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Overview

Michael Tait is a researcher affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their work primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Building and Construction. They also engage in research involving Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, as well as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
  • Masonry and Concrete Structural Analysis

Michael Tait has co-authored extensively with several collaborators, including:

  • Wael El-Dakhakhni (10 joint publications)
  • J.S. Love (8 joint publications)
  • K. P. McNamara (7 joint publications)
  • Mohamed Ezzeldin (5 joint publications)
  • Mohamed Salama (4 joint publications)

The venues of Michael Tait's publications reflect a focus on structural engineering and infrastructure resilience, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
  • Engineering Structures
  • Structures
  • Journal of Structural Engineering
  • Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Selected recent publications illustrate the range of their research topics and include:

  • "Probabilistic Resilience-Guided Infrastructure Risk Management," 2020, Journal of Management in Engineering
  • "Rocking Response of Unanchored Building Contents Considering Horizontal and Vertical Excitation," 2020, Journal of Structural Engineering
  • "Temporal networks: a review and opportunities for infrastructure simulation," 2020, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
  • "Incompressible smoothed particle hydrodynamics model of a rectangular tuned liquid damper containing screens," 2021, Journal of Fluids and Structures
  • "Shake table tests on a rigid block isolated with high-damping unbonded fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators," 2024, Structures

Best Publications

  • Modelling and preliminary design of a structure-TLD system

    M.J. Tait

  • Testing and modeling of square carbon fiber‐reinforced elastomeric seismic isolators

    Hamid Toopchi-Nezhad;Michael J. Tait;Robert G. Drysdale

  • Numerical flow models to simulate tuned liquid dampers (TLD) with slat screens

    M.J. Tait;A.A. El Damatty;N. Isyumov;M.R. Siddique

  • Bonded versus unbonded strip fiber reinforced elastomeric isolators: Finite element analysis

    Hamid Toopchi-Nezhad;Michael J. Tait;Robert G. Drysdale

  • Testing and modeling of a novel FRP-encased steel–concrete composite column

    Kian Karimi;Michael J. Tait;Wael W. El-Dakhakhni

  • Lateral Response Evaluation of Fiber-Reinforced Neoprene Seismic Isolators Utilized in an Unbonded Application

    Hamid Toopchi-Nezhad;Michael J. Tait;Robert G. Drysdale

  • True Stress-True Strain Models for Structural Steel Elements

    P. Arasaratnam;K. S. Sivakumaran;M. J. Tait

  • Strength and stability of steel beam columns under blast load

    Amr A. Nassr;A. Ghani Razaqpur;Michael J. Tait;Manuel Campidelli

  • Nonlinear simulation of a tuned liquid damper with damping screens using a modal expansion technique

    J.S. Love;M.J. Tait

  • Shake table study on an ordinary low‐rise building seismically isolated with SU‐FREIs (stable unbonded‐fiber reinforced elastomeric isolators)

    Hamid Toopchi-Nezhad;Michael J. Tait;Robert G. Drysdale

  • Single and multi degree of freedom analysis of steel beams under blast loading

    Amr A. Nassr;A. Ghani Razaqpur;Michael J. Tait;Manuel Campidelli

  • A hybrid structural control system using a tuned liquid damper to reduce the wind induced motion of a base isolated structure

    J.S. Love;M.J. Tait;H. Toopchi-Nezhad

  • Finite element analysis of unbonded square fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators (FREIs) under lateral loading in different directions

    Peyman M. Osgooei;Michael J. Tait;Dimitrios Konstantinidis

  • Stability of fiber-reinforced elastomeric bearings in an unbonded application:

    Michael G.P. de Raaf;Michael J. Tait;Hamid Toopchi-Nezhad

  • Performance of Tuned Liquid Dampers

    M J Tait;M J Tait;Nicholas Isyumov;Nicholas Isyumov;A A El Damatty;A A El Damatty

  • Parametric Study on the Response of Stable Unbonded-Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators (SU-FREIs)

    Hamid Toopchi-Nezhad;Robert G. Drysdale;Michael J. Tait

  • Structural and nonstructural performance of a seismically isolated building using stable unbonded fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators

    Niel C. Van Engelen;Dimitrios Konstantinidis;Michael J. Tait

  • Partially bonded fiber‐reinforced elastomeric isolators (PB‐FREIs)

    Niel C. Van Engelen;Peyman M. Osgooei;Michael J. Tait;Dimitrios Konstantinidis

  • Experimental Performance of Steel Beams under Blast Loading

    Amr A. Nassr;A. Ghani Razaqpur;Michael J. Tait;Manuel Campidelli

  • Influence of Slenderness on the Behavior of a FRP-Encased Steel-Concrete Composite Column

    Kian Karimi;Michael J. Tait;Wael W. El-Dakhakhni

  • Dynamic Response of Steel Columns Subjected to Blast Loading

    Amr A. Nassr;A. Ghani Razaqpur;Michael J. Tait;Manuel Campidelli

  • Experimental and finite element study on the compression properties of Modified Rectangular Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators (MR-FREIs)

    Niel C. Van Engelen;Peyman M. Osgooei;Michael J. Tait;Dimitrios Konstantinidis

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie Hogben
Leslie Hogben Iowa State University
A. Ghani Razaqpur
A. Ghani Razaqpur McMaster University
Fan Chung
Fan Chung University of California, San Diego
Alexander Vardy
Alexander Vardy University of California, San Diego

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