Structural Engineering & Structural Mechanics

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

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Structural Engineering Faculty

 

  • Abrams, Daniel P., Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979. Earthquake Engineering, Masonry Structures. Courses: CEE 360, CEE 461, CEE 465, CEE 467.

 

  • Andrawes, Bassem, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.  Earthquake Engineering, structural dynamics, bridge engineering, seismic retrofit of structures, smart structures.  Courses:  CEE 463, CEE 468.

 

  • Dodds, Jr., Robert H., Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fracture mechanics, computational solid mechanics, nonlinear finite element methods, software engineering. Courses: CEE 360, CEE 470, CEE 490, CEE 570, CEE 575.

 

  • Duarte, C. Armando, Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin, 1996.  Solid mechanics, statics, nonlinear finite element analysis, fracture mechanics.  Courses:  CEE 470, CEE 571, CEE 598AC (Generalized Finite Element Methods). 

 

  • Elnashai, Amr, Ph.D. in Reinforced Concrete and Structures, Imperial College, 1984. Experimental, analytical and field investigations of the seismic response of concrete, steel and composite buildings and bridges. Courses: CEE 572.

 

  • Fahnestock, Larry A., Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, LeHigh University, 2006.  Earthquake engineering, innovative structural systems, steel structures, and experimental evaluation of large-scale structural components and systems.  Courses:  CEE 460, CEE 462.
     

  • Hajjar, Jerome F., Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, Cornell University, 1988.  Computational analysis, experimental testing, behavior, and design of steel and composite steel/concrete structures, structural stability, earthquake engineering.
    Courses:  CEE 460, CEE 462, CEE 472, CEE 598JH (Nonlinear Analysis of Steel Structures).
     

  • Kuchma, Daniel, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, 1996.  Structural concrete, large-scale experiments, constitutive modeling, shear, bond, high-strength concrete, strut-and-tie models, discontinuity regions, validation procedures, non-contact instrumentation methods, earthquake engineering, design codes and non-linear analysis tools.  Courses:  CEE463, CEE 498 KC (Structures and Materials Lab).

 

  • LaFave, James M., Ph.D. in Civil (Structural) Engineering, University of Michigan, 1997. Earthquake-resistant design of reinforced concrete structures, behavior of light-frame buildings subjected to earthquakes, structural rehabilitation using fiber reinforced cementitious composites, and durability of structural concrete.  Courses: CEE 460, CEE 465, CEE 560.

 

  • Masud, Arif, Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics, Stanford University, 1993.  Multiscale and stabilized finite element methods for fluids and solids, fluid-structure Interaction, computational micro-mechanics, nonlinear continuum mechanics and constitutive modeling.  Courses:  CEE 360, CEE 576, CEE 598CP (Computational Plasticity).

 

  • Paulino, Glaucio H., Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 1995. Computational methods (FEM, BEM, CAD), functionally graded materials, experimental methods, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, probabilistic fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, concrete behavior under cyclic loading, structural dynamics, structural mechanics (including contact problems and composite materials), solution adaptive techniques for linear and nonlinear problems, inverse problems in mechanics, sensitivity and optimization, topology design of structures.  Courses:  CEE 470, CEE 570, CEE 575, CEE 598BEM (Boundary Element Methods).

 

  • Song, Junho , Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2004.  Structural reliability, system reliability, random vibrations, earthquake engineering, infrastructure systems.
    Courses:  CEE 202, CEE 491, CEE 574.

 

  • Spencer, B.F. Jr., Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985. Smart structures, stochastic and robust structural control, computational probabilistic methods, structure reliability, stochastic structural dynamics. Courses: CEE 472, CEE 573.

 

  • Stanciulescu, Ilinca, Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Duke University, 2005.  Computational mechanics (non-linear finite elements), constitutive modelling of materials, structural analysis, and non-linear dynamics.  Courses:  CEE 470, CEE 598NFM (Nonlinear Finite Element Methods).

 

 

 

 

 

Joint, Affiliate, and Adjunct Faculty and Teaching Staff

 

  • Bergman, Lawrence A., Department of Aerospace Engineering; Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve, 1980.

 

  • Burns, Scott A., Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering; Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986.
     

  • Gavlin, Nancy L., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1977.

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  • Geubelle, Philippe A., Department of Aerospace Engineering; Ph.D. in Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 1993.

 

  • Gurfinkel, German R., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1966. Courses: CEE 469.

 

  • Haber, Robert B., Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering; Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 1980.

 

  • Nandkumar, Radha, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985.

 

  • Torterelli, Daniel A., Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering; Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988.