Research Funding
Following is a brief list of agencies which have provided research grants or specimen donations for the conduct of the some of the research projects listed above.
- National Sciences Foundation
- National Sciences Foundation (through MCEER)
- The Charles Pankow Foundation
- Federal Highway Administration (through MCEER)
- National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
- US Army Corps Engineering and Developement Center for Department of Homeland Security
- The California Department of Transportation
- The American Institute of Steel Construction
- New York State
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Structural Steel Education Foundation
- Nippon Steel
- Corus Steel
- WorkSafe Technologies
- CANRON and CANAM MANAC steel fabricators
- Ontario Concrete Block Association and Ontario Brick Layers Union (donation of material and labour)
- National Research Council of Canada
- Public Works Canada
- Ontario Ministry of Transportation
- University of Ottawa (various sources)
- National Capital Commission (donation of existing steel beam-column semi-rigid assemblies taken from demolished historical building)
- Morrison Molded Fiberglass (donation of fiberglass structural shapes)
The sponsorship of NSF and FHWA are particularly acknowledged for their considerable and sustained support since 1998 through the following grants:
- Supplemental Award to Conduct Reconnaissance Study of World Trade Center Disaster
- George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Equipment Grant, Versatile High-Performance Shake-Tables Facility towards Real-Time Seismic Hybrid Testing, and Large-Scale High Performance Testing Facility towards Real-Time Seismic Hybrid Testing, jointly with Drs. A. Reinhorn, M. Constantinou, A. Whittaker, and S. Thevanayagam (UB)
- Research Grants providing continuing support for research activities on the seismic evaluation and retrofit of steel structures, and development of metallic-based passive energy dissipation strategies
The sponsorship of NSERC is particularly acknowledged for its considerable and sustained support from 1990-1998 through the following grants:
- Major Installation Grant: Pseudo-dynamic Testing Facility
- Strategic Grant on Seismic Performance of Existing Bridges, jointly with Drs. W.D.L. Finn (UBC), D. Mitchell (McGill), M. Saatcioglu (U.Ottawa), R. Sexsmith (UBC)
- Research Grants providing continuing support for research activities on the seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing structures
- NSERC Seed Funding/University-Industry Research