Upcoming Seminars
Sustainability and the Structural Engineer
May 07, 2025 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Sara Means
Structural materials such as steel and concrete account for more than 10% of the global carbon emissions, and structural engineers have a responsibility to reduce these carbon emissions in the built environment. This presentation will give an introduction to embodied carbon. What is embodied carbon, how do you calculate it, and how do you reduce it? We will discuss which materials are most sustainable and how to reduce embodied carbon in your projects. We will also give an overview of a simple Life Cycle Assessment.
Past Seminars
Next Generation Bridge Columns for Multi-Hazard Resilience
December 03, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Assistant Professor Bora Gencturk
Past earthquakes have shown the vulnerability of bridge columns to lateral loads induced by earthquakes that have resulted in severe damage to the reinforced concrete (RC) columns in terms of rebar buckling and rupture and concrete spalling and crushing.
Elastic Metamaterials for Seismic Surface Waves Attenuation
November 19, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Antonio Palermo
Elastic metamaterials are artificial composites with resonant elements hosted in a medium able to manipulate the propagation of elastic waves. When the resonant elements are placed on the free surface of an elastic medium, they form a “metasurface” that allows to fully control the dynamics of surface waves.
The Las Vegas T-Mobile Arena: Structural and Tuned Mass Damper Design
November 14, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Kevin Legenza
Thornton Tomasetti provided structural engineering and tuned mass damper (TMD) design services for a 20,000-seat multipurpose event center located west of the Las Vegas Strip. The 650,000-square-foot facility can accommodate a variety of events, including NBA and NHL games, concerts, boxing, mixed martial arts programs and award shows.
Towards an Integrated Fracture-control Plan for Steel Bridges
November 05, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Professor Robert J. Connor
There has been considerable research and interest in the topic of fracture-critical members (FCMs) during the past decade. As a result, the entire concept of what constitutes a FCM is being revisited and many long-standing ideas and opinions related to this classification of members is being shown to be overly conservative. Significant advan
Characteristics and Seismic Performance of Tall Buildings Estimated with Nonlinear Response History Analyses
October 29, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: James O. Malley
Tall buildings (over 30 stories) have been designed on the West Coast of the U.S. for about the last 60 years. The skylines created by these tall buildings often help to define many of our major cities. Prior to the mid 1990’s, the primary system used was a steel moment resisting frame.
Bridging Simple Rocking Models and Experimental Understanding for Structural Walls with Jointed (Rocking) Connections
October 24, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Dimitrios Kalliontzis
Structural walls that undergo small permanent deformations during seismic events are an attractive technology, as they improve safety and re
Innovations in Powder-Based Techniques for Processing Lightweight Metal Matrix Nanocomposites
October 22, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Professor Peter Olubambi
As the competitive global technological development is increasingly advancing, materials engineers are constantly confronted with the challenge to design and rapidly produce innovative materials with improved properties for the emerging technological innovation and the wide range of their industrial environments.
Industrial Asset Performance and Management Optimization – a Case for Probabilistic Lifing
October 17, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Assistant Professor Felipe A. C. Viana
Despite continuous advance in design and manufacturing of industrial equipment, managing fleets of engineering assets (e.g., thousands of jet engines or aircrafts) is challenging due to the large variation in operating conditions.
Electric Field Effects in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composite Structures: from Low-field Damage Sensing to High-field Lightning Protection Applications
October 10, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Professor Olesya Zhupanska
This talk discusses on the behavior of fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites subjected to electric fields ranging from the low-magnitude fields encountered in damage sensing applications to the extremely high-magnitude fields occurring during lightning strikes.
Loma Linda University Medical Center Replacement Hospital
October 03, 2018 - 12:00 pm
Speaker: Alireza Sarebanha
Loma Linda University Medical Center, as part of their 2020 Vision, will replace the seismically non-compliant, existing hospital. The project expands their existing hospital building to include a new 1,100,000ft2 expansion of the 276-bed Adult Medical Center, including 96 intensive care beds and 180 medical-surgical beds.