Jonathan Stewart
Professor and Vice Chair
CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Area of Expertise: earthquake engineering
Biography
Jonathan Stewart, professor and vice chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering, is an expert on earthquake engineering. His particular expertise relates to the intensity of ground shaking and its effects on buildings, bridges, dams and levees. Stewart also studies ground failure, which involves permanent displacements of the ground due to earthquakes (e.g., liquefaction, landslides, surface fault rupture).
He has extensive experience documenting the engineering effects of previous earthquakes, including the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge events in California, the 1999 Kocaeli and Duzce events in Turkey, the 1999 Ji-Ji earthquake in Taiwan, the 2001 Bhuj earthquake in India, and the 2008 Patras earthquake in Greece.
Stewart is involved in committees that draft buildings codes and other guidelines related to earthquake problems for engineers.
