About

Andrew T. Myers is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, where he also serves as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. He is a registered professional engineer in California and has a background that includes work at AIR Worldwide in San Francisco, specializing in site-specific natural catastrophe risk assessments. Myers holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering and Geomechanics from Stanford University. His research interests focus on probabilistic simulation and experimental testing for performance-based design of resilient and sustainable structures, with particular emphasis on offshore and onshore wind energy structures. He is actively involved in leading research projects aimed at advancing offshore wind technology, including the development of innovative wind turbine platforms and risk assessment methodologies for hurricane resilience. Myers has received numerous awards for his contributions, including the NSF CAREER Award and the Constantinos Mavroidis Translational Research Faculty Award, and is engaged in collaborative efforts to promote sustainable infrastructure and offshore wind energy deployment.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Statistics
• Geography
• Geology
• Engineering
• Marine engineering
• Meteorology
• Structural engineering
• Mathematics
• Cartography
• Environmental science
• Aerospace engineering
• Physics
• Business
• Communication
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Comparison of 2D Hansen Model and OpenFAST to Analyze Classical Flutter Instability of Wind Turbine Blades

  Volume 5: Dynamics, Vibration, and Control · 2025-11-16

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  Abstract Wind turbine blades have drastically grown in recent decades, becoming longer and increasingly slender with each new turbine design. The average rotor diameter of wind turbines has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, mainly due to the extensive development of offshore wind farms. As offshore wind turbines continue to exist in regions with variable wind patterns, understanding potential aeroelastic instabilities—namely dynamic stall and classical flutter—has been necessary for the design of wind turbine blades. The IEA 15MW reference turbine (rotor diameter equal to 240m) is widely studied within the offshore wind community as a benchmark example. However, limited analysis has been done to consider the potential of classical flutter instability. The current study examines the classical flutter instability of the fixed-bottom IEA 15MW blade, implementing the Hansen 2D (two dimensional) eigenvalue model. The study compares the results to previous finite element analysis (FEA) and the nonlinear aeroelastic solver OpenFAST. The Hansen model predicts flutter onset at 6.45 rpm near the three-quarter location along the blade spanwise axis, indicating agreement with the FEA model. OpenFAST does not forecast flutter instability within the operational range, likely due to induced structural damping not represented in the Hansen model. These findings emphasize the valuable insights that simplified 2D models offer during the early-stage design of large wind turbine blades, while also confirming the importance of high-fidelity tools for accurately analyzing the classical flutter instability.

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• Replication Data for: Do Donors Punish Extremist Primary Nominees? Evidence from Congress and American State Legislatures

  Harvard Dataverse · 2025-09-27 · 1 citations

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  Fundraising is a critical element of legislative elections, yet problems of measurement and strategic candidate emergence have prevented researchers from evaluating how running extremist candidates affects parties' fundraising prospects. This article combines an original candidate ideology scaling with a regression discontinuity design in primary elections in Congress, 1980-2022, and state legislatures, 1996-2022, to assess whether donors punish extremist nominees in general elections. I find that the "coin-flip" primary nomination of an extremist over a more-moderate opponent decreases their party's share of general-election contributions by 7 percentage points in the median contest and 18-19 percentage points when the ideological contrast between candidates is largest. This financial penalty is larger for corporate PACs than individual donors and is driven symmetrically by donors withdrawing support from extremist nominees and rallying behind their opponents. Applying a complementary panel-based identification strategy, I replicate these core findings and further document that the financial penalty to extremist nominees has fallen by nearly half since 2000. Overall, these results show how general-election donors act as a marked, yet waning, moderating force in American politics when parties run extremist candidates.

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• A0796 – Cost-effectiveness analysis of treatments for BCG-unresponsive high-risk NMIBC

  European Urology · 2025-03-01

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• Influence of Dynamic Characteristics of Monopile Supported Offshore Wind Structures on Fatigue Loading

  Marine Structures · 2025-01-01

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• Methodology for using high-resolution scanner measurements to characterize geometric imperfections in full-scale wind turbine steel tower sections

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• Experimental Results of Stability of Cylindrical Shells under Combined Bending and Torsion

  Journal of Structural Engineering · 2024-10-23 · 4 citations

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  Modern wind turbines are often supported by tubular steel towers made from globally conical, locally cylindrical shells with relatively large diameter-to-thickness ratios—approximately between 100 and 300—which enables the tower material to be used as efficiently as possible. Wind turbine towers face complex loading resulting from both environmental and operational load cases and are sensitive to geometrical imperfections that inevitably arise during the fabrication process. Whereas bending often controls at the base of turbine towers, the upper sections are controlled by combined bending and torsion. Although extensive studies have been conducted on the stability and design of cylinders subjected to isolated actions, investigations into the structural response of thin-walled cylinders under combined actions, such as bending and torsion, remain limited. To address this knowledge gap, an experimental program was carried out to study the structural behavior of thin-walled steel cylinders under combined bending and torsion. A total of 48 cylinders were tested with varying diameter-to-thickness ratios and torsion-to-moment ratios found in wind turbine towers. To gain insights into the imperfection sensitivity of these tests, a laser scanner was used to measure the geometric imperfections of each specimen before testing. The test setup, instrumentation, loading procedures and structural response of the cylinders, including ultimate resistances, load-deformation characteristics, and failure modes, are reported. The primary objective of this study is to provide benchmark test data for the validation of numerical models and the development of advanced design methodologies, such as reference resistance design (RRD), for cylindrical shells under combined bending and torsion. Future work will involve formulating guidelines for using laser-scanned data to evaluate geometric imperfections, developing laboratory- and full-scale wind turbine tower finite element models, and ultimately providing improved design guidance on combined bending and torsion.

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• Bog Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) Nesting Ecology and the Efficacy of Predator Excluders in New York

  Northeastern Naturalist · 2024-10-04 · 1 citations

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  Nest predation is a conservation concern for species with low reproductive output, such as Glyptemys muhlenbergii (Bog Turtle). Over 4 years and across 9 sites in New York, we monitored 77 Bog Turtle nests and examined clutch size (n = 77; 1–5 eggs; mean = 3.3 eggs ± 0.92 S.D.), incubation periods (n = 27; 67–89 days; mean = 79.7 days ± 5.78) and temperatures, and the effectiveness of predator excluders. We compared nest-predation rates with (n = 53) and without (n = 24) predator excluders and assessed the effects of predator excluders on hatching rates and incubation timing. On average, protected nests lost 1.04 fewer eggs to predation than nests without predator excluders, and the predation rate (loss of 1 or more eggs) was 25% lower for protected nests (38%) than for unprotected nests (63%). However, the failure rate for eggs surviving predation was marginally higher for protected nests versus unprotected nests, and the number of viable hatchlings produced per nest was not statistically different between protected versus unprotected nests. Overall, our results underscore the need to monitor hatching rates in addition to predation rates when evaluating the success of predator-exclusion devices for turtle conservation.

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• Reference Monopile Designs for Us East Coast Sites Supporting the Iea 15mw Reference Turbine Using a Novel Conceptual Design Methodology

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Reference monopile designs for US East Coast sites supporting the IEA 15 MW reference turbine using a novel conceptual design methodology

  Ocean Engineering · 2024-04-15 · 2 citations

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• Are Dead People Voting by Mail: Evidence from Washington State Administrative Data*

  Election Law Journal Rules Politics and Policy · 2024-12-10 · 2 citations

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  A common concern about vote-by-mail in the United States is that mail-in ballots are sent to dead people, stolen by bad actors, and counted as fraudulent votes. Studying Washington state’s vote-by-mail program, we link counted ballots and administrative death records to estimate the rate at which dead people’s mail-in ballots are improperly counted as valid votes, using birth dates from online obituaries to address false positives. Among roughly 4.5 million distinct voters in Washington state (2011–2018), we estimate that there are 14 deceased individuals whose ballots might have been cast suspiciously long after their death, representing 0.0003% of voters. Even these few cases may reflect two individuals with the same name and birth date, or clerical errors, rather than fraud. After exploring the robustness of our findings to weaker conditions for name-matching and the inclusion of deaths closer to Election Day, we conclude that counting dead people’s ballots as votes seems extraordinarily rare in Washington’s universal vote-by-mail system.

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Reliability-based Hurricane Risk Assessment for Offshore Wind Farms

  NSF · $183k · 2012–2016

• CAREER: Advancing Multi-Hazard Assessment and Risk-Based Design for Offshore Wind Energy Technology

  NSF · $508k · 2016–2022

• GOALI/Collaborative Research: Enabling Advanced Wind Turbine Tower Manufacturing with Reliability-Based Design

  NSF · $200k · 2013–2017

Frequent coauthors

• Sanjay R. Arwade

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  91 shared

• Jerome F. Hajjar

  Northeastern University

  53 shared

• Wystan Carswell

  42 shared

• Spencer T. Hallowell

  University of Maine

  20 shared

• James P. Gibbs

  Purchase College

  16 shared

• Julie K. Lundquist

  University of Colorado Boulder

  15 shared

• Amit Kanvinde

  University of California, Davis

  13 shared

• Chi Qiao

  13 shared

Labs

• Sustainable Structures GroupPI

Awards & honors

• Constantinos Mavroidis Translational Research Faculty Award…
• College of Engineering Faculty Fellow (2021)
• 2020 Cleantech Open Northeast for startup, T-Omega Wind (202…
• NSF CAREER Award (2016)
• CEE Excellence in Teaching Award (2013)