Mihailo Trifunac
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact at: (213) 740-0570 or trifunac@usc.edu
Expertise:
- natural disasters - earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis
- earthquake hazard predictions - strong ground motion, liquefaction, differential motions, strong motion strains
- engineering seismology
- physics of the earthquake source
- seismic wave propagation
- tsunami hazard predictions
- soil/structure interaction - bridges, dams and long structures
- structural response - analysis and design, damage detection, structural health monitoring
- probabilistic methods in geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering
- full-scale testing of structures and of soils, using microtremor excitation
- Author or co-author of more than 300 technical publications in the areas of earthquake engineering and mechanics
Consultant to Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1971-1994) and Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste (1989-1994)
United Nations development program expert on missions to India, Yugoslavia and the former republics of the Soviet Union
French, German, Russian and Serbo-Croatian
Foreign Languages:
French, German, Russian & Serbo-Croatian
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