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BillXiaofengZhang

Department:ArchitecturalEngineeringandConstructionScience
Email:billz@kstate.edu
Website:http://www.arecns.ksu.edu/people/faculty/billzhang
Phone:(785)5323583

Education
Ph.D. 2004
CivilEngineering
LehighUniversity,Bethlehem,PA
D.Eng. 1998
StructuralEngineering
SoutheastUniversity,Nanjing,China
M.Eng. 1994
StructuralEngineering
SoutheastUniversity,Nanjing,China
B.Eng. 1991
Industry&CivilBuildingEngineering SoutheastUniversity,NanjingChina

Academic/IndustrialExperience
Assistantprofessor,Dept.ofArchitecturalEngineering&ConstructionScience,KansasStateUniversity,2011
present
Assistantprofessor,Dept.ofCivil&EnvironmentalEngineering,TempleUniversity,20102011
Projectstructuralengineer,KlingStubbins,Philadelphia,20062010
Seniorstructuralengineer,Skidmore,Owings&Merrill(SOM),SanFrancisco,20052006

KeyWordsRelatedtoYourActivities
LicensedPEandSEinmultiplestates,LEEDaccreditedprofessional.Teachundergraduateandgraduatecoursesin
structuralengineering,inparticularinstructuraldesign,steelstructures,structuraldynamics,andearthquake
engineering.Researchinearthquakeengineering,steelstructures,dynamicandvibrationcontrol.Manuscript
reviewerforafewtopjournalsinstructuralengineeringandearthquakeengineering,e.g.,JournalofStructural
Engineering,EarthquakeSpectra,etc.

ShortDescriptionofEducationalInterests
Developandteachfundamentalandadvancedcoursesinstructuralengineering.
Adviseundergraduateandgraduatestudentsontheirprojectsandresearch.
Advisestudentgroupsrelatedtostructuralengineeringandarchitecturalengineering.

ShortDescriptionofResearchInterests
Innovativeandresilientstructuralsystemsandcomponentsagainstmultihazards.

ThreeRecentPublications
X.Zhang.(2012).Effectsofenergydissipatingcapacityonseismicperformanceofselfcenteringstructures.
STESSA.
Zhang,Z.,Zhou,G.,Li,A.,andZhang,X..(2011).Vibrationreductionofastadiumcorridorusingtunedmass
dampers.ProceedingsofASCEStructuresCongress.
Zhang,X.,andRicles,J..(2006).Seismicbehaviorofreducedbeamsectionmomentconnectionstodeep
columns.JournalofStructuralEngineering,ASCE,Vol.132(3),pp.358367.

Hardware/EquipmentCapabilitieswithinYourResearchActivities
None.Ifpossible,Iwouldliketoacquirefieldvibrationtestequipmentanddataacquisitionsystems,inorderto
conductvibrationcontrolresearch.

Software/SimulationCapabilitieswithinYourResearchActivities
ABAQUS,finiteelementsimulations(includingdynamicanalysis)
OpenSees,opensourcefiniteelementdynamicsimulation(academicplatform)
Commercialstructuralanalysispackages,e.g.,SAP2000,ETABS,RAM,RISA3D,etc.

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