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improvement of safety and resilience of our built environment & education of structural engineering students
Tsampras Research Group is part of the Structural Engineering department at UC San Diego. We focus on research, educational, and outreach activities related to structural engineering. Our mission, goals, and core values are the following:
Contribute to the improvement of safety and resilience of our built environment.
Develop low-damage high-performance earthquake-resilient building systems through integrated experimental and numerical research.
Educate the next generation of diverse structural engineering students and enable them to conduct ethical and innovative research that advances the structural engineering profession.
Disseminate the importance and the contribution of structural engineering in our society.
Achieve the highest level of quality in education and research.
Focus on fundamental principles of structural engineering.
Actively contribute to the structural engineering profession.
Advance the knowledge in structural engineering and share our understanding in a concise and thorough manner.
Encourage curiosity with exploratory and creative mindset.
Promote collaborative research activities.
Create an honest and fair learning and research environment.
Trust and respect our peers.
Be open to constructive feedback.
Produce unbiased research outcomes.
Create a learning and research environment with equal opportunities for students and researchers independently of their age, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.
Listen different perspectives and learn from others.
We are excited to share our continuing research on buildings with force-limiting connections. Our recent study assesses the effects of (1) the gravity load-resisting system modeling approach, (2) the seismic force-resisting system (SFRS) modeling approach, and (3) the uncertainty of the model parameters of the constitutive law of the longitudinal reinforcing steel of the SFRS on the seismic responses of a 12-story reinforced concrete wall building with force-limiting connections. Please consider reading our open access paper linked below:
Mayorga CF, Tsampras G. Reinforced concrete wall buildings with force-limiting connections: Modeling effects and uncertainty propagation. Earthquake Engng Struct Dyn. 2024; 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.4073
