2026 Bruce R. Ellingwood: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	76	701	664	241	220	416	22386

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For leadership in the use of probability and statistics in the design of structures and in the development of new design criteria.

Overview

Bruce R. Ellingwood is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and environmental science, focusing on topics related to infrastructure resilience, disaster management, and environmental impacts.

The main fields of study for Ellingwood include:

Engineering
Environmental Science

In more specific subfields, their work covers:

Civil and Structural Engineering
Atmospheric Science
Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Engineering
Sociology and Political Science

The primary topics addressed in their research are:

Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Wind and Air Flow Studies
Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
Disaster Management and Resilience
Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
Structural Response to Dynamic Loads

Recent publications demonstrate the range and application of Ellingwood's research, including:

"The Role of Urban Growth in Resilience of Communities Under Flood Risk" (2020), Earth's Future
"Post-earthquake modelling of transportation networks using an agent-based model" (2020), Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
"Unraveling the complexity of human behavior and urbanization on community vulnerability to floods" (2021), Scientific Reports
"Vulnerability of seaports to hurricanes and sea level rise in a changing climate: A case study for Mobile, AL" (2021), Coastal Engineering
"Shaping urbanization to achieve communities resilient to floods" (2021), Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors working with Ellingwood include:

Hussam Mahmoud
Mohamed A. Abdelhafez
Naiyu Wang
Michel Ghosn
Mona Hemmati

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

Structural Safety
Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Journal of Structural Engineering
Earth's Future
Scientific Reports

Bruce R. Ellingwood was recognized with membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for leadership in the use of probability and statistics in structural design and new design criteria development.

Best Publications

A new look at the response surface approach for reliability analysis

Malur R. Rajashekhar;Bruce R. Ellingwood

1090
Citations
Development of a probability based load criterion for American National Standard A58

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986
Citations
Mitigating Risk from Abnormal Loads and Progressive Collapse

Bruce R. Ellingwood

508
Citations
Reliability-Based Service-Life Assessment of Aging Concrete Structures

Yasuhiro Mori;Bruce R. Ellingwood

507
Citations
Probability Based Load Criteria: Load Factors and Load Combinations

Bruce Ellingwood;James G. MacGregor;Theodore V. Galambos;C. Allin Cornell

501
Citations
State of the research in community resilience: progress and challenges.

Maria Koliou;John W. van de Lindt;Therese P. McAllister;Bruce R. Ellingwood

493
Citations
Earthquake risk assessment of building structures

Bruce R. Ellingwood

464
Citations
Fragility Assessment of Light-Frame Wood Construction Subjected to Wind and Earthquake Hazards

Bruce R. Ellingwood;David V. Rosowsky;Yue Li;Jun Hee Kim

451
Citations
Probability Based Load Criteria: Assessment of Current Design Practice

Theodore V. Galambos;Bruce Ellingwood;James G. MacGregor;C. Allin Cornell

440
Citations
Seismic fragilities for non-ductile reinforced concrete frames – Role of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties

Ozan Cem Celik;Bruce R. Ellingwood

429
Citations
Orthogonal Series Expansions of Random Fields in Reliability Analysis

Jun Zhang;Bruce Ellingwood

388
Citations
Performance evaluation and damage assessment of steel frame buildings under main shock–aftershock earthquake sequences

Quanwang Li;Bruce R. Ellingwood

375
Citations
Hurricane damage to residential construction in the US: Importance of uncertainty modeling in risk assessment

Yue Li;Bruce R. Ellingwood

374
Citations
Risk-informed condition assessment of civil infrastructure: state of practice and research issues

Bruce R Ellingwood

367
Citations
Wind Load Statistics for Probability-Based Structural Design

Bruce R. Ellingwood;Paulos Beraki Tekie

362
Citations
Directional methods for structural reliability analysis

Jinsuo Nie;Bruce R. Ellingwood

343
Citations
MAINTAINING RELIABILITY OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES. I: ROLE OF INSPECTION/REPAIR

Yasuhiro Mori;Bruce R. Ellingwood

341
Citations
Best Practices for Reducing the Potential for Progressive Collapse in Buildings | NIST

Bruce R Ellingwood;Robert Smilowitz;Donald O Dusenberry;Dat Duthinh

338
Citations
Risk-Targeted versus Current Seismic Design Maps for the Conterminous United States

Nicolas Luco;Bruce R. Ellingwood;Ronald O. Hamburger;John D. Hooper

334
Citations
Fragility assessment of building structural systems in Mid-America

Bruce R. Ellingwood;Ozan Cem Celik;Kursat Kinali

304
Citations
Serviceability of earthquake-damaged water systems: Effects of electrical power availability and power backup systems on system vulnerability

Takao Adachi;Bruce R. Ellingwood

297
Citations
Quantifying and communicating uncertainty in seismic risk assessment

Bruce R. Ellingwood;Kursat Kinali

287
Citations
Seismic hazard and risk analysis

Bruce R. Ellingwood

99
Citations