Technical Committees
IASSAR has five Technical Committees that are operating under the auspices of an Umbrella Committee.
TC4: Life-Cycle Performance, Cost and Optimization
Chair: Professor Dan Frangopol, Lehigh University, USA
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dmf206/
Secretary: Associate Professor Yiannis Tsompanakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Members
Professor Mitsuyoshi Akiyama, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 169-855, Japan. Telephone: +81 90 1063 7328, E-mail: akiyama617@waseda.jp
Research Professor Alfredo H-S. Ang, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine CA 92717, USA. Telephone: (714) 824-8528, Fax: (714) 824-2117, E-mail: ahang2@aol.com
Baker, Jack
Assistant Professor Jack Baker, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Yang & Yamasaki Environment & Energy Building, Room 283, MC4020, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Telephone: (650) 725-2573, Fax: (650) 723-7514, E-mail: bakerjw@stanford.edu
Professor James L. Beck, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: jimbeck@caltech.edu,
Professor Raimondo Betti, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, 610 S.W. Mudd, Mail Code 4709, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA. Telephone: (212) 854-6388, Fax: (212) 854-6267, E-mail: betti@civil.columbia.edu
Associate Professor Fabio Biondini, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. Da Vinci 32, Milan, 20133, Italy. Telephone: +39 02 2399 4394, Fax: +39 02 2399 4220, E-mail: fabio.biondini@polimi.it
Professor Eugen Bruehwiler, MCS-ENAC, EPFL-Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 18, Lausanne, CH 1015, Switzerland. Telephone: +41 21 693 2882, Fax: +41 21 693 5885, E-mail: eugen.bruehwiler@epfl.ch
Professor Christian Bucher, Center of Mechanics and Structural Dynamics, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, Wien, A-1040, Austria. Telephone: +43 1 58 801/201 00, Fax: +43 1 58 801/201 99, E-mail: christian.bucher@tuwien.ac.at
Professor Joan Ramon Casas, School of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia, Jordi Girona 1-3, Campus Nord, Modulo C1, Barcelona, 08034, Spain. Telephone: +34 93 401 6513, Fax: +34 93 405 4135, E-mail: joan.ramon.casas@upc.edu
Professor George Deodatis, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 630 S.W. Mudd Building, Mail Code 4709, 500 W. 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA. Telephone: (212) 854-9728, Fax: (212) 854-6267, E-mail: deodatis@civil.columbia.edu
Professor Sofia Maria Carrato Diniz, Department of Structural Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Av. Antonio Carlos 6627, 31.270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Telephone: +55 31 3409 1977, Fax: +55 31 3409 1973, E-mail: diniz_s@yahoo.com
Professor Bruce R. Ellingwood, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 790 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. Telephone: (404) 894-1635, Fax: (404) 894-2278, E- mail: bruce.ellingwood@ce.gatech.edu
Frangopol, Dan M. (Chair)
Professor Dan M. Frangopol, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, 117 ATLSS Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA. Telephone: (610) 758-6103, Fax: (610) 758-5902, E-mail: dan.frangopol@lehigh.edu
Professor Hitoshi Furuta, Department of Informatics, Kansai University,2-1-1 Ryozenji-cho, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1095, Japan. Telephone +81 726902438, Fax : +81 726902438 E-mail: furuta@res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp
Professor Michel Ghosn, Department of Civil engineering, The City College of New York / CUNY, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA. Telephone: (212) 650-8002, Fax: (212) 650-6965, E-mail: ghosn@ccny.cuny.edu
Professor Sami F. Masri, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, Kaprielian Hall 206A, 3620 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Telephone: (213) 740-0602, Fax: (213) 740-3984, E-mail: masri@usc.edu
Dr. Therese P. McAllister, Research Structural Engineer, Materials and Structural Systems Division, Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA. Telephone: (301) 975-6078, E-mail: therese.mcallister@nist.gov
Associate Professor Alfred Strauss, Department of Structural Engineering & Natural Hazards, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Institute for Structural Engineering, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 82, Vienna, A-1190, Austria. Telephone: +43 1 476 54/5254, Fax: +43 1 476 54/5299, E-mail: Alfred.strauss@boku.ac.at
Tsompanakis, Yiannis (Secretary)
Associate Professor Yiannis Tsompanakis, Sciences Department, Technical University of Crete, Applied Mechanics Laboratory, University Campus, Chania, 73100, Greece. Telephone: +30 28210 37634, Fax: +30 28210 37634, E-mail: jt@science.tuc.gr
