Structures Seminar Series
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering hosts a departmental structures seminar series in which top researchers and practitioners from around the country and around the world are invited to speak. The seminars are free and open to the public.
Fall 2018 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| December 6, 2018 | Georgios Tsampras Simpson Gumpertz & Heger |
Force-Limiting Deformable Floor Diaphragm Connection for Earthquake-Resistant Buildings |
Spring 2018 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| March 20, 2018 | Paul Kassabian Simpson Gumpertz & Heger |
3D Metal Printing and Mass Design Automation in Structural Design |
Fall 2017 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| October 2, 2017 | Jiaji Wang Tsinghua University |
Yongding River Cable-Stayed Bridge: Spatial behavior of pylon-support system |
| October 23, 2017 | Ramon Gilsanz Gilsanz Murray Steficek |
Understanding Resilience through a Musical Analogy |
| November 10, 2017 | Prof. Amit Kanvinde University of California, Davis |
Recent Research on Ductile Fracture in Civil Steel Structures |
Fall 2016 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| October 6, 2016 | Dr. Ezra Jampole Exponent, Inc. |
High friction sliding seismic isolation for enhanced performance of light frame structures during earthquakes |
Fall 2015 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| October 30, 2015 | Prof. Eric Hernandez University of Vermont |
Fatigue Monitoring, Diagnosis and Prognosis of Fracture Critical Structures |
| December 4, 2015 | Prof. Sanjay R. Arwade University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Topics in Material Micromechanics: Cellular Metals and Stochastic Homogenization |
Spring 2014 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| January 28, 2014 | Prof. Didem Ozevin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
The Integrated Sensing to Modeling Approach for Understanding Physical State of Large Scale Structures using Waveform-based SHM Methods |
| March 20, 2014 | Casey Stevenson Simpson Gumpertz & Heger |
Design and Construction of the Process Building Steel Structure for a Nuclear Waste Treatment Facility at the Idaho National Laboratory |
| March 31, 2014 | Dr. Nathan Post Wind Technology Testing Center |
Full Scale Structural Testing of Wind Turbine Blades |
Fall 2013 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| September 12, 2013 | Prof. Toru Takeuchi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan |
Seismic Design Applications using Energy-dissipation Fuse Concept |
| October 28, 2013 | Prof. Mohammed Hjiaj INSA de Rennes, Rennes, France |
Finite Element Models for The Nonlinear Analysis of Composite Beams Taking Into Account Time Effects |