Our faculty and graduate students work at Town Engineering Building facilities and with the Bridge Engineering Center at Iowa State’s research park. These activities encourage multidisciplinary and high-impact research, such as seismic engineering, structural health monitoring, bridge engineering and risk-based management. Recently, structural engineering faculty have been working on the nationally acclaimed Iowa State University Wind Energy Initiative.
Research Faculty
Alice Alipour
Associate Professor |
- Resilience quantification methods for infrastructure systems under extreme events
- Multi-hazard design and assessment criteria for structures
- Post-disaster functionality of complex networks
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In Ho Cho
Associate Professor |
- Big data-oriented engineering and science
- High performance computing/parallel computing algorithms
- Earthquake engineering
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Simon Laflamme
Associate Professor |
- Structural control
- Structural health monitoring
- Smart structures and intelligent systems engineering
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Brent Phares
Research Associate Professor |
- Field testing of bridges
- Forensic engineering/failure investigation
- Nondestructive evaluation
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Behrouz Shafei
Associate Professor |
- Vulnerability assessment of structures under mechanical and environmental stressors
- Nano-scale investigation of cement-based materials
- Evaluation of uncertainties involved in aging mechanisms
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Jiehua ‘Jay’ Shen
Associate Professor |
- Performance-based seismic design of steel structures
- Model-based simulations
- Inelastic behavior of steel structures
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David Sanders
Greenwood Department Chair and Professor |
- Bridge engineering
- Seismic design
- Behavior of structures (concrete)
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Sri Sritharan
Interim Assistant Dean for Strategic Initiatives,
Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering |
- Seismic design
- Earthquake-resistant design of structures
- Precast concrete structural systems
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