Degrees:

1979	Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
1974	M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
1970	B.S. in Civil Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

Academic Positions:

1992-present	Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois
1994	Visiting Professor of Structural Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy
1985-92	Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois
1979-84	Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
1978	Instructor, University of Illinois
1975-79	Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Illinois

Professional Experience:

1974-75	Structural Engineer, Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco
1970-73	Structural Engineer, Sargent & Lundy Engineers, Chicago

Related Activities:

1. Member, NSF sponsored Technical Coordination Committee for Masonry Research (1987-93).

2. Chair, Fifth North American Masonry Conference, June 1990.

3. Member of Editorial Board for Journal of The Masonry Society, June 1990-present.

4. Chair, ASCE Technical Administrative Committee on Concrete and Masonry Structures (1990-93).

5. Member, NSF sponsored Repair and Retrofit Research Program (1990-95).

6. Member of NCEER Research Committee (1991-present).

7. Fellow, American Concrete Institute, (1992-present).

8. President of The Masonry Society (1992-1994), Vice President (1990-92), Secretary-Treasurer (1988-90).

9. Chair, ACI-ASCE Committee 442 on Lateral Forces in Concrete Structures, (1992-94).

10. Program Manager of TMS Investigating Disasters project (1993-96).

11. Chair, EERI Experimental Research Committee (1993-present).

12. Manager of Chapter on Masonry Structures, ATC Project 33 Development of Guidelines/Commentary for Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings (1993-present).

13. Member, NSF sponsored Precast Seismic Structural Systems Research Program (1993-present).

14. Organizer of NCEER sponsored Workshop on Seismic Response of Masonry Infills, San Francisco, February, 1994.

15. Organizer of NCEER sponsored Workshop on Guidelines for Seismic Rehabilitation of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings, University of Pavia, Italy, June 1994

16. Chair, Technical Subcommittee 5 on Masonry Structures, Provisions Update Committee of Building Seismic Safety Council (1995- present).

17. Member, Masonry Standards Joint Committee (1995-present).

18. Member of Editorial Board for Journal of Earthquake Engineering, London, December (1995-present).

19. Invited keynote speaker at Fourth Australasian Masonry Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, November 1995.

20. Chair, Structural Engineering Faculty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995-present).
    1. Editor of Theme Issue of Earthquake Spectra on Experimental Methods, February 1996, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
    2. Invited keynote speaker at ASCE Structures Congress, Chicago, April, 1996.
    3. Invited plenary speaker at Seventh North American Masonry Conference, University of Notre Dame, June 1996.

Publications

Five Papers Related to Proposed Project:

1. Abrams, D.P. and T.J. Paulson, Modeling Concrete Masonry Building Structures at One-Quarter Scale, Structural Journal of the American Concrete Institute, Title No. 88-S50, Vol. 88, No. 4, July-August 1991, pp. 475-485.

2. Abrams, D.P., Effects of Scale and Loading Rate with Tests of Concrete and Masonry Structures, Earthquake Spectra, Journal of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Vol. 12, No. 1, February 1996.

3. Tena-Colunga, A., and D.P. Abrams, Dynamic Response of Building Systems with Flexible Diaphragms, Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 122, No. 4, American Society of Civil Engineers, April 1996.

4. Abrams, D.P., Response of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings, Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Imperial College Press, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1996.

5. Abrams, D.P., R. Angel and J. Uzarski, Out-of-Plane Strength of Unreinforced Masonry Infill Panels, Earthquake Spectra, Journal of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Vol. 12, No. 4, November, 1996.

Five Other Significant Publications:

1. McNary, W.S. and D.P. Abrams, Mechanics of Clay-Unit Masonry in Compression, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 111, No. 4, April 1985, 857-870.

2. Abrams, D.P., Influence of Axial Force Variations on Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Columns, Title No. 84-S26, Structural Journal of the American Concrete Institute Vol. 84 No. 3, May-June 1987, pp. 246-254.

3. Paulson, T.J., D.P. Abrams and R. Mayes, Base Isolation of Masonry Building Structures, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, November 1991, Vol. 117, Number 11, pp. 3315-3336.

4. Abrams, D.P., Laboratory Definitions of Behavior for Structural Components and Building Systems, Inelastic Design Procedures for Reinforced Concrete Structures Subjected to Earthquakes, ACI SP 127, Library of Congress No. 91-73196, September 1991, 63pp.

5. Epperson, G.S., and D.P. Abrams, Evaluating Lateral Strength of Existing Unreinforced Brick Masonry Piers in the Laboratory, Journal of The Masonry Society, Vol. 10 No. 2, February 1992, pp. 86-93.

Persons who have collaborated on a project or publication in last 48 months (including this proposal):

Ian Buckle, James Beavers, Ron Eguchi, Barry Goodno, Phil Gould, William Hall, Neil Hawkins, Robert Herrmann, Howard Hwang, William Holmes, James Jirsa, Arch Johnston, Eduardo Kausel, George Lee, Steve Mahin, Jack Moehle, Nigel Priestley, Jose Roesset, Chris Rojahn, Dan Shapiro, M. Shinozuka, Sharon Wood, and Richard White.

Graduate students and postdoctoral students in last five years:

Richard Angel, Brian Bell, Andrew Costley, Jose Diaz, David Fiske, Nicholas Hyatt, Nicolas Lleras, Nariv Shah, Arturo Tena-Colunga, and Weijia Xu

Total number of graduate students advised and postdoctoral students sponsored: 22

Graduate Advisor: Mete Sozen, Purdue University

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