carraro JAH, et al., 2011, Use of Recyclable Materials in Sustainable Civil Engineering Applications, Advances in Civil Engineering, Vol:2011, ISSN:1687-8094
Carraro JAH, Prezzi M, Salgado R, 2009, Shear Strength and Stiffness of Sands Containing Plastic or Nonplastic Fines, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol:135, ISSN:1090-0241, Pages:1167-1178
van de Lindt JW, Carraro JAH, Heyliger PR, et al., 2008, Application and feasibility of coal fly ash and scrap tire fiber as wood wall insulation supplements in residential buildings, Resources Conservation and Recycling, Vol:52, ISSN:0921-3449, Pages:1235-1240
Carraro JAH, Prezzi M, 2008, A new slurry-based method of preparation of specimens of sand containing fines, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol:31, ISSN:0149-6115, Pages:1-11
Murthy TG, Loukidis D, Carraro JAH, et al., 2007, Undrained monotonic response of clean and silty sands, Geotechnique, Vol:57, ISSN:0016-8505, Pages:273-288
Carraro JAH, Bandini P, Salgado R, 2003, Liquefaction resistance of clean and nonplastic silty sands based on cone penetration resistance, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol:129, ISSN:1090-0241, Pages:965-976
Chapters
Carraro JAH, Boukpeti N, Guadalupe-Torres Y, et al., 2018, Laboratory Testing, Encyclopedia of Maritime and Offshore Engineering, Editor(s): Randolph, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., ISBN:9781118476352
Conference
Dominguez-Quintans C, Quinteros VS, Carraro JAH, et al., 2019, Quality assessment of a new in-mould slurry deposition method for triaxial specimen reconstitution of clean and silty sands, 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials - IS Glasgow 2019
H. Carraro JA, Bortolotto MS, 2015, Stiffness degradation and damping of carbonate and silica sands, Pages:1179-1184
Dunham-Friel J, Carraro JAH, 2014, Effects of compaction effort, inclusion stiffness, and rubber size on the shear strength and stiffness of expansive soil-rubber (ESR) mixtures, Pages:3635-3644, ISSN:0895-0563
Dunham-Friel J, Carraro JAH, 2011, Shear strength and stiffness of Expansive Soil and Rubber (ESR) mixtures in undrained axisymmetric compression, Pages:1111-1120, ISSN:0895-0563
Seda JH, Lee JC, Carraro JAH, 2007, Beneficial use of waste tire rubber for swelling potential mitigation in expansive soils, ISSN:0895-0563
Carraro JAH, Consoli NC, 1997, Coal mining waste utilisation for soil improvement, 1st Australia/New Zealand Conference on Environmental Geotechnics (GEOENVIRONMENT 97), A A BALKEMA PUBLISHERS, Pages:475-480