Dimitrios G. Lignos

• Canadian Society for Civl Engineering, CSCE (Sustaining Member)
• American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE (Associate Member)
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, EERI
• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation, NEES
• Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, PEER
• Architectural Institute of Japan, AIJ
• National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE)
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• Canadian Association for Earthquake Engineering (CAEE)

• Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
• Collapse Assessment of Structural Systems
• Seismic Design of Steel Structures
• Seismic Rehabilitation of Steel Structures
• Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering
• Fatigue and Fracture of Steel Structures
• Earthquake Protective Systems - Passive Control
• Health Monitoring

• ATC-90-17 (Task Order 17): Technical Committee on Seismic Behavior and Design of Deep, Slender Wide-Flange Beam-Column Members: Phase 1, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), (2011-now)
• ATC-76-6 (Task Order 6): NIST GCR 10-917-9: Applicability of Nonlinear Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling for Design, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), (2009-2010)
• ATC-76-1 (Task Order 1): NIST GCR 10-917-8: Evaluation of the FEMA P-695 Methodology for Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), (2008-2010)

• Professor Eduardo Miranda, Stanford University, USA
• Professor Masayoshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, E-Defense, Japan
• Professor Sarah Billington, Stanford University, USA
• Professor Andrew Whittaker, University at Buffalo, USA
• Professor Anne Kiremidjian, Stanford University, USA

• Ahmed Elkady (PhD thesis): Dynamic Stability of Special Moment Resisting Frames Designed with Deep Members
• Yusuke Suzuki (PhD thesis): Collapse Assessment of Steel Moment Resisting Frames Designed with High Strength Columns
• Sarven Akcelyan (PhD thesis): Seismic Design and Assessment of Base-Isolated Buildings
• Omar Ibrahim (PhD thesis): Welding of Thick Plates and Shapes - Co-supervised with Professor C. A. Rogers - McGill University
• Violetta Nikolaidou (M.Eng thesis): Welding of Thick Plates and Shapes - Co-supervised with Professor C. A. Rogers - McGill University
• Emre Karamanci (M.Eng thesis): Modeling Guidelines for Collapse Assessment of Concentrically Braced Frames
• Nasser Al-Shawwa (M.Eng thesis): Seismic Evaluation of Steel Buildings with Continuous Models
• Sami Al Bardaweel (M.Eng project): Guidelines for Sustainable Design of Civil Engineering Systems
• Laura Eads (PhD thesis): Improved Intensity Measures for Collapse Assessment of Structural Systems - Co-supervision with Professor E. Miranda – Stanford University
• Konstantinos Balafas (PhD thesis): Collapse Assessment of Multistory Buildings through hybrid testing - Co-supervision with Professor E. Miranda – Stanford University

• CIVE 320 Numerical Methods 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Civil Engineering: Numerical procedures applicable to civil engineering problems: integration, differentiation, solution of initial-value problems, solving linear and non-linear systems of equations, boundary-value problems for ordinary-differential equations, and for partial-differential equations.

  Offered by: Civil Engineering

  • (4-2-6)
  • Prerequisites: COMP 208, MATH 264.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2013
  • Instructors
    • Dimitrios Lignos
• CIVE 418 Design Project 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
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  • Winter
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  Civil Engineering: Capstone design project.

  Offered by: Civil Engineering

  • (1-2-6)
  • Prerequisite: Completion of an approved set of required and complementary courses; normally restricted to final semester.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2013
    • Winter 2014
  • Instructors
    • Colin Andrew Rogers, Dimitrios Lignos
    • Colin Andrew Rogers, Dimitrios Lignos
• CIVE 616 Nonlin Struct. Anal for Bldgs 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Civil Engineering: Methods of geometric and material nonlinear static and dynamic analysis, cumulative damage effects, concentrated and distributed plasticity models, pushover analysis, response modification and performance-based design. The class integrates state-of-the-art simulation models and methods with physical experimentation of structural components and energy dissipation devices for nonlinear analysis and evaluation of buildings.

  Offered by: Civil Engineering

  • Prerequisite: Permission of instructor

  • Terms
    • Fall 2013
  • Instructors
    • Dimitrios Lignos
• CIVE 602 Finite Element Analysis 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Civil Engineering: Development of displacement based simple and high order, one, two and three dimensional elements for linear elastic stress analysis. Variational and other methods for element formulation. Plate bending and shell elements. Finite element programming. Use of package programs in static analysis of structures.

  Offered by: Civil Engineering

  • (3-0-9)

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2013 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013 academic year.

• ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award 2012 in recognition of outstanding service as a reviewer for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Journal of Structural Engineering. 
• First Place Award, Blind Analysis Prediction of a Full Scale Steel Structure equipped with Tripple Friction Pendulum Isolators, International Blind Analysis Competition, E-Defense, Japan (Awarded during the 9th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, March 2012).
• Engineering Class of '44 Award for Outstanding Teaching, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, 2011.
• 3rd Place Award, Blind Analysis Prediction of a Full Scale Steel Structure equipped with Steel Dampers, International Blind Analysis Competition, E-Defense, Japan (Awarded during the 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, March 2010.
• Post Doctoral Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Japan.
• John A. Blume Fellow for Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, USA (First Recipient)
• Medal and Award for Exemplary Research in the Area of Earthquake Engineering (awarded during the 3rd MIT conference on Mechanics and Solids, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, June 2005)
• Fulbright Scholar
• “John Argyris” Medal and Award (awarded during 5th GRACM International Congress on Computational Mechanics, Limassol, Cyprus, 2005)

For a complete list of publications, see a detailed CV [.pdf]

(1) Book Chapters

1. Zareian, F., Lignos, D.G., Krawinkler, H., (2011). “Seismic Design Modification Factors for Steel SMRFs for Uniform Collapse Safety”, Chapter 7 in “Protection of Built Environment Against Earthquakes”, Dolšek, Matjaž (Ed.), 1st Edition., 2011, XIV, 338 p., Published by Springer, NY. ISBN 978-94-007-1447-2
2. Lignos, D.G., Krawinkler, H., Whittaker, A.S., (2010). “Experimental and Analytical Collapse Assessment of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames”, Chapter 1 in “Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering”, Papadrakakis, M., Fragiadakis, M., Lagaros, N.D., (Ed.), Published by Springer, NY. ISBN 9789400700536
3. Krawinkler, H., Lignos, D.G., (2009). “How to Predict the Probability of Collapse of Non-Ductile Building Structures”, Chapter 17 in “Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting”, Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 10, 343-365, Published by Springer, NY. DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2681-1_17
4. Krawinkler, H., Zareian, F., Lignos, D.G., Ibarra L.F., (2009). “Significance of Modeling Deterioration in Structural Components for Predicting the Collapse Potential of Structures under Earthquake Excitations”, Chapter 16 in “Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering”, Published by Springer, NY. Vol. 13(2), 174-181, DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8746-1_16

(2) Journal Publications

1. Ramirez, C.M., Lignos, D.G., Miranda, E., Kolios, D. (2012). "Fragility Functions for pre-Northridge Welded Steel Moment-Resisting Beam-to-Column Connections", Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 45, 574-584.
2. Lignos, D.G., Krawinkler, H. (2012). "Development and Utilization of Structural Component Databases for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering", ASCE, Journal of Structural Engineering, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000646.
3. Okazaki, T., Lignos, D.G., Hikino, T., Kajiwara, K. (2012). "Dynamic Response of a Chevron Concentrically Braced Frame", ASCE, Journal of Structural Engineering, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000679.
4. Eads, L., Miranda, E., Krawinkler, H., Lignos, D.G. (2012). "An Efficient Method for Estimating the Collapse Risk of Structures in Seismic Regions", Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, EESD, doi: 10.1002/eqe.2191 (in press).
5. Lignos, D. G., Hikino, T., Matsuoka, Y., Nakashima, M. (2012). “Collapse Assessment of Steel Moment Frames Based on E-Defense Full-Scale Shake Table Collapse Tests", ASCE,Journal of Structural Engineering,doi:10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000608.
6. Noh, H.Y., Lignos, D.G., Nair, K., Kiremidjian, A.S.(2012). “Development of Fragility Functions as a Damage Classification Method for Steel Moment-Resisting Frames Using a Wavelet-Based Damage Sensitive Feature", Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, EESD, Vol. 41 (4), 681-696.
7. Lignos, D. G., Chung, Y-L., Nagae, T., Nakashima, M., (2011). “Numerical and Experimental Evaluation of Seismic Capacity of High-Rise Steel Buildings Subjected to Long Duration Earthquakes", Journal of Computers and Structures, Vol. 89 (11-12), 959-967.
8. Lignos, D. G., Krawinkler, H., (2011). “Deterioration Modeling of Steel Components in Support of Collapse Prediction of Steel Moment Frames under Earthquake Loading", ASCE, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 137 (11), 1291-1302.
9. Shafei, B., Zareian, F., Lignos, D. G., (2011). “A Simplified Method for Collapse Capacity Assessment of Moment-Resisting Frame and Shear Wall Structural Systems", Journal of Engineering Structures, Vol. 33 (4), 1107-1116.
10. Noh, H.Y., Nair, K.K., Lignos, D. G., Kiremidjian, A.S., (2011). “On the Use of Wavelet Based Damage Sensitive Features for Structural Damage Diagnosis Using Strong Motion Data", ASCE, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 137 (10), 1215-1228.
11. Lignos, D. G., Krawinkler, H., Whittaker, A. S., (2011). “Prediction and Validation of Sidesway Collapse of Two Scale Models of a 4-Story Steel Moment Frame”,Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, EESD, Vol. 40 (7), 807-825.
12. Lignos, D. G., Kolios, D., Miranda, E., (2010). “Fragility Assessment of Reduced Beam Section Moment Connections”, ASCE, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 136 (9), 1140-1150.
13. Zareian, F., Krawinkler, H., Ibarra L. F., Lignos, D. G., (2009). “Basic Concepts and Performance Measures in Prediction of Collapse of Buildings under Earthquake Ground Motions”, The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings Journal, Vol. 19 (1-2), 167-181.

(3) Selected Conference Publications

1. Lignos, D. G. (2012). “Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Full Scale 5-Story Steel Building Equipped With Tripple Friction Pendulum Bearings: E-Defense Blind Analysis Competition,” Proceedings 9th, International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (9CUEE) & 4th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, Japan March 6^th - 8^th, 2012 (invited paper).
2. Lignos, D. G., Ricles, J. M., Love, J., Okazaki, T., Midorikawa, M. (2012). “Seismic Effects of the 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake on Steel Buildings,” Proceedings 9th, International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (9CUEE) & 4th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, Japan March 6^th - 8^th, 2012.
3. Lignos, D. G., Luna-Moreno, M. D., Billington, S. L. (2012). “Hybrid Simulation of a 2-Story steel MRF Retrofitted with HPFRC Infill Panels,” Proceedings of 7^th International Conference on Behavior of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas, STESSA 2012, Santiago, Chile, paper No 0055.
4. Eads, L., Miranda, E., Krawinkler, H., Lignos, D. G., (2012). “Improved Estimation of Collapse Risk for Structures in Seismic Regions,” Proceedings 15^th World Conference of Earthquake Engineering (15WCEE), September 24^th-28^th, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012.
5. Gray, M. G., Christopoulos, C., Packer, J.A., Lignos, D. G., (2012). “Development, Validation and Modeling of the New Cast Steel Yielding Brace System,” Proceedings ASCE Structures Congress, March 29^th-31^st, Chicago, IL, USA, SEI institute.
6. Lignos, D.G., Hikino, T., Matsuoka, Y., Nakashima, M., (2010). “Collapse Assessment of Steel Moment Frames Based on E-Defense Full Scale Shake Table Collapse Tests”, Proceedings, 13th Japan Earthquake Engineering Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan, November 17th – 20th, 2010.
7. Zareian, F., Lignos, D.G., Krawinkler, H., (2010). “Seismic Design Modification Factors for Steel Moment resisting Frames,” Proceedings, International Workshop on Protection of Build Environment against Earthquakes, University of Ljubljana, August 27th – 28th, 2010 (invited paper).
8. Nakashima, M., Ji, X., Lignos, D.G., (2010). “Roles of Large-Scale Shaking Table Testing for Verification of Advanced Technologies on Structural Control and Monitoring”, Proceedings 5th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, Tokyo, Japan, July 12-14th, 2010 (keynote lecture).
9. Lignos, D.G., Chung, Y.L., Nagae, T., Nakashima, M., (2010). “Numerical Modeling of High-Rise Steel Structures Subjected to Long Period Earthquakes”, Proceedings Architectural Institute of Japan, AIJ, Annual Meeting, Toyama, Japan, September 9th – 11th, 2010.
10. Lignos, D.G., Zareian, F., Krawinkler H., (2010). “A Steel Component Database for Deterioration Modeling of Steel Beams with RBS under Cyclic Loading”, Proceedings ASCE Structures Congress, Orlando Florida, May 12-15, 2010 (Invited paper in session: Limit state evaluation of steel framed structures using the ATC 63 methodology).
11. Zareian, F., Lignos, D.G., Krawinkler, H., (2010). “Evaluation of Seismic Collapse Performance of Steel Special Moment Resisting Frames Using the ATC-63 Methodology”, Proceedings ASCE Structures Congress, Orlando Florida, May 12-15, 2010 (Invited paper in session: Limit state evaluation of steel framed structures using the ATC 63 methodology).
12. Lignos, D.G., Krawinkler, H., (2010). “A Steel Database for Component Deterioration of Tubular Hollow Square Steel Columns under Varying Axial Load for Collapse Assessment of Steel Structures under Earthquakes”, Proceedings 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (7CUEE), Tokyo, Japan, March 3rd - 5th, 2010.
13. Lignos, D.G., Billington, S. L., (2010). “Hybrid Testing of a Retrofitted Steel Moment Resisting Frame with Infill Panels”, Proceedings 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyond Borders, July 25th -29th, Toronto, Canada, 2010.
14. Noh, H.Y., Lignos, D.G., Nair, K., Kiremidjian, A., (2010). “Development of Fragility Functions for Steel Moment Frames Using Wavelet Based Damage Sensitive Features From Structural Health Monitoring”, Proceedings 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyond Borders, July 25-29, Toronto, Canada, 2010.
15. Miranda, E., Lignos, D.G.,(2009). “Estimation of Seismic Performance of Existing Steel Moment Resisting Frame Buildings by Using Continuous Models”, Proceedings ATC&SEI Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, December 9-11, San Francisco, CA, 2009. (Invited paper in session: Improving the seismic performance of existing structures through monitoring).
16. Lignos, D.G., Krawinkler, H., Whittaker, A., (2009). “Contributions to Collapse Prediction of Steel Moment Frames Through Recent Earthquake Simulator Collapse Tests”, Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering, October 15-16, San Francisco, CA, 2009.
17. Noh, H.Y., Lignos, D.G., Nair, K., Kiremidjian, A., (2009). “Application of Wavelet Coefficient Energies of Stationary and Non-stationary Response Signals for Structural Damage Diagnosis”, Proceedings 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, September 9-11, 2009.