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Susan E. Burns

Professor and Group Coordinator

Articles

  1. Zhao, Q. and Burns, S.E. (2012). Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Secondary Sorption Behavior of Montmorillonite Modified by Single Chain Quaternary Ammonium Cations, Environmental Science and Technology, 46 (7), pp 3999–4007.
  2. Mezencevova, A., Yeboah, N.N. Burns, S.E., Kahn, L.F., and Kurtis, K.E. (2012). Utilization of Savannah Harbor river sediment as the primary raw material in production of fired brick, Journal of Environmental Management, 113, 128-136.
  3. Zhao, Q. and Burns, S.E. (2012). Microstructure of Single Chain Quaternary Ammonium Cations Intercalated into Montmorillonite: A Molecular Dynamics Study, Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/la303422p.
  4. Larrahondo, J.M., Choo, H. and Burns, S.E. (2011). Laboratory-prepared iron oxide coatings on sands: Submicron-scale small-strain stiffness, Engineering Geology (July 2011), 121 (1-2), pg. 7-17.
  5. Yeboah, N.N. and Burns, S.E. (2011). Geological Disposal of Energy-Related Waste, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 697-705.
  6. Fragaszy et al. (2011). Sustainable Development and Energy Geotechnology: Potential Roles for Geotechnical Engineering. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 611-621.
  7. B. BaTe and Burns, S.E. (2010). Effect of Total Organic Carbon Content and Structure on the Electrokinetic Behavior of Organoclay Suspensions, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 343, No.1, pp. 58-64.
  8. Cutts, R.E. and Burns, S.E. (2010). Evolution of Surface Area-to-Volume Ratio for a Water Meniscus Evaporating Between Contacting Silica Spheres, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 343, No. 1, pp. 298-300.
  9. Ross, W.A., Burns, S.E., Wu, P.Y., and Jared, D.M. (2009). RFID Tracking Technology Applied to Testing of Transportation Construction Materials, Transportation Research Record, No. 2098, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 3-12.
  10. Palomino, A.M., Burns, S.E., and Santamarina, J.C. (2008). Mixtures of Fine-Grained Minerals – Kaolinite and Carbonate Grains, Clays and Clay Minerals, Volume 56, Number 6, pp. 599-611.
  11. Fuller, M., Smith, J.A., and Burns, S.E. (2007). Sorption of Nonionic Organic Solutes from Water to Tetraalkylammonium Bentonites: Mechanistic Considerations and Application of the Polanyi-Manes Potential Theory, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2007.04.010.
  12. Nefso, E.K. and Burns, S.E. (2007). Comparison of the Equilibrium Sorption of Five Organic Compounds to HDPE, PP, and PVC Geomembranes, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, doi:10.1016/j.geotexmem.2006.12.002.
  13. Davis, K.A., Warr, L.S., Burns, S.E., and Hoppe, E.J. (2007). Physical and Chemical Behavior of Four Cement-Treated Aggregates, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 10, pp. 891-897.
  14. Burns, S.E., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Smith, J.A., and Redding, A.R. (2006). Coupled Mechanical and Chemical Behavior of Bentonite Engineered with a Controlled Organic Phase, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 132, No. 11, November.
  15. Upson, R.T. and Burns, S.E. (2006). Sorption of Nitroaromatic Compounds to Synthesized Organoclays, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 297, No. 1, pp. 70-76.
  16. Lorenzetti, R.J., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Burns, S.E., and Smith, J.A. (2005). Hydraulic Conductivities and Effective Diffusion Coefficients of Geosynthetic Clay Liners with Organobentonite Amendments, Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 385-400.
  17. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Smith, J.A., Burns, S.E., and Rabideau, A.R. (2005). Evaluation of the Sorptive Capacity and Permeability of Granular Activated Carbon, Shale and Two Organoclays for Use as Sorptive Amendments in Clay Landfill Liners. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 131, No. 7, pp. 848-856.
  18. Nefso, E.K., Burns, S.E., and McGrath, C.J. (2005). Anaerobic Degradation Kinetics of TNT in the Presence of Six Mineral Surfaces and Ferrous Iron, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier Science, Vol. 123, No. 1-3, pp. 79-88.
  19. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Burns, S.E. and Smith, J.A. (2003). Sorption of Nonionic Organic Solutes to Two Organobentonites as a Function of Organic-Carbon Content, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 266, No. 2, pp. 251-258.
  20. Smith, J.A., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., and Burns, S.E. (2003).Sorption and Permeability of Gasoline Hydrocarbons in Organobentonite Porous Media, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier Science, Vol. 96, No. 1, pp. 91-97.
  21. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (2002). Analytical Cavity Expansion-Critical State Model for Piezocone Dissipation in Fine-Grained Soils, Soils and Foundations, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 131-137.
  22. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (2002). Interpretation of Seismic Piezocone Results for the Estimation of Hydraulic Conductivity in Clays, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 334-341.
  23. Redding, A.Z., Burns, S.E., Upson, R.T., and Anderson, E.F. (2002). Organoclay Sorption of Benzene as a Function of Total Organic Carbon Content, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 250, No. 1, pp. 261-264.
  24. Burns, S.E. and Zhang, M. (2001). Effects of System Parameters on the Physical Characteristics of Bubbles Produced through Air Sparging, Environmental Science and Technology, American Chemical Society, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 204-208.
  25. Soule, N.M. and Burns, S.E. (2001). Effects of Organic Cation Structure on Behavior of Organobentonites, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 127, No. 4, pp. 363-370.
  26. Mayne, P.W., Burns, S.E., and Circeo, L.J. (2000). Plasma Magmavication of Geomaterials by Nontransferred Arc, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 5, pp. 387-396.
  27. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1999). Pore Pressure Dissipation Behavior Surrounding Driven Piles and Cone Penetrometers, Transportation Research Record, 1675, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 17-23.
  28. Burns, S.E. and Zhang, M. (1999). Digital Image Analysis to Assess Microbubble Behavior in Porous Media, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 43-48.
  29. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1998). Monotonic and Dilatory Pore Pressure Decay During Piezocone Tests in Clay, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 1063-1073.
  30. Burns, S.E., Yiacoumi, S., and Tsouris, C. (1997). Microbubble Generation for Environmental and Industrial Separations, Separation and Purification Technology, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 221-232.
  31. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1996). Small- and High-Strain Measurements of In-Situ Soil Properties Using the Seismic Cone Penetrometer, Transportation Research Record, 1548, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 81-88.

Books

  1. Scour and Erosion (2010). Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE-5), S.E. Burns, S.K. Bhatia, C.M.C. Avila, and B.E. Hunt, eds., November 7-10, 2010, Geotechnical Special Publication 210, San Francisco, CA, 1137 pp.
  2. Deformational Characteristics of Geomaterials (2008). Proceedings of IS Atlanta – Fourth International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, September 22-24, Atlanta, Georgia; S.E. Burns, PW. Mayne, and J.C. Santamarina, eds., 944 pp.
  3. Frost, J.D. and Burns, S.E. (2003). "In-Situ Subsurface Characterization", Chapter 27 in The Civil Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, W. F. Chen and J.Y.R. Liew, eds., CRC Press Inc., Florida, pp. 27-1 to 27-19.
  4. Physical and Chemical Remediation Technologies for Contaminated Subsurface Environments (2001). Kluwer Academic Publishers, J.A. Smith and S.E. Burns, eds., 366 pp.

Proceedings

  1. Yeboah, N.N.N. and Burns, S.E. (2011). Productive Reuse of Sediment and Fly Ash, Symposium on Enviromental Geotechnics, Japanese Geotechnical Society, Kyoto, Japan, October.
  2. Larrahondo, J.M., Burns, S.E., and Gutierrez, B. (2011). Early marine diagenesis in calcium carbonate rich sediments: a review of implications for geotechnical systems, GeoFrontiers, ASCE GeoInstitute Specialty Conference, Dallas, TX, March 2011.
  3. Yeboah, N.N., Mezencevova, A., Phillips, J.S., Burns, S.E., and Kurtis, K.E. (2011). Investigating the Potential for Producing Fired Bricks from Savannah Harbor Dredged Sediment, GeoFrontiers, ASCE GeoInstitute Specialty Conference, Dallas, TX, March 2011.
  4. Zhao, Q. and Burns, S.E. (2011). Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation of the swelling behavior of organoclays, GeoFrontiers, ASCE GeoInstitute Specialty Conference, Dallas, TX, March 2011.
  5. Cutts, R.E., Burns, S.E., Ehrman, B, and Griffith, J. (2010). Comparison of the Rate of Evaporation from Seven Rolled Erosion Control Products, Fifth International Conference on Scour and Erosion, ASCE GI and EWRI, San Francisco, CA, November 2010.
  6. Larrahondo, J.M., Burns, S.E., and Elliott, W.C. (2010). Laboratory-Prepared Iron Oxide Coatings on Coarse-Grained Soils as Residual Soil Simulants, GeoFlorida, ASCE GeoInstitute Specialty Conference, West Palm Beach, FL, February 2010.
  7. Shearer, C.R., Yeboah, N., Kurtis, K., and Burns, S.E. (2010). Investigation of biomass co-fired fly ash properties: Characterization and concrete durability performance, Accepted for publication, Second International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies June 30, 2010, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona,Italy.
  8. Bate, B. and Burns, S.E. (2009). Shear strength behavior of bentonite modified by tetramethylammonium cations. Proc. of Int. Symp. on Geoenvironmental Eng., ISGE2009, Sept. 8-10, 2009, Hangzhou, China.
  9. Larrahondo, J.M., Qian, Z., Burns, S.E., and Elliott, W.C. (2008). Effects of Ferric Oxyhydroxide Coatings on Sand Shear Response: A Laboratory Approach to Chemical Weathering, Proceedings Symposium on Characterization and Behavior of Interfaces, Atlanta, Georgia, September.
  10. Lorenzetti, R.J.T., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Burns, S.E. and Smith, J.A. (2005). Hydraulic Conductivities and Effective Diffusion Coefficients of Geosynthetic Clay Liners with Organobentonite Amendments, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 130-142, Geo-Frontiers 2005 (Austin), ASCE, Reston/VA, pp. 3221-3231.
  11. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Smith, J.A., Burns, S.E. and Culver, T.B. (2005). Optimal Design of Compacted Clay Liners Containing Sorptive Amendments, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 130-142, Geo-Frontiers 2005 (Austin), ASCE, Reston/VA,, pp. 3385-3398.
  12. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Burns, S.E., and Smith, J.A., (2004). Evaluation of Sorptive Amendments for Use in Earthen Landfill Liners. GéoQuébec 2004, Québec City, Québec, Canada, Session 1D, pp. 25-29.
  13. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Smith, J.A., and Burns, S.E. (2003). An Assessment of the Sorptive and Mechanical Properties of Amendments for Earthen Landfill Liners. Ninth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, Sardinia, Italy, published abstract, pp. 117-119.
  14. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Smith, J.A., and Burns, S.E. (2002). Evaluation of Sorptive Amendments for Use in Earthen Liners at Waste-Disposal Facilities. Second Intercontinental Landfill Research Symposium, Asheville, NC, pp. 43-45.
  15. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Burns, S.E. and Smith, J.A. (2002). Sorption of Nonionic Organic Solutes to Two Organobentonites as a Function of Organic-Carbon Content. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Washington DC.
  16. Smith, J.A., Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., and Burns, S.E. (2001). Sorption and Permeability of Gasoline Hydrocarbons in an Organobentonite Porous Media. First International Conference on Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination of Soils and Sediments, London, England.
  17. Redding, A.Z. and Burns, S.E. (2000). "Compressibility and Index Properties of Organic-Exchanged Bentonite", Proceedings, GeoDenver, Annual Specialty Conference of ASCE's GeoInstitute, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 105, Denver, CO, pp. 142-150.
  18. Zhang, M. and Burns, S.E. (2000). "Surfactant Effects on the Transport of Air Bubbles in Porous Media", GeoDenver, Proceedings, Annual Specialty Conference of ASCE's GeoInstitute, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 105, Denver, CO, pp. 121-131.
  19. Zhang, M. and Burns, S.E. (2000). "Effect of Air Pressure, Injector Characteristics, and Surfactants on Air Sparged Bubbles", Proceedings, 79th Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.**
  20. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1998). "Integrated Opto-Electronic Chemical Sensor for BTEX Detection in Cone Penetration Testing", Geotechnical Site Characterization, Vol. 1, (Proc. ISC-1, Atlanta), Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 623-628.
  21. Burns, S.E., Yiacoumi, S., Frost, J.D., and Tsouris, C. (1997). "Application of Digital Image Analysis for Size Distribution Measurements of Bubbles", Proceedings, Second International Conference on Imaging Technologies: Techniques and Civil Engineering Applications, Davos, Switzerland, pp. 100-107.
  22. Burns, S.E. and Lemons, K.E. (1996). "Magnetic Investigation of a Simulated Hazardous Waste Site", Proceedings, Uncertainty in the Geologic Environment, Geotechnical Special Publication, GSP 58, American Society of Civil Engineers, Madison, Wisconsin, pp. 813-825.
  23. Vidic, S.D., Beckwith, G.D., Mayne, P.W., and Burns, S.E. (1996). "Seismic CPT Profiling of Mine Tailings Dams", Proceedings, International Symposium on Seismic and Environmental Aspects of Dams Design, Vol. 1, ISSMFE & ICOLD, Santiago, Chile, pp. 109-118.
  24. Burns, S.E. and Mayne, P.W. (1995). "Coefficient of Consolidation from Piezocone Dissipation in Overconsolidated Clays", Proceedings, International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT '95), Vol. 2, Swedish Geotechnical Society, Linköping, Sweden, pp. 137-142.
  25. Frost, J.D. and Burns, S.E. (1994). "Hazardous Waste Site Assessment - Development of an Undergraduate Course", Proceedings, Annual Conference, Vol. 1, American Society for Engineering Education, Edmonton, Alberta, pp. 637-640.