Principal Investigator –

Amit M Kanvinde, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of California, Davis

kanvinde@ucdavis.edu

Amit Kanvinde’s Webpage at UC Davis

Co-Principal Investigator –

Gregory G Deierlein, Ph.D, P.E.

Professor and Director, John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Stanford University, CA 94305

ggd@stanford.edu

Greg Deierlein’s webpage at Stanford

Graduate Students –

Benjamin Fell

University of California Davis

bvfell@ucdavis.edu

Ben Fell’s webpage at UC Davis

Ben Fell will refine, develop and apply models for base metals for Ultra-Low Cycle Fatigue. His research will include planning and conducting the large-scale tests at the Berkeley NEES site, developing finite element models for the bracing member specimens, and interpreting results in the context of performance-based earthquake engineering, while also making design recommendations.

Xiangyang Fu

University of California Davis

xfu@ucdavis.edu

Xiangyang’s contribution to the NEES project will mainly relate to the analytical investigation of connection in SCBF type systems. Through detailed finite element analyses incorporating complex effects such as local buckling, gapping, contact etc, Xiangyang’s work will assess the effects of various configuration types on the potentiality of fracture and fatigue. Insights regarding local effects derived from this part of the study will be used to improve connection details.

Andy Myers

Stanford University

amyers1@stanford.edu

Andy Myers’ webpage at Stanford

Andy’s research focuses on the fracture of steel and weld metal subjected to earthquake loads. Small scale experimental specimens of various welded configurations will assist in Andy’s contribution to the mechanisms of fracture in weld metals and the surrounding Heat Affected Zones (HAZs) of the base metal. Furthermore, Phase II of the experimental program will use full-scale weld/connection tests that will validate these fatigue and fracture models.

NEES Personnel –

Don Clyde

Principal Development Engineer, NEES@Berkeley

dclyde@berkeley.edu

Shakhzod Takhirov, Ph.D

Senior Development Engineering, NEES@Berkeley

takhirov@berkeley.edu

Shakhzod Takhirov’s webpage

Donald A. Patterson

NEES-ES LAN Administrator, NEES@Berkeley

Dap01952@berkeley.edu

Donald A. Patterson’s webpage