Structures

The Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Washington State University is hosting a structures faculty candidate seminar presented by Sarah Wichman, Predoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.

Dr. Khan’s research interests cover both theoretical and applied aspects of artificial intelligence, optimization, and traffic-flow theory. His research application areas include transportation cyber-physical-social systems, connected and autonomous vehicles in an Internet of Things environment, heterogeneous wireless communication, transportation cybersecurity and privacy, quantum cloud-edge collaboration, and transportation big data analytics.

In this seminar, the development and validation of performance-based seismic retrofit (PBSR) methodology is being presented. Unlike traditional force-based design methods, the PBSR method enables engineers to design and retrofit buildings to explicitly meet the pre-defined performance criteria for different levels of earthquake intensity; and eventually, results in a more efficient and comprehensive method of retrofitting multi-story buildings.