Jeffrey Berman

About

Jeffrey Berman is a Professor at the University of Washington Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. His research areas include infrastructure and smart cities, structural engineering, and mechanics, with a focus on seismic load resisting systems and earthquake engineering. His work involves developing innovative solutions for structural and earthquake engineering challenges, contributing to the advancement of resilient infrastructure systems.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Political Science
• Data science
• Geography
• Environmental resource management
• Systems engineering
• Structural engineering
• Engineering management
• Acoustics

Selected publications

• Research Needs, Challenges, and Strategic Approaches for Natural Hazards and Disaster Reconnaissance

  Frontiers in Built Environment · 2020 · 74 citations

  Natural hazards and disaster reconnaissance investigations have provided many lessons for the research and practice communities and have greatly improved our scientific understanding of extreme events. Yet, many challenges remain for these communities, including improving our ability to model hazards, make decisions in the face of uncertainty, enhance community resilience, and mitigate risk. State-of-the-art instrumentation and mobile data collection applications have significantly advanced the…

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• Shake-Table Testing of a Full-Scale 10-Story Resilient Mass Timber Building

  Journal of Structural Engineering · 2024-10-12 · 51 citations

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  As part of a collaborative research effort (The NHERI TallWood Project), an extensive shake table test program was undertaken on a full-scale 10-story mass timber building with a resilient posttensioned mass timber rocking wall lateral system. Over a three-year period, academic and industry partners collaborated on the design, construction, and testing of a 34 m (113 ft) tall, 10-story mass timber building at the world’s largest outdoor shake table facility (NHERI@UC San Diego). The test buildin…

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• Natural Hazards Reconnaissance With the NHERI RAPID Facility

  Frontiers in Built Environment · 2020 · 41 citations

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  In 2016 NSF funded an interdisciplinary multi-institutions team to develop and operate the Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility (known as the “RAPID”) as part of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program. To enable support of state of the art natural hazard reconnaissance research, the RAPID facility’s instrumentation portfolio and operational plan were developed over the following two years. Input was gathered from the natural hazards engineering community, the…

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• Shake-Table Experimental Testing and Performance of Topped and Untopped Cross-Laminated Timber Diaphragms

  Journal of Structural Engineering · 2021 · 31 citations

  This paper presents the behavior of floor diaphragms of a shake-table experiment of a full-scale 2-story mass-timber building structure. The structure consists of glued-laminated timber beams and columns, and floors and walls were designed and built making use of cross-laminated timber panels. Two different floor systems were designed, where the roof consists of a topped cross-laminated timber (CLT)-concrete composite system, and the floor level consists of untopped CLT panels connected with ply…

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• Experimental investigation and numerical modeling of rocking cross laminated timber walls on a flexible foundation

  Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics · 2022-03-14 · 23 citations

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  Abstract With recent developments of engineered wood products such as cross laminated timber, mass timber buildings in areas of high seismicity are becoming feasible and offer benefits such as faster construction and unique architectural features. It has also opened the door to creating seismically resilient lateral systems that sustain minor and reparable damage during large earthquakes. This paper presents a numerical modeling procedure for mass timber rocking wall lateral system with distribu…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: A Resilience-based Seismic Design Methodology for Tall Wood Buildings

  NSF · $302k · 2016–2024

• NEESR-SG: Smart and Resilient Steel Walls for Reducing Earthquake Impacts

  NSF · $1.6M · 2008–2014

• Collaborative Research: Structural Integrity of Steel Gravity Framing Systems

  NSF · $106k · 2010–2014

Frequent coauthors

• Michel Bruneau

  54 shared

• Laura N. Lowes

  University of Washington

  37 shared

• Dawn E. Lehman

  University of Washington

  29 shared

• Ann Bostrom

  University of Washington

  22 shared

• Troy Tanner

  University of Florida

  22 shared

• Joseph Wartman

  Seattle University

  22 shared

• Shiling Pei

  Colorado School of Mines

  21 shared

• Andrew D. Sen

  21 shared

Awards & honors

• Service Award, 2013, George E. Brown Network for Earthquake…
• Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012, University of Washington
• Faculty Mentor of the Year, 2011, Department of Civil and En…
• Milek Fellowship, 4/2008, American Institute of Steel Constr…
• Dr. Sophokles E. Logiadis Award for Innovation in Seismic Is…

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