Professor Gregory G. Deierlein

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Room 118
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-4020
Tel. (650) 723-0453
Fax. (650) 725-9755
e-mail: ggd@stanford.edu

Greg Deierlein’s research and professional interests focus on improving the structural design of buildings, bridges, and other constructed facilities. His research includes both computational and experimental techniques with emphasis on the development and application of nonlinear analysis of structural limit states, characterization of structural material and component behavior, performance-based engineering for earthquake and fire hazards, finite element simulation of ductile crack initiation in steel structures, design and behavior of composite steel-concrete structures. Deierlein is active in several national technical and specification committees, including the American Institute of Steel Construction’s Specification Committee, the Structural Stability Research Council, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and the ASCE and ACI Committees on Composite Construction. Deierlein presently serves as Deputy Director for Research of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) center, whose mission is to develop a comprehensive methodology and enabling technologies for performance-based earthquake engineering. Prior to joining Stanford University in 1998, Deierlein was on the faculty at Cornell University and worked as a structural engineer with the firm of Leslie E. Robertson and Associates in New York.

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Professor Nonlinear Analysis; Structural Design and Behavior Director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center B.S. (1981) Cornell University M.S. (1982) University of California at Berkeley Ph.D. (1988) University of Texas at Austin

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, Room 118 Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-4020 Tel. (650) 723-0453 Fax. (650) 725-9755 e-mail: ggd@stanford.edu Greg Deierlein’s research and professional interests focus on improving the structural design of buildings, bridges, and other constructed facilities. His research includes both computational and experimental techniques with emphasis on the development and application of nonlinear analysis of structural limit states, characterization of structural material and component behavior, performance-based engineering for earthquake and fire hazards, finite element simulation of ductile crack initiation in steel structures, design and behavior of composite steel-concrete structures. Deierlein is active in several national technical and specification committees, including the American Institute of Steel Construction’s Specification Committee, the Structural Stability Research Council, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and the ASCE and ACI Committees on Composite Construction. Deierlein presently serves as Deputy Director for Research of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) center, whose mission is to develop a comprehensive methodology and enabling technologies for performance-based earthquake engineering. Prior to joining Stanford University in 1998, Deierlein was on the faculty at Cornell University and worked as a structural engineer with the firm of Leslie E. Robertson and Associates in New York. Some Recent Publications Mehanny, S.S., and Deierlein, G.G., “Seismic Collapse Assessment of Composite RCS Moment Frames,” Journal of Structural Engineering., ASCE, Vol. 127(9), 2001. El-Tawil, S., and Deierlein, G.G., “ Analysis Models for Mixed Steel-Concrete Space Frames Part I – Beam-Column Element Formulation, Part II – Implementation and Verification”, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 127 (6), 2001. Deierlein, G.G., “New Provisions for the Seismic Design of Composite and Hybrid Structures”, Earthquake Spectra, EERI, Vol. 16(1), 2001. Chi, W-M., Deierlein, G.G., and Ingraffea, A.R., “Fracture Toughness Demands in Welded Beam-Column Moment Connections,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126(1), 2000. El-Tawil, S., and Deierlein, G.G., “An Examination of Stress Resultant Plasticity for Framed Structures”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 124(12), 1998. Kanno, R., and Deierlein, G.G., “Design Model for Joints of RCS Frames”, Proceedings of Composite Construction IV, ASCE, in press. Some Recent Research Projects: Seismic Design Criteria and Plans for Large Scale Testing of Composite RCS Frames (NSF and the Taiwan National Center for Research in Earthquake Engineering) Analytical Models for RC Frames with Strength and Stiffness Degradation (Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center) Micro-mechanical models for simulating earthquake-induced fractures in steel structures (NSF and the Nippon Steel Corporation) Performance-Based Engineering for Fire in Steel Structures (internal study) Seismic Performance of Gypsum Walls (CUREe/CalTech Woodframe Project)