Professor Helmut Krawinkler

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Terman Engineering Center, Room 230
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-4020
Tel. (650) 723-4129
Fax. (650) 723-7514
e-mail: helmut@stanford.edu

Helmut Krawinkler is a structural engineer whose current research is concerned with the design and seismic behavior of steel, reinforced concrete, and wood structures, with modeling of the damage potential of earthquake ground motions, and the development of performance-based design methodologies. He is involved in seismic code developments and the implementation of research results in engineering practice.

In recent research, Helmut Krawinkler and his students have focused on the development of transparent seismic design and performance assessment methodologies that explicitly consider the inelastic response characteristics of structures, cumulative damage effects, and the source-to-site characteristics of earthquake ground motions. In his research group much effort is devoted to studying seismic behavior characteristics, such as the effects of structural irregularities, P-delta effects, and the effects of near-fault ground motions on the response of structures. His present Ph.D. students devote much of their effort to the quantification of seismic demands and the development of seismic performance assessment methodologies for building structures, with an emphasis on the collapse safety of deteriorating systems.

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John A. Blume Professor of Engineering Structural Design; Earthquake Engineering Dipl. Engr. (1964) Technical University of Vienna Austria M.S. (1967) San Jose State University Ph.D. (1971) University of California at Berkeley

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Terman Engineering Center, Room 230 Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-4020 Tel. (650) 723-4129 Fax. (650) 723-7514 e-mail: helmut@stanford.edu Helmut Krawinkler is a structural engineer whose current research is concerned with the design and seismic behavior of steel, reinforced concrete, and wood structures, with modeling of the damage potential of earthquake ground motions, and the development of performance-based design methodologies. He is involved in seismic code developments and the implementation of research results in engineering practice. In recent research, Helmut Krawinkler and his students have focused on the development of transparent seismic design and performance assessment methodologies that explicitly consider the inelastic response characteristics of structures, cumulative damage effects, and the source-to-site characteristics of earthquake ground motions. In his research group much effort is devoted to studying seismic behavior characteristics, such as the effects of structural irregularities, P-delta effects, and the effects of near-fault ground motions on the response of structures. His present Ph.D. students devote much of their effort to the quantification of seismic demands and the development of seismic performance assessment methodologies for building structures, with an emphasis on the collapse safety of deteriorating systems. Some Recent Publications: Ibarra, L., Medina, R., and Krawinkler, H., "Collapse Assessment of Deteriorating SDOF Systems," Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paper #665, London, Sept. 2001. Gupta, A., and Krawinkler, H., “Estimation of Seismic Drift Demands for Frame Structures,” International Journal for Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 10, October 2000. Alavi, B., and Krawinkler, H., “Consideration of Near-Fault Ground Motion Effects in Seismic Design," Proceedings of the 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paper #2665, Auckland, New Zealand, Jan. 30 – Feb. 4, 2000. Gupta, A., and Krawinkler, H., “Dynamic P-Delta Effects for Flexible Inelastic Steel Structures,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 1, Jan. 2000. Some Recent Research Projects: Performance Evaluation of Steel Frame Structures in Severe Earthquakes (SAC) Incorporation of Near-Field Effects in a Performance-Based Design Format (NSF, US-Japan) Seismic Demands for Wood Structures (CUREE) Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Design (PEER/NSF) Engineering Performance Assessment Methodology (PEER/NSF)