Mihailo Trifunac
Expert in natural disasters, engineering seismology, and soil/structure interaction
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Expertise
- natural disasters – earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis
- earthquake hazard predictions – strong ground motion, liquefaction, differential motions, strong motion strains
- engineering seismology
- physics of the earthquake source
- seismic wave propagation
- tsunami hazard predictions
- soil/structure interaction – bridges, dams and long structures
- structural response – analysis and design, damage detection, structural health monitoring
- probabilistic methods in geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering
- full-scale testing of structures and of soils, using microtremor excitation
Additional Information
- Author or co-author of more than 300 technical publications in the areas of earthquake engineering and mechanics
- Consultant to Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1971-1994) and Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste (1989-1994)
- United Nations development program expert on missions to India, Yugoslavia and the former republics of the Soviet Union, French, German, Russian and Serbo-Croatian
Languages
- French
- German
- Russian
- Serbian
