Department of Civil Engineering
City College of the City University of New York
New York, NY 10031

There is increased awareness towards security of highway bridges from intentional or unintentional blast events.  Hence, a bridge may need to be designed to sustain both seismic and blast events during its lifetime.  This presentation will address critical issues in bridge security, a highly refined finite element model of a Highway Bridge and numerical simulation results on blast load effects on highway bridges.

Professor Agrawal is Professor of Civil Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10031.  He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in August 1998 and joined the Coty College of New York in September 1998.  He has published more than 50 Journal papers and 100 conference papers.  He is currently the member of executive committee on U.S. Panel of International Association of Structural Control, Executive Committee Member of Northeast Region of the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS-NE), and Associate Editor of the Journal of Structural Engineering (seismic protective systems) and Journal of Bridge Engineering (Bridge Management, inspection).