Take a few moments to learn about our structural engineering faculty and their various areas of interest. Click the name of a faculty member to learn more about what he or she researches. When you're done, the links at the bottom will take you back to the main CEE research page or to another specific research area.
Structural Engineering Faculty
Paolo Bocchini
Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
- Resilience and sustainability of infrastructure systems
- Computational mechanics
- Probabilistic structural analysis
- Structural reliability
- Bridge network analysis
- Structural health monitoring by guided ultrasonic waves
Dan M. Frangopol
Professor, Fazlur Rahman Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture, Professor of Civil Engineering
- Safety, reliability, risk, resilience and sustainability of civil, marine and distributed infrastructure
- Probabilistic optimal life-cycle cost design, inspection, maintenance and management of infrastructure systems
- Bridge engineering and optimal management of bridge networks under uncertainty based on life-cycle cost
- Probabilistic damage assessment and safety evaluation of existing structures
- Life-cycle performance-based system reliability assessment of buildings, bridges, and marine structures
- Multi-hazard risk mitigation, risk-informed decision making and climate change effects on civil infrastructure
Clay Naito
Professor
- Experimental and analytical evaluation of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures subjected to extreme events, including earthquakes and intentional blast demands
Shamim N. Pakzad
Professor and Chair
- Structural health monitoring; wireless sensor networks
- Damage detection
- System identification and signal processing
- Probabilistic methods in civil engineering and structural reliability
- Random vibrations and structural dynamics
- Structural monitoring of large infrastructures and bridges
Stephen Pessiki
Professor of Structural Engineering
- Behavior and design of structures
- Nondestructive evaluation of materials and structures
- Fire effects on structures
- Earthquake engineering
- Innovative building systems
- Thermal performance of building envelopes
Spencer Quiel
Associate Professor, Structural Engineering and Associate Chair
- Structural resistance to extreme loads, particularly fire and blast
- Design of structures to resist progressive collapse
- Structural robustness and resilience
- Development of improved design standards via experimental testing and computational analysis
James M. Ricles
Bruce G. Johnston Professor of Structural Engineering: Director, Real-Time Multi-directional Earthquake Simulation Facility; ATLSS
- Seismic response and retrofit of steel or composite steel-concrete connections, components and systems
- Innovative advanced structural systems for seismic hazard mitigation
- Real-time hybrid testing for simulation of dynamic loading
- Structural applications of advanced materials
- Behavior of steel structures at elevated temperatures
- Repair of damaged or deteriorated offshore structures
Richard Sause
Joseph T. Stuart Professor of Structural Engineering; Director, ATLSS, Director, Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure & Energy
- Application of high-performance materials
- Innovative structural systems
- Highway bridges and structures
- Earthquake-resistant and blast-resistant structures
- Simulation of structural dynamic response
