The familiar 160 foot height limit appearing in ASCE 7 has no scientific backing.
I’m a structural engineer. I live in Vancouver, BC. I try to prevent structures from collapsing in earthquakes. I use tools like finite element and nonlinear analysis to make it happen.
Previously I was a graduate student at UBC where I worked on topics such as the seismic performance of tall buildings, effect of vertical ground motions on structures, nonlinear modelling of diagonally-reinforced coupling beams, seismic assessment of non-structural components, and seismic design of outrigger systems.
When I’m not scheming, analyzing or designing structures, I’m writing software to help accomplish those things. To that end, I work on plugins for some common structural analysis software, in-house data processing tools, and miscellanous other projects.
MASc in Structural Engineering, 2017
University of British Columbia
BASc in Civil Engineering, 2013
University of British Columbia
The familiar 160 foot height limit appearing in ASCE 7 has no scientific backing.
Learn how to get started writing a plugin to extend the functionality of the structural analysis programs ETABS or SAP2000.
A quick note about how to embed codepens into hugo posts using a custom shortcode
This post contains some of my thoughts after writing the Oct 2018 Civil-Structural PE Exam.
This post contains an Observable Notebook that calculates factored axial capacity of short columns according to CSA A23.3-2014
Hugo is a popular static site generator written in go, that happens to be used for my website. I’ve written two themes for hugo, which are available at my github repos linked herein.
One of my first web development projects was to create a single-degree-of-freedom analysis tool. I wanted to learn some basic web development skills, and chose to use AngularJS and Foundation framework. The code and demo is available in my github repository
The purpose of this study was to characterize a typical newly-constructed tall building in Vancouver, and assess the seismic performance of such a structure. We conducted a detailed review of new buildings in the downtown region which were constructed after 2005 and had a height greater than 100 meters.
I created a tool to extract data from ETABS analysis software and process it into design spreadsheets, saving countless hours of manual data manipulation.