Faculty Member, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
Thesis Title: Finite Element Response Sensitivity, Probabilistic Response and Reliability Analyses of Structural Systems with Applications to Earthquake Engineering
About
Dr. Michele Barbato's biographical webpage:
http://www.cee.lsu.edu/people/Bios/Michele_Barbato.aspx
Dr. Michele Barbato's website:
http://www.cee.lsu.edu/people/mbarbato/default.aspx
ASCE 2009 Moisseiff Award recipient, for the paper “Nonlinear Seismic Response Analysis of Steel-Concrete Composite Frames”, Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), June 2008, as an “important contribution to the knowledge of the dynamic response of composite steel-concrete structures”.
http://www.asce.org/pressroom/honors/winners/?w=moisseiff
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
• LSU Council on Research, 2008-2009 Faculty Grant Program, “Probabilistic characterization of building envelope component resistance to wind-borne debris impact using experimental fragility curves”, July 2008-August 2009, $10,000, PI.
• Louisiana Board of Regents, NSF EPSCoR, Pfund program, “Probabilistic demand analysis of dynamically-excited uncertain structural systems”, April 2008-May 2009, $10,000, PI.
• LSU College of Engineering, Fund for Innovation in Engineering Research (FIER) program, “A probabilistic performance-based approach for wind-borne debris hazard mitigation”, March 2008-April 2009, $ 20,000, PI.
• LA DOTD, LTRC, “Performance evaluation of buried pipe systems”, 01/01/2008 – 03/31/2009, $ 75,000, PI.
COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS
• LSU Council on Research, Summer Stipend Program, “Development of a novel record-and-site-based stochastic model for generation of synthetic ground motions”, 07/01/2008 – 07/31/2008, $ 5,000, PI.
Contact Information
http://www.cee.lsu.edu/people/Bios/Michele_Barbato.aspx
