Gavin, Henri P.
(919) 660-5201

Courses

ME 394: Engineering Undergraduate Fellows Projects
ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 392: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
CEE 492: Independent Study in Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 294: Research Independent Study in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Henri P. Gavin

Henri Gavin's research interests are in the areas of structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, nonlinear dynamics, seismic hazard mitigation for building contents, system identification, the statistical characterization of environmental loads including wind and earthquake, and optimal control with application to systems with controllable damping. 

Dr. Gavin is the director of the Structural Dynamics and Seismic Response Control Laboratory.

Research Areas

Publications

Earthquake Response Control for Civil Structures (01/2018)
Christchurch Women's Hospital: Performance Analysis of the Base-Isolation System during the Series of Canterbury Earthquakes 2011-2012 (08/2016)
Temporal Coherence: A Model for Non-stationarity in Natural and Simulated Wind Records (05/2016)
Inelastic base shear reconstruction from sparse acceleration measurements of buildings (01/2016)
Nonholonomically constrained dynamics of rolling isolation systems (01/2016)
Assessment of a rolling isolation system using reduced order structural models (09/2015)
Subspace identification of a 5 MW reference wind turbine (01/2015)
Truly isotropic biaxial hysteresis with arbitrary knee sharpness (10/2014)
Double rolling isolation systems: A mathematical model and experimental validation (05/2014)
Rolling resistance of a rigid sphere with viscoelastic coatings (02/2014)

Mailing Address

Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Box 90467
Durham, NC 27708

Street / Delivery Address

Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
140 Science Drive
Gross Hall, Suite 101
Durham, NC 27708

919-613-1305