Structural Engineering and Materials Faculty
The list of Structural Engineering Faculty follows; to jump to the Materials Faculty, click here.
Structural Engineering
| Faculty Member |
Technical Interests |
| Bayrak, Oguzhan |
- Behavior, analysis, and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures
- Earthquake engineering
- Evaluation of structures in distress
- Use of fiber reinforced polymers for corrosion repair and strengthening of reinforced concrete
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| Breen, John |
- Design and construction of structural concrete bridges and buildings
- Structural systems
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| Engelhardt, Michael |
- Design and behavior of steel structures
- Earthquake engineering
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| Frank, Karl |
- Fracture and fatigue behavior of metal structures
- Welded and bolted joints
- Design and behavior of composite plate girders
- Fatigue strength of cables
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| Ghannoum, Wassim |
- Design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures
- Structural analysis
- Structural dynamics
- Earthquake engineering
- Extreme loading on structures
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| Helwig, Todd |
- Design and behavior of steel structures
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| Jirsa, James |
- Design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures
- Earthquake engineering
- Repair and rehabilitation of structures
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| Kallivokas, Loukas |
- Computational mechanics
- Wave propagation and structural dynamics
- Earthquake engineering
- Inverse problems in engineering
- Acoustics
- Numerical methods
- Large-scale computational modeling and visualization
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| Klingner, Richard |
- Experimental and analytical investigation of the response of masonry and reinforced concrete masonry structures
- Earthquake engineering
- Anchorage to concrete
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| Manuel, Lance |
- Structural reliability
- Structural dynamics and random vibrations
- Probabilistic methods
- Analysis of fixed and floating offshore structures to random loading
- Probabilistic seismic hazard and risk analyses for structures and lifelines
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| Tassoulas, John |
- Structural mechanics
- Constitutive equations of materials
- Wave propagation
- Numerical analysis
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| Wheat, Dan |
- Behavior, design and mathematical modeling of wood structural systems
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| Williamson, Eric |
- Dynamic response of structures, including applications to blast-resistant design and seismic-resistant design
- Static and dynamic stability
- Failure modeling
- Damage mechanics
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| Wood, Sharon |
- Design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures
- Evaluation of existing structures
- Earthquake engineering
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| Zhu, Jinying |
- Non-destructive testing of concrete structures, pavements, and deep foundations
- Structural dynamics and health monitoring
- Wave propagation and soil dynamics
- Advanced sensing techniques for infrastructure
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| Emeritus Faculty
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Technical Interests |
| Burns, Ned H.
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- Structural design and analysis with special interest in reinforced and prestressed concrete structures
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| Furlong, Richard W.
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- Composite structures
- Analysis for inelastic behavior of structures
- Structural design
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| Yura, Joseph A.
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- Design of steel structures
- Experimental methods
- Connections and stability
- Offshore structures
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Materials
| Faculty Member |
Technical Interests |
| Ferron, Raissa |
- Rheology
- Characterization of fresh concrete micro/nano-structure
- Cement chemistry and aggregation mechanisms
- Self-consolidating concrete
- Affordable sustainable housing materials
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| Folliard, Kevin |
- Portland cement concrete
- Concrete durability
- High-performance concrete
- Controlled low-strength materials
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| Fowler, David |
- Polymer-concrete materials
- Structural building systems in wood and reinforced concrete
- Concrete aggregates
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| Juenger, Maria |
- Hydration chemistry and microstructural characterization of portland cement and related materials
- Mechanisms of chemical deterioration in concrete
- Concrete durability
- Reducing the environmental impact of concrete production
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