Our lab merges experimental and computational techniques to creatively redefine structural design.
Our research group is made up of a small team of talented students with a wide range of skills and experience. We explore advanced computational and experimental methods to characterize structural response. Our aim is to develop innovative structural systems that improve structural performance and reduce the effects of natural hazards on the built environment.
Research areas include resilient and sustainable design and retrofit of building structures and offshore renewable energy systems, performance-based earthquake engineering, and next-generation computational modeling, including real-time hybrid simulation for fluid-structure interaction.
Recent blog posts
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Fluid structure interaction for cascading seismic and tsunami events using real-time hybrid simulation
While real-time hybrid simulation has been utilized for structures subjected to seismic events for decades, its use in fluid-structure interaction problems is still a novel endeavor. Gathering data for cascading seismic and tsunami events is difficult due to space constraints in existing experimental facilities, complications regarding the application of scaling laws for both the fluid…
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Mitigating computational bottlenecks using graphics processors
I have become fascinated by the intersection of computer hardware and the fidelity of our numerical analyses. For example, graphics processors (GPUs), real-time computer chips used for gaming and machine learning, could be leveraged to accelerate our computational models, enabling faster and higher-fidelity simulations. In using GPU-based computing, the governing equations of motion would remain…