Structural Engineering Seminars

Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering

Fall 2013 ~ Room: CIVL 1144 ~ Tue 4:30-5:20 p.m.

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

Updated on 08/19/2013

Week

Seminar Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic

1

Tue 20-Aug

2

Tue 27-Aug

*BOWEN LAB

Bowen Lab Safety Training

(Bowen Lab Students only)

3

Tue  3- Sep

Ghadir Haikal

Purdue University

Introduction

4

Tue 10- Sep

Don Meinheit

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Historic Reinforcing Bars Used in the 1890

to about 1920 Period

5

Tue 17- Sep

6

Tue 24- Sep

Kishor Mehta

The National Science Foundation

Research Frontier(work in progress): Multiple Hazard Mitigation of Infrastructure

7

Tue   1-Oct

Bruce Kaskel

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Engineering Glass to Resist Tornado Forces

Tue   8- Oct

October Break

8

Tue 15-Oct

Ilinca Stanciulescu

Rice University

Hybrid Masonry Systems

9

Tue 22-Oct

Jinping Ou

Dalian University of Technology

Some Challenges and Advances of Earthquake Disaster Prevention and Mitigation for Urban and Rural Infrastructure Engineering in Mainland China

10

Tue 29- Oct

11

Tue 05- Nov

12

Tue 12- Nov

Gaby Ou

Purdue University

13

Tue 19- Nov

14

Tue 26- Nov

15

Tue  3- Dec

Jack Gibbons

Ductilcrete Slab Sytems, LLC

Modern Concrete Construction

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

 

 

 

Potential speakers to confirm dates:

·         Satish Nagarajaiah, Rice University

·         Sankaran Mahadevan, Vanderbilt University