Publications and Papers


"Blasted Trenches for Groundwater Remediation", with L. P. Smith and J. E. Loney, paper for Twenty-First Conference on Explosives and Blasting Techniques,  International Society of Explosives Engineers, 1995.

"Geotechnical Issues During the Design and Construction of the Third Harbor Tunnel", with D. J. Dobbels, for presentation at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference, Boston, MA, June 1993.

"Permanent Rock Slope Protection/Reinforcement Adjacent to Parking Garage", with B. H. Zelenko and B. A. Wilkinson, at symposium on Rock Slope Rehabilitation, Design, and Considerations, ASCE National Convention, New York, 1992.

"Close-In Construction Blasting - Impacts and Mitigation Measures", paper for Seventeenth Conference on Explosives and Blasting Techniques, International Society of Explosives Engineers, 1991.

"Tunnel Boring Machine Excavation of the Beverly Sewer Tunnel", Civil Engineering Practice, Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section ASCE, 1991.

"Blasting Near Gas Transmission Pipelines - Two Case Histories", paper for Fifteenth Conference on Explosives and Blasting Techniques, Society of Explosives Engineers, 1989.

"Recent Advances in Explosives Engineering", with L.L. Oriard, paper for Second International Conference on Gold Mining, Society of Mining Engineers, 1988.

"Close Proximity Blasting Case History", with R.A. McClure, paper for Fourteenth Conference on Explosives and Blasting Techniques, Society of Explosives Engineers, 1988.

"Perimeter Control Blasting for Underground Excavations", Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, 1986.

"Close-In Trench Blasting Case Histories", presented at ASCE Specialty Session on Close-In Construction Blasting, Annual ASCE Convention, Boston, 1986.

"Some Aspects of Design and Evaluation of Perimeter Control Blasting in Fractured and Weathered Rock", paper for Tenth Conference on Explosive and Blasting Techniques, Society of Explosives Engineers, 1984.

"Evaluation of Design and Performance - Porter Square Transit Station Chamber Lining", with H. H. Einstein, A. S. Azzouz, and D. E. Thompson, paper for 1983 RETC Conference.

"Effects of Cementation on the Compressibility of the Pierre Shale", with C. C. Ladd, paper for ASTM Symposium on the Performance and Behavior of Calcareous Soils, 1981.

"Field Evaluation of Fracture Control in Tunnel Blasting", with Thompson, D., W. Fourney, P. Sperry, U.S. Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Report No. UMTA-MA-06-0100-79-14, December 1979.

"Controlled Blasting Experiments at the Porter Square Pilot Tunnel", with P. E. Sperry, W. L. Fourney, and D. E. Thompson, paper for 1979 RETC Conference.

"Evaluation of Design and Performance - Porter Square Transit Station Chamber Lining", with H.H. Einstein, A.S. Azzouz, and D.E. Thompson, paper for 1983 RETC Conference.