Structures

Overview:

Civil engineering faculty are engaged in cutting edge research spanning a broad spectrum of activities that impact structures and infrastructure, addressing pressing global challenges. Interdisciplinary research is being conducted in the areas of wind hazard and infrastructure performance, wind science and engineering, earthquake science and engineering, uncertainty quantification, and concrete and steel structures, especially in the context of natural hazards engineering. Engineering principles are used in novel ways to create synergistic solutions that could have far-reaching impact on infrastructure and society.

Research conducted in the structures group includes cutting edge research areas as well as traditional focus areas. Examples include: natural hazards engineering that tackles problems such as performance-based design of high-rise-buildings and long-span-bridges for extreme winds; multi-hazard sustainability (earthquake engineering, climate change, and probabilistic sea-level rise hazard analysis); methodologies and algorithms for uncertainty quantification and scientific machine learning; wind hazards and their impact on buildings and structures; performance improvement of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures through analytical and experimental investigation; and investigation of cross-frame stiffness and stability in steel bridges.

 

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