nel who Participated in NIST WTC Studies

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kpatrick* Nonlinear finite element analysis; blast, impact, and penetration mechanics; structural dyna

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crashworthiness and transportation safety; dynamic buckling; mechanics of composite materials.

Bocchieri Solid mechanics, materials constitutive modeling; rate-dependent material behavior, fracture mechanics

failure analysis; mechanics of composite materials; nonlinear viscoelasticity; applied mechanics; finite ele

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analysis; structural dynamics; crashworthiness and transportation safety; nondestructive evaluation of mat

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and structures.

Cilke “Benefits to the Warfighter from DTRA Hard Target Defeat Air-Delivered Weapon Testing”

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dy From: http://www.sbafla.com/methodology/pdf/2000/ara/ARA%20FCHLPM%20Feb2001.pdf

 Marsh Hardy, M.S. - Mr. Marshall Hardy has over ten years experience in applied statistical analysis andprobabilistic risk assessment. He has a Masters degree in Statistics from the University of Kentucky. H

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approximately 4 years experience in support of hurricane modeling relevant to insurance loss analysis an

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making. Mr. Hardy performs multivariate statistical analysis and tests for ARA’s wind engineering applicatHe has aided in the design of simulations, analyzed loss distributions, and performed multivariate analys

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hurricane damage and loss data sets. He has aided in the development of loss functions. He was a key develof ARA’s TORSCR code that is now the nuclear power industry standard for PRA for extreme wind and tornmissile hazard. He has applied the TORSCR code and statistically characterized distribution parameters fonuclear power plant PRAs. Mr. Hardy has also served as lead statistical analyst on numerous DoD, NSF,EPA projects. This experience involved statistical modeling of uncertainty in nonlinear elastoplastic respo

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wind, or multivariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) to identify dominant uncertainties in the predi

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methodologies, and cluster analysis for code validation. Mr. Hardy is an expert in the SAS statistical an

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system that will be used in this work and is also an experienced FORTRAN programmer on a numb

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systems including the DNA Cray at Los Alamos, DEC minicomputers, and PCs.

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lmes http://www.redwingengineering.com/biography.html

Dr. Holmes is an accomplished project leader and principal investigator with 40 years of engineering experiincluding research in computational fluid dynamics, offshore oil platform hydrodynamics, computatiaeroacoustics, explosive blast effects, laser effects, finite element analysis, and structural dynamics. Mrecently, Dr. Holmes was Vice President of Engineering Services at ACUSIM Software, Inc., and previowas a Principal Engineer at Applied Research Associates, Inc., and Director of Engineering Services for CenInc. He has acted as principal investigator for a wide variety of fluid mechanics problems including developmof blood flow damage models funded by NIH, the flow through blood pumps and the behavior of stentsallographs. Other experience includes studies of flows in automobile cabins, engine exhaust, computatiaeroacoustics, train aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, as well as related dynamic structural response and imstudies. Also: 1982-1992 SRI INTERNATIONAL,

MacNeill Mr. MacNeill has over 5 years engineering experience including specialized experience involving heat tran

in composite materials, vehicle crashworthiness, and solid rocket motor and infrared countermeasure deanalysis, and testing. As a research engineer at ARA, Mr. MacNeill has been involved in a wide assortmenprograms including passing train aerodynamics, passenger car and train crashworthiness, and laser heaeffects on pressurized rocket motor cases. Before joining ARA, Mr. MacNeill worked as a research engineerIPT lead for solid rocket motor subsystems at Pratt & Whitney. Prior to P&W, he was a project engianalyzing, designing, and testing next generation pyrotechnic infrared countermeasures for Tracor Aerospacaddition to his practical design and testing experience, Mr. MacNeill has an extensive and varied analybackground including work in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, solid mechanics, analysis of dynamic systand threat engagement analysis.

avarro Ms. Navarro is currently supporting projects in finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics. Be

joining ARA, Ms. Navarro was a research assistant at The University of Texas at Austin where she worked lasers and optics to detect isotope gas ratios for biomedical applications. Ms. Navarro has a varied backgroincluding coursework in aerospace engineering, physics, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligemathematics, and computer science.Professional Experience

eterson Dynamic response of structures to penetration and explosive loads; Fatigue cracking of nickel all

Assessment of industrial hazards.1997 – 2003: Research Engineer, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Led and performed research projects on the response of materials and structuresunder impact, explosion, and other dynamic conditions.

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Wu Dr. Justin Wu is the technical lead in performing the uncertainty analysis of this project. Dr. Wu is the dire

of probabilistic engineering at ARA. He is a renowned expert in probabilistic methods with 20 yearexperience in the development and application of innovative physics-based probabilistic methods for a wrange of applications including structural reliability analysis and design of space shuttle, aircraft, offspipeline, power plant, and automotive; nuclear waste repository risk assessment, and hard target uncertaanalysis. Dr. Wu heads the development of ARA’s ProFES (Probabilistic Function Evaluation System) softwpackage, previously supported by the Air Force and NASA. He also leads the development of methodoloand software tools for hard target uncertainty analysis for DTRA, reliability-based multi-disciplinary designNASA, and rotorcraft probabilistic damage tolerance analysis for FAA. He has more than 100 publicationsWu has a doctorate in mechanical engineering from University of Arizona.

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Bill Baker is the partner in charge of Structural and Civil Engineering for the Chicago and London offices of

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Mr. Baker pursues a collaborative process which resonates with SOM’smultidisciplinary practice. His approach to structural engineering seeks to integrate form, function, andaesthetics. Since joining the firm in 1981, Mr. Baker has worked on a broad range of engineering projectsincluding designing structural systems for supertall buildings, to smaller, specialized structures and engineercollaborations with artists.Mr. Baker leads the Structural Engineering studio to ensure that quality, innovation, material economy, and cefficiency are customized to fit each project’s scope and needs. Mr. Baker has developed the structural systefor the Burj Dubai, which is planned to become the world’s tallest building in 2009. His recent completedprojects include the long span structure of the Virginia Beach Convention Center and the glass cable-netentrance pavilion of the General Motors Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan.In addition to his work at SOM, Mr. Baker is frequently invited to lecture on a variety of structural and civilengineering topics within the U.S. and abroad.

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Mr. Robert C. Sinn, PE, SE, is a senior structural engineer and associate partner at SOM and has about 19 yearsof structural engineering experience ranging from high-rise buildings to long-span roofs. Mr. Sinn has extensiveexperience in computer-applied analysis and design techniques. He is a fellow of the American Society of CivilEngineers (ASCE). In 1999, he received ASCE’s award for innovation in Civil Engineering for his work on theGuggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain. Examples of his design projects include:

• Structural engineering peer review of the Petronas towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1996): two 88-story

towers

• Plaza Rakyat Office Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1999): a 77 story tower• Xiamen Posts and Telecommunications Building, Fujian Province, China (2000): a 66-story office tower• 7 South Dearborn, Chicago (2002): a proposal for 110 story office, retail and residential tower

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Mr. John J. Zils, PE, SE, is a senior structural engineer and associate partner at SOM with about 37 years ofstructural engineering experience including many of SOM’s best known and most complex structures. He is afellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He haspublished numerous articles on engineering advancements, lectures frequently, and has served as an adjunctprofessor at the University of Illinois. Examples of his design projects include:

• The Sears Tower, Chicago (1974): a 110-story office building• Onterie Center Tower, Chicago (1984): a 60 story residential tower• Dearborn Tower, Chicago (1990): a proposal for 84-story office and retail complex• 7 South Dearborn, Chicago (2002): a proposal for 110 story office, retail and residential tower

ey* Mr. Hervey has experience in testing and related work on structural steel protected with spray-applied

resistive materials and mastic and intumescent coatings

adway* Mr. Treadway has 13 years experience in the testing of protection materials for structural steel in accord

with ANSI/UL 263, “Fire Tests of Building Construction and Materials,” and ANSI/UL 1709, “Rapid RiseTests of Protection Materials for Structural Steel.”

orek No information found

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y Probably a technician... from: http://911-engineers.blogspot.com/2007_09_23_archive.html

An Oversized BarbecueAt the Underwriters Laboratory campus in this northern Chicago suburb, where workers carry out those blatests in a yawning building reminiscent of an airplane hangar, forklifts shuttle back and forth, moving hcolumns, while cranes suspended from overhead rails slowly lift giant sections of roof into the furnacestechnicians mill about in front of a forest of dials, gauges and controls.Three huge furnaces, each in a separate corner of the hangar, are designed to handle three different tests: onsteel columns, one for wall assemblies, and one for ceilings and floors. Little about the setup is high-tech.''Do you need the torch, Bill?'' Eckhard Brodde, an assistant, yelled to the foreman, Bill Joy, as the two prepthe cube-shaped furnace for testing columns last week.''Let's close the door first,'' Mr. Joy yelled back. Both gave it a heavy push. ''It is not moving,'' Mr. Joy before an extra shove was applied. ''There you go,'' he said, as the door clicked into place.As if lighting an oversized barbecue, Mr. Joy sets fire to a kerosene-soaked rag and sticks it through a sopening in the furnace. ''Three, two, one -- gas on,'' he shouts, as the flames burst into life.With this inferno of flames racing from dozens of gas jets, these workers are determining just how long the column and its fireproofing can hold up under this thermal assault.The result is a fire rating, expressed in hours, for this column, and eventually for countless different componthat make up a building, from sections of roofing to walls for emergency exit stairways to assemblies of gbrick and plaster that make up a building facade. A column might be given a ''two-hour'' rating, meaning thhas withstood two hours in the furnace at temperatures that research done in the 1910's determined to be typof office fires of the day.

moser Probably expertise in computation or modelling of fires: (link)

“A computational study on the use of balconies to reduce flame spread in high-rise apartment firesJohn H. Mammoser III , , a and Francine Battaglia b”

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Dr. Raymond H. R. Tide has over 35 years of structural engineering experience involving steel structures

has been a member of the AISC Specifications Committee for over 20 years. At the time of the design oWTC complex, he was involved in research concerning composite behavior of open-web steel joists as usethe WTC towers. Later he was involved in the development of column buckling studies including compresmembers comprised of angles. Subsequent to the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake, he was involvenumerous AWS- and FEMA-sponsored investigations on performance of steel structures and their connectiHis experience includes evaluation of numerous fire-damaged steel structures and the evaluation of fracturstructural steel. He has authored numerous technical papers in these areas.

ulson Mr. Conrad Paulson has over 25 years experience in laboratory testing, research and failure investigatio

structures, structural components and structural materials. He has been involved in structural analysis and dereview of many highrise buildings, including wind load and gravity load analysis of the 84-story AON Ce(formerly Amoco, and originally Standard Oil) building in Chicago. As consultant to the U.S. DepartmenState, he has performed post-earthquake reconnaissance and seismic structural analysis of highrise and lowbuildings. He has participated in several major failure investigations, including the collapse of the New YState Thruway bridge over Schoharie Creek, and an analytical evaluation of a fire-damaged 38-story highstructural steel building. His research and testing background includes studies for the National CooperaHighway Research Program and others on elastic fatigue, inelastic fatigue, tensile properties and fracturreinforcing steels.

Mr. James J. Hauck has significant experience in the structural analysis, design, detailing, and constructio

midrise and highrise building structures. The analysis work has included extensive use of finite element anafor strength and stability evaluation of multi-story frames, slab systems, and thin-shell domes. Mr. Hauckinvestigated failures and problems in numerous buildings and other structures, including the evaluation of structures damaged by fire.

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Mr. Raymond A. Grill, P.E. FSFPE, Principal Investigator, is the Senior Vice President for the Northeast of

of RJA, responsible for RJA operations in Boston, New York and Washington, D.C. He has practicedprotection engineering for over 20 years. He served on the International Fire Code Performance DrafCommittee and as Chair of the Fundamentals of Fire Alarm Systems technical committee of NFPA 72, NatiFire Alarm Code. Mr. Grill was a co-Chairperson of the New York City Fire Alarm Code Revision Commresponsible for converting the committee’s work into code language. He has extensive experience indevelopment of comprehensive fire protection programs for major structures and the developmenequivalencies to building and fire code requirements. He has published in a wide variety of fire protecpublications including editing the Detection and Alarm Section of the 19th edition of the NFPA Fire ProtecHandbook and a chapter of the recently published Handbook to the 2002 Edition of the National Fire ACode. Mr. Grill is a registered Fire Protection Engineer and Mechanical Engineer. He is licensed in New Yand in other states. He is a Fellow and member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Fire ProtecEngineers.

In addition, Ed Armm President of the AFAANJ was awarded a Service Award for his outstanding contribut

to AFAA and the fire alarm industry.(http://www.afaanj.org/MeetingInfo/2008AnnualAFAAMeetingInfo/tabid/193/Default.aspx)

n Mr. Thomas Brown, P.E., is a Senior Vice President with responsibility for the Fairfax, Virginia, Office of R

He has extensive experience in the design of fire alarm systems for buildings and in-depth construcmanagement experience in coordinating the installation of fire alarm, life safety, emergency communicationfire alarm interfaces for smoke management, and fire suppression systems. Mr. Brown was heavily involvethe onsite investigation of the Meridian Plaza high-rise building fire that involved tracing of all fire asystem conduits and devices to document system conditions prior to the fire and reviewing all documrelative to design and construction of the fire alarm system over the lifetime of the building.

ghamee* Dr. Mehdi Zharghamee is a Principal and Head of the Engineering Mechanics and Infrastructure Divisio

SGH and has 30 years of engineering experience in analysis and design of precision structures. He has bresponsible for analysis, design, and failure investigation of complex structural and mechanical systemsZarghamee has a doctorate in structural engineering from the University of Illinois and his S.M. in Mathemfrom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Glen Bell, Principal and Chief Executive Officer, has been with SGH for 28 years. Mr. Bell specialize

structural failure investigations and has extensive experience in earthquake engineering, structural designrehabilitation. He received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and his M.S. in StrucEngineering and Structural Mechanics from the University of California at Berkeley.

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rchi Said Bolourchi, Staff Consultant, has 24 years of experience. His expertise is in risk assessment and fa

analysis and evaluations including nonlinear dynamic analysis and response spectrum analysis of structuresBolourchi received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Queen Mary College, London, and his M.Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Eggers Likely to be finite element modelling

rbay Dr. Omer Erbay is a Senior Engineer with SGH and has experience with the analysis of the structural resp

of the WTC towers to impact damage and fire conditions and structural analysis of buildings and bridge pDr. Erbay has a doctorate in structural engineering from the University of Illinois.

urger Ronald Hamburger, a Principal at SGH, has 28 years of experience in civil and structural engineering, dam

and forensic investigations, engineering research, building code and standards development and promanagement. He was a member of the Building Performance Assessment Team that investigated the collapthe World Trade Center Buildings in New York. Mr. Hamburger received his M.B.A. from Golden University and his B.S. and M.S. from the Polytechnic Institute of New York.

Frank Kan, a Senior Project Manager, has been with SGH for 16 years. He has been involved in structural

seismic analysis, design, and investigation of buildings, bridges and special structures. Mr. Kan receivedB.Eng. in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from McMaster University, Ontario, and his M.Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As Computation Manager, Mr. Kan wiresponsible for all computational aspects of the project as well as coordination between the SGH ComputaTeam and the CAEA Consultant Team.

ane Likely to be finite element modelling

ns Atis Liepins, a Senior Associate has been with SGH for 25 years. He is an expert in the performance of f

element analysis, structural design, and failure analysis. Mr. Liepins received his S.B., S.M., and C.E. in CEngineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

udlock Michael Mudlock is an engineer with Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger Inc. He received. his BS and MS in 

engineering from Lehigh University. ...

Naguib Involved in modelling concrete flow/creep in one study

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Ojdrovic From: http://www.trenchlessonline.com/index/webapp-stories-action?id=375&archive=yes&Issue=2005-06-

Rasko P. Ojdrovic, PhD., P.E., of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., gave a presentation titled, PCCP DeFailure Mechanisms and Forensic Investigations. The talk centered on the construction of PCCP pipes, strenand weaknesses of both design and materials and ways of investigating and assessing pipe failure. PCCP can last a design lifetime with high reliability if properly maintained, he said.Also discussed were testing methods for identifying which pipes had significant wire breakage. A pipestructure, and structural analysis is essential to understanding its performance, said Ojdrovic.Did a paper for/at Lawrence Livermore Labs:

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/10143064-I90uhe/native/10143064.PDF

This link will show a list of papers he has contributed to.

 Sarawit Developed a MATLAB program for Global Buckling Analysis of Thin-walled Members

Also wrote a paper on load analysis for Industrial Storage racks.

e Pedro Sifre, Senior Project Manager, has 16 years of experience in high-rise building design and optimizatio

lateral load resisting systems. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering and his M.S. in AeronauticsAstronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his M.S. in Structural Engineering fromUniversity of California at Berkeley.

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