The Geotechnical Society of Edmonton is pleased to present the Canadian Geotechnical Society Cross-Canada Lecture Tour featuring Dr. Jie Han
Date: May 20, 2026
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: The University Club
Cost: TBC
Registration details to come
Abstract
Lightweight cellular concrete (LCC) has seen increasing use as a fill material in geotechnical engineering due to its low unit weight, ease of placement, and rapid construction. As a relatively new material in this field, a thorough understanding of its physical and mechanical properties, as well as its interactions with steel and geosynthetic reinforcements and buried flexible pipes, is essential for design, quality control, and performance verification. This lecture introduces LCC and its benefits, highlights laboratory and field evaluations of its properties and interactions with reinforcements and pipes, and presents field monitoring results from a mechanically stabilized earth wall constructed with LCC fill.
Bio
Professor Jie Han, Ph.D., PE, F.ASCE is a Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department at the University of Kansas. He is a past president of the ASCE Geo-Institute, the treasurer of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), the chair of the US Transportation Research Board Geomaterials Behavior and Properties committee, and the specialty chief editor of Frontiers of Built Environment. Prof. Han has gained extensive teaching, research, and industry experiences in geosynthetics, ground improvement, pile foundations, buried structures, and roadways. He is the sole author of the book entitled “Principles and Practice of Ground Improvement” and has published more 500 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Prof. Han has been invited to give more than 300 keynote/invited lectures and short courses around the world, including the Burmister Lecture and the Ardaman-Wissa State-of-the-Practice Lecture both in 2025, the Sun Jun Lecture in 2024, the 3rd Robert M. Koerner Award Lecture in 2021, and the State of the Practice Lecture at the 21st Annual George F. Sowers Symposium and the 18th UK IGS Lecture both in 2018. He has received numerous awards from the profession including but not limited to the 2024 Irvin E. Youngberg Award in the Applied Sciences (the Kansas state higher education system’s most prestigious recognition for scholarly excellence), the 2018 ASCE Kansas City Section Engineer of Year Award, the 2017 ASCE Martin S. Kapp Foundation Engineering Award, and the 2014 the International Geosynthetics Society Award. Prof. Han was elected to the ASCE Fellow in 2014.