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Civil Engineering 220E
Achintya Haldar
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Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Achintya Haldar's Full CV (PDF)Degrees
- Ph.D. Civil Engineering
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Probabilistic Evaluation of Liquefaction Potential of Saturated Sand under Earthquake Loading
Work Experience
- Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (1988 - Ongoing)
- Associate Professor, Georgia Inst. of Technology (1979 - 1988)
- Assistant Professor, Illinois Inst. of Technology (1978 - 1979)
- Staff Engineer, Bechtel Power Corporation (1976 - 1978)
- Teaching and Research Assistant, ,, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois (1972 - 1976)
- Junior Engineer, , , India, Engineers India Ltd. (1970 - 1972)
- Design Engineer, , Calcutta, India, Paharpur-Marley Cooling Tower Engineers (1968 - 1970)
Awards
- Honorary Distinguished Visiting Professor
- Executive Council of the University, Bengal Engineering and Science University , India, Second oldest Engineering Institute in India, Fall 2018
- Selected to give Global Initiative of Academic Network lectures
- Government of India, Fall 2017
- Certificate of Recognition
- 3rd Euro Congress on Steel and Structural Engineering, London, United Kingdom, Fall 2017
- Certificate of Appreciation, Taishan Academic Forum on Structural Safety and Reliability Assessment
- Shandong University, People Republic of China, Fall 2017
- A major keynote address
- ASCE, Spring 2016
- Institute Lecture
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, Spring 2016
- Guest Editor, special issue on Prognostics & Structuring Health Management
- SRESA’s International Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Jan – March, 2015 and Issue 2, April – June, 2015., Fall 2015
- Award for Excellence at the Student Interface
- College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Fall 2015
- College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Spring 2015
- College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Fall 2014
- College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Spring 2014
- Life Time Achievement Award
- Society for Reliability and Safety, Summer I 2015
- Inducted in to Teaching Excellence Award Wall
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2014
- Outstanding Faculty Member Award
- Graduating class, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arizona, Fall 2014
- Graduating class, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arizona, Fall 2013
- Graduating class, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Arizona, Fall 2012
- Guest Editor
- Special issues on Prognostics & Structuring Health Management, Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering, January and April 2015 issues., Summer I 2014
- Arizona Engineering Education Fellow
- College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Fall 2013
- College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Fall 2012
- Elected Fellow of Structural Engineering Institute
- Structural Engineering Institute, ASCE, Washington, D.C., Fall 2013
- Fellow of Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)
- American Society of Civil Engineers, Summer I 2013
- Invited Wenyuan Lecture Professorship
- Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Summer I 2013
- Award for Excellence at the Student Interface, College of Engineering, University of Arizona
- College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Spring 2013
- Distinguished Member of ASCE
- ASCE, Washington, D.C., Spring 2012
Licensure & Certification
- Professional Engineer, Board for Professional Engineers, Sacramento, CA (1977)
Interests
Teaching
Courses related to structures and risk & reliability
Research
Conducts research exclusively on risk and reliability applied to many branches of engineering.
Courses
Structural Dsgn Steel
CE 334 (Spring 2018)
Dissertation
CE 920 (Spring 2018)
CE 920 (Fall 2017)
CE 920 (Spring 2017)
CE 920 (Fall 2016)
Adv Struc Dsgn In Steel
CE 432 (Fall 2017)
CE 532 (Fall 2017)
CE 432 (Fall 2016)
CE 532 (Fall 2016)
Probabil+Stat Civil Engr
CE 310 (Fall 2017)
CE 310 (Spring 2017)
Independent Study
CE 599 (Fall 2017)
CE 599 (Spring 2017)
CE 599 (Fall 2016)
CE 599 (Summer I 2016)
Struc Dynm+Earthqke Engr
EM 633 (Spring 2017)
Master's Report
CE 909 (Spring 2017)
CE 909 (Fall 2016)
Probability Civil Engr
CE 510 (Fall 2016)
CE 410 (Fall 2016)
Selected Publications
Chapters
- Haldar, A., & Al-Hussein, A. .. (2016). Prognostics and Structural Health Assessment Using Uncertain Measured Response Information. In Current Trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety, Edited by U. Kumar, A. Ahmadi, A. K. Verma, and P. Varde(pp 165--186). Springer International Publishing.
- Haldar, A. (2015). Structural Reliability Estimation for Seismic Loading. In Springer Reference, http://www.springerreference.com/index/chapterdbid/382024, 2015, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_277-1.
- Das, A. K., & Haldar, A. (2013). Chapter 6 – A Novel Health Assessment Method for Large Three Dimensional Structures. In Health Assessment of Engineered Structures: Bridges, Buildings and Other Infrastructures(pp 149-178). New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing Co.
- Das, A. K., & Haldar, A. (2012). Structural Health Assessment Using Extended Kalman Filter. In Advances in Mathematics Research,ISBN 978-1-61324-928-4(pp 397-442). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Journals/Publications
- Azizsoltani, H., Gaxiola-Camacho, J. R., & Haldar, A. (2018). Site-Specific Seismic Design of Damage Tolerant Structural Systems Using a Novel Concept. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-018-0329-5
- Gaxiola-Camacho, J., Haldar, A., Azizsoltani, H., Valenzuela-Beltran, F., & Reyes-Salazar, A. (2018). Performance-Based Seismic Design of Steel Buildings Using Rigidities of Connections. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, 4(1), DOI--10.
- Al-Hussein, A. .., & Haldar, A. (2017). Complexities in Assessing Structural Health of Civil Infrastructures. Compexity, 2017(Article ID 2623805), doi--10.
- Al-Hussein, A., & Haldar, A. (2017). Structural Damage Prognosis of Three-Dimensional Large Structural Systems. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 13(12), 1596–1608. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2017.1304430
- Azizsoltani, H., & Haldar, A. (2017). Intelligent Computational Schemes for Designing more Seismic Damage-Tolerant Structures. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, http--dx.
- Gaxiola-Camacho, J. R., Azizsoltani, H., Villegas-Mercado, F. J., & Haldar, A. (2017). A novel reliability technique for implementation of Performance-Based Seismic Design of structures. Engineering Structures, 142, 137--147.
- Huh, J., Tran, Q. H., Haldar, A., Park, I., & Ahn, J. (2017). Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of a Shallow Two-Story Underground RC Box Structure. Applied Sciences, 7(735), doi--10.
- Mercado, F., Azizsoltani, H., Gaxiola-Camacho, J. R., & Haldar, A. (2017). Seismic Reliability Evaluation of Structural Systems for Different Soil Conditions. International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (IJGEE), 8(2), 23--38. doi:10.4018/IJGEE.2017070102
- Reyes-Salazar, A. .., Llanes-Tizoc, M. D., Boj'orquez, E., Luz, R., Lopez-Barraza, A. .., & Haldar, A. (2017). Strength Or Force Reduction Factors For Steel Buildings: MDOF Vs SDOF Systems. Journal of Vibroengineering, 19(4), 2680--2702.
- Tran, Q. H., Han, D., Kang, C., Haldar, A., & Huh, H. (2017). Effects of Ambient Temperature and Relative Humidity on Subsurface Defect Detection in Concrete Structures by Active Thermal Imaging. Sensors, 17(1718), doi--10.
- Farag, R., & Haldar, A. (2016). A Novel Concept for Reliability Evaluation Using Multiple Deterministic Analyses. INAE Letters, 1(3-4), 85--97.
- Farag, R., & Haldar, A. (2016). A novel reliability evaluation method for large engineering systems. Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 7(2), 613--625.
- Farag, R., Haldar, A., & El-Meligy, M. (2016). Reliability Analysis of Piles in Multilayer Soil in Mooring Dolphin Structures. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 138(5), 052001.
- Reyes-Salazar, A. .., Llanes-Tizoc, M. D., Bojorquez, J., Bojorquez, E., Lopez-Barraza, A. .., & Haldar, A. (2016). Force reduction factors for steel buildings with welded and post-tensioned connections. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 14, 2827--2858.
- Al-Hussein, A. .., & Haldar, A. (2015). Health Assessment of Nonlinear Structural Systems. SRESA’s International Journal of Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering, 4(1), 25--34.
Proceedings Publications
- Al-Hussein, A. .., & Haldar, A. (2017). Quality and Quantity of Measured Information in Structural Health Monitoring. In 12th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR'17).
- Azizsoltani, H., & Haldar, A. (2017). A Surrogate Concept of Multiple Deterministic Analyses of Non-linear Structures Excited by Dynamic Loadings. In 12th International Conference On Structural Safety And Reliability (ICOSSAR'17).
- Gaxiola-Camacho, J. R., Haldar, A., Villegas-Mercado, F. J., & Reyes-Salazar, A. .. (2017). Performance-Based Seismic Design Uing An Integrated Structural Reliability Evaluation Approach. In 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering.
- Haldar, A. (2017). Future of Structural Safety and Reliability Assessment. In Taishan Academic Forum on Structural Safety and Reliability Assessment, Shandong University, China.
- Haldar, A. (2017). Keynote Lecture - Design of Seismic Damage Tolerant Steel Structures. In 3rd Euro Congress on Steel and Steel Structures, London, U.K..
- Haldar, A. (2017). Risk Based Damage-Tolerant Seismic Design of Structures -- A New Paradigm. In Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN), Indian Institute of Technology -- Guwahati, India.
- Azizsoltani, H., Sen, N., & Haldar, A. (2016). Reliability Evaluation of Large Nonlinear Structures Excited by Dynamic Loadings Applied in Time Domain. In EMI/PMC 2016, ASCE.
- Haldar, A. (2016). Keynote Lecture - Structural Health Monitoring: Past, Present and Future. In Engineering Mechanics Institute and Probabilistic Mechanics and Reliability Conference, ASCE.
- Sen, N., Azizsoltani, H., & Haldar, A. (2016). Issues in Generating Response Surfaces for Reliability Analysis of Large Complex Dynamic Systems. In EMI/PMC 2016, ASCE.
- Al-Hussein, A. .., & Haldar, A. (2015). A Comparison of Unscented and Extended Kalman Filtering for Nonlinear System Identification. In 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering, (ICASP12), Vancouver, Canada,.
- Al-Hussein, A. .., & Haldar, A. (2015). Computational Intelligence for Structural Identifications. In IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2015), Cape Town, South Africa.
- Haldar, A., & Al-Hussein, A. .. (2015). Keynote - Prognostics and Structuring Health Assessment Using Uncertain Measured Response Information. In International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Hazard (ICRESH) and Advances in Reliability, Maintenance, and Safety (ARMS).
- Haldar, A., & Al-Hussein, A. (2014, Jan.). Structural Health Assessment: Challenges - Inaugural Keynote Paper. In International Conference on Disaster Mitigation, ICDM’14, K7-1 to K7-10.
- Haldar, A., & Al-Hussein, A. (2014, March). A new extension of unscented Kalman filter for structural health assessment with unknown input. In SPIE Smart Structures/NDE 2014.
- Al-Hussein, A., Das, A. K., & Haldar, A. (2013, January). A new approach for structural health assessment using unscented kalman filter. In Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, ICOSSAR 2013 (Referred), 1579-1585.
Others
- Azizsoltani, H., & Haldar, A. (2017, Spring, 2017). Risk Estimation Of Nonlinear Time Domain Dynamic Analyses Of Large Systems. University of Arizona.
- Gaxiola, C., & Haldar, A. (2017, Spring, 2017). Performance-Based Seismic Design Of Nonlinear Steel Structures Using A Novel Reliability Technique. University of Arizona.
- McGuire, M., & Haldar, A. (2017). Vibration Data Collection and Analysis for Industrial Applications.
- Aonyas, S., & Haldar, A. (2016, Fall). Case Study of Performance Based Seismic Design Approach of a Special Moment Frame. University of Arizona.
- Maciosek, J., & Haldar, A. (2016, December). Analysis and Mitigation of Vortex-Induced Vibrations in Overhead Transmission Line Conductors. University of Arizona.
- Al-Hussein, A. .., & Haldar, A. (2015, August). A Novel Technique for Structural Health Assessment in the Presence of Nonlinearity. University of Arizona.
- Camacho, J., & Haldar, A. (2015, Spring). Structural Reliability of Steel Moment Resisting Frames using Performance Based Seismic Design/Analysis Concept. University of Arizona.
- Haldar, A. (2014, Jan). Disaster Mitigation - Special Plenary Lecture as the Guest of Honor. International Conference on Disaster Mitigation, ICDM’14.
- Haldar, A. (2014, Spring). Inaugural Keynote paper - Engineering Computations of Large Infrastructures in the Presence of Uncertainty. 6th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing – Reliability and Computations of Infrastructures,pp. 96-115.
- Hartke, N., & Haldar, A. (2014, May). Flexural Strength on Post-Tensioned, Concrete-Filled, Tubular-Flanged Girders. University of Arizona.
- Milligan, J., & Haldar, A. (2014, May). Structural Design of Thermal Mass. University of Arizona.
- Haldar, A., & Sedgeman, A. (2013, May). America’s Current Infrastructure and Health Assessment of Bridges. University of Arizona.
- Rey, A. I., & Haldar, A. (2013, May). Determination of Axial Strength Resistance Factors for Drilled Shafts in Arizona Soils using AASHTO Beta Method. University of Arizona.
- Das, A. K., & Haldar, A. (2012, December). Health Assessment of Three Dimensional Large Structural Systems Using Limited Uncertain Dynamic Response Information. University of Arizona.
- Haldar, A., & Mahadevan, S. (2000). Probability, reliability, and statistical methods in engineering design.