2012 AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award: “Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW), TEBF, CFST, SF, and Other Short Stories”
Michel Bruneau
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo
Abstract
New structural systems and concepts can add to the Structural Engineer’s “toolbox,” providing him/her with an ever increasing range of solutions to meet increasingly complex design challenges. In keeping with this analogy, the objective of this presentation is to provide an overview of some recently developed “tools” that can enrich this toolbox. Systems to be discussed include Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSWs), Perforated SPSWs (P-SPSWs), Tubular Eccentrically Braced Frames (TEBFs), Concrete Filled Steel Tubes (CFSTs), Structural Fuses (SFs), Rocking Frames (RFs), and Self-Centering SPSWs (SCSPSWs). The presentation will focus on the research results of former graduate students with whom the author has had the pleasure to work.
About the Speaker
Michel Bruneau, Ph.D., P.E., professor of civil, structural, and environmental engineering (CSEE) at the University at Buffalo, N.Y., is the 2012 recipient of the prestigious AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award. Dr. Bruneau has conducted research on the evaluation and retrofit of existing steel bridges and buildings subjected to destructive forces, as well as on the development of new design concepts capable of providing satisfactory seismic-resistance, blast-resistance, or both (as multi-hazard resistant concepts). He has conducted reconnaissance visits to numerous disaster stricken areas, is a member of various AISC and CSA specifications-writing committees, and served as Director of the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, a National Center of Excellence funded by the National Science Foundation, the Federal Highway Administration and others. Dr. Bruneau has authored over 400 technical publications, including the textbook “Ductile Design of Steel Structures,” (http://www.michelbruneau.com/DuctileDesign.htm) and two fiction books. He has received many awards for his technical work (as well as for his latest novel, http://www.michelbruneau.com/MB-Literature.htm).
The AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award is presented annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and recognizes an outstanding lecturer and author whose technical papers are considered an outstanding contribution to the engineering literature on fabricated structural steel.