Erik Vanmarcke
Department/Program(s):
Position: Faculty
Title: Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Area(s):
- Mechanics, Materials & Structures
Research Area(s):
Stochastic systems; random fields and random media; risk assessment and management; earthquake and wind engineering; geologic hazards and probabilistic site characterization; structural reliability; random vibrations; optimum design based on reliability; modeling the density fluctuations in the early universe, relevant to origins of cosmic structure
Stochastic systems; random fields and random media; risk assessment and management; earthquake and wind engineering; geologic hazards and probabilistic site characterization; structural reliability; random vibrations; optimum design based on reliability; modeling the density fluctuations in the early universe, relevant to origins of cosmic structure
Office: E326 Engineering Quad E-Wing
Phone: 609-258-5896
Email: evm@princeton.edu
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970
Research Interests
Professor Vanmarcke’s research interests include: stochastic systems; random fields and random media; risk assessment and management; seismic risk and earthquake ground motions; hurricanes and related economic losses under various climate change scenarios; wind-related debris damage; geologic hazards and probabilistic site characterization; dam safety; structural reliability; random vibrations; optimum design based on reliability; modeling the energy density fluctuations in the early universe and the formation of cosmic structure.
Updated: May 12, 2009
Recent Publications
1. Lin, N. and Vanmarcke, E., Windborne Debris Risk Assessment, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 23, pp. 523-530, 2008.
2. Vanmarcke, E., Quantifying the Benefits of Risk Reduction in Civil Infrastructure System, Proc. International Workshop on Frontier Technologies for Infrastructures Engineering, Eds. S.-S. Chen and A.H.-S. Ang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 197-206, Nov. 2008.
3. Vanmarcke, E., Random Field Modeling of the Void Phase of Soils, Georisk, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 57-68, 2007.
4. Vanmarcke, E., Quantitative Risk Analysis Applied to Dams, Proceedings of the 4th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR-4), Taipei, June 2007; Published by the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC), pp. 17-21, 2007.
5. Brett, A. and Vanmarcke, E., Is Hurricane Mitigation in the United States Cost-Effective?, EOS Transactions 88 (23), Joint Assembly Supplement, AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico, May 2007.
