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  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to earthquake engineering and advances in mitigation of surface faulting, liquefaction, and seismic slope failure.

Overview

Jonathan D. Bray is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their main field of study is Engineering, with a strong focus on Civil and Structural Engineering. Additional subfields include Geophysics, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ocean Engineering.

Their work spans several topics related to geotechnical engineering, including:

  • Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Performance and Analysis

Jonathan D. Bray has published extensively, with key papers including:

  • Effective Stress Analysis of Liquefiable Sites to Estimate the Severity of Sediment Ejecta, 2021, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Liquefaction resistance of Christchurch sandy soils from direct simple shear tests, 2020, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Cyclic and monotonic simple shear testing of native Christchurch silty soil, 2021, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Estimating the Severity of Liquefaction Ejecta Using the Cone Penetration Test, 2021, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Seismic Response Characteristics of Liquefiable Sites with and without Sediment Ejecta Manifestation, 2021, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Publication venues where Jonathan D. Bray frequently appears include:

  • Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • Earthquake Spectra
  • Japanese Geotechnical Society Special Publication
  • Geo-Congress 2022

Their common collaborators are:

  • Jorge Macedo
  • Diane Moug
  • Patrick Bassal
  • Misko Cubrinovski
  • Zorana Mijic

Jonathan D. Bray was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015, credited for work in earthquake engineering and advances related to mitigation of surface faulting, liquefaction, and seismic slope failure.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of forward-directivity ground motions in the near-fault region

    Jonathan D. Bray;Adrian Rodriguez-Marek

  • Simplified Procedure for Estimating Earthquake-Induced Deviatoric Slope Displacements

    Jonathan D. Bray;Jonathan D. Bray;Thaleia Travasarou;Thaleia Travasarou

  • Simplified Frequency Content Estimates of Earthquake Ground Motions

    Ellen M. Rathje;Norman A. Abrahamson;Jonathan D. Bray

  • Assessment of the Liquefaction Susceptibility of Fine-Grained Soils

    Jonathan D. Bray;Jonathan D. Bray;Rodolfo B. Sancio;Rodolfo B. Sancio

  • Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Engineering: A Unified and Consistent Framework

    Raymond B. Seed;K. Onder Cetin;Robb E.S. Moss;Annie M. Kammerer

  • Ground motion evaluation procedures for performance-based design

    Jonathan P. Stewart;Shyh Jeng Chiou;Jonathan D. Bray;Robert W. Graves

  • Mechanisms of Seismically Induced Settlement of Buildings with Shallow Foundations on Liquefiable Soil

    Shideh Dashti;Jonathan D. Bray;Juan M. Pestana;Michael Riemer

  • Empirical attenuation relationship for Arias Intensity

    Thaleia Travasarou;Jonathan D. Bray;Norman A. Abrahamson

  • Selecting a suitable time step for discrete element simulations that use the central difference time integration scheme

    Catherine O'Sullivan;Jonathan D. Bray

  • NONLINEAR COUPLED SEISMIC SLIDING ANALYSIS OF EARTH STRUCTURES

    Ellen M. Rathje;Ellen M. Rathje;Jonathan D. Bray

  • Empirical Relationships for Frequency Content Parameters of Earthquake Ground Motions

    Ellen M. Rathje;Fadi Faraj;Stephanie Russell;Jonathan D. Bray

  • EARTHQUAKE FAULT RUPTURE PROPAGATION THROUGH SOIL

    Jonathan D. Bray;Raymond B. Seed;Lloyd S. Cluff;H. Bolton Seed

  • Earthquake-Induced Displacements of Solid-Waste Landfills

    Jonathan D. Bray;Ellen M. Rathje

  • Assessment of Liquefaction-Induced Land Damage for Residential Christchurch

    S. van Ballegooy;P. Malan;V. Lacrosse;M. E. Jacka

  • Unit weight of municipal solid waste

    Dimitrios Zekkos;Jonathan D. Bray;Edward Kavazanjian;Neven Matasovic

  • GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE 22 FEBRUARY 2011 CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKE

    Misko Cubrinovski;Brendon Bradley;Liam Wotherspoon;Russell Green

  • Soil Liquefaction Effects in the Central Business District during the February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake

    Misko Cubrinovski;Jonathan D. Bray;Merrick Taylor;Simona Giorgini

  • Centrifuge Testing to Evaluate and Mitigate Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement Mechanisms

    Shideh Dashti;Jonathan D. Bray;Juan M. Pestana;Michael Riemer

  • An Empirical Geotechnical Seismic Site Response Procedure

    Adrián Rodríguez-Marek;Jonathan D. Bray;Norman A. Abrahamson

  • Subsurface Characterization at Ground Failure Sites in Adapazari, Turkey

    Jonathan D. Bray;Rodolfo B. Sancio;H. Turan Durgunoglu;Akin Onalp

  • Selecting and Scaling Earthquake Ground Motions for Performing Response-History Analyses | NIST

    Andrew Whittaker;Gail Atkinson;Jack Baker;Jonathan Bray

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond B. Seed
Raymond B. Seed University of California, Berkeley
Misko Cubrinovski
Misko Cubrinovski University of Canterbury
Jonathan P. Stewart
Jonathan P. Stewart University of California, Los Angeles
Ellen M. Rathje
Ellen M. Rathje The University of Texas at Austin
Bruce L. Kutter
Bruce L. Kutter University of California, Davis
Tara C. Hutchinson
Tara C. Hutchinson University of California, San Diego
Joseph Wartman
Joseph Wartman University of Washington
Catherine O'Sullivan
Catherine O'Sullivan Imperial College London
Ross W. Boulanger
Ross W. Boulanger University of California, Davis
Brendon A. Bradley
Brendon A. Bradley University of Canterbury

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