The MCEER researchers and investigators are recognized worldwide for changing standards and improving the earthquake resiliency of buildings and other structures.
Created by the NSF in 1986 as the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, MCEER is supported by UB, several federal agenices and private industry to advance earthquake engineering.
Michael Constantinou, a Samuel P. Capen Professor in Civil Engineering and SUNY Distinguished Professor, has been named Fellow at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
“To know the work that you’re doing has a direct impact on industry,” says Faizan UI Haq Mir, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, “is very fulfilling.”
Reda Snaiki, a PhD student in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, won the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Fluid Dynamics Student Paper Competition earlier this summer.
This report presents a simple and conservative method for developing seismic response acceleration spectra to be used in the design of permanent bridges with spectral reduction factors is defined. Read the report at this link
The main objective of this report is to improve the profession’s understanding of the seismic behavior of low aspect ratio reinforced concrete shear walls by analyzing data from tests of 12 large scale wall specimens at the Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory at the University at Buffalo. Download the report for free here
This report presents an analytical study of the seismic performance of seismically isolated buildings and comparable non-isolated buildings designed by the procedures of ASCE/SEI 7-10 and -16 at a particular location in California. Read the report here
The goal of this report is to improve the professional community’s ability to collect, document and understand the effects of earthquake damage on low aspect ratio reinforced concrete shear walls. Learn more about this report here
