Author Archives: matteatherton
Ebrahim Abbas
PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech M.S. in CEE at Virginia Tech, 2011 B.S. in CE at Kuwait University, 2006 Project: Investigation of Low Cycle Fatigue Fracture of Steel Moment Connections with Defects
Development of a Spectral Matching Algorithm
Time domain spectral matching of an earthquake ground motion consists of iteratively adding sets of wavelets to an acceleration history until the resulting response spectrum sufficiently matches a target spectrum. The spectral matching procedure is at its core a nonlinear … Continue reading
End-Plate Moment Connections
Our research group has done a substantial amount of testing and analysis of end-plate moment connections, much of which has been done in collaboration with Thomas M. Murray. AISC Design Guide 39 will be published in 2023 authored by M.R. … Continue reading
Self-Centering Beams for Resilient Earthquake Resistance
A self-contained self-centering beam (SCB) has been developed that provides self-centering seismic behavior with enhanced constructability (Darling 2012). The SCB consists of a beam with concentric tubes connected to the bottom flange. The tubes at the bottom flange are precompressed … Continue reading
Ring-Shaped Steel Plate Shear Walls
The ring-shaped steel plate shear wall (RS-SPSW) builds on the advantages of conventional solid steel plate shear walls, but has improved seismic performance, reduced demands on boundary elements, and allows simple shear beam-to-column connections. The RS-SPSW consists of a SPSW … Continue reading
Super High Tension Bolts
Super high tension bolts (designated as XTB) were developed in Japan and are currently being used in construction in Japan. The minimum specified tensile strength is 200 ksi as compared to 150 ksi for ASTM A490 Bolts. There is a … Continue reading
NSF Project Funded to Study Self-Centering Moment Frames
A research project was funded by the National Science Foundation to develop new self-centering moment frames. Stay tuned for more information as our research group makes progress on this exciting project! http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1200237 Abstract: An innovative new self-centering truss moment resisting … Continue reading
Group Celebrates the Start of a New Academic Year
The group celebrated the end of a successful year and the start of a new one at Macados.
Eatherton Receives AISC Milek Faculty Fellowship
Matthew Eatherton was slected to receive the AISC Milek Faculty Fellowship for the years 2012 – 2015. This fellowship is intended to provide support to Dr. Eatherton’s career as a teacher of steel design and as an innovator in steel … Continue reading
Trevor Bruce
B.S. from Virginia Tech 2012 M.S. from Virginia Tech 2014 Thesis Title: Behavior of Post-Tensioning Strand Systems Subjected to Inelastic Cyclic Loading
