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Professor
Dr. Perry Adebar
Bio

Dr. Perry Adebar, FCAE, PEng, Professor of Structural Engineering is an expert in the design and evaluation of concrete structures, with a particular interest in the seismic design and evaluation of highrise concrete shear wall buildings. Dr. Adebar is chair of the Standing Committee on Earthquake Design (SC-ED), which writes the seismic design provisions in the National Building Code of Canada. He is also a member and vice-chair of Technical Committee CSA A23.3, which writes the Canadian Standard for the structural design of concrete buildings, is chair of the CSA A23.3 Sub-committee on seismic design, serves on the Board of Directors of the Structural Engineers Association of BC (SEABC), and contributes his structural engineering expertise to the Vancouver’s Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (HUSAR) Team – Canada Task Force 1. As a specialized engineering consultant, Dr. Adebar has been involved in a number of projects to design, evaluate and repair concrete structures. Dr. Adebar served as the Head of UBC Civil Engineering from 2014 to 2019, and as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science from 1999 to 2008. Professor Adebar received the APEGBC Teaching Award for Excellence in Engineering Education in 2015, the UBC Killam Teaching Prize in 2013, the Meritorious Achievement Award from APEGBC in 2004 and the ACI Structural Research Award in 1998.

Research Area / Group
Structural & Earthquake Engineering
Research Interests

Concrete structures: seismic design, high-rise buildings, shear design, evaluation and repair of structures.

Courses
CIVL 230

Solid Mechanics I

Stress and strain, Hooke's law, axially loaded members, torsion, shear forces and bending moments in beams, bending of beams, shear stresses in beams, shear centre, composite members, introduction to elasto-plastic and statically indeterminate problems.

CIVL 433

Advanced Concrete Design

Design of continuous reinforced concrete building frames and structures.

CIVL 513

Concrete Structures

Response of prestressed and non-prestressed concrete elements and structures; comparison of analytical predictions and experimental results; simplified design procedures.

Downloadable Documents

Concrete Wall Buildings

Latest Publications

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M. Saatcioglu, Tremblay, R., Mitchell, D., Ghobarah, A., Palermo, D., Simpson, R., Adebar, P., Ventura, C. E., and Hong, H., “Performance of steel buildings and non-structural elements during the February 27, 2010 Maule (Chile) Earthquake”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, In Press.
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2013

P. Adebar, “Compression failure of thin concrete walls during 2010 Chile earthquake: lessons for Canadian design practice”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2013.
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2012

J. Sherstobitoff, Cajiao, P., and Adebar, P., “Repair of 18-Story Shear Wall Building Damaged in 2010 Chile Earthquake”, EERI Earthquake Spectra, vol. 28, no. S1, pp. S335-S348, 2012.
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2011

A. Bohl and Adebar, P., “Plastic Hinge Lengths in High-rise Concrete Shear Walls”, ACI Structural Journal, vol. March-April 2011, 2011.
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2010

P. Adebar, Bazargani, P., Mutrie, J., and Mitchell, D., “Safety of gravity-load columns in shear wall buildings designed to Canadian standard CSA A23.3”, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 1451-1461, 2010.
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2009

A. Esfandiari and Adebar, P., “Shear Strength Evaluation of Concrete Bridge Girders”, ACI Structural Journal, vol. 106, no. 7, pp. 416-426, 2009.
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M. Gerin and Adebar, P., “Simple Rational Model for Reinforced Concrete Subjected to Seismic Shear”, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 135, no. 7, pp. 753-761, 2009.
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P. Adebar and Rad, B. R., “Seismic Design of High-rise Concrete Walls: Reverse Shear Due to Diaphragms Below Flexural Hinge,”, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 135, no. 8, pp. 916-924, 2009.
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2007

P. Adebar, Ibrahim, A. A., and Bryson, M., “Test of High-rise Core Wall: Effective Stiffness for Seismic Analysis”, ACI Structural Journal, vol. 104, no. 5, pp. 549-559, 2007.
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2006

P. Adebar, “Drift capacity of walls accounting for shear: the 2004 Canadian code provisions”, Deformation Capacity and Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Members Under Cyclic Loading, ACI SP 236, pp. 151-170, 2006.
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Contact
adebar@civil.ubc.ca
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604.822.6820
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CEME - Room 2033

Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building
The University of British Columbia
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Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
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Department of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science
2002 - 6250 Applied Science Lane
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Tel 604 822 2637
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