Disaster Resilience of Structures, Infrastructures, and Comu

Purpose: To foster research and practice related to disaster management and communities sustainability. To study the socio-cultural economic impact of natural disasters, especially earthquakes, but also wind, blast and other ambient loadings. To promote studies, research, principles, methods and applications of loss estimation models for critical infrastructural systems such as hospitals, but also lifelines, and communities in general, considering the economic evaluation of disaster mitigation. The committee will help authorities in making decisions to improve community response and recovery to natural disasters taking in account all the uncertainties of the process.

Committee Members

Gordon Patrick Warn, Ph.D.
Chair

Jeffrey Shane Allen, P.E., M.ASCE
Member

Henry Verjil Burton, Jr, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Member

Patricia Marie Clayton, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member

Elizabeth Cooper English
Member

YeongAe Heo, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE
Member

Maria Koliou, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE
Member

Scott Lefton, P.E., M.ASCE
Member

Dimitrios Lignos, A.M.ASCE
Member

Kapil Mathur
Member

Stephen S Szoke, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE
Member

Yazhou (tim) Xie, Ph.D.,EIT,A.M.ASCE
Member