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  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For advancing knowledge and methods in earthquake engineering and in regional-scale seismic motion simulation.

Overview

Jacobo Bielak is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific focus on Civil and Structural Engineering, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jacobo Bielak include:

  • Daniel Rabinovich
  • Dan Givoli
  • Jingxiao Liu
  • Mario Bergés
  • Anil K. Chopra

Publication venues where their work has been featured multiple times are:

  • Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Among Jacobo Bielak's recent research papers are:

  • Integration of 3D large-scale earthquake simulations into the assessment of the seismic risk of Bogota, Colombia, 2020, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
  • Scatterer identification in a 2D geophysical medium using an augmented computational time reversal method, 2021, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • Knowledge transfer between bridges for drive-by monitoring using adversarial and multi-task learning, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Damage-sensitive and domain-invariant feature extraction for vehicle-vibration-based bridge health monitoring, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Regional seismic ground-motion simulation and observation with engineering applications, 2020, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics

Bielak was recognized in 2010 as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for advancing knowledge and methods in earthquake engineering and regional-scale seismic motion simulation.

Best Publications

  • Large-scale simulation of elastic wave propagation in heterogeneous media on parallel computers

    Hesheng Bao;Jacobo Bielak;Omar Nabih Ghattas;Loukas F Kallivokas

  • Dynamics of building-soil interaction

    Paul C. Jennings;Jacobo Bielak

  • The influence of microslip on vibratory response, part I: A new microslip model

    C.-H. Menq;J. Bielak;J.H. Griffin

  • A Newton-CG method for large-scale three-dimensional elastic full-waveform seismic inversion

    I. Epanomeritakis;V. Akçelik;Omar Nabih Ghattas;J. Bielak

  • High Resolution Forward And Inverse Earthquake Modeling on Terascale Computers

    Vokan Akcelik;Jacobo Bielak;George Biros;Ioannis Epanomeritakis

  • THREE-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR STUDY OF PILES

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  • From mesh generation to scientific visualization: an end-to-end approach to parallel supercomputing

    Tiankai Tu;Hongfeng Yu;Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman;Jacobo Bielak

  • Dynamic behaviour of structures with embedded foundations

    Jacobo Bielak

  • Domain Reduction Method for Three-Dimensional Earthquake Modeling in Localized Regions, Part II: Verification and Applications

    Chiaki Yoshimura;Jacobo Bielak;Yoshiaki Hisada;Antonio Fernández

  • Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Earthquake Response Analysis of a Bridge-Foundation-Ground System

    Yuyi Zhang;Joel P. Conte;Zhaohui Yang;Ahmed Elgamal

  • Model for Basin Effects on Long-Period Response Spectra in Southern California

    Steven M. Day;Robert Graves;Jacobo Bielak;Douglas Dreger

  • The ShakeOut earthquake scenario: Verification of three simulation sets

    Jacobo Bielak;Robert W. Graves;Kim B. Olsen;Ricardo Taborda

  • The influence of microslip on vibratory response, Part II: A comparison with experimental results

    C.-H. Menq;J.H. Griffin;J. Bielak

  • Coupled Soil-Structure Interaction Effects of Building Clusters during Earthquakes

    Yigit Isbiliroglu;Ricardo Taborda;Ricardo Taborda;Jacobo Bielak

  • Semi-Supervised Multiresolution Classification Using Adaptive Graph Filtering With Application to Indirect Bridge Structural Health Monitoring

    Siheng Chen;Fernando Cerda;Piervincenzo Rizzo;Jacobo Bielak

  • Parallel Octree-Based Finite Element Method for Large-Scale Earthquake Ground Motion Simulation

    J. Bielak;Omar Nabih Ghattas;E. J. Kim

  • On the effective seismic input for non-linear soil-structure interaction systems

    Jacobo Bielak;Paul Christiano

  • A Theoretical Method for Computing Near-Fault Ground Motions in Layered Half-Spaces Considering Static Offset Due to Surface Faulting, with a Physical Interpretation of Fling Step and Rupture Directivity

    Yoshiaki Hisada;Jacobo Bielak

  • Earthquake ground motion modeling on parallel computers

    Hesheng Bao;Jacobo Bielak;Omar Ghattas;Loukas F. Kallivokas

  • Earthquake Ground Motion and Structural Response in Alluvial Valleys

    Jacobo Bielak;Jifeng Xu;Omar Nabih Ghattas

  • Site characterization using full waveform inversion

    Loukas F Kallivokas;A. Fathi;S. Kucukcoban;Kenneth H Stokoe

  • Full Waveform Inversion for Seismic Velocity and Anelastic Losses in Heterogeneous Structures

    Aysegul Askan;Volkan Akcelik;Jacobo Bielak;Omar Nabih Ghattas

  • Revisions to Soil-Structure Interaction Procedures in NEHRP Design Provisions

    Jonathan P. Stewart;Seunghyun Kim;Jacobo Bielak;Ricardo Dobry

Frequent Co-Authors

James H. Garrett
James H. Garrett Carnegie Mellon University
Jelena Kovacevic
Jelena Kovacevic New York University
Omar Ghattas
Omar Ghattas The University of Texas at Austin
Kim B. Olsen
Kim B. Olsen San Diego State University
Steven M. Day
Steven M. Day San Diego State University
Robert W. Graves
Robert W. Graves United States Geological Survey
Thomas H. Jordan
Thomas H. Jordan University of Southern California
Thomas Hagstrom
Thomas Hagstrom Southern Methodist University
Dan Givoli
Dan Givoli Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
David R. O'Hallaron
David R. O'Hallaron Carnegie Mellon University

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