Structural Engineering Seminars

Purdue University, School of Civil Engineering

Spring 2012 ~ Room: CIVL 1144 ~ Tue 4:30-5:20 p.m.

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

Updated on 07/04/2011

Week

Seminar Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic

1

Tue 10-Jan

Wei Song

NEEScomm

Nonlinear Dynamic Model Updating in Structural and Damping Systems

2

Tue 17-Jan

Bill Baker

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Llp

Theory Is Practical: The Philosophy of Design

3

Tue 24-Jan

Paul Mlakar

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Design for Failure: A Paradigm from 9/11 and Other Recent Disasters

4

Tue 31-Jan

Cyndi Lynch

Purdue University Graduate School

Essentials of a Graduate Student Portfolio

5

Tue 07-Feb

Aldo De La Haza

Dynasty Group

Hybrid Approach to Investigate Concrete Structures by Nondestructive Testing and 3D Laser Scanning

6

Tue 14-Feb

7

Tue 21-Feb

Andrew Whittaker

University at Buffalo

Performance Assessment of Conventional and Base-Isolated Safety-Related Nuclear Structures

8

Tue 28-Feb

Gary Klein

Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

Torsion Simplified: A Failure Plane Model for Design of Spandrel Beams

9

Tue 06- Mar

Aaron Stover

Michael Baker Corporation

Milton Madison Bridge - Construction Update

10

Tue 13- Mar

Spring Break

11

Tue 20- Mar

12

Tue 27- Mar

Bill Spencer

Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Smart Sensing Technology:  A New

Paradigm For Structural Health Monitoring

13

Tue 03-Apr

William Holmes

Rutherford & Chekene

Joint CE/Structures, EERI and NEEScomm seminar

14

Tue 10-Apr

Kevin Irving

AZZ Galvanizing Services

Galvanize IT!

15

Tue 17-Apr

John E. Breen

University of Texas at Austin

Joint CE/Structures and NEEScomm Center seminar

16

Tue 24-Apr

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 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)

 

 

 

Potential speakers:

·         Ahsan Kareem, University of Notre Dame

·         Satish Nagarajaiah, Rice University

·         Sherif El-Tawil, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

·         Kent A. Harries, University of Pittsburgh

·         Andrew Whittaker, University at Buffalo

·         Richard Sause, Lehigh University