Structural Engineering Seminars

Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering

Fall 2011 ~ Room: CIVL 1144 ~ Tue 4:30-5:20 p.m.

Tentative Schedule – may be modified as per speaker’s request and availability

Updated on 08/23/2011

Week

Seminar Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic

1

Tues 23-Aug

Introduction

2

Tues 30-Aug

*BOWEN LAB

Bowen Lab Training (for Bowen lab students only)

3

Tues 6-Sept

Hoon Sohn

Inaugural Curtis Professor of Civil Engineering

(Curtis Professor Seminar)

4

Tues 13-Sept

5

Tues 20-Sept

6

Tues 27-Sept

Donald Meinheit

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Retrofitting the Ledge of Precast L-Shaped Spandrel Beams

7

Tues 4-Oct

Charles Roeder

University of Washington

Gusset Plate Connections for Seismic Design

AISC T.R. Higgins Award Lecture

8

Tues 11-Oct

October Break

9

Tues 18-Oct

Nick Alexander

Degenkolb Engineers

(Joint seminar with EERI)

Peterson Building Renovation

10

Tues 25-Oct

John Hooper

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

(Joint seminar with EERI)

Performance-Based Seismic Design: Today and Tomorrow

12

Tues 8-Nov

Robert H. Dodds Jr.

Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Three-Dimensional Effects on Fatigue Crack

Closure in the Small-Scale Yielding Regime

13

Tues 15-Nov

Randy Poston

Whitlock Dalrymple Poston & Associates

When Bad Things Happen to Good Buildings

14

Tues 22-Nov

15

Tues 29-Nov

Stephanie Chang

University of British Columbia

(EERI distinguished lecture)

Dynamics of Urban Earthquake Risk

16

Tues 6-Dec

Guney Ozcebe

Middle East Technical University

The 23 October and 9 November 2011

Van-Erciş, Turkey Earthquakes

17

Dec 12-17

Final Exams Week

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Related Information

•       Seminar room information and photographs.

•       Directions and Lodging information.

•       Shuttle service between Indianapolis airport and West Lafayette/Purdue is provided by the Star of America and Lafayette Limo.

•       Shuttle service between Chicago O'Hare and West Lafayette/Purdue is provided by the Express Air Coach.

•       Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research and Bowen webcam.

•       Free Parking is available at the Bowen Lab (Address: 1040 S. River Road, West Lafayette, IN 47907). Conveyance from the Lab to the seminar room is also available.

•       Complementary Parking Permits available at Purdue Visitor Information Center at Northwestern Garage.

•       Structures group in School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University.

 

Contact: Ghadir Haikal (ghaikal@purdue.edu), Arun Prakash (arunprakash@purdue.edu)