Timothy D. Stark

Timothy D. Stark is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After earning his B.S. in civil engineering with honors at the University of Delaware in 1981, he went on to complete his master's in geotechnical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and Ph.D. at Virginia Techin the same field. He has won a number of awards, including the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the DOW Outstanding New Faculty Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He is also credited with winning a Standards Development Award from the American Society for Testing and Materials for Standard Designation D6467: "Standard Test Method for Torsional Ring Shear Test to Determine Drained Residual Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils." His areas of expertise include static and seismic slope stability analyses, geosynthetic interface strengths and stability of waste containment facilities, geosynthetic clay liners, liquefaction and post-liquefaction strength of cohesion, drained and undrained residual strength of cohesive soils, behavior and improvement of confined dredged materials, stress-strain behavior and hyperbolic parameters of silts.