Matthew R. Eatherton
Matthew Eatherton, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Virginia Tech, USA. He started at Virginia Tech in 2010 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Before entering the PhD program, he worked for seven years in California as a practicing structural engineer. His research has focused on understanding structural response due to earthquakes, and analysis and design of steel structures, developing new structural systems with enhanced seismic performance.
He is also an active member of the AISC Manuals committee and two AISC technical committees as well as contributing to BSSC PUC issue teams. In 2016, he received the ASCE Moissef Paper award and the AISC Early Faculty Award. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2015, and the AISC Milek Faculty Fellowship in 2012. At Virginia Tech, he was named the Raymond G. and Madelyn Ann Curry Faculty Fellow in 2018.
Trai Nguyen
Trai Nguyen, PhD student, is a Graduate Research Assistant at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Virginia Tech, USA. Before joining Virginia Tech, he completed MS degree in Civil Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins and BS degree at Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Vietnam.
His research interests are steel structures, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, experimental, numerical, and analytical simulations. His current research topic is Analytical Development and Experimental Study of Optimized Structural Fuse Shapes for Resilient Structural Systems.
Acknowledgement
This website is based upon the work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CMMI –1453960. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflects the views of the National Science Foundation or other sponsors.