Professor Eduardo Miranda

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Terman Engineering Center, Room 293
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-4020
Tel. (650) 723-4450
Fax. (650) 723-7514
e-mail: emiranda@stanford.edu

In their recent research, Eduardo Miranda and his students have worked on the estimation of economic losses resulting from earthquake ground motions. Their approach involves probabilistic procedures to estimate structural response, physical damage and cost estimation. A special emphasis is being devoted to the development of fragility functions for structural and nonstructural components and to the development of probabilistic cost and downtime estimation functions related to the repair and/or replacement of damaged components. Other topics of research that he is currently working on are: development and evaluation of simplified structural analysis techniques, simulation and visualization of construction operations, computer-based design automation of structures, development of advanced structural systems, development and application of new sensing technology to civil engineering structures.

Before joining the Stanford faculty, Professor Miranda worked as a consulting structural engineer specializing in risk analysis and earthquake engineering. His previous work experience also includes six years of teaching at the graduate school of engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and research at the Mexican Center for Disaster Prevention.

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Assistant Professor Design/Construction Integration C.E. (1986) National Autonomous University of Mexico M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) University of California, Berkeley

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Terman Engineering Center, Room 293 Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-4020 Tel. (650) 723-4450 Fax. (650) 723-7514 e-mail: emiranda@stanford.edu In their recent research, Eduardo Miranda and his students have worked on the estimation of economic losses resulting from earthquake ground motions. Their approach involves probabilistic procedures to estimate structural response, physical damage and cost estimation. A special emphasis is being devoted to the development of fragility functions for structural and nonstructural components and to the development of probabilistic cost and downtime estimation functions related to the repair and/or replacement of damaged components. Other topics of research that he is currently working on are: development and evaluation of simplified structural analysis techniques, simulation and visualization of construction operations, computer-based design automation of structures, development of advanced structural systems, development and application of new sensing technology to civil engineering structures. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Professor Miranda worked as a consulting structural engineer specializing in risk analysis and earthquake engineering. His previous work experience also includes six years of teaching at the graduate school of engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and research at the Mexican Center for Disaster Prevention. Some Recent Publications: Miranda, E. and Ruiz-Garcia, J., “Evaluation of approximate methods to estimate maximum inelastic displacement demands,” Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 31, No. 3, March 2002. Miranda, E., “Estimation of Inelastic Deformation Demands of SDOF Systems,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 127, No.9, Sept. 2001. Miranda, E., “Inelastic Displacement Ratios for Structures on Firm Sites,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 126, No. 10, Oct. 2000. Miranda, E., “Approximate Lateral Deformation Demands in Multi-Story Buildings Subjected to Earthquakes,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 125, No. 4, April 1999. Some Recent Research Projects: Building Specific Loss Estimation Methodology (PEER/NSF) Performance of Nonstructural Components in Buildings (PEER/NSF) Computer-Aided Design of Connection of Steel Structures (CIFE) Characterization and Feasibility of MEMS Accelerometers for Seismic Monitoring of Civil Structures (OTL)