Title:
Professor and Dean
Phone:
+1 (209) 228-4411
Location:
SE2 315
Research Interests:
- Seismic safety of marine structures
- Seismic analysis of bridges in fault-rupture zones
- Use of supplemental damping to improve seismic behavior of structures
- Performance-based seismic engineering of buildings
- Earthquake analysis and design of plan-wise asymmetric buildings and bridges
- Base isolation and energy dissipation devices
- Experimental methods in structural dynamics
- Studies on nonlinear behavior of structures
Education:
- Ph.D. -- Structural Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Dissertation: Inelastic Seismic Response of One-Story, Asymmetric-Plan Systems, 1990
- M.S. -- Structural Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
- B.Tech. -- Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 1982
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