Negar Elhami-Khorasani
PhD
Associate Professor
Research Topics
Resilient communities; Performance-based design; Fire engineering; Wildfire engineering; Earthquake engineering.
Research Interests
Resilient communities; Performance-based design; Fire engineering; Wildfire engineering; Cascading multi-hazard analysis; Earthquake engineering.
Current and Recent Projects
- Wildfire risk reduction in Wildland Urban interface (WUI)
- Damage assessment of reinforced concrete structures
- Compounding risk assessment for structures exposed to coastal flooding-related saltwater deterioration and seismic hazard
- Probabilistic performance-based fire design and evaluation of U.S. prescriptive guidelines
- Post-earthquake fire response of buildings within a community context