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Structural Engineering Seminars Online

 

The following links provide access to web-based playback of the recorded seminars.

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October 7, 2002
Newmark Lecture
Professor Frieder Seible
University of California, San Diego
"Use of FRP to Seismic Design and Blast Mitigation"
September 8, 2003 Jeff Garrett

CTL, Skokie, IL

Forensics Engineering
September 22, 2003 Professor Bojan Guzina

University of Minnesota

Novel Techniques for Subsurface Imaging

October 6, 2003

Professor Jamshid Ghaboussi

University of Illinois (UIUC)

Biologically Inspired Soft Computing Methods in Engineering
October 20, 2003             Newmark Lecture

Professor Wilfred Iwan 

California Institute of Technology

Linearizing a Nonlinear World
November 3, 2003

John L. Carrato

Alfred Benesch & Company

Bridge Engineering: The Other Structural Engineering
November 17, 2003

Professor Gregory S. Deierlein

Stanford University

Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
December 1, 2003

Professor Nicholas P. Jones

University of Illinois (UIUC)

Evaluation of Buffeting Analysis of Long-Span Bridges Using Full-Scale Measurements
December 8, 2003

Professor Emilio Silva

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Structural Topology Optimization & Applications
January 26, 2004

Professor Dan Kuchma

University of Illinois

Network for Earthquake  Engineering and Simulation (NEES)
February 9, 2004

Shane McCormick

SOM, Chicago

Specialty Structure Projects
February 23, 2004

Professor Robert Massabo

Northwestern University

Delaminations of Adv. Composites & Layered Structures
March 8, 2004

Gary Klein

Wiss, Janney & Elstner
Failure Investigation
March 29, 2004

Professor Dan Kuchma

University of Illinois (UIUC)
The Challenge of Designing for Shear:  Large-Scale Tests on Prestressed Girders
April 12, 2004

Steven C. Ball

A. Epstein & Sons Intl., Inc.
Structural Glass
April 20, 2004

Professor Wing Kam Liu

Northwestern University
Bridging Scale Mechanics and Materials
April 26, 2004

Professor Sarah Billington

Stanford University
Cyclic Response of Precast Concrete Bridge Piers with Unbonded Post-Tensioning and Ductile Fiber Reinforced Concrete
August 29, 2004 Associate Dean Keith Hjelmstad
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Learning Ethics"
September 13, 2004 Professor Maria Garlock
Princeton University
"Self-Centering Steel Moment-Resisting Frames"
September 27, 2004 Bill Baker
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP
"Seeing the World"
October 11, 2004 Professor C. Armando Duarte
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Overview and Applications of Generalized Finite Element Methods"
October 18, 2004
Newmark Lecture
Professor Amr Elnashai
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Vulnerability Assessment Under Earthquake Action:  From Field Observations to Hybrid Simulations"
November 8, 2004 Sonia Mogilevskaya, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
"Computational Modeling of Fiber-Reinforced and Particulate Composite Materials"
November 29, 2004 Professor Zdenek Bazant
Northwestern University
"Quasibrittle Size Effect and Its Role in Structural Reliability Concepts for Design Codes"
January 24, 2005 Bill Baker
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP
"Structural Design of the Burj Dubai and Trump Towers"
February 7, 2005 Professor Carol Shield
University of Minnesota
"Effective Force Testing - Method of Seismic Simulation"
February 21, 2005 Professor Jerome Hajjar
University of Minnesota
"Seismic Detailing of Moment-Resisting Connections in Steel Frame Structures After the 1994 Northridge Earthquake"
March 7, 2005 Chris Hahin
Illinois Department of Transportation
Springfield, Illinois
"Fracture Toughness Testing of Structural Materials"
March 28, 2005 Burt Lewis
Illinois Institute of Technology
"Structural Engineering Lifetime"
April 18, 2005 Professor Doug Foutch
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Seismic Analyses of a Long-Span Railway Bridge"
April 25, 2005 Professor John Hutchinson
Harvard University
"Dynamic Buckling Under High Velocity"
August 29, 2005 Professor Michael C. Loui
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Ethics in Engineering Research"
September 12, 2005 Brig. Gen. Joseph Schroedel
US Army Corps of Engineers
San Francisco, California
"Lake Kaweah Fuse Gates"
September 26, 2005 Professor Joe LaBuz
University of Minnesota
"Characteristic Length of Quasi-Brittle Materials"
October 10, 2005
Newmark Lecture
Professor Ted Belytschko
Northwestern University
"Computational Fracture from the Nano-Scale to the Macro-Scale"
October 31, 2005 Professor Tulio Bittencourt
University of Sao Paulo
(Poli-USP) Brazil
"Reinforced Concrete Design"
November 14, 2005 Professor Victor Li
University of Michigan
"Integrated Structures and Materials Design"
November 28, 2005 Professor Ming Wang
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Health Monitoring of Large Steel-Cable Systems"
January 30, 2006 Professor Junho Song
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"System Reliability in Structural Engineering"
February 13, 2006 Mrs. Xuemei Li
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP
"Innovative and Integrated Design"
February 27, 2006 Dr. Thomas Dunning
Director, NCSA
"NCSA:  Powering Cyber-Research in the 21st Century"
March 13, 2006 Bill Baker
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP
Dr. Peter Irwin
Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin (RWDI), Guelph, Ontario, Canada
"Wind Engineering and the Design of Tall Buildings"
March 27, 2006 Roger Reckers
Tylk Gustafson Reckers Wilson Andrews, LLC (TGRWA)
"A House that Survived Hurricane Ivan"
April 10, 2006 Professor Abbas Aminmansour
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Steel Design with Combined Loading"
April 24, 2006 Arne P. Johnson
Wiss Janney Elstner Associates
"Soldier Field:  Applying Modern Technology to Protect Historic Concrete"
August 28, 2006 Professor Arif Masud
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Simulation Based Design of Laminated Composites:  A Co-Rational Kinematic Framework for Large Deformation Analysis"
September 11, 2006 Preetam Biswas
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
"Lotte's 550 Meter Tower in Seoul"
September 25, 2006 Professor Ilinca Stanciulescu
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Structures under Microgravity"
October 9, 2006 Tony F. Shkurti
HNTB Corporation
"Marquette Interchange Reconstruction:  Design and Construction of HPS Twin Tub Girders"
October 23, 2006 Brett H. Schneider
Guy Nordenson & Associates
"Cantilever Stair - A Case Study in the Translation of a Traditional Structural Type from Stone to Metal and Glass"
November 6, 2006 Professor Jerry Hajjar
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Behavioral Assessment of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Members and Frames:  Formulations for Performance-Based Design"
November 27, 2006 Professor Jerry Lynch
University of Michigan
"Wireless Sensors and Carbon Nanotube Thin Films for Structural Monitoring Applications"
January 29, 2007 Professor Larry Fahnestock
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Seismic Behavior and Performance of Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames"
February 13, 2007 Greg Lakota
Halvorson & Partners
"Torre Repsol:  A 250 Meter Tall Building"
February 26, 2007 Professor Tod Laursen
Duke University
"Contact/Impact Analysis in Solid and Structural Mechanics Using Mortar-Based Methods"
March 12, 2007 Professor Shamim A. Sheikh
University of Toronto
"Seismic Upgrade of Concrete Columns with Fiber Reinforced Polymers"
March 26, 2007 Professor Henrik Stolarski
University of Minnesota
"Discontinuous Galerkin Analysis of Structural Mechanics Problems"
April 16, 2007
Newmark Lecture
Professor Masayoshi Nakashima
Kyoto University, Japan
"Disaster Prevention and Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program in Japan"
April 23, 2007 Dr. Jack Hayes
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
"Overview of the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program"
August 27, 2007 Professor Bassem Andrawes
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Smart Materials for Future Infrastructure Systems"
September 10, 2007 Professor John Lambros
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Fracture of FGMs Using DIC"
September 24, 2007 Professor Maria Lopez
Penn State University
"Study of the Concrete-Epoxy Interface on Externally Bonded FRP Systems"
October 8, 2007 Professor Lawrence Virgin
Duke University
"Dynamic Evolution Through Buckling"
October 22, 2007 Larry Griffiss
Walter P. Moore & Associates Inc.
Austin, TX
"Design and Construction of  Retractable Roof Stadiums"
November 5, 2007
Newmark Lecture
Professor Thomas J.R. Hughes
University of Texas at Austin
"Isogeometric Analysis"
November 26, 2007 Luis Garcia
Proyectos y Disenos Ltda. and the
Universidade de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

 

"Effects of the Terrorist Attack on the El Nogal Building in Bogota, Colombia"
January 28, 2008 Professor Zdenek Bazant
Northwestern University
"Failure Risk and Lifetime of Quasibrittle Structures:  From Atomistic to Structural Scale"
February 11, 2008 Bill Baker
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP
"Studies in Structural Topology-Extending Structural Systems and Architecture"
February 25, 2008 Radha Nandkumar
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois (UIUC)
"Structures in CyberInfrastructure"
March 24, 2008 Professor Sherif El-Tawil
University of Michigan
"Multiscale Computational Simulation of Progressive Building Collapse"
April 7, 2008 Professor Tayfun Tezduyar
Rice University
"Stabilized Space-Time Fluid-Structure Interaction (SSTFSI) Technique"
April 21, 2008 Professor Perumalsamy Balaguru
Rutgers University
"Structural Engineering and Sustainable-Robust Structures:  Opportunities and Challenges"