George Mavroeidis

Prof. George Mavroeidis (Visiting Researcher from abroad), assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Prior to joining CUA in 2007, he held research appointments at the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering in Greece, and the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He earned his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. Dr. Mavroeidis’ research interests lie in the areas of engineering seismology, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics and structural mechanics, and include topics related to mechanics and physics of earthquakes, deterministic and stochastic ground motion simulations, fracture and frictional processes, seismic hazard and risk analysis, and computational modeling. He is the author or co-author of several articles published in peer-reviewed journal publications and conference proceedings. His awards include the 2009 Charles H. Kaman Award for excellence in teaching from the School of Engineering at the Catholic University of America and a recent research grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Key Publications:

1.Hubbard, D. T., and G. P. Mavroeidis (2011). “Damping coefficients for near-fault ground motion response spectra”, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 401-417. (2 citations in Scopus)

2.Mavroeidis, G. P., and A. S. Papageorgiou (2010). “Effect of fault rupture characteristics on near-fault strong ground motions”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 37-58. (1 citation in Scopus)

3.Mavroeidis, G. P., B. Zhang, G. Dong, A. S. Papageorgiou, U. Dutta, and N. N. Biswas (2008). “Estimation of strong ground motion from the Great 1964 Mw 9.2 Prince William Sound, Alaska, earthquake”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 98, No. 5, pp. 2303-2324. (1 citation in Scopus)

4.Mavroeidis, G. P., G. Dong, and A. S. Papageorgiou (2004). “Near-fault ground motions, and the response of elastic and inelastic single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems”, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 1023-1049. (77 citations in Scopus)

5.Mavroeidis, G. P., and A. S. Papageorgiou (2003). “A mathematical representation of near-fault ground motions”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 93, No. 3, pp. 1099-1131. (100 citations in Scopus)