Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference (EMI/PMC) (2024). “Experimental Study of Broken Wave Attenuation and Load Mitigation by Mangrove Forests of Varying Configuration and Density.” by Vasileios Kotzamanis, PhD Student.
Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference (EMI/PMC) (2024). “Addressing Geometric and Material Nonlinearities in FSI Simulations with the ALE-SSM Framework.”
CWRM Symposium, U.S. Army Corps Engineering Research and Development Center (2022). "Effects of Structural and Soil Flexibilities on the Responses of Coastal Housing to Wave-induced Loads." with Vasileios Kotzamanis, PhD student.
Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (2022). "Effect of Foundation Flexibility on the Interaction between Elevated Light-Framed Timber Coastal Housing and Solitary Waves." by Vasileios Kotzamanis, PhD student.
3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure (2022). "Self-Centering Rocking Bridge Columns with Hysteretic Damping through Locally Heat-treated Replaceable Bars."
12th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (2022). "Hybrid Rocking Wall with Locally Heat-treated Replaceable Bars for Hysteretic Energy Dissipation."
14th Canadian Masonry Symposium (2021). "Structural Masonry Wall with Rubber Pads and Unbonded Posttensioning Tendons: Experiment and Design Procedure."
Kobe-UCSD Joint Symposium (2019). "Recovery Columns for Bridge Structures: Numerical Study."
13th North American Masonry Conference (2019). “The Effect of Impact Energy Loss in the Dynamic Response of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Masonry Walls.”
13th North American Masonry Conference (2019). “Improving Performance of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Masonry Walls with the Use of Elastomeric Interfaces.”
11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (2018). “Modeling of a Rocking Masonry Wall with Unbonded Post-Tensioning Subjected to Shake-Table Testing.
3rd Huixian International Forum on Earthquake Engineering for Young Researchers (2017). “Modeling of Fully-Grouted Masonry Shear Walls with Unbonded Post-Tensioning under Reverse-Cyclic Loading.”
13th Canadian Masonry Symposium (2017). “Simplified Approach for Estimating the Envelope Response of Unbonded-Posttensioned Masonry Walls.”
PCI Convention and National Bridge Conference (2017). “Improving Seismic Response of Precast Structures Designed with Jointed Connections.”
16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (2017). “Improving Accuracy of the Simple Rocking Model of Rigid Blocks.”
VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (2016). “A Simple Analytical Model for the Rocking PreWEC System.”
Conference Presentations
Invited Speaker
University of New Hampshire, October 2023. “Understanding Axial Load and Size Effects in the Shear Behavior of Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) via the Universal Element Tester (UET) Facility.”
UC San Diego, May 2023. “Utilizing Universal Panel Tester to Study Shear Behavior of Ultra-High-Performance Concrete.”
Rice University, September 2022. "Understanding Fluid-Structure Interaction of Coastal Housing with Hurricane-induced Wave Action."
South Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, April 2022. "Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations in Support of Developing Resilient Structural Systems in Coastal Regions."
Texas A&M, College Station, Texas, December 2021. "Performance Assessment of the Pre-tensioned Piles in the San Diego-Coronado Bridge."
EERI McMaster Guest Lecture Series, May 2017. "Understanding the behavior and improving the seismic performance of rocking structures." McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada