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- ↑ Edmund K. Turner Professor Andrew J. Whittle
- ↑ MIT News - "Professor Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering"
- ↑ Professor Andrew J. Whittle's Research Group (http://ajw-group.mit.edu)
- ↑ Whittle, A. J. (1987) A constitutive model for overconsolidated clays with application to the cyclic loading of friction piles. ScD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- ↑ Whittle, A. J.; Kavvadas, M. J. (1994). "Formulation of MIT‐E3 Constitutive Model for Overconsolidated Clays". Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. 120: 173–198. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9410(1994)120:1(173).
- ↑ Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – MITnews
- ↑ International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
- ↑ The list of publications
- ↑ "Karl Terzaghi Lecture". www.asce.org. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
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