College of Engineering
4183 Bell Engineering Center
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: 479-575-7455
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Michelle Lee Barry
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
(CVEG)-Civil Engineering
Phone: 479-575-6027
Email: mlbernha@uark.edu
- Multi-scale granular material behavior
- Experimentally validated discrete element method (DEM) models
- Laboratory testing of granular material
- Granular soil behavior in multi-directional simple shear
- Applications of engineering in Historic Preservation Practice
- Soil Mechanics (Undergraduate)
- Numerical Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering (Graduate)
- Soil Dynamics (Graduate)
- Ph.D Texas A&M University (2013)
- M.S. Texas A&M University (2009)
- B.S. Texas A&M University (2008)
- Rahimi, S., Wood, C. Moody, T., Mofarraj, B., Bernhardt-Barry, M., 2018. “The Combined Use of MASW and Resistivity Surveys for Levee Assessment: A Case Study of the Melvin Price Reach of the Wood River Levee”, Engineering Geology, 241, 11 -24.
- Watters, M., Bernhardt-Barry, M., 2018. "Curing Parameters to Improve the Mechanical Properties of Stereolithographic Printed Specimens", Rapid Prototyping Journal, 24 (1), pp.46-51.
- Watters, M., Bernhardt-Barry, M., 2017. "Modified curing protocol for improved strength of binder-jetted 3D parts", Rapid Prototyping Journal, 23 (6), pp.1195-1201.
- Tran, T. V., Tucker-Kulesza, S. E., and Bernhardt-Barry, M. L., 2017. “Determining Surface Roughness in Erosion Testing Using Digital Photogrammetry,” Geotechnical Testing Journal, 46 (6), pp. 917–927.
- Bernhardt, M., Biscontin, G., O?Sullivan, C., 2016. “Experimental Validation Study of 3D Direct Simple Shear DEM Simulations, Soils and Foundations, 56 (3), pp. 336-347.