UT Arlington civil engineer lands NSF grant to help earthquake-proof buildings

ARLINGTON – Engineers and scientists are certain that another big earthquake will hit California. They just don’t know when and where it will be. In the meantime, those researchers are creating better materials that will strengthen future buildings and more sophisticated instruments to measure and evaluate damage after the big one. Shih-Ho “Simon” Chao, an assistant civil engineering  professor at The University of Texas at Arlington, is the principal investigator for an engineering team that has landed a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science