Lance Manuel

Associate Professor Fluor Centennial Teaching Fellow in Engineering
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
(Structures Division)
University of Texas At Austin
Office ECJ 4.718
Phone 512-232-5691
Fax 512-471-7259
E-mail lmanuel@mail.utexas.edu

Education
    Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
    Master of Science (M.S.) - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Stanford University, Stanford, California

Courses that I teach
    Elementary Statistics for Civil Engineers - CE 311S [Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2008]
    Structural Analysis - CE 329 [Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2009*]
    Advanced Structural Analysis - CE 363 [Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2007, Fall 2009*]
    Dynamic Response of Structures - CE 384P [Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008,
                                                                Spring 2010*]
    Structural Reliability - CE 384S [Summer 2000, Fall 2002, Fall 2006, Fall 2008]
(*Planned)

Click here for my work on wind turbines ... otherwise, scroll down for other work

ALL OTHER RESEARCH

NSF (National Science Foundation)
The role of input energy in assessing seismic hazard and damage following the 1999 Turkey earthquakes

USGS (United States Geological Survey)
Correlation of Damage of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames to a Vector-valued Ground Motion Parameter Set that includes Energy Demands
    USGS Interim Report summarizing some early results (October 2003)
    USGS Final Report summarizing our results (March 2005)
    Paper from ICOSSAR 2005 Conference (June 2005)

TxDOT (Texas Department of Transportation)

    1. Guidelines for inspection of fracture-critical steel trapezoidal girders [with Karl Frank]
          TRB 2003 Paper summarizing some of our results
          ICASP 2003 paper summarizing some of our results
          Final Project Report: FHWA/TX-04/0-2135-1 (October 2003)
          Project Summary 0-2135-S September 2004)
          ICASP 2005 paper summarizing some of our results
          TRB 2006 Paper summarizing some of our results
          ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 3, May/June 2006
   
    2. Development of a new methodology for characterizing pavement structural condition
        for network-level application [with Zhanmin Zhang]
        TRB 2003 Paper summarizing some of our results
        TxDOT Project Summary Report
        TxDOT Report - Development of a New Methodology for Characterizing Pavement Structural Condition for Network-Level Application

    3. Revision of AASHTO fatigue design loadings for signs, luminaires, and traffic signal structures,
        for use in Texas [with Karl Frank and Sharon Wood]
        TxDOT Project Summary Report
        TxDOT Report - Field Tests and Analytical Studies of the Dynamic Behavior and the Onset of Galloping in Traffic Signal Structures
        TxDOT Report - Field Testing of Cantilevered Traffic Signal Structures under Truck-Induced Gust Loads

    4. Vessel impact on bridges [with Loukas Kallivokas and Eric Williamson]         
        TxDOT Project Summary Report
        TxDOT Report - A Probabilistic Analysis of the Frequency of Bridge Collapses due to Vessel Impact

    5. Evaluation of equipment, methods and pavement design implications for Texas
        conditions of the AASHTO 2002 axle-load spectra traffic methodology
        [with Jorge Prozzi, Michael Walton, and Zhanmin Zhang].
        TRB 2005 Paper summarizing some recent results

AISI (American Iron and Steel Institute)
    Analysis of structural plate mechanical properties: statistical variability and
    implications in structural reliability [with Karl Frank]
    Final AISI report (Structural Analysis of Structural Plate Mechanical Properties) is
    available at the AISI web site (January 2003)

Structural Control - Reliability Issues
    Investigating the repeatability of performance of control systems subject to seismic excitation

Students working with me currently on research projects
Graduate - Ph.D.
Hieu Huy Nguyen
Chen Shi

 Graduate - M.S.
Erica Bush
Chungwook Sim
Abhinav Sultania

Undergraduate - B.S.
Azrin Amin
Sergio Flores
Students who have recently worked with me on research projects
Graduate - Ph.D.
Ali Sarı, December 2003 (dissertation available here) ... now at ABS Group of Companies, Inc., San Antonio
Hsin-Yang Chung, May 2004 (dissertation available here) ... now on faculty in CE dept at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Korn Saranyasoontorn, May 2006 (dissertation available here) ... now at Technip, Houston
Puneet Agarwal, August 2008 (dissertation available here) ... now at Stress Engineering Services, Inc., Houston

Graduate - M.S.
Paiboon Lertwongkornkit, May 2001 (report available here) ... now at Carter Holt Harvey, Thailand
Wasan Patwichaichote, August 2001 (thesis available here) ... now with Thai Military
Somchat Suwan, December 2002 (thesis available here) ... now with Arup, Houston, Texas
Luke Nelson, May 2003 (thesis available here) ... now with Datum Engineers, Austin, Texas
Sridhar Baldava, August 2004 (thesis available here) ... now with Walter P. Moore Engineers & Consultants, Austin, Texas
Kenneth Berlin, May 2005 (thesis available here) ... now with Haynes Whaley Associates, Reston, Virginia
Micah Florea, May 2005 (thesis available here) ... now with Pacific Engineering and Design, Wenatchee, Washington
Matthew Albert, May 2006 (thesis available here) ... now with Haynes Whaley Associates, Houston, Texas
Tanapat Srivilairit, August 2006 (thesis available here) ... now with Bechtel, Houston, Texas
Patrick Ragan, May 2007 (thesis available here) ... now with Halvorson and Partners - Structural Engineers, Chicago, Illinois

Undergraduate - B.S.
Aaron Sterns, Academic Year 2002-03 (report available here)
Brenda Guerra, Academic Year 2003-04
Victoria McCammon, Summer 2004
Martin Regner, Summer 2004
Efren Dominguez, Summer 2004
Michael Warren, Spring 2005
Christopher Wright, Academic Year 2005-06 (report available here)
Liliam Fernandez, Summer 2007, Academic Year 2007-08
Denise Treviño, Academic Year 2007-2008

Selected Publications

Earthquake-related Research (Seismic hazard, ground motion, structure performance, etc.)

Offshore Structures
Engineering Mechanics 2000 Conference
Probabilistic Mechanics 2000 Conference
Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
    (ASME, Volume 123 (3), pp. 112-117, Aug. 2001)
Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
    (ASME, 131(2), 021101, May 2009 (11 pages), DOI:10.1115/1.3058684)
ISOPE 2006 Conference - Deepwater Current Profiles
ISOPE 2006 Conference - Deepwater Drilling Riser Accelerations
OMAE 2007 Conference - Vortex-Induced Vibration and Coincident Current Velocity Profiles for a Deepwater Drilling Riser

Engineering Education

ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual (2001) Conference

Questions/comments?

    If you have any, please contact me by e-mail at lmanuel@mail.utexas.edu

Thank you! 
Last updated 04/20/09