Andrew T. Myers

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

Selected publications

• A benchmarking exercise for environmental contours

  Ocean Engineering · 2021 · 78 citations

  Environmental contours are used to simplify the process of design response analysis. A wide variety of contour methods exist; however, there have been a very limited number of comparisons of these methods to date. This paper is the output of an open benchmarking exercise, in which contributors developed contours based on their preferred methods and submitted them for a blind comparison study. The exercise had two components—one, focusing on the robustness of contour methods across different offs…

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• Hurricane eyewall winds and structural response of wind turbines

  Wind energy science · 2020 · 29 citations

  Abstract. This paper describes the analysis of a wind turbine and support structure subject to simulated hurricane wind fields. The hurricane wind fields, which result from a large eddy simulation of a hurricane, exhibit features such as very high gust factors (>1.7), rapid direction changes (30∘ in 30 s), and substantial veer. Wind fields including these features have not previously been used in an analysis of a wind turbine, and their effect on structural loads may be an important driver of…

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• Wind Fields in Category 1–3 Tropical Cyclones Are Not Fully Represented in Wind Turbine Design Standards

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2023-08-10 · 20 citations

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  Abstract Offshore wind energy deployment in the U.S. is expected to increase in the years to come, with proposed wind farm sites located in regions with high risk for tropical cyclones. Yet, the wind turbine design criteria outlined by the International Electrotechnical Commission for extreme events may not account for wind field characteristics unique to tropical cyclones. To evaluate if current design standards capture the extreme conditions of these storms, we perform idealized large‐eddy sim…

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• Surrogate modeling of time-dependent metocean conditions during hurricanes

  Natural Hazards · 2021-08-26 · 19 citations

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• A new IFORM-Rosenblatt framework for calculation of environmental contours

  Ocean Engineering · 2021-08-20 · 11 citations

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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)

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