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Philip C. Rutledge
Philip C. Rutledge
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This time was divided into two periods: he spent the first twenty-five years as a teacher and specialized consultant to industry and the federal government, the last twenty-five as a partner of Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers in New York City. In his early years, Rutledge worker!
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storage hydroelectric developments were another specialty, comprising seven major projects including the BlenheimGilboa facility of the State of New York Power Authority. Because of his extraordinary ability to adapt basic geotechni
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To his many students cluring the first twenty-five years of his career, Rutledge was an extraordinarily well-organizecT, concise, en cl sympathetic teacher, presenting rapidly evolving ideas in soil mechanics, a field in which he had contributed significantly. His particular research interests included the relationship of shear strength of clays to their preconsolidation stress, stability of foundations under lateral load, mechanics of load transfer in foundation piles, and the assessment of sample disturbance in consolidation testing.
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240 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES ing up from first principles of mechanics. Although he was entirely separated from academia in the latter half of his career, he functioned as teacher and preceptor for his colleagues.
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