On July 4th and 5th, 2019, two earthquakes (magnitudes 6.4 and 7.1, respectively) occurred with their epicenters on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWSCL) in Ridgecrest, California. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest immediately engaged the Reid Middleton engineering team to perform detailed building safety evaluations.

We present a physical and computational model for performing fully coupled, grain-resolving Di-rect Numerical Simulations of cohesive sediment, based on the Immersed Boundary Method.

Seismic engineering concepts can be difficult to grasp. This lecture will present many different seismic concepts in a simple manner, with the goal of helping the attendees understand and retain the concepts.

State of the art performance‐based earthquake engineering (PBEE) procedures such as FEMA P‐58 generally treat buildings as “islands,” with respect to modeling regional impacts and post‐earthquake recovery. Some research, and the REDi resilience framework, provide additional in‐sights regarding regional impacts.

Fully driverless automated vehicles (AVs) could considerably alter the value of proximity parking, due to an AV’s ability to drop passengers off at their destination, search for cheaper parking and return to pick up their occupants when needed.

This presentation synthesizes the lessons learned from a full-scale shaking table test of a 5-story base-isolated building carried out at Japan’s Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EDefense). The building was tested with two different isolation systems.

As environmental conditions increase the frequency and severity of wildfires and populations move into areas prone to wildfires, social and economic losses escalate exponentially. These wildfire-prone environments are known as wildland urban interfaces.

This presentation outlines key aspects of the City of Los Angeles’ Sustainability Plan as it relates to managing the City’s wastewater, stormwater and solid waste infrastructure.  Better known as Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Green New Deal, many of these goals transform our way of thinking as civil engineers.

Exponent is an engineering and scientific consulting firm that hires doctoral students in a variety of engineering disciplines. We work on the most contemporary and prominent engineering problems in the world.