Departmental Seminar (E9500)

Note: Attendance required for full-time graduate students

Lecture Series:
The Biot Lecture, The Burmister Lecture, The Mindlin Lecture,
 
The DJ Memorial Lecture, Lou Silano Lecture (discontinued)
Past Seminars and Lectures



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FALL SEMESTER

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018

Title: "Viscoelastoplastic Properties of Aging Porous Materials Under Drying As the Only External Solicitation"

Speaker: Dr. Hamza Samouh

Time: 3:00PM-4:00PM

Location: 417 Mathematics


Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Title: "A Unified Eulerian Formulation of Inelastic Response"
Speaker: Prof. Miles B. Rubin, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 520 Mathematics

 

SPRING SEMESTER

 

Date: Tuesday, February 13

Title: "Quality Control of Bridges, the European Experience"

Speaker: Prof. Jose Antonio Campos e Matos

Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM

Location: 825 Mudd

 

February 27

Professor Surendra Shah, Northwestern University

Performance of Fiber Reinforced Materials: Historic Perspective and Glance in the Future

2:30-3:30 pm


Date: Wednesday, February 28
Title: "Nonlinear System Identification: From Least-Squares to ABC"
Speaker: Dr. Keith Worden, University of Sheffield
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 750 Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Thursday, March 1
Title: "Robust Outlier Statistics as a Means of Exploring and Visualizing SHM Data and Exploring Benign Variations"
Speaker: Dr. Nikolaos Dervilis and Dr. Keith Worden, University of Sheffield
Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Location: 750 Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Thursday, March 1
Title: "Offshore Wind Farm Turbines Performance Monitoring"
Speaker: Dr. Nikolaos Dervilis, University of Sheffield
Time: 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Location: 414 Schapiro CEPSR

March 9, 2018

2018 Burmister Lecture

Prof. Victor N. Kaliakin

University of Delaware

Modeling the Time- and Temperature-Dependent Response of Cohesive Soils in a Generalized Bounding Surface Framework

11:25-12:15 am, Davis Auditorium

 

March 9, 2018

8:30 am – 3:30 pm, Davis Auditorium

Second US-Kazakhstan Geotechnical Workshop

 

March 30, 2018

2-3 pm, 750 CEPSR

2018 Mindlin Lecture

Professor Huajian Gao, Brown University

Mechanics of cell-nanomaterial interactions: applications in nanomedicine and nanotoxicity


Date: Monday, April 9, 2018
Title: "Recent Advances in Pavement Soil Mechanics" (Dongju Lee Lecture)
Speaker: Prof. Hai-Sui Yu, University of Leeds
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 414 Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Title: "Seismic Resilience of Civil Infrastructure Systems: A Structural Engineer's View"
Speaker: Prof. Bozidar Stojadinovic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 825 Mudd

Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Title: "Bridge Maintenance, Renovation, and Management"
Speaker: Prof. Yozo Fujino, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Yokohama National University
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 750 Schapiro CEPSR

Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Title: "Design of New Materials and Structures to Maximize Strength at Probability Tail: A Neglected Challenge for Quasibrittle and Biomimetic Materials"
Speaker: Prof. Zdenĕk P. Bažant, Northwestern University
Time: 2:30PM-3:30PM
Location: 825 Mudd
Host: Prof. Shiho Kawashima