Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials
Our structural engineering, mechanics and materials researchers continue to enhance community resilliency to earthquake, develop design guidelines for buildings and other structures. Faculty and students are also emerging as leaders in various areas such as wind, fire and materials engineering. Research in mechanics involves the application of the fundamental principles of solid and fluid mechanics to a variety of emerging engineering problems, using state-of-the-science numerical algorithms and high-performance computing technology.
Our Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials group are also active in bridge engineering. Investigators have developed design guidelines to make bridges safer and more resilient. The contributions of our bridge engineers continue to repair aging infrastructure in the U.S.
Research Centers and Labs
Institute of Bridge Engineering Overview
The Institute
The Institute of Bridge Engineering (IBE) provides practicing engineers and students the skills and knowledge to advance the nation's bridge infrastructure enterprise. Active researchers within IBE have tackled some of the nation's most pressing issues facing bridge and infrastructure engineers: fires in tunnels, modeling the the impact of different wind events on bridges, various impacts artificial intelligence has on bridges and structural health monitoring, and other aspects of the discipline.
In addition to the active researcher happening at the Institute, IBE also works closely with the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering to prepare the next generation of bridge engineers with its Advanced Certificate in Bridge Engineering. Designed specifically for practicing engineers who want to boost their educational credentials, the certificate program trains students in new construction methods and components, improving seismic resiliency and how to address problems with aging infrastructure.
Research & Impact
Publications
- July 21, 2021, Cancan Yang, Pinar Okumus, Seismically Resilient Hybrid Precast Concrete Piers with Ultrahigh-Performance Concrete, Journal of Bridge Engineering
- July 21, 2021, Sharma Sumedh, Vidya Sagar Ronaki, Siriam Aaleti, Pinar Okumus, Experimental Investigation of Surface Preparation on Normal and Ultrahigh-Performance Concrete Interface Behavior, Journal of Bridge Engineering
- July 18, 2021, Jingtao Xu, Yao Sun, Guo Xu, Xiao Liang, Mei Su, Current-Fed LC Series Resonant Converter with Load-Independent Voltage-Gain Characterisitics for Wide Voltage Range Applications, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
- June 29, 2021, Ching-Ching Yu, Faizan UI Haq Mir, Andrew S. Whittaker, Validation of numerical Models for seismic fluid-structure-interaction analysis of nuclear, safety-related equipment, Nuclear Engineering and Design
- June 10, 2021, Haifeng Wang, Teng Wu, Fast Hilbert-Wavelet SImulation of Nonstationary Wind FIeld Using Noniterative Simultaneous Matrix Diagonalization, Journal of Engineering Mechanics
- May 31, 2021, Kareem A. Eltouny, Xiao Liang, Bayesian-optimized unsupervised learning approach for structural damage detection, Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
- May 30, 2021, Cancan Yang, Pinar Okumus, Numerical Investigation of High-Strength Steel and Ultrahigh-Performance Concrete for Ductile Rectangular Hollow Columns, Journal of Structural Engineering
- May 19, 2021, Xiaoqiang Gu, Kangle Zuo, Anthony Tessari, Guangyun Gao, Effect of saturation on the characteristics of P-wave and S-wave propagation in nearly saturated soils using bender elements, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Wu, Teng; Snaiki, Reda
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
Volume 174, Pages 50-60 (March 2018)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jweia.2017.12.014
Lingyao Li, Lecturer, National Engineering Laboratory for High-Speed Railway Construction, Central South University; Teng Wu, Assistant Professor,University at Buffalo; Xuhui He, Professor, National Engineering Laboratory for High-Speed Railway Construction, Central South University; Jianming Hao, Graduate Student, University at Buffalo; Hanfeng Wang, Professor, National Engineering Laboratory for High-Speed Railway Construction, Central South University; Hanyong Xu, Lecturer, Changsha University
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 23, Issue 5 (May 2018)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0001225
Published online: February 16, 2018
Pinar Okumus, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo; Cancan Yang, PhD Student, University at Buffalo
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 29, Issue 12 (December 2017)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0002097
Published online: October 11, 2017
IBE News
The Center's research aims to increase the disaster resilience of buildings, bridges and other key infrastructure.. Since 1987, MCEER, formerly the multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCCER) and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER) has produced over 600 publications that describe the latest research and developments on a wide variety of topics.
