Welcome!!Welcome!!Structural and Earthquake Engineering GroupDepartment of Civil EngineeringUniversity of British Columbia

UBC - Vancouver, BC

Whistler!!!

Structures Lab and Earthquake Engineering Research Facility Structures Lab and Earthquake Engineering Research Facility

Graduate StudentsRoughly 90+ students in Structural and Earthquake Engineering Program from all around the world. Roughly equally divided between three

degree types.

New students: 13 MEng 9 MASc 4 PhD (+2 MASc PhD)

Student Groups / Professional Organizations

CEGSSEarthquake Engineering Research Institute Student ChapterStructural Engineers Association of BC Free membership!

Institution of Structural Engineers Free membership!

American Concrete Institute Free membership!

Course planningDiscuss courses with your supervisor

For M.Eng. and new MASc students without a supervisor see Group Leader

Most should now be registered in at least three of: CIVL 507 - Dynamics CIVL 511 - Steel CIVL 518 - Reliability CIVL 537 - Computational Mechanics

Other popular options: CIVL 580 – Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering CIVL 529 – Condition assessment and rehabilitation MECH 561 – Linear elasticity

Directed studies or project courses

Selecting a supervisor (MASc/Phd)

No rush!Talk to the faculty members to learn about projects they are working on.Try to find a good “dance partner”.Frequently MASc and PhD students find a supervisor by early in Term 2.

Ken Elwood (Group Leader) Seismic design, existing

reinforced concrete and masonry structures, seismic retrofit, nonlinear structural analysis.

CIVL 505 – Seismic Response of Structures

Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group

Reza Vaziri (Department Head) Mechanics of composite

materials, impact dynamics, nonlinear finite element analysis, damage mechanics.

CIVL 537 – Computational Mechanics I

Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group

Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group

Perry Adebar Concrete structures:

seismic design, high-rise buildings, and shear design.

CIVL 513 – Concrete Structures

Terje Haukaas Structural safety, probabilistic

methods in civil engineering, timber design, software development, performance-based earthquake engineering.

CIVL 518 – Reliability and Structural Safety

CIVL 539 – Advanced Theory of Structures

Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group

Sigi Stiemer Steel design, adaptive

structures, knowledge management, composite designs.

CIVL 510 - Behaviour of Steel Structures (not offered 2011/12)

Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group

Thomas Tannert Probabilistic Design of

Timber Joints; Mechanical Characterization of Timber; Assessment and Monitoring of Timber Structures

CIVL 516 – Behaviour of Timber Structures

Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group

Carlos Ventura Earthquake engineering,

structural dynamics, instrumentation and testing of structures, experimental mechanics.

CIVL 507 – Dynamics of Structures I

CIVL 507 – Dynamics of Structures II

Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group

Tony Yang Performance-based

earthquake engineering, hybrid testing, seismic response of steel structures, innovative protective systems.

CIVL 511 – Steel Structures (Seismic)

Structural and Earthquake Engineering Group

Emeritus FacultyDon Anderson

Seismic design and nonlinear analysis

Ricardo Foschi Reliability and structural safety

Liam Finn Seismicity and geotechnical earthquake

engineering (CIVL 504)

Structures SeminarsRequired attendanceEvery week same place and time unless otherwise noted.Who?

MASc students must present once during program PhD students must present twice during program Occasional special seminar by visitors

Organized by graduate student committee with the assistance of Dr. Stiemer.

More on this next Thursday! http://www.sigi.ca/seminar/seminar_schedule.htm

Coffee and cookies – volunteer needed.