EERI Chapter Georgia Tech

We are happy to announce that our treasurer, Ajay Saini has been the recipient of the O. H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering in 2017. Congratulation Ajay! Keep up with the good research.

https://www.ce.gatech.edu/news/asce-picks-saini-ammann-research-fellowship

O.H. Ammann Research Fellowship | ASCE The O. H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering is bestowed annually to a member for the purpose of encouraging the creation of new knowledge in the field of structural design and construction.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sujith Mangalathu, our past EERI at GT president, has been awarded the ‘2018 Buildings Travel Award’ by the Journal ‘Buildings’. This award is usually conferred every year to deserving individuals as recognition to their research in the field of building sciences.

I am happy to inform you that our EERI Student Chapter has been selected to participate in the Friedman Family Visiting Professionals Program this academic year.

Friedman Family Visiting Professionals Program EERI - an international, technical society of engineers, geoscientists, architects, planners, public officials, & social scientists

EERI second student seminar, presentation by Setare Hajarolasavdi, PhD candidate at UIUC.

Abstract: The Finite Difference (FD) and the Spectral Boundary Integral (SBI) methods have been used extensively to model spontaneously propagating shear cracks, which are useful idealizations of natural earthquakes, in a variety of engineering and geophysical applications. This talk focuses on proposing a new modelling approach, in which these two methods are combined through consistent exchange of boundary tractions and displacements. Benefiting from the flexibility of FD and the efficiency of spectral boundary integral methods, the proposed hybrid scheme will solve a wide range of problems in a computationally efficient way. We demonstrate the validity of the approach using two examples for dynamic rupture propagation: one in the presence of a low-velocity layer and another in which off-fault plasticity is permitted. We discuss possible potential uses of the hybrid scheme in earthquake cycle simulations as well as an exact absorbing boundary condition.

Bio: Setare Hajarolasvadi is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and started her graduate studies at UIUC in 2014 where she joined the “Mechanics of Complex Systems” group and started working with Professor Ahmed E. Elbanna. She is also the corporate chair and a graduate adviser of the EERI student chapter at UIUC. Her research focuses on earthquake mechanics and multiscale modeling of earthquake cycles.

Dear all,

Please join us at the second EERI Student Seminar in 2017 this Friday. Pizza and soda will be provided.

Time: 12:00 PM, Friday, October 27, 2017
Title: A new hybrid numerical scheme for modelling elastodynamics in unbounded media with near-source heterogeneities
Location: College of Computing, Room 102

Speaker: PhD Candidate, Setare Hajarolasvadi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept.

Abstract: The Finite Difference (FD) and the Spectral Boundary Integral (SBI) methods have been used extensively to model spontaneously propagating shear cracks, which are useful idealizations of natural earthquakes, in a variety of engineering and geophysical applications. This talk focuses on proposing a new modelling approach, in which these two methods are combined through consistent exchange of boundary tractions and displacements. Benefiting from the flexibility of FD and the efficiency of spectral boundary integral methods, the proposed hybrid scheme will solve a wide range of problems in a computationally efficient way. We demonstrate the validity of the approach using two examples for dynamic rupture propagation: one in the presence of a low-velocity layer and another in which off-fault plasticity is permitted. We discuss possible potential uses of the hybrid scheme in earthquake cycle simulations as well as an exact absorbing boundary condition.

Bio: Setare Hajarolasvadi is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and started her graduate studies at UIUC in 2014 where she joined the “Mechanics of Complex Systems” group and started working with Professor Ahmed E. Elbanna. She is also the corporate chair and a graduate adviser of the EERI student chapter at UIUC. Her research focuses on earthquake mechanics and multiscale modeling of earthquake cycles.

EERI Outreach STEM Career Fair

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sujith Mangalathu, our past EERI at GT president, has won the prestigious Nevada Medal for Bridge Engineering.


https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2017/nevada-medal-2017

2017 Nevada Medal for Bridge Engineering Announced The recipient of the 2017 Nevada Medal for Distinguished Graduate Student Paper in Bridge Engineering is Sujith Mangalathu, a doctoral student at Georgia Tech.