Rakesh Goel

Headshot Rakesh Goel
Professional Title: 
Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering
Research Interests: 
Seismic safety of marine structures; Seismic analysis of bridges in fault-rupture zones; Use of supplemental damping to improve seismic behavior of structures; Performance-based seismic engineering of buildings; Earthquake analysis and design of plan-wise asymmetric buildings and bridges; Base isolation and energy dissipation devices; Experimental methods in structural dynamics; Studies on nonlinear behavior of structures