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
Nondestructive Testing of Structures: Current Industry Methods and Project Applications
March 04, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Heather Todak
This seminar is intended to highlight current industry standards for performing nondestructive testing (NDT) by presenting several case studies from recent project work. Techniques included ground-penetrating radar, ultrasonic tomography, ultrasonic pulse velocity, acoustic emissions and impact echo will be discussed.
The Failure Forecast Method as a Prognostic Extension of Structural Health Monitoring
February 27, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Professor Michael Todd
Damage prognosis is the act of making an informed prediction of the future state of health of a system or component, given that a current diagnostic state is available with its uncertainty quantified. It has been noted that several material failure modes occur, after initiation phases, as a consequence of a positive-feedback mechanism.
Fire Protection Engineering- What it is and Why You Should Care
February 25, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Garner A. Palenske
Fire protection engineers use math and science to protection people from the risk of fire and explosions. The practice is based upon the fundamentals of heat transfer, thermal dynamics, and structural mechanics.
Field Responsive Mechanical Metamaterials
February 13, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Julie Mancini
Mechanical metamaterials possess previously unobtainable structural mechanical properties, primarily derived from their underlying three-dimensional (3D) architecture.
Nanocomposite Sensors for Structural and Human Health Monitoring
January 30, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Long Wang
Structural health monitoring (SHM) significantly relies on the rich data provided by sensing devices. Although various sensors (e.g., strain gages, fiber optics, and so forth) have been commonly utilized, they can be incompatible to flexible structural systems.
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Towards Biomechanical Simulation-Guided Diagnosis and Treatment of Valvular Heart Disease
Speaker: Professor Chung-Hao Lee
Functional tricuspid regurgitation (FTR) affects about 1.6 million Americans, with only 8,000 treated surgically each year. Increasing evidence has showed that FTR typically does not regress after successful left-sided valve surgery, and the untreated FTR frequently further worsens the long-term prognosis.
Assessment of Seismic Performance of Low-rise Reinforced Masonry Buildings
January 16, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Professor P. Benson Shing
For regions of high seismic hazards (Seismic Design Category D or above), reinforced masonry shear walls must have design details that meet the special wall requirements of the masonry design standard TMS 402.
Seismically Isolated Nuclear Power Plants Subjected to Beyond Design Basis Shaking
January 09, 2019 - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Professor Gilberto Mosqueda
Seismic isolation has been proven as an effective strategy to protect critical facilities including Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) from the damaging effects of horizontal earthquake ground shaking.
Next Generation Bridge Columns for Multi-Hazard Resilience
December 03, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Assistant Professor Bora Gencturk
Past earthquakes have shown the vulnerability of bridge columns to lateral loads induced by earthquakes that have resulted in severe damage to the reinforced concrete (RC) columns in terms of rebar buckling and rupture and concrete spalling and crushing.