Presentations will be heldin Whitaker Lab 303 atLehigh University
Receptions to precede
events starting at 4:10 P.M.

2018

FAZLUR RAHMAN KHANDISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Honoring a legacy in structural engineering and architecture

Friday, February 23, 2018
4:30 P.M.
Surendra P. Shah

Walter P. Murphy Professorof Civil Engineering (Emeritus)
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

SUSTAINABILITY IN CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION
BASED ON NANOTECHNOLOGYSupertall buildings such as the one km high Kingdom Tower are constructed with concrete asa structural material. Such tall buildings are made with so-called high performance concrete,
which can have strength 5 times that of conventional concrete. The development of highstrength concrete is a result of our understanding of particle packing, rheology and microstructureengineering. Concrete is a critical material for infrastructure; the world wide consumption ofconcrete is about 2 tons for every living human being. However, its continuing use will require
improving its sustainability. Nanotechnology is playing an increasing role in making concrete
more sustainable. Some examples are given.

FROM BILBAO TO JEDDAH: AN ENGINEER’S JOURNEY

Friday, March 23, 2018
4:30 P.M.
Robert Sinn

Principal, Thornton Tomasetti
Chicago, IL

Friday, April 13, 2018
4:30 P.M.
Yozo Fujino

Distinguished Professor, Instituteof Advanced Sciences
Yokohama National University
Yokohama, Japan

Two projects conceived twenty years apart. One, a three-story museum in the capital city ofSpain’s Basque country, changed the face of architecture upon opening in 1997 and waslabeled “the greatest building of our time” by architect Philip Johnson. The other, an audacious
240-story tower in the Red Sea port of Jeddah, is planned to be the first manmade structure toreach one kilometer in height – an achievement comparable to a Neil Armstrong moment forstructural engineers and architects. The engineering logic and structural systems development
for these landmark projects are important chapters in the ongoing story of computer-based
geometric and structural engineering analysis within the building industry. The presentation
will compare the two projects, focusing on the key technical challenges and the analytical tools
available to realize these groundbreaking designs.

LESSONS LEARNED FROM 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCEIN DYNAMICS, MONITORING AND CONTROL OF BRIDGES
Increasingly, bridges exhibit excessive vibration due to longer spans and greater flexibility, as
well as excessive loading; hence, various control remedies have been developed and applied.
Based on Prof. Fujino’s extensive experience, various vibration displayed by existing bridges
and their control are surveyed. The importance of measured vibration responses will also bepresented through several examples. It is strongly stressed that monitoring in situ performanceof bridges under in-service loads is essential for not only better understanding of bridge
behavior, but also better lifetime management.

ABOUT THE KHAN SERIESIn step with the abounding vitality of the time, structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929-1982) ushered in arenaissance in skyscraper construction during the second half of the 20th century. Fazlur Khan was a pragmatic visionary:
the series of progressive ideas that he brought forth for efficient high-rise construction in the 1960s and ‘70s were validated
in his own work, notably his efficient designs for Chicago’s 100-story John Hancock Center and 110-story Willis (formerlySears) Tower -- the tallest building in the United States since its completion in 1974.
Lehigh endowed a chair in structural engineering and architecture and has established this lecture series in Khan’shonor. It is organized by Professor Dan M. Frangopol, the university’s inaugural holder of the Fazlur Rahman Khan
Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture, and sponsored by the Departments of Civil & Environmental
Engineering, and Art, Architecture & Design.

This lecture series is sponsored by:
Civil & Environmental Engineering:
College of Engineering & Applied Science;
Art, Architecture & Design:
College of Arts & Sciences

1 PDH will be awardedto eligible attendees
for each lecture.

FAZLURRAHMAN
KHAN

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The Fazlur Rahman Khan Distinguished Lecture Series

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Honoring a legacy in structural engineering and architecture
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Fazlur Rahman Khan

Lynn S. Beedle

1929 - 1982

1917 - 2003

Fazlur Rahman Khan ushered in a renaissance in skyscraper construction during the second half ofthe 20th century. Khan was a pragmatic visionary: the series of progressive ideas that he brought
forth for efficient high-rise construction in the 1960s and 1970s were validated in his own work,
notably his efficient designs for Chicago’s 100-story John Hancock Center and 110-story Sears Tower(the tallest building in the United States since its completion in 1974).

In July 1947, Lynn joined Lehigh University as ResearchInstructor and rose to Full Professor in 10 years. In recognitionof his professional and research achievements, he wasappointed to a University Distinguished Professorship in 1978.

His characteristic statement to an editor in 1971, having just been selected Construction’s Man of theYear by Engineering News Record, is commemorated on a plaque in Onterie Center, Chicago: “Thetechnical man must not be lost in his own technology. He must be able to appreciate life; and life isart, drama, music, and most importantly, people.”2018 SPEAKERS

2018

Following the premature death of Fazlur Khan in 1982, Beedle
organized the establishment at Lehigh University of the Fazlur
Rahman Khan Endowed Chair.

SPEAKERS - 2017
Eugen Brühwiler

Lawrence G. Griffis

Peter A. Weismantle

Professor and Dr. Structural Engineer
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne, Switzerland

Senior Principal/Senior Consultant
Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc.
Austin, TX

Director of Supertall Building Technology
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Chicago, IL

Getting More Out of Existing Bridges

Design and Construction ofCowboys StadiumArchitectural Technical Design of the
New Generation of Supertall Buildings

February 17, 2017

March 31, 2017

April 21, 2017

SPEAKERS - 2016

Surendra P. ShahWalter P. Murphy Professor of Civil
Engineering (Emeritus)
Northwestern University Evanston, IL

Sustainability in Concrete
Construction Based on
Nanotechnology

Ronald O. Hamburger

John Zils

Jin-Guang Teng

Senior Principal
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.
San Francisco, CA

Senior Structural Consultant
Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLPChicago, IL

Chair Professor of Structural Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong, China

Performance-based Design: What, How,When, Why, and Why Not to Use It

Lessons Learned

Structural Use of FRP Composites inConstruction: Past Achievements andFuture Opportunities

March 4, 2016

April 15, 2016

April 22, 2016

SPEAKERS - 2015
William Pedersen

Glenn R. BellPeter Marti

Founding Design Partner
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
New York, NY

Chief Executive Officer
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Waltham, MA

Professor of Structural Engineering
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Balancing

Structural Engineering at Mid-21stCentury: Reengineering Our Roles

Science and Art of StructuralEngineering

February 20, 2015

March 20, 2015

April 17, 2015

SPEAKERS - 2014

February 23, 2018

James R. Harris

Jon D. Magnusson

Charles H. Thorton

Principal
J.R. Harris & Company
Denver, CO

Senior Principal
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Seattle, WA

ChairmanCharles H. Thornton & Company, LLC
New York, NY

The Evolution of Building Design toResist Earthquakes

Structure Becoming Architecture: Case
Studies of Aesthetics, Form andEfficiency

Renaissance, Rebirth and Disruptive
Innovation

March 22, 2014

April 19, 2014

February 15, 2014

SPEAKERS - 2013
R. Shankar NairJohn M. Kulicki

Alfredo H-S. Ang

Senior Vice President
exp US Services Inc.
Chicago, IL

Chairman/CEOModjeski and Masters Inc.
Mechanicsburg, PA

Research Professor
University of California
Irvine, CAThe Evolution of the Skyscraper

Observations on AASHTO Bridge Design

February 15, 2013

March 22, 2013

Minimizing the Effects of Uncertainties inDeveloping Reliability-Based Design
Criteria
April 19, 2013

SPEAKERS - 2012
Ross B. Corotis

Sharon L. Wood

Ted V. Galambos

Denver Business Challenge Professor of Engineering,
University of Colorado at BoulderBoulder, CORobert L. Parker, Sr. Professor in Engineering and Chair,
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental
Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Professor Emeritus, Structural Engineering,
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Principal
Thornton Tomasetti
Chicago, IL

Natural Hazard Risk: Public Perceptions& Political Perversities

Opportunities and Challenges for
Infrastructure Monitoring

The Safety of Bridges

February 17, 2012

March 23, 2012

April 20, 2012

From Bilbao to Jeddah: An
Engineer’s JourneyDavid Scott

Chris D. Poland

David Billington

Masayoshi Nakashima

Arup, Americas Building
Practice Leader
New York, NY

Degenkolb Engineers
Chairman & CEOSan Francisco, CAPrinceton University
Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor ofEngineering, Emeritus, Princeton, NJ

Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention
Research InstituteKyoto, Japan

Extreme Engineering

Building Disaster Resilient
Communities

Safeguarding Quality of
Life:The Role of LargeScale Testing

February 18, 2011

Personal and Professional
Recollections of Fazlur
KhanApril 8, 2011

September 9, 2011

September 23, 2011

Robert Sinn

SPEAKERS - 2011

March 23, 2018

SPEAKERS - 2010Zdeněk P. BažantRon Klemencic

John E. Breen

McCormick Institute & Walter P. Murphy Professor
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

President
Magnusson Klemencic AssociatesSeattle, WA

Professor/Nasser I. Al-Rashid Chair in Civil Engineering
The University of Texas
Austin, TX

OUTRAGEOUS!

The ABCD’s of Bridge Building:Affordable, Beautiful, Constructible,
DurableMarch 19, 2010

April 16, 2010

Progress Engendered by Collapses ofRecord Setting Structures: Malpasset
Dam, World Trade Center Towers andKB Bridge in Palau
February 26, 2010

SPEAKERS - 2009

Yozo Fujino

William F. Baker

Bruce R. Ellingwood

Leslie E. Robertson Associates, R.L.L.P.
New York, NY

Partner
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Chicago & London

Distinguished Professor & Raymond Allen Jones ChairGeorgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

The Architect and the StructuralEngineer – Partners in Design

Engineering the World’s Tallest: BurjDubai

Abnormal Loads & Progressive Collapse– Assessment & Mitigation of Risk

February 20, 2009

March 20, 2009

April 17, 2009

SPEAKERS - 2008

Distinguished Professor
Institute of Advanced Sciences
Yokohama National University
Yokohama, Japan

Lessons Learned from 30 Years ofExperience in Dynamics, Monitoring
and Control of Bridges
April 13, 2018

Leslie E. Robertson

Richard Tomasetti

Jeremy Isenberg

John W. Fisher

Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.
New York, NY

Past-President and CEO
Weidlinger Associates, Inc.
New York, NY

Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

Engineering of Major Architecture, Thenand Now

Structural Design for Security—Past
Accomplishments and Future Directions

Overcoming Barriers to Durable Steel
Bridge Systems

February 15, 2008

March 14, 2008

April 18, 2008

SPEAKERS - 2007
Mark Sarkisian

Man-Chung Tang

W. Gene CorleyPartner
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
San Francisco, CA

Chairman of the Board
T.Y. Lin International
San Francisco, CA

Senior Vice President
CTLGroup
Skokie, IL

Khan’s Vision

Why? Why Not? What If?

February 9, 2007

March 16, 2007

Learning from the Attacks on anAmerican Icon - World Trade Center
Building: Performance Study

Fazlur Rahman Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture

April 20, 2007

http://www.lehigh.edu/~dmf206

Lehigh University endowed a chair in structural engineering and architecture in Khan’s honor and in August 2006 appointed Professor Dan M. Frangopol, an expert in structural reliability, optimization, civil infrastructure
systems, and life-cycle engineering, as the university’s inaugural holder of the Fazlur Rahman Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture. Dr. Frangopol is the initiator and organizer of the Fazlur Rahman
Khan Distinguished Lecture Series.