Overview

Research Centers

Research Laboratories

CSEE Research Areas

• Computational Engineering Mechanics

• Construction Engineering and Management

• Earthquake Engineering

• Electronic Packaging

• Environmental Engineering

• Hydrosystems Engineering

• Geomechanics, Geotechnical, and Geoenvironmental Engineering

• Structural Engineering

Structural Engineering

Research in structural engineering addresses the design and analysis of a variety of structural systems, with an emphasis on bridges and tall buildings.

Faculty

• Amjad Aref

• Michel Bruneau

• Stuart Chen

• Michael Constantinou

• George Lee

• Andrei Reinhorn

• Rowland Richards

• Tsu Teh Soong

• Andrew Whittaker

Laboratories and research groups

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Structural Control Research Group

• Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory

Current projects

• Effective slab width for composite steel bridge members (Aref, Chen)

• Experimental study of local damage detection on a suspension bridge floor system model (Chen)

• Displacement estimates in isolated bridge structures (Whittaker)

• Fragility-based procedures for new and retrofit hospital construction (Whittaker)

• Hybrid FRP-concrete bridge deck systems (Aref)

• Health monitoring and damage assessment of structures (Soong)