T. Matthew Evans Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Geotechnical Engineering Office: 420 Mann Hall Phone: (919) 515-7631 Fax: (919) 515-7908 matt underscore evans at ncsu.edu

Research Interests

Education

MS, Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002

BS, Civil Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1997

BA, Physics, University of Virginia, 1993

Refereed Journal Publications

Stormont, J.C., C. Ray, and T.M. Evans, 2001, "Transmissivity of a Nonwoven Polypropylene Geotextile Under Suction", ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2, June 2001, pp. 164-171.

Stormont, J.C., K.S. Henry, and T.M. Evans, 1997, "Water Retention Functions of Four Nonwoven Polypropylene Geotextiles", Geosynthetics International, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 661-672.

Conference Publications

Frost, J.D., G.L. Hebeler, T.M. Evans, and J.T. DeJong, 2004, "Interface Behavior of Granular Soils", Proceedings of the 9^th ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments, Houston, TX, USA, pp. 65-72.

Frost, J.D., T.M. Evans, G.L. Hebeler, and J.P. Giroud, 2002, "Influence of Wear Mechanisms on Geosynthetic Interface Strengths", Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Geosynthetics, Nice, France, Vol. 4, pp. 1325-1328.

Evans, T.M., D.K. Meyers, K.M. Gharios, T. Hadj-Hamou, and E. Kavazanjian, 2000, "The Use of a Capillary Barrier Final Cover for Reclamation of a Closed Municipal Solid Waste Landfill", Proceedings of the Third Annual SWANA Arid Climate Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, pp. 16.1-16.9.

Stormont, J.C., T.M. Evans, T. Stockton, and C. Ray, 1998, "Unsaturated Hydraulic Properties of a Nonwoven Polypropylene Geotextile", 1998 Joint Conference on the Environment, Waste-management Education and Research Consortium, Albuquerque, NM, pp. 213-216.

Posters

Evans, T.M., and J.D. Frost, 2004, "Experimental Investigation of Boundary Effects on Shear Banding in Granular Soils Subjected to Plane Strain Compression", Annual George Sowers Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, May.

Evans, T.M., and J.D. Frost, 2003, "Discrete Element Method (DEM) Modeling of Granular Assemblies", Annual George Sowers Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, May.

Evans, T.M., and J.D. Frost, 2002, "Preliminary Studies on the Quantification of Microstructure Evolution in Sands", Annual George Sowers Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, May.

Evans, T.M., S.M. Keller, L.N. Germanovich, and J.D. Frost, 2000, "Direct Visualization of 3-D Brittle Fracture Propagation in Uniaxial Compression", Fall 2000 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 14-19.

Technical Presentations

Evans, T.M. and J.D. Frost, 2004, "Digital Quantification of Microstructure Evolution in Sands", Microscopy and Microanalysis 2004, Savannah, GA, USA, August 1-5 (Invited Presentation, extended abstract published in proceedings).

Evans, T.M. 2002, "Digital Quantification of Microstructure Evolution in Sands", 13th Annual ACBM/NIST Computer Modeling Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, June 10-13.

Professional Memberships

Professional Registration

Professional Engineer-in-Training #5314, New Mexico