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Research Interests

  • Struc­tur­al resilience against extreme haz­ards: earth­quake, fire safe­ty, and blast engi­neer­ing.
  • Con­junc­tion of struc­tur­al resilience and sus­tain­abil­i­ty. 
  • Risk assess­ment, uncer­tain­ty mod­el­ing, and reli­a­bil­i­ty analy­ses for per­for­mance-based design.

Active Research Projects

  1. Uncer­tain­ty quan­tifi­ca­tion in ele­vat­ed tem­per­a­ture prop­er­ties of engi­neered wood prod­ucts: Struc­tur­al risk assess­ment against fire requires robust mate­r­i­al mod­els that take into account the uncer­tain­ty in mate­r­i­al behav­ior over a range of ele­vat­ed tem­per­a­tures. Such mate­r­i­al mod­els can direct­ly inform design pro­ce­dures for build­ing fire safe­ty.
  1. Review of fire per­for­mance of mass-tim­ber con­nec­tions
  1. Haz­ard char­ac­ter­i­za­tion for hybrid tim­ber-steel struc­tures: Earth­quakes, fires and fire fol­low­ing earth­quakes: While seis­mic haz­ard char­ac­ter­i­za­tion is an estab­lished field, the same is not true for fire sce­nar­ios. This research focus­es on inte­grat­ing knowl­edge from earth­quake, fire, and struc­tur­al engi­neer­ing in a com­pre­hen­sive per­for­mance-based frame­work in order to estab­lish inte­grat­ed sce­nar­ios for mul­ti­ple haz­ards while con­sid­er­ing their like­li­hood.
  1. Mul­ti-haz­ard dam­age assess­ment of hybrid tim­ber-steel struc­tures: Ensur­ing resilien­cy of struc­tures requires per­for­mance objec­tives beyond life safe­ty, includ­ing con­tin­u­a­tion of busi­ness (less down­time, return of func­tion­al­i­ty of the struc­ture through quick recov­ery, etc.). It is there­fore nec­es­sary to link struc­tur­al per­for­mance to quan­ti­fied lev­els of dam­age.
  1. Post-earth­quake fire per­for­mance of tall mass tim­ber build­ings: Cur­rent­ly, very lim­it­ed knowl­edge is avail­able on the fire per­for­mance of tall mass tim­ber struc­tures. Even less research is avail­able on the behav­ior of mass tim­ber struc­tures after hav­ing sus­tained sig­nif­i­cant dam­age from seis­mic shak­ing. This research project aims to increase the pub­lic accep­tance of tall-tim­ber con­struc­tion accep­tance in earth­quake-prone regions.