UBC Civil Engineering

Dr. Kenneth Elwood

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Dr. Kenneth Elwood,
Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Location: CEME - Room 2015
Telephone: 604.822.0581
Facsimilie: 604.822.6901
Email: elwood@civil.ubc.ca

 

Biography:

Dr. Elwood received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995, and B.A.Sc. from the University of British Columbia in 1993. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Elwood worked for Buckland and Taylor, Ltd. of North Vancouver. Dr. Elwood is actively involved in research related to the seismic response of existing structures. In 2006, he chaired a committee for the American Society for Civil Engineers to update the concrete provisions in the Seismic Rehabilitation Standard (ASCE 41). Dr. Elwood is Chair of the American Concrete Institute Committee on Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation (ACI 369).

Awards:

  • Civil Club Professor Award - Best 4th-year Professor for CIVL 430 (Fall 2009)
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Kyoto, Japan (March - July 2009)
  • Outstanding Paper Award, Earthquake Spectra, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (Elwood, K.J., Matamoros, A., Wallace, J.W., Lehman, D.E., Heintz, J.A., Mitchell, A., Moore, M.A., Valley, M.T., Lowes, L. Comartin, C., and Moehle, J.P., (2007) "Update of ASCE/SEI 41 Concrete Provisions", Earthquake Spectra, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, August 2007, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 493-523.)
  • Award of Merit, Structural Engineers Association of California (August 2007).
  • President’s Award, Los Angeles Tall Building Structural Design Council (May 2007).
  • Award of Merit, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (May 2007).
  • Chester Paul Siess Award for Excellence in Structural Research, American Concrete Institute (April 2007).

Research Interests:

  • Performance-based seismic design
  • Seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete structures
  • Gravity load collapse of reinforced concrete moment frames
  • Seismic retrofit
  • Seismic performance of unreinforced and reinforced masonry buildings
  • Characterization of seismic demands
  • Nonlinear structural analysis
  • Hybrid testing
  • Shake table testing
  • Bridge design and construction

 

Recent Publications

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Journals

  • Mitchell, D., Paultre, P., Tinawi, R., Saatcioglu, M., Tremblay, R., Elwood, K.J., Adams, J., DeVall, R. (2010) “Evolution of Seismic Design Provisions in the National Building Code of Canada”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 37, No. 9, September 2010, pp. 1157-1170.
  • Yavari, S., Chang, S., and Elwood, K.J. (2010) “Modeling Post-Earthquake Functionality of Regional Health Care Facilities”, Earthquake Spectra, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, vol. 26, no. 3, August 2010, pp. 869-892.
  • * Elwood, K.J., Maffei, J., Riederer, K., and Telleen, K. (2009) “Improving column confinement: Part 2 – A new confinement provision of ACI 318”, Concrete International, American Concrete Institute, Dec. 2009.
  • * Elwood, K.J., Maffei, J., Riederer, K., and Telleen, K. (2009) “Improving column confinement: Part 1 – Assessment of design provisions”, Concrete International, American Concrete Institute, Nov. 2009.
  • * Elwood, K.J. and Eberhard, M.O., (2009) “Effective Stiffness of Reinforced Concrete Columns”, ACI Structural Journal, American Concrete Institute, vol. 106, no. 4, July 2009, pp. 476-484.
  • Riahi, Z., Elwood, K.J., and Alcocer, S.M. (2009) “Backbone model for confined masonry walls”, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, vol. 135, no. 6, June 2009, pp. 644-654.
  • Yavari, S., Elwood, K.J., and Wu, C.-L., (2009) “Collapse of a Nonductile Concrete Frame: Evaluation of Analytical models”, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, vol. 38, no. 2, Feb 2009, pp. 225-241.
  • Wu, C.-L., Kuo, W.-W., Yang, Y.-S., Hwang, S.-J., Elwood, K. J., Loh, C.-L. and Moehle, J. P., (2009) “Collapse of a Nonductile Concrete Frame: Shaking Table Tests”, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, vol. 38, no. 2, Feb 2009, pp. 205-224.
  • Kang T. H.-K., Wallace J. W. and K. J. Elwood, (2009) “Nonlinear Modeling of Flat Plate Systems,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, vol. 135, no. 2, Feb. 2009.
  • Wallace, J.W., Elwood, K.J., and Massone, L.M. (2008) “Investigation of the Axial Load Capacity for Lightly Reinforced Wall Piers”, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, vol. 134, no. 9, Sept. 2008, pp. 1548-1557.

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