{"id":31055,"date":"2021-06-22T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/?page_id=31055"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:12:00","slug":"structures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/","title":{"rendered":"Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Departmental faculty provide novel solutions for structures that optimize, overcome uncertainty, and provide resilience and extreme efficiency under a variety of hazards. The program\u2019s key strengths include earthquake engineering, fire engineering, stochastic mechanics and structural reliability, optimization, and cold-formed steel structures.
\nDrawing on expertise in the mechanics of materials<\/a> and systems<\/a> programs within civil engineering, faculty collaborate on a number of grand challenges.<\/p>\n

RESEARCH PROJECTS<\/h4>\n

\u25cf Ben Schafer<\/a>\u2019s research emphasizes the role of efficient large-scale structures in energy systems and infrastructure. He focuses on extremely lightweight terrestrial structures, while also exploring a variety of health-related problems where structural stability plays an important role.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Thomas Gernay<\/a>\u2019s research team develops computational models for assessing the response of materials and structures under extreme thermal environments. His focus on designing structures to better withstand the effects of temperature variation, recognizes the prevalence of fire as a compounding issue for most major natural and human-made disasters. His work attempts to increase structural resilience to fire through both experimental studies and computational studies that leverage his widely-adopted structural fire analysis code SAFIR.<\/p>\n

\u25cf James Guest<\/a>\u2019s research focuses on generating new structural and material concepts that leverage new materials and manufacturing technologies to the fullest, enabling lightweight and multifunctional capabilities not yet realized in modern systems.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Michael Shields<\/a> and Lori Graham-Brady<\/a>\u2019s research develops strategies and stochastic simulation tools to allow representation of extreme events that have significant impact on urban resilience and to account for the uncertain conditions faced by civil structures and systems throughout their lifetimes.<\/p>\n

\u25cf Lori Graham-Brady<\/a>\u2019s research on the mechanical behavior of materials with random microstructure has been applied to composites, metal alloys, and advanced ceramics that serve as the primary materials in military applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Departmental faculty provide novel solutions for structures that optimize, overcome uncertainty, and provide resilience and extreme efficiency under a variety of hazards. The program\u2019s key strengths include earthquake engineering, fire…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31055","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nStructures - Department of Civil & Systems Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Find structural solutions that optimize, overcome uncertainty, and provide resilience by using knowledge of earthquake engineering, fire engineering, stochastic mechanics, reliability, optimization, and cold-formed steel.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Structures - Department of Civil & Systems Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Find structural solutions that optimize, overcome uncertainty, and provide resilience by using knowledge of earthquake engineering, fire engineering, stochastic mechanics, reliability, optimization, and cold-formed steel.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Civil & Systems Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-28T15:12:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Structures - Department of Civil & Systems Engineering","description":"Find structural solutions that optimize, overcome uncertainty, and provide resilience by using knowledge of earthquake engineering, fire engineering, stochastic mechanics, reliability, optimization, and cold-formed steel.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Structures - Department of Civil & Systems Engineering","og_description":"Find structural solutions that optimize, overcome uncertainty, and provide resilience by using knowledge of earthquake engineering, fire engineering, stochastic mechanics, reliability, optimization, and cold-formed steel.","og_url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/","og_site_name":"Department of Civil & Systems Engineering","article_modified_time":"2022-07-28T15:12:00+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/","name":"Structures - Department of Civil & Systems Engineering","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-06-22T15:17:28+00:00","dateModified":"2022-07-28T15:12:00+00:00","description":"Find structural solutions that optimize, overcome uncertainty, and provide resilience by using knowledge of earthquake engineering, fire engineering, stochastic mechanics, reliability, optimization, and cold-formed steel.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/structures\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Research","item":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Focus Areas","item":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/research\/focus-areas\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Structures"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/#website","url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/","name":"Department of Civil & Systems Engineering","description":"Department of Civil & Systems Engineering","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Department of Civil & Systems Engineering","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31055"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42681,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31055\/revisions\/42681"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}