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Venkatesh Kodur , Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, F.ACI, F.CAE
Professor & Director, SAFE-D Center
Civil and Environmental Engineering
3580 Engineering Building
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 353-9813
E-Mail: kodur@egr.msu.edu
Web: http://www.egr.msu.edu
Courses Taught:
- Design of Steel Structures (CE 405)
- Advanced Design of Steel Structures (CE 805)
- Structural Fire Engineering (CE 808)
- Design of Concrete and Steel Structures (CE 336 - Queen's
University)
- Prestressed Concrete (CE 436 - Queen's University)
Recent Research:
- Modeling the response of high strength concrete columns
exposed to fire, Portland Cement Association, National
Science Foundation.
- Collaborative Research: Fire behavior and design of
building floor systems, National Science Foundation, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Princeton University.
- Evaluating the fire performance of FRP strengthened
reinforced concrete structural systems, National Science
Foundation
- Collaborative Research: Fire behavior and design of
building floor systems, National Science Foundation, Purdue
University.
- Guidelines for the design of steel shear angle connections
under fire hazard, National Science Foundation, Princeton
University.
- Performance-based methodology for demonstrating the
feasibility of unprotected steel in sprinklered buildings,
American Institute of Steel Construction, National Science
Foundation.
- Characterization of high temperature thermal and mechanical
properties of construction materials, MSU Foundation,
Underwriters Laboratory.
- Modeling the fire induced spalling and restraint effects
in reinforced concrete beams, MSU (IRGP).
Interests:
Dr. Kodur's research has focused on the experimental behavior
and analytical modeling of structural systems under extreme
fire conditions, constitutive modeling of material properties
at elevated temperatures, developing guidelines for fire
resistance design of structural systems, evaluating fire
performance of high performing materials, performance based
fire safety design, non-linear design and analysis of structures
and building collapse investigations.
Education:
Queen's University at Kingston: Ph.D., Structural Engineering
Awards and Honors:
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Elected "Fellow" of Canadian
Academy of Engineering, 2009
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Elected "Fellow" of American
Concrete Institute, 2007
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American Institute of Steel Construction
Faculty Fellowship Award, 2007
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Elected "Fellow" of American
Society of Civil Engineers, 2005
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Outstanding Public Awareness Award,
National Research Council Canada, 2003
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The Lorne W. Gold "Best Publication
(Research Paper)" Award, NRCC, 2002
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George Sedan Award for Innovative
Solutions, NRCC, 1998
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NATO Award for Collaborative Research,
1996
- Designing Steel Structures for Fire Safety, with
J-M Franssen and R. Zaharia, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis
Group, pp. 162, ISBN 978-0-415-54828-1, 2009.
- Response of Restrained High Strength Concrete Beams
Exposed to Design Fire Scenarios, with M. Dwaikat,
in press, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering,
pp. 1-29, 2009.
- Response of Steel Beam-Columns Exposed to Fire, with
M. M. S. Dwaikat, Engineering Structures, Vol.
31, Issue 2, Pages 369-379, February 2009.
- Hydro-thermal Model for Predicting Fire Induced Spalling
in Concrete Structural Systems, with M. Dwaikat, Fire
Safety Journal, V. 44, 425-434, 2009.
- High-temperature Properties of Concrete for Fire
Resistance Modeling of Structures, with M. M. S. Dewikat
and M. B. Dwaikat, ACI Materials Journal, V. 105,
No. 5, pp. 517-527, 2009.
- Review of Post-earthquake Fire Hazard to Building
Structures, with S. Mousavi and A. Bagchi, Canadian
Journal of Civil Engineering, V. 39, pp. 689-698,
2008.
- Strategies for Improving the Performance of High-strength
Concrete Columns Under Fire Hazard, Structural Control
and Health Monitoring, V. 15, pp. 1-18, 2008.
- A Numerical Approach for Modeling the Fire Induced
Restraint Effects in Reinforced Concrete Beams, with
M. Dwaikat, Fire Safety Journal, 43(4) pp. 291-307, 2008.
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