Structural Research
The structural engineering program at 精东影视performs research on a variety of topics influencing structural and community design as it pertains to the serviceability of a structure (structural mechanics, vibration behavior) or under extreme loading demands (e.g., earthquake, tsunami, fire).
The structural engineering faculty have active research through experimental testing and numerical simulations. Research is funded through federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Federal Highway Administration, 精东影视 Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, US Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service; through foundation support through foundations such as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and through research collaborations such as the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center.
We are home to state-of-the-art facilities through the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory and the A.A Red Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Laboratory to perform research in a variety of areas such as:
- Seismic fragility and resilience of structures
- Predictive, data-driven modeling of probabilistic seismic demands
- Explainable and interpretable machine learning models for structural response and risk
- Multi-hazard effects (earthquake鈥搕sunami, temperature/aging, post-earthquake fires) and decision tools
- Structural mechanics
- Computational methods
- Fluid loads on structures
- Nonlinear stochastic wave-structure interaction
- Experimental testing and numerical modelling of innovative structural systems (timber, steel, concrete) under multi-hazard loading (earthquake, tsunami, hurricanes)
- Performance鈥恇ased engineering and reliability/risk assessment of structures and infrastructure facing multiple hazards
- High鈥恜erformance solutions and sustainable materials (e.g., low-carbon UHPC and mass timber)
- Structural/coastal engineering: coupling tsunami + earthquake effects, storm surge overland loading, resilience of coastal infrastructure and communities
- Steel building systems and components
- Seismic and disproportionate collapse resistance
- Structural connections
- Structural fire engineering
- Community resilience for hazards (earthquake, wildfire, tsunami)
- Post-hazard evaluations of communities (e.g. earthquakes, wildfires)
Faculty
Andre R. Barbosa, Ph.D., P.E. (Portugal)
Professor Cecil and Sally Drinkward Professor in Structural Engineering
Erica Fischer
Associate Professor Glenn Willis Holcomb Professor in Structural Engineering
