Matthew Pierson
Assistant Professor, Cooperative Engineering Program | Missouri State University
Springfield, MO, UNITED STATES
Dr. Pierson focuses his civil engineering skills in the areas of geotechnical or water resources engineering.
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Biography
Dr. Matthew Pierson is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Missouri State University. Dr. Pierson focuses his civil engineering skills in the areas of geotechnical or water resources engineering.
He teaches students about building foundations and engineering properties of soil, also rainfall–runoff relationships, hydrology and river flow.
Dr. Pierson’s skills and expertise include Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) structures, load testing foundations and computer simulation of geomaterials or rivers. He also has experience in student design teams, K-12 STEM education and community engineering organizations.
Industry Expertise (3)
Education/Learning
Research
Civil Engineering
Areas of Expertise (6)
Modeling and Simulation
Numerical Modeling
Numerical Analysis
Computational Simulation
Friction
Field Testing
Accomplishments (2)
Guy Mace/Turblex Engineering Professorship (professional)
2016-2020 Missouri State University
Foundation Award for Excellence in Service (professional)
2015 Missouri State University
Education (3)
The University of Kansas: Ph.D., Geotechnical Engineering 2010
The University of Kansas: M.S., Geotechnical Engineering 2008
The University of Kansas: B.S., Civil Engineering 2006
Affiliations (5)
- American Institute of Steel Construction
- American Society for Engineering Education
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Missouri Society of Professional Engineers
- The University of Kansas Geotechnical Society
Links (2)
Languages (1)
- English
Media Appearances (3)
Weekend Outlook February 26-28, 2016
KSMU online
2016-02-26
Discover Engineering Day will be held tomorrow (2/27) from noon to 3 at the Plaster Center for Free Enterprise with booths and activities. Find out more at ozarkmspe.org. KSMU's Michele Skalicky talked with the event's coordinator, Dr. Matthew Pierson, to learn more...
Shoring up the Numbers in Math, the Sciences and Engineering
KSMU radio
2015-11-26
Besides building things, Dr. Pierson is passionate about educational opportunities for students. In that vein, he has submitted funding proposals to the National Science Foundation on several occasions and recently was awarded a substantial grant from the S-STEM initiative.
How to build an effective team, concrete canoe
Missouri State University online
2015-09-08
Back to school time means new classes, new teachers and, for many, challenging homework. But Dr. Matthew Pierson, assistant professor in the cooperative engineering program at Missouri State University, says that there is much to teach students about the real world that is outside the scope of learning in a classroom. That’s one reason he enjoys being the faculty adviser of the concrete canoe team...
Articles (5)
Parametric study on performance of laterally loaded drilled shafts in an MSE wall
Soils and Foundations
2015 Drilled shafts are sometimes built in an MSE wall to support superstructures subjected to lateral loads. However, current design methodology isolates the interaction between drilled shafts and MSE walls, and the designs are independent. This design ...
Refined numerical modeling of a laterally-loaded drilled shaft in an MSE wall
Geotextiles and Geomembranes
2013 Due to space constraints, laterally-loaded drilled shafts have been increasingly constructed within the reinforced zones of MSE walls. Under such circumstances, the design of both MSE walls and drilled shafts differs significantly from the conditions under which the ...
Lateral resistance of short rock sockets in weak rock: Case history
Transportation Research Record
2011 The results from full-scale cyclic and repeated lateral load testing of two short rock sockets in eight weak rock and the recommendations developed for p-y analysis using those results are presented.
Laterally loaded shaft group capacities and deflections behind an MSE wall
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
2011 Design of laterally loaded cast-in-place shafts that pass through the reinforcement behind a mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) wall often requires isolation of the shafts from the MSE mass and socketing of the shafts into the underlying stable foundation material, such as bedrock. Sizeable cost and time savings could be realized, while maintaining stability if the shaft could be supported by the MSE mass alone with no rock socket. Construction, instrumentation, and testing of multiple 0.9-m-diameter shafts solely supported by the geogrid-reinforced mass behind a 6-m-high MSE block wall were conducted for the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT). This paper describes the design, construction, and instrumentation of the wall and shafts and the results from the lateral load tests of three shafts tested together as a group compared with shafts that were tested individually.
Numerical analysis of a laterally loaded shaft constructed within an MSE wall
Geotextiles and Geomembranes
2011 Drilled shafts have been widely used to support lateral loads from superstructures. For typical applications, design methods are available to generate lateral load versus displacement curves and to estimate ultimate lateral capacity and displacement of the drilled shaft under a certain lateral load. However, occasionally drilled shafts have to be constructed within the reinforced zones of MSE walls, for instance drilled shafts supporting sound walls, traffic signs, billboards, and other superstructures.