Research Interests

• Performance-based earthquake engineering
• Structural reliability analysis
• Life-cycle analysis
• Bridge engineering
• Resilient infrastructure
• Natural hazard risk assessment and mitigation
  
  

Research Experience

1) Life-cycle cost assessment (LCCA) of urban concrete bridges by Endurance Time method

• Implementing a finite element (FE) model of urban concrete bridges in OpenSees to conduct seismic analysis and design.
  
• Developing the Endurance Time method for assessment of life cycle cost of bridges under seismic hazards.
  
• Implementing an optimization code in MATLAB to perform value-based seismic design of bridges.
  
  

2) Seismic evaluation of eccentric bracing systems equipped with vertical links

• Performing seismic reliability analysis of eccentric bracing systems equipped with vertical links.
  
• Analyzing EBFs with replaceable vertical links as an efficient and practical seismic retrofitting technique to reduce future earthquake damages to substandard steel moment resisting frames (SMRF).
  
• Evaluating the seismic performance of eccentrically braced steel frames with energy-absorbing links under sequential earthquakes.
  
• Presenting a novel combined series-parallel system approach for reliability assessment analysis of steel moment-resisting frames retrofitted by eccentric bracing system equipped with vertical links.
  
  

3) Application of Endurance Time analysis method for seismic evaluation of structures

• The main objective of this project is to develop applications of the novel endurance time analysis method for reliability and seismic analysis of different structural systems and reduce computational time and costs.
  
• Proposing new scenarios to develop fragility curves and seismic response range of steel moment-resisting frames.