Structural Engineering Safety Council to update seismic load analysis provisions for the 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions, and ultimately for ASCE 7-22. He is also participating in an ASCE committee that is developing guidelines for performance based wind engineering. Charney, together with Justin Marshall of Auburn University, developed a new ASCE self-guided course “Earthquake Engineering for Buildings”. Also, working with coauthor Thomas Heausler, he completed the third edition of the ASCE Press book “Guide to the ASCE 7-16 Seismic Load Provisions”.
hosted an international visiting scholar from a prestigious university in China. Eatherton is a member of five professional committees and contributed to the structural engineering profession this past years in other ways such as authoring design examples to be used by practicing structural engineers.
Madeleine Flint has continued
her focus on the assessment of the resiliency, sustainability, and durability of built infrastructure. She leads an effort with several of her colleagues in the Department—as well as other departments at VT—on a multiMatthew Eatherton’s research year NSF project that is developing group has continued its focus on a decision support system for multideveloping new structural systems with hazard performance-based design enhanced earthquake performance and of resilient, sustainable buildings. improving resilience and sustainability The goal of the project is to support of structural systems. The group is practicing engineers in selecting working on several ongoing multioptimal soil, foundation, structural year research projects including a and envelope systems during early multi-university collaborative project design. Flint continues to actively on seismic behavior of steel deck research issues related to bridge diaphragms, an NSF CAREER project design and management. Her research related to high ductility steel shear group is working with the Virginia panels, a collaborative project on Transportation Research Center optimizing resilience and sustainability to support the implementation of building systems, a collaborative of durability design methods for project working on computational reinforced concrete bridge decks across simulation of steel fracture in Virginia, with the aim of ensuring structures, a project developing new a 100-year service life for all new bolted end plate moment connections structures. A new project supported for metal buildings, and a collaborative by ICTAS is looking at data-driven project to conduct some of the climate adaptation strategies for largest steel moment connection tests bridges exposed to riverine and coastal ever attempted. The group is also flooding. conducting a number of smaller industrial testing projects. In addition to research, Flint is active in professional service, education, Eatherton’s research group is active in and outreach. Her efforts in design of outreach activities and professional buildings for multi-hazard resilience service. His research group supported are complemented by her participation diversity and outreach initiatives by in the ASCE Infrastructure Resilience hosting learning activities at several Division Risk and Resilience Metrics outreach activities including C-Tech^2, Committee, where she is leading an Blast summer camp, Imagination effort to select methods for hazards summer camp, Engineering Open characterization that can support nextHouse, presentations at Blacksburg generation community resilience-based High School, and others. He also structural performance standards.
She shared her research with variety of international conference travel. Flint and her research group supported several outreach activities, including through presentations to students of Hypatia, students in a summer bridge program, and the C-Tech^2 and Blast summer camps, supporting a growing interest in interactive data visualizations aimed at a general audience.
Matt Hebdon’s research is on
steel structures, fatigue and fracture related issues, and their application to highway and railroad bridges. His work on the evaluation of fracture critical bridges with built-up steel members has shown their resilience to fracture and gives guidance on the remaining fatigue life of partially failed structures. He has worked on finding a reliable non-destructive method for determining rivet strength for historical bridges for the assessment of current capacity. He has also worked with Roberts-Wollmann, and VDOT on a project to perform a live load test of a deteriorating interstate bridge in a corrosive environment. Hebdon is active in steel bridge committees for AREMA, TRB, and AASHTO, and is currently a collaborator on the effort to revise code requirements for the inspection of fracture-critical bridges to maintain safety while preserving critical transportation structures.
Ioannis Koutromanos worked
on the development of computational simulation methods for capturing the behavior and failure of structural systems subjected to extreme loading events such as earthquakes. His work was focused on finite element analysis of reinforced concrete structures such as bridge piers, walls and threedimensional building systems. The simulation methods have been validated with experimental tests on actual concrete structures. He has been developing simplified simulation tools, based on the nonlinear truss analogy, for masonry-infilled reinforced concrete 2016 Via Report • 29