Authors: David S. Kammer, Gregory C. McLaskey, Rachel E. Abercrombie, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Camilla Cattania, Massimo Cocco, Luca Dal Zilio, Georg Dresen, Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Chun-Yu Ke, Chris Marone, Paul Antony Selvadurai, Elisa Tinti
I gave a talk at the ERC TECTONIC/FEAR Seminar about our recent work on earthquake breakdown/fracture energy, following the ERC FEAR-TECTONIC Workshop on Earthquake Dynamics: Mechanical Work and Fracture Energy.
Watch it on YouTube.
I became a PhD candidate last Spring and I’m about to start my 5th year here at Cornell University.
I started working on the mechanics of laboratory earthquakes at Cornell since 2016.
Co-advised by Prof. Dave Kammer and Prof. Greg McLaskey, I use theoretical approaches, e.g., solid mechanics and fracture mechanics, and numerical models, e.g., finite element method and spectral boundary integral method, to understand the mechanics of laboratory-generated earthquakes.
Our lab’s first paper about the large-scale laboratory earthquake experiment at Cornell is published on GRL.
We generated laboratory earthquake ruptures that nucleate, propagate, and terminate within the 3-m long saw-cut granite fault.
SEPSA is a seismic probabilistic risk assessment (SPRA) software with intuitive graphical user interface and efficient computation for modeling and analyzing seismic hazard at nuclear power plants.
SODIUMM is a structural optimal design software with GUI that shows real-time optimization process of the structure. It adopts numerous optimization algorithms and adapts several commercial structural analysis software, such as SAP2000, into a unified platform that is meant for multi-level optimization process and has several handy features such as text defined functions and Lagrange interpolations.
