College Station, TX-
Prateek Shah, Ph.D., visited Texas A&M University on October 27th to present his work on \”Repair and Retrofit of Structures,” to Civil Engineering Graduate Students. The graduate seminar, Structures, Geotechnical and Construction Division is instructed by Dr. Zenon Medina-Cetina, Associate Professor in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. This seminar was facilitated by Kinsey Skillen, PhD, an Assistant Professor, also in the Zachry Department.
Dr. Shah works at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. (WJE) in San Francisco, CA. He specializes in the repair and retrofit of structures, large-scale structural testing, nonlinear analysis of structures, and post-disaster structural evaluations and assessment. Prior to joining WJE, he received his BS, MS, and PhD in Civil Engineering (Structures) from Purdue University. As a graduate research assistant at Purdue University’s Bowen Lab for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research, his primary research focused on estimating seismic drift demands, post-earthquake reconnaissance, large-scale testing and repair and rehabilitation of reinforced concrete structures.
In the United States, a large stockpile of buildings are vulnerable to damage and/or collapse during strong ground shaking. Demolition and reconstruction of all such seismically vulnerable buildings is not feasible because of the monetary and environmental costs associated with such demolition and reconstruction. Hence, seismically vulnerable buildings must be repaired and/or retrofitted to help them survive future ground shaking. In this talk, repair and retrofit strategies for existing, seismically vulnerable buildings was discussed. Emphasis was placed on using simple analysis and design methods. *
*Abstract & bio provided by Dr. Shah
