Professor

Structural and Earthquake Engineering and Probabilistic Methods

B.S. (1972) Columbia University
M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) Stanford University

Anne S. Kiremidjian focuses her research on stochastic modeling of earthquake events, site hazard characterization, ground motion modeling, earthquake damage and loss estimation, structural damage modeling, risk analysis of transportation systems and reliability analysis of industrial systems. She and her students also work on the development of distributed remote sensing systems for structural damage monitoring using imbedded sensors and wireless communication. Another major research topic is the development of methods for socio-economic consequence analysis from natural disasters using geographic information systems.

Key research areas currently under consideration by Anne Kiremidjian and her students are the development of earthquake damage models for buildings; regional damage and loss estimation methods utilizing advanced technological tools such as geographic information systems; and the development of prototype wireless earthquake damage sensors and their implementation in a distributed remote sensing system for structural damage monitoring. She continues her work on the development of stochastic models for earthquake occurrences that can be used in regional seismic hazard evaluation in diverse geologic regimes. Recent projects also include the development of performance based framework for seismic design of bridges. The performance of bridges is considered based on their function within the transportation system.

Some Recent Publications:

• Basöz, N. and Kiremidjian A.S.,“Evaluation of Bridge Damage Data from Recent Earthquakes”, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 15 (1), 1999.
  

• Beck, J., Kiremidjian, A.S., Wilkie, S., Mason, A., Salmon, T, Goltz, J., Olson, R. Workman, J., Infanoglu, A., and Porter, K., “Social, Economic, and System Aspects of Earthquake Recovery and Reconstruction”, Kajima-CUREe Joint Research Program Report Phase III, CUREe, Richmond, CA, 1999.
  

• Kiremidjian, A.S., “Multiple Earthquake Event Loss Estimation Methodology”, Invited Paper, Special Volume of the Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paris, France, Sept. 6-11, 1998.
  

• Straser, E. and Kiremidjian, A.S., “A Modular Wireless Damage Monitoring System for Structures,” The John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center Technical Report No. 128, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1998.
  

• King, S., Kiremidjian, A.S., N. Basoz, Law, K., Vucetic, M., Doroudian, M., Olson, R., Goettel, K., Eidinger, J., and Horner, G., “Methodologies for Evaluation the Socio-Economic Consequences of Large Earthquakes”, Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1997.

Some Recent Research Projects:

• Social, Economic, and System Aspects of Earthquake Recovery and Reconstruction
  

• Ground Motion Simulation Model Using Complete Fourier Spectra