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Shannon Seneca
Pursuing Ph.D. Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
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Structural and Earthquake Engineering
Faculty
Andrew S. Whittaker, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Office: 212 Ketter
Address: 212 Ketter Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-4364
Fax: (716) 645-3667
Email: awhittak@buffalo.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
Related Projects
- Seismic risk assessment of next generation safety-related nuclear structures
- Development of next generation armor using shape memory materials
- CFD analysis of reflected air blast waves
- Erosion of concrete components subjected to high strain rate loading
- Rotational components of earthquake ground motion
- Seismic isolation of nuclear power plants
- Characterizing weapons effects inside the fireball
- Soil-foundation-structure interaction in dense urban regions
- Fragility curves and damage states for squat reinforced concrete walls
- Performance assessment of low aspect ratio reinforced and composite concrete walls
- Estimating maximum spectral demand in the far field
- Earthquake Simulator Testing of a Full-Scale Bridge Pier
- NEES Nonstructural Grand Challenge Project: Simulation of the Seismic Performance of Nonstructural Systems
Related Abstracts
- Large Scale Testing of Low Aspect Ratio Reinforced Concrete Walls
- Physical and numerical simulations of soil-structure interaction
- Modeling the effects of detonations of high explosives to inform blast-resistant design
- An evaluation of predictive equations for shear strength of reinforced concrete walls
- Performance-based assessment and design of squat reinforced concrete shear walls
- Performance assessment of conventional and base-isolated nuclear power plants for earthquake and blast loadings
- Air-blast effects on structural shapes
- Seismic performance of code-compliant Japanese buildings
- Experimental and analytical study of the XY-friction pendulum (XY-FP) bearing for bridge applications
- Seismic behavior of hybrid lateral-force-resisting systems
- Seismic analysis of liquefied natural gas tanks
- The coupled horizontal-vertical response of elastomeric and lead-rubber seismic isolation bearings
- The performance-based design paradigm
- Ultimate shear strength of squat rectangular reinforced concrete walls
- Bearing stress distributions in unreinforced concrete loaded concentrically through steel plates
- Expert and decision-support system approaches for construction project financing and cash flow management for large infrastructure projects
- Performance estimates in seismically isolated bridge structures
- Seismic fragility testing of suspended ceiling systems
- Uv disinfection systems: flow, intensity and disinfection models
- Evaluation of ozone for drinking water treatment