Upcoming Seminars
Waterfront Facility Inspection & Rehabilitation Engineering Design
April 30, 2025 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Bill Dubbs
More information coming soon!
Sustainability and the Structural Engineer
May 07, 2025 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Sara Means
Structural materials such as steel and concrete account for more than 10% of the global carbon emissions, and structural engineers have a responsibility to reduce these carbon emissions in the built environment. This presentation will give an introduction to embodied carbon. What is embodied carbon, how do you calculate it, and how do you reduce it? We will discuss which materials are most sustainable and how to reduce embodied carbon in your projects. We will also give an overview of a simple Life Cycle Assessment.
Past Seminars
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Manifold Learning Enhanced and Physics Constrained Data-Driven Computing for Nonlinear Materials
Speaker: Professor J.S. Chen
Materials modeling is traditionally based on constitutive or material laws to describe the explicit relationship among strain, stress, and state variables based on experimental observations, physical hypothesis, and mathematical simplifications. However, the phenomenological modeling process inevitably introduces errors due to limited data and mathematical assumptions in model parameter calibration, and they rely on pre-defined functions and often lack generality to capture full aspects of material behaviors.
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Deployable Wearable Systems for Warfighter Protection and Performance
Speaker: Professor Ken J. Loh
Military service members, particularly those in training or deployed in the theater of war, are exposed to extreme conditions that jeopardize their health, safety, and performance. New sensing capabilities that enable continuous, real-time, and secure monitoring of warfighter capabilities will not only enhance their performance, force lethality, and operational readiness but also prevent injuries, improve retention on duty, and facilitate faster return to duty post-injury.
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Advancing the State of the Art in Geotechnical Engineering at UCSD
Speaker: Professor John S. McCartney
The geotechnical engineering group at UCSD has a vibrant research portfolio with active projects in the areas of geotechnical earthquake engineering, energy geotechnics, post-wildfire mudflows, soil- structure interaction, and fundamental soil and rock behavior. The research approaches used in the group range from full-scale physical modeling, reduced-scale centrifuge modeling, element-scale testing, micro- scale imaging and particle interaction visualization, to numerical simulations.
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Biological Structural Analysis: e.g. Red Blood Cells
Speaker: Professor Robert J. Asaro
This talk will discuss aspects of biological structural engineering within the SE department at UCSD.
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The Unspoken Truths About Being A Structural Engineer
Speaker: Matt Barnard
The reality is that there are unspoken truths about what it means to be a structural engineer that I wish someone had told me before I took my first statics class. I never expected to be a structural engineer when I entered college. 20 years later, I am a Principal with Degenkolb Engineers and the 2020/2021 President of the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California. I love what I do. But, do you know what I actually do and what it means to be a structural engineer?
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The Practice of Structural and Earthquake Engineering Today and 3 Unique Structural Engineering Projects
Speaker: David A. Friedman
The practicing structural engineer today must not only have a broad understanding of not just structural engineering, but must be knowledgeable about architecture, M/E/P systems, construction delivery methodologies, and the construction process. All projects come with their own litany of challenges and constraints, and the structural engineer is one of the key players in achieving the optimal solution.
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Adventures in Seismic Risk Mitigation
Speaker: Dr. Troy Morgan
The modern era of civilization is marked by immense networks of complicated, interdependent systems and rapidly evolving technologies, including the world of civil infrastructure. Many of these technologies, while born from academia, are implemented and refined in the world of industry. As today’s complex ideas are put into practice, there is an increasing tendency for things to fail under extreme loading such as earthquakes, and an urgent desire to prevent such failures.
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Seismic Design with Viscous Dampers: Applications and Design Strategies
Speaker: Aaron Malatesta
Structural engineers have been using Taylor Devices’ viscous dampers to protect new and existing building structures from seismic excitation for over 25 years. There are a number of different types of damping applications and the primary objective of this presentation will be to demonstrate the basic principles for supplemental viscous damping and how they can be applied on any project. The presentation will include an overview of preliminary design concepts, simplified design procedures, viscous damper modelling, as well as post-processing of results.
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Examination of Drift Compatible Nonstructural Wall and Stair Detailing in the NHERI Tall Wood Project
Speaker: Professor Keri L. Ryan
To advance the wood products market, new design solutions for tall wood buildings using mass timber products are being developed. In particular, post-tensioned rocking walls built with cross-laminated timber (CLT) or other mass timber products have been proposed as a seismic resilient lateral system. To advance the seismically resilient mass timber solutions for tall buildings, a comprehensive shake table test of a 10-story building with CLT rocking walls is planned for 2022 on the NHERI@UC San Diego outdoor shaking table.
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Overview of UCSD EERI Student Chapter and Other Graduate Student Clubs
Speaker: UCSD EERI Student Chapter
Graduate Students will provide an overview of the EERI UCSD Student Chapter and student organizations. The EERI UCSD Graduate Student Chapter aims to work side by side with the regional professional chapter to promote earthquake safety awareness among students. We can plan to host quarterly seminars by inviting outside professionals from industry and academia or take part in seminars organized by the local engineering community.