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Takeru Igusa

Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Phone: (410) 516-6650
e-mail: tigusa@ju.edu

Research Interests

Structural Dynamics
Structural Acoustics
Earthquake Engineering
Cementitious MaterialsCoastal Engineering

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1983
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1979
A.B., Applied Mathematics (Magna Cum Laude), Harvard University, 1977

Experience

Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1999 - present
Professor, Northwestern University, 1996 - 1999
Associate Professor, Northwestern University, 1990 -1996
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, 1986 - 1990
Senior Engineer, URS/John A. Blume & Associates, 1979 - 1986

Awards and Fellowships

Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1988
JSPS Invitational Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1997
Engineering Teacher of the Year, Northwestern University, 1996
Faculty Teaching Honor Roll, Northwestern University, 1990, 1996

Professional Activities

Committee on Dynamic Analysis of Nuclear Structures, Technical committee on Dynamic Effects, Structural Engineering Institute, ASCE 1985 - present
Committee on Seismic Effects, Technical Committee on Dynamic Effects, Structural Engineering Institute, ASCE 1996 - present
Technical Committee on Probabilistic Methods, Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE 1986 - 1995
Technical Committee on Dynamics, Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE 1996 - present
Book Review Editor, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE 1990 - 1995

Publications

Abé, M. and Igusa, T. (1996). "Semi-active dynamic vibration absorbers for controlling transient response." Journal of Sound and Vibration, 198, 547-569.

Choi, S.-H., Iguas, T., and Achenbach, J.D. (1996). "Acoustic radiation from a finite length shell with non-axisymmetric substructures using a surface variational principle," Journal of Sound and Vibration, 197, 329-350.

Utschig, M., Achenback, J.D. and Igusa, T. (1996). "Reduction to parts: a semi-analytical approach to the structural acoustics of a cylindrical shell with hemispherical endcaps," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Choi, S.-H., Igusa, T., and Achenbach, J.D. (1995). "Acoustic radiation from a finite length shell with substructures subjected to an impuslive load," Wave Motion, 22, 259-227.

Sinha, R., and Igusa, T. (1995). "Response of primary-secondary systems to short-duration, wide-band input." Journal of Sound and Vibration, 185, 119-137.

Abé, M. and Igusa, T. (1995). "Tuned Mass Dampers for Structures with Closely Spaced Natural Frequencies." Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 24, 247-261.

Sinha, R. and Igusa, T. (1995). "CQC and SRSS Methods for Non-classically Damped Structures.: Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 24, 615-619.

Choi, S.-H., Igusa, T., and Achenbach, J.D. (1995). "Nonaxisymmetric vibration and acoustic radiation of a submerged cylindrical shell of finite length containing internal substructures," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 353-362.

Igusa, T. (1989). "Structural Dynamics in a Reliability Framework." in Computational Mechanics of Reliability Analysis, Liu, W.K., and Belytschko, T., eds., Elme Press Int., Lausanne, 70-113.