News

08 May 24:  Our paper on Seismic design of concrete structures for damage control is published in Earthquake Spectra. Co-authors: Ken Elwood (University of Auckland, New Zealand).

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11 Apr 24:  Tayo Opabola receives the 2023 Shah Family Innovation Prize at the 2024 EERI Annual Meeting in Seattle, USA.

 

30 Jan 24:  Tayo Opabola has been awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Tier 1 Young Professional Grant to participate in the 2024 SEI Congress.

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23 Jan 24:  Our paper on a Bayesian approach for estimating the post-earthquake recovery trajectories of electric power systems in Japan is published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. Co-authors: Yuki Handa and Carmine Galasso (both from University College London, UK).

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16 Jan 24:  Tayo Opabola's Spring Semester class on Reinforced Concrete Structures Design at University of California, Berkeley starts today.

15 Jan 24:  Our paper on informing disaster-risk management policies for education infrastructure using scenario-based recovery analyses is published in Nature Communications. Co-author: Carmine Galasso (University College London, UK).

01 Jan 24:  Tayo Opabola joins University of California, Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

14 Nov 23:  Tayo Opabola is awarded the 2023 Shah Family Innovation Prize by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, in recognition of his significant contributions to earthquake engineering research and practice, supported by expertise in engineering mechanics, experimentation and community resilience.

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10 Nov 23:  Our paper on Seismic fragility of reinforced concrete buildings with hollow-core flooring systems is published in Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. Co-authors: Tom Francis, Tim Sullivan (both from University of Canterbury, NZ and Ken Elwood (University of Auckland, NZ).

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15 Oct 23:  Our paper on a probabilistic framework for post-disaster recovery modeling of buildings and electric power networks in developing countries is published in Reliability Engineering & System Safety. Co-author: Carmine Galasso (University College London, UK).