Research Interests
- Modeling and simulation of progressive structural collapse
- Performance-based seismic engineering
- Development of inelastic material and member models for nonlinear structural analysis
- Application of low-cycle fatigue concepts in seismic analysis and design
- Macro-model-based computational tools for nonlinear transient analysis of structures
- Soil-structure interaction problems
- Seismic retrofit and rehabilitation
- Instrumentation and experimental methods in support of model-based simulation