John P. Turner
Professor of Civil EngineeringUniversity of Wyoming College of Engineering and Applied Science Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering
Biography
Professor Turner has Bachelors degrees in geology and civil engineering, an M.S. degree in structural engineering, and a Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering from Cornell University (1986).
Dr. Turner practiced as an engineering geologist for Herbert and Associates, Inc., 1976-1978, and continues to be active as a geotechnical engineering consultant. He is a registered
Professional Engineer in Wyoming. He has conducted research on drilled shaft foundations, anchored retaining walls, landslide stabilization, and rock mechanics. He is the author of
100+ technical papers and reports and has been a principal investigator on over 20 funded research projects. He is a past chairman of the ASCE Committee on Deep Foundations, and has
served as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering of the Geo-Institute. Dr. Turner has been a Visiting Professor at the
University of Sydney, Australia (1993) and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1994) and was awarded an Erskine Fellowship as a Visiting Professor at Canterbury in 2002. He
received the Outstanding Service Award (1992) and the Presidents Award (2000) from the ADSC: International Association of Foundation Drilling and is a frequent speaker at ADSC seminars
and workshops. Dr. Turner served as Conference Chair for Geo-Support 2004, a geotechnical specialty conference and construction equipment exposition that was sponsored jointly by the
Geo-Institute of ASCE and the ADSC. Most recently Dr. Turner was the consultant for NCHRP Synthesis Project 36-12, Use of Rock Socketed Drilled Shafts for Highway Structure Foundations.
Education
B.S. Geology, May, 1976, James Madison University
B.S. Civil Engineering, May, 1981, University of Wyoming
M.S. Civil Engineering (Structural), May, 1982, University of Wyoming
Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Geotechnical), January, 1986, Cornell University
Selected Recent & Current Research Projects
Monitoring and Performance of Permanent Ground Anchors for Stabilization of the Deer Creek Landslide, Wyoming Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
Feasibility of Tire Chips for Roadway Drainage Applications, Wyoming Department of Transportation.
Use of Micropiles for Remediation of Liquefaction Prone Sites and Retrofitting of Structures, PIs: KJ McManus, JB Berrill, JP Turner, New Zealand Earthquake Commission.
Analysis of Anchor Load Tests, Flying-V Landslide, Wyoming Department of Transportation.
Rock-Socketed Drilled Shafts for Highway Bridge Structures, Synthesis Project 36-12, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.
Selected Publications
Turner, J.P. (2006). NCHRP Synthesis XX, Rock Socketed Drilled Shafts for Highway Transportation Structures, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C.,
in press.
Turner, J.P. (2005). "Lessons Learned from Anchored Slide Stabilization" (Keynote Address), Proceedings of GEO3, International Conference on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in
Geo Construction, ADSC: International Association of Foundation Drilling, Dallas, TX, Nov 2005, pp. 8-25.
Turner, J.P. and Sackett, EA. (2005). "Predesign Anchor Load Tests", Proceedings of GEO3, International Conference on Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Geo Construction, ADSC:
International Association of Foundation Drilling, Dallas, TX, Nov 2005, pp. 113-126.
McManus, K.J., Turner, J.P., and Charton, G. (2005). "Inclined Reinforcement to Prevent Soil Liquefaction", Proceedings, Technical Conf., New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering,
Wairakei, New Zealand. March 2005.
Turner, J.P. and Jensen, W.G. (2005). "Landslide Stabilization Using Soil Nail and MSE Walls: A Case Study", Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 131,
No. 2, pp. 141-150.
Sackett, E.A. and Turner, J.P., (2004). "Predesign Anchor Load Tests Provide WYDOT with Value-Added Design Data", Foundation Drilling, Vol. XXV, No. 8, Nov 2004, pp. 32-33.
Turner, J.P. and Mayne, P.W., Editors, (2004). Geotechnical Special Publication No. 124, GeoSupport 2004: Drilled Shafts, Micropiling, Deep Mixing, Remedial Methods, and Specialty
Foundation Systems, ASCE, Reston, VA, 1045 p.
McManus, K.J., Charton, G., and Turner, J.P. (2004). "Effect of Micropiles on Seismic Shear Strain", Geotechnical Special Publication No. 124, GeoSupport 2004, ASCE, Reston, VA, pp. 134-145.
Turner, J.P., Steele, J.A., Maher, W.F., Zortman, A.R., and Carpenter, J.R. (2004). "Design, Construction, and Performance of an Anchored Tangent Pile Wall for Excavation Support",
Geotechnical Special Publication No. 124, GeoSupport 2004, ASCE, Reston, VA, pp. 322-333.
Turner, J.P. and Macnab, A. (2003). "Advances in Constructibility for Drilled Shafts: Part II", Geo-Strata, Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, Fall
2003, pp. 20-23.
Turner, J.P. and Macnab, A. (2003). "Advances in Constructibility for Drilled Shafts: Part I", Geo-Strata, Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, Summer
2003, pp. 13-17.
Hager, G.M., Dahill, J.M., Boundy, B.B., and Turner, J.P. (2002). Highway-Affecting Landslides of the Snake River Canyon Part IV, Deer Creek Slide, Wyoming Geo-notes, Number 75, Wyoming
State Geological Survey, Laramie, WY, pp. 32-36.
Turner, J., Johnson, L., and Boundy, B. (2002). Performance of Permanent Ground Anchors for Landslide Stabilization, Proceedings, 53rd Annual Highway Geology Symposium, San Luis Obispo,
CA, pp. 383-394.
Hager, G.M., Dahill, J.M., and Turner, J.P. (2002). Highway-Affecting Landslides of the Snake River Canyon Part III, Blue Trail Slide, Wyoming Geo-notes, Number 74, Wyoming State
Geological Survey, Laramie, WY, pp. 27-33.
Turner, J.P., Armour, T.A., and McManus, K.J (2002). Seismic Retrofit of Highway Bridge Foundations Using Micropiles, Proceedings, New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering,
Napier, New Zealand, March 2002, pp. 202-209.
Hager, G.M., Falk, M.A., Dahill, J.M., and Turner, J.P. (2001). Highway-Affecting Landslides of the Snake River Canyon Part I, Overview and the Elbow Slide, Wyoming Geo-notes,
Number 72, Wyoming State Geological Survey, Laramie, WY, pp. 30-34.
Turner, J.P., (2001). "High Capacity Anchors for Wyoming Slide Stabilization", Foundation Drilling, Vol. XXI, No. 6, Aug 2001, pp. 12-16.
Netzel, D.A. and Turner, J.P. (2001). 1H NMR Study of the Hydration Kinetics of Coal Fly Ash and Spent Oil Shale, Fuel, Vol. 80, pp. 303-312.
Turner, J.P. (2000). Biofilm in Remediation of Contaminated Soils, Chapter 36 in: Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils, 2nd Edition, D.L. Wise, D.J. Trantola, E.J. Cichon, H.I.
Inyang, and U. Stottmeister, Eds., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, pp. 633-654.
Gui, S., Zhang, R., Turner, J.P., and Xue, X. (2000). Probabilistic Slope Stability Analysis with Stochastic Soil Hydraulic Conductivity, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 1, pp. 1-12.
