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Grant would create tools for assessing earthquake damage to buildings

Andreas Stavridis is being paid to create an earthquake from the roof down on a southeastern California building. Stavridis, a UT Arlington civil engineering  assistant professor, has received a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop new numerical simulation tools to predict performance and strength of buildings in future earthquakes. Research results could lead to changes in building codes so that buildings could withstand more severe earthquakes with less damage. Andreas Stavridis, a UT Arlington assistant professor of civil engineering, and

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

UT Arlington faculty conclude that previously unknown fault caused Haiti quake

A new study co-authored by University of Texas at Arlington College of Science Dean Pamela Jansma, earth and environmental sciences professor Glen Mattioli and researchers at several other universities presents strong evidence that the Jan. 12 Haitian earthquake was caused by a previously unmapped fault and not one experts first suspected.  The researchers say “a significant seismic threat for Haiti and for Port-au-Prince in particular” remains because the earthquake didn’t release significant accumulated strain from the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault, as first believed. Their paper, “

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