Organizing Committees

Conference General Chair
Ramesh B. Malla, Ph.D.
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Connecticut, Unit 2037
261 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT 06269-2037
Phone: 860-486-3683
Fax: 860-486-2298
E-mail: mallar@engr.uconn.edu

Technical Co-Chairs
Arup K. Maji, Ph.D.
Department of Civil Engineering
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: 505-277-1757
Fax: 505-277-1988
E-mail: AMaji@unm.edu

Wieslaw K. Binienda, Ph.D.
Department of Civil Engineering
Auburn Science and Engineering Center
University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-3905
Phone: 330-972-6693
Fax: 330-972-6020
E-mail: wieslaw@uakron.edu

Student Robotics Competition Chair
Philip S. Dunston, Ph.D.
School of Civil Engineering
Division of Construction Engineering & Management
Purdue University
Division of Construction
550 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
Phone: 765-494-0640
Fax: 765-494-0644
E-mail: dunston@purdue.edu

2nd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop On Granular Materials In
Lunar and Martian Exploration Co-Coordinators:

Dr. Allen Wilkinson
NASA Glenn Research Center , M.S. 110-3
21000 Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44135 USA
Phone: (216) 433-2075/Fax: (216) 433-3793
E-Mail: aw@grc.nasa.gov

Dr. Philip T. Metzger
KSC Applied Physics Lab, YA-C3-E
NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
Phone: 321-867-6052/Fax: 321-867-1177
E-mail: Philip.T.Metzger@nasa.gov

Conference Manager
Leonore Jordan, CMP
Senior Manager, Conferences
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), World Headquarters
1801 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, VA 20191-4400
Phone: 703-295-6110
Fax: 703-295-6144
E-mail: ljordan@asce.org

Steering Committee:
Conference General Chair:
Ramesh B. Malla, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Arup K. Maji, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Wieslaw K. Binienda, University of Akron, Akron, OH

Student Robotics Competition Chair:
Phillip Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

2nd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop On Granular Materials In
Lunar and Martian Exploration Co-Coordinators:
Allen Wilkinson, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Philip T. Metzger, NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL

Conference Manager:
Leonore Jordan, ASCE, Reston, VA

Richard Aynsley, Delta T Corporation, Lexington, KY
Larry Bell, SICSA, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Leonhard Bernold, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Walter Boles, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
John Connolly, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Kevin Greene, Frontier Consultants, Las Vegas, NV
John Gruener, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Nicholas Jones, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Wendell Mendell, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Tang-Tat (Percy) Ng, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Karen Pickering, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Pizhong Qiao, University of Akron, Akron, OH
Phil Richter, Space Engineering and Science Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Richard Servidio, Servidio Engineering, Burlington, VT
Gangbing Song, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Theodore Stathopoulos, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Larry Toups, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Firdaus Udwadia, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
John Wetzel, Applied Research Associates, Royalton, VT

Scientific/Technical Committee:
Conference General Chair:
Ramesh B. Malla, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Arup K. Maji, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Wieslaw K. Binienda, University of Akron, Akron, OH

Student Robotics Competition Chair:
Phillip Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

2nd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop On Granular Materials In
Lunar and Martian Exploration Co-Coordinators:
Allen Wilkinson, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Philip T. Metzger, NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL

Beverley Adams, ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA
Andrew J. Aldrin, The Boeing Company, Houston, TX
Iwan Alexander, Case Western Reserve University/NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Mustafa I. Alsaleh, Caterpillar, Inc., Dunlap, IL
Khalid Alshibli, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Amjad J. Aref, University at Buffalo - State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Richard Aynsley, Delta T Corporation, Lexington, KY
Margaret Katherine Banks, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Amvrossios Bagtzoglou, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Olga Bannova, SICSA, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Daniel Barta, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
David Beaty, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Padadena, CA
Robert Behringer, Duke University, Durham, NC
Sylvie Beland, Canadian Space Agency, Ottawa, Canada
Larry Bells, SICSA, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Haym Benaroya, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Leonhard Bernold, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Daryl W. Boggs, Cermak, Peterka, Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO
Walter Boles, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
Pete Canga, Hamilton Sunstrand, Houston, TX
Ching S. Chang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
David Cole, U.S. Army Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH
John Connolly, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Robert Dodds, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Kirk Dotson, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Patricia Downing, Bechtel National, Inc., Frederick, MD
Michael Duke, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Eric Fisher, Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc.,ouston,TX
Bernard Foing, European Space Agency, NL, Europe
Leslie Gerstch, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO
Kevin Greene, Frontier Consultants, Las Vegas, NV
John E. Gruener, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Russell Harmon, U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC
Kimberley Hill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
David Horner, US Army ERDC-GSL, Vicksburg, MS
Mindy Jacobson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
James Jenkins, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Virendra Jha, Canadian Space Agency, Ottawa, Canada
Nicholas Jones, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Jerome B. Johnson, US Army ERDC-CRREL, Ft. Wainwright, AK
Hyoung-Man Kim, Boeing Co., Houston, TX
Joseph Koo, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Latife Kuguoglu, QSS Group Inc., Cleveland, OH
William Larson, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL
Jong-Seh Lee, Hanyang University, S. Korea
Pascal Lee, NASA Ames Research Center, CA
Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Brian Manning, Texas Sterling Construction L.P.
Shinji Matsumoto, CSP Japan, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Tom Matula, University of Houston/Victoria, Sugar Land, TX
Jack F. McGuire, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
Wendell Mendell, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Samuel E. Moskowitz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Bonnie Moss, ARCADIS, Houston, TX
Greg Mungas, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech, Pasadena, CA
Masami Nakagawa, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
Jack Nash, Hamilton Sundstrand, Windsor Locks, CT
Tang-Tat (Percy) Ng, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Jin Y. Ooi, University of Edingburgh, Scotland, UK
Sergio Pellegrino, Cambridge University, London, UK
Karen D. Pickering, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Pizhong Qiao, University of Akron, Akron, OH
Enrique Rame, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Gary Roberts, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Mark Robinson, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Ghani Razaqpur, Carlton University, Canada
Phil Richter, Space Engineering and Science Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Ronald Schlagheck, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Richard Schultz, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Richard Servidio, Servidio Engineering, Burlington, VT
Masanobu Shinozuka, University of California, Irvine, CA
Laurent Sibille BAE Systems/NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL
Ian F.C. Smith, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Kelly J. Snook, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Gangbing Song, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Theodore Stathopoulos, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Susan Steinberg, Universities Research Association, Houston, TX
Joel Storch, The Boeing Company, El Segundo, CA
Stein Sture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Larry A. Taylor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Yoshisada Takizawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ibaraki, Japan
Lin Tze Tan, University College London, London, UK
Michael Tinker, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, AL
William Todd, United Space Alliance, Houston, TX
Larry Toups, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Firdaus Udwadia, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Robert Wegeng, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
John Wetzel, Applied Research Associates, Royalton, VT
Tetsuji Yoshida, Shimizu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Robert Yuan, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX


		Organizing Committees Conference General Chair Ramesh B. Malla, Ph.D. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Connecticut, Unit 2037 261 Glenbrook Road Storrs, CT 06269-2037 Phone: 860-486-3683 Fax: 860-486-2298 E-mail: mallar@engr.uconn.edu Technical Co-Chairs Arup K. Maji, Ph.D. Department of Civil Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 Phone: 505-277-1757 Fax: 505-277-1988 E-mail: AMaji@unm.edu Wieslaw K. Binienda, Ph.D. Department of Civil Engineering Auburn Science and Engineering Center University of Akron Akron, OH 44325-3905 Phone: 330-972-6693 Fax: 330-972-6020 E-mail: wieslaw@uakron.edu Student Robotics Competition Chair Philip S. Dunston, Ph.D. School of Civil Engineering Division of Construction Engineering & Management Purdue University Division of Construction 550 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051 Phone: 765-494-0640 Fax: 765-494-0644 E-mail: dunston@purdue.edu 2nd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop On Granular Materials In Lunar and Martian Exploration Co-Coordinators: Dr. Allen Wilkinson NASA Glenn Research Center , M.S. 110-3 21000 Brookpark Road Cleveland, OH 44135 USA Phone: (216) 433-2075/Fax: (216) 433-3793 E-Mail: aw@grc.nasa.gov Dr. Philip T. Metzger KSC Applied Physics Lab, YA-C3-E NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899 Phone: 321-867-6052/Fax: 321-867-1177 E-mail: Philip.T.Metzger@nasa.gov Conference Manager Leonore Jordan, CMP Senior Manager, Conferences American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), World Headquarters 1801 Alexander Bell Drive Reston, VA 20191-4400 Phone: 703-295-6110 Fax: 703-295-6144 E-mail: ljordan@asce.org Steering Committee: Conference General Chair: Ramesh B. Malla, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Technical Program Co-Chairs: Arup K. Maji, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Wieslaw K. Binienda, University of Akron, Akron, OH Student Robotics Competition Chair: Phillip Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2nd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop On Granular Materials In Lunar and Martian Exploration Co-Coordinators: Allen Wilkinson, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH Philip T. Metzger, NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL Conference Manager: Leonore Jordan, ASCE, Reston, VA Richard Aynsley, Delta T Corporation, Lexington, KY Larry Bell, SICSA, University of Houston, Houston, TX Leonhard Bernold, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Walter Boles, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN John Connolly, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Kevin Greene, Frontier Consultants, Las Vegas, NV John Gruener, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Nicholas Jones, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Wendell Mendell, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Tang-Tat (Percy) Ng, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Karen Pickering, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Pizhong Qiao, University of Akron, Akron, OH Phil Richter, Space Engineering and Science Institute, Albuquerque, NM Richard Servidio, Servidio Engineering, Burlington, VT Gangbing Song, University of Houston, Houston, TX Theodore Stathopoulos, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Larry Toups, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Firdaus Udwadia, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA John Wetzel, Applied Research Associates, Royalton, VT Scientific/Technical Committee: Conference General Chair: Ramesh B. Malla, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. Technical Program Co-Chairs: Arup K. Maji, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Wieslaw K. Binienda, University of Akron, Akron, OH Student Robotics Competition Chair: Phillip Dunston, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2nd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop On Granular Materials In Lunar and Martian Exploration Co-Coordinators: Allen Wilkinson, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH Philip T. Metzger, NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL Beverley Adams, ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA Andrew J. Aldrin, The Boeing Company, Houston, TX Iwan Alexander, Case Western Reserve University/NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH Mustafa I. Alsaleh, Caterpillar, Inc., Dunlap, IL Khalid Alshibli, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Amjad J. Aref, University at Buffalo - State University of New York, Buffalo, NY Richard Aynsley, Delta T Corporation, Lexington, KY Margaret Katherine Banks, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Amvrossios Bagtzoglou, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Olga Bannova, SICSA, University of Houston, Houston, TX Daniel Barta, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX David Beaty, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Padadena, CA Robert Behringer, Duke University, Durham, NC Sylvie Beland, Canadian Space Agency, Ottawa, Canada Larry Bells, SICSA, University of Houston, Houston, TX Haym Benaroya, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ Leonhard Bernold, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Daryl W. Boggs, Cermak, Peterka, Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO Walter Boles, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN Pete Canga, Hamilton Sunstrand, Houston, TX Ching S. Chang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA David Cole, U.S. Army Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH John Connolly, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Robert Dodds, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Kirk Dotson, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA Patricia Downing, Bechtel National, Inc., Frederick, MD Michael Duke, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO Eric Fisher, Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc.,ouston,TX Bernard Foing, European Space Agency, NL, Europe Leslie Gerstch, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO Kevin Greene, Frontier Consultants, Las Vegas, NV John E. Gruener, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Russell Harmon, U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC Kimberley Hill, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL David Horner, US Army ERDC-GSL, Vicksburg, MS Mindy Jacobson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD James Jenkins, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Virendra Jha, Canadian Space Agency, Ottawa, Canada Nicholas Jones, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Jerome B. Johnson, US Army ERDC-CRREL, Ft. Wainwright, AK Hyoung-Man Kim, Boeing Co., Houston, TX Joseph Koo, University of Texas, Austin, TX Latife Kuguoglu, QSS Group Inc., Cleveland, OH William Larson, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL Jong-Seh Lee, Hanyang University, S. Korea Pascal Lee, NASA Ames Research Center, CA Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Brian Manning, Texas Sterling Construction L.P. Shinji Matsumoto, CSP Japan, Inc., Tokyo, Japan Tom Matula, University of Houston/Victoria, Sugar Land, TX Jack F. McGuire, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA Wendell Mendell, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Samuel E. Moskowitz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Bonnie Moss, ARCADIS, Houston, TX Greg Mungas, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech, Pasadena, CA Masami Nakagawa, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO Jack Nash, Hamilton Sundstrand, Windsor Locks, CT Tang-Tat (Percy) Ng, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Jin Y. Ooi, University of Edingburgh, Scotland, UK Sergio Pellegrino, Cambridge University, London, UK Karen D. Pickering, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Pizhong Qiao, University of Akron, Akron, OH Enrique Rame, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH Gary Roberts, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH Mark Robinson, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Ghani Razaqpur, Carlton University, Canada Phil Richter, Space Engineering and Science Institute, Albuquerque, NM Ronald Schlagheck, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL Richard Schultz, University of Nevada, Reno, NV Richard Servidio, Servidio Engineering, Burlington, VT Masanobu Shinozuka, University of California, Irvine, CA Laurent Sibille BAE Systems/NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL Ian F.C. Smith, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Kelly J. Snook, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Gangbing Song, University of Houston, Houston, TX Theodore Stathopoulos, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Susan Steinberg, Universities Research Association, Houston, TX Joel Storch, The Boeing Company, El Segundo, CA Stein Sture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Larry A. Taylor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Yoshisada Takizawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ibaraki, Japan Lin Tze Tan, University College London, London, UK Michael Tinker, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, AL William Todd, United Space Alliance, Houston, TX Larry Toups, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX Firdaus Udwadia, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Robert Wegeng, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. John Wetzel, Applied Research Associates, Royalton, VT Tetsuji Yoshida, Shimizu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan Robert Yuan, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX