Henri P Gavin

About

Henri P Gavin is the W. H. Gardner Jr. Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. His research themes include Computational Mechanics & Scientific Computing, Geomechanics & Geophysics for Energy and the Environment, and Risk & Resilient Systems. He holds a B.S.E. from Princeton University and both an M.Sc.Eng. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Gavin has contributed extensively to the fields of structural dynamics, uncertainty, design, and optimization, with a focus on seismic response, earthquake engineering, and the development of models for civil structures and systems. His work involves the analysis and control of nonlinear and chaotic systems, rolling resistance, and the seismic response of critical infrastructure, among other topics. Gavin has received numerous awards and honors for his leadership and teaching, including the Bass Connections Award for Outstanding Leadership, the Earl I Brown II Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award, and the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mathematical optimization
• Mathematics
• Algorithm
• Distributed computing
• Physics
• Applied mathematics
• Materials science
• Thermodynamics

Selected publications

• Assessment of a rolling isolation system using reduced order structural models

  Engineering Structures · 2015-06-10 · 47 citations

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• Double rolling isolation systems: A mathematical model and experimental validation

  International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics · 2014-02-05 · 47 citations

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• Truly isotropic biaxial hysteresis with arbitrary knee sharpness

  Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics · 2014-05-26 · 27 citations

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  Abstract The inelastic responses of framed structures and seismic isolation systems undergoing biaxial (horizontal) shaking are coupled. In existing models for biaxial coupling of hysteretic behavior, the smoothness (or ‘knee') of the transition from elastic to yielding behavior cannot be modified without affecting the shape of the yield surface. This paper presents a model for coupled biaxial hysteretic behavior in which the knee from pre‐yield to post‐yield can be adjusted while maintaining an…

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• Christchurch Women’s Hospital: Performance Analysis of the Base-Isolation System during the Series of Canterbury Earthquakes 2011–2012

  Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities · 2015-12-29 · 20 citations

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  Live monitoring data and simple dynamic reduced-order models of the Christchurch Women’s Hospital (CWH) help explain the performance of the base-isolation (BI) system of the hospital during the series of Canterbury earthquakes in 2011–2012. A Park-Wen-Ang hysteresis model is employed to simulate the performance of the BI system and results are compared to measured data recorded above the isolation layer and on the sixth story. Simplified single, two, and three degree-of-freedom models (SDOF, 2DO…

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• Modeling chemical releases from building materials: The search for extended validity domain and parsimony

  Building Simulation · 2020 · 19 citations

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Recent grants

• SGER/Payload Project to NSF Award CMMI-0324522: Earthquake Hazard Reduction for Critical Facilities

  NSF · $70k · 2007–2010

• Risk-Based Design of Seismic Isolation for Critical Facilities

  NSF · $237k · 2009–2013

• EAGER: Instrumentation and Modeling of Seismic Isolation in Aftershocks

  NSF · $170k · 2012–2015

Frequent coauthors

• Cenk Alhan

  13 shared

• Philip Harvey

  13 shared

• Satish Nagarajaiah

  Rice University

  11 shared

• Sriram Narasimhan

  11 shared

• E. A. Johnson

  11 shared

• Ünal Aldemir

  Istanbul Technical University

  9 shared

• Gérard‐Philippe Zéhil

  Notre Dame University – Louaize

  9 shared

• B. W. Dickinson

  Rutherford + Chekene

  9 shared

Education

• PhD

  University of Michigan

  1994

• MS

  University of Michigan

  1988

Awards & honors

• Bass Connections Award for Outstanding Leadership
• Yoh Family Bass Professor
• Earl I Brown II Outstanding Civil Engineering Faculty Award
• President's Award. New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engine…
• Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (ADUTA)

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