Structural Engineering Faculty
Professor
Donald Biggar Willet Professor in Engineering
As a past director of the Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center, Dr. Abrams' led and participated in research directed at a new paradigm for earthquake risk reduction known as “Consequence-Based Engineering,” which includes development of enabling technologies to synthesize damage across regions, mitigation methods to minimize earthquake consequences and better definitions of seismic hazards.
Assistant Professor
Prof. Andrawes' research interests are primarily in the areas of structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, bridge engineering, seismic retrofit of structures, application of innovative and smart materials in structures subjected to natural and man-made hazards, constitutive modeling of shape memory alloys under extreme dynamic loads, passive and active control of structures, large-scale experimental testing, and nonlinear finite element methods.
M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Chair in Civil Engineering
Dr. Dodds' research interests focus on the field of nonlinear fracture mechanics fatigue and associated computational methods. Results of his research have wide ranging applications in civil engineering, offshore, petro-chemical, naval and aerospace structures. Professor Dodds has published extensively in the areas of fracture mechanics, computational methods, and software engineering.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Duarte’s research interests include computational mechanics, three-dimensional computational fracture mechanics, multi-scale modeling and analysis of polycrystalline materials. His scientific publications in computational mechanics have been cited more than 550 times by other researchers in the field.
Dr. Elnashai's technical interests are multi-resolution distributed analytical simulations, network analysis, large-scale hybrid testing and field investigations of the response of complex networks and structures, on which he has more than 250 research publications, including approximately 120 refereed journal papers, many conference, keynote and prestige lectures (including the Nathan Newmark Distinguished Lecture), research reports, books and book chapters, magazine articles and earthquake field mission reports.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Fahnestock has research interests in earthquake engineering, innovative structural systems, steel structures, progressive collapse mitigation, and large-scale experimental evaluation of structural components and systems.
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11/16/2009
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11/12/2009
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11/02/2009
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