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Thomas D. O'Rourke
Thomas Denis O’Rourke (born 1948) is an American educator, engineer and serves as the Thomas R. Biggs Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Sibley College of Engineering, Cornell University. Professor O’Rourke took his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering at Cornell’s engineering college in 1970 and his doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975.〔Thomas D. O’Rourke, Cornell University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 237 Hollister Hall (. )〕
==Expertise==
O’Rourke is a Geotechnical engineer and a subject-matter expert on natural disasters and their impact on the infrastructure supporting civil society. Geotechnical engineers study the Earth’s near-surface crust and its performance under stress.〔Public Broadcasting Service, ''Who Builds Big?'' (2001)(. )〕 They analyze how structures buried in the ground behave in an environment of change, structures such as subway systems, water and gas pipelines, etc. They, for instance, study underground spaces such as parking garages, skyscraper foundations and subfloors and they also evaluate how structures made of soil and/or rock behave, structures such as earth dams, highway embankments, and levies.〔Robert Davis, Gas, water, sewage lines hemorrhage, USA Today (Jan. 18, 1994) at 4A (“The rupture in the huge water line was ‘like letting loose an underground river,’ says Thomas O’Rourke, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University.”); see also Delthia Ricks, Florida Virtually Earthquake Proof, Orlando Sentinel (Oct. 19, 1989) at AB.〕 O’Rourke served on the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) team studying Hurricane Katrina and its effect on the Gulf Coast. Funded in part by the Charles L. Crandall Fund, O’Rourke reviewed the Armenia earthquake (1988),〔Walter Sullivan, "U.S. Study Links Severity of Armenia Quake to Soil Condition," ''N.Y. Times'' (Jan. 28, 1989)(. )〕 the Kobe, Japan earthquake (1995), and the Kocaeli, Turkey earthquake (1999). A specialist in geotechnical engineering including foundations, earth retaining structures, slope stability, soil/structure interaction, underground construction, laboratory testing, and elements of earthquake engineering, O’Rourke has written extensively on geotechnical, underground, and earthquake engineering. O'Rourke was an early specialist in the field of monitoring large construction projects.
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