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Stephen A. Mahin was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focused on engineering, with a specialization in civil and structural engineering. Additional subfields of study included environmental engineering, building and construction, mechanics of materials, and statistics, probability, and uncertainty.

The scientist contributed to topics centered around seismic performance and analysis, wind and air flow studies, masonry and concrete structural analysis, structural load-bearing analysis, structural behavior of reinforced concrete, mechanical stress and fatigue analysis, and probabilistic and robust engineering design.

They published frequently in several venues, including:

  • Earthquake Spectra
  • Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their recent papers included:

  • "An open-source framework for regional earthquake loss estimation using the city-scale nonlinear time history analysis," 2020, published in Earthquake Spectra
  • "Design and numerical analysis of a damage-controllable mechanical hinge beam-to-column connection," 2020, published in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
  • "A probabilistic design method to achieve targeted levels of reliability for seismically isolated structures," 2020, published in Earthquake Spectra
  • "Seismic Behavior of Steel Moment Frames with Mechanical Hinge Beam-to-Column Connections," 2020, published in International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics
  • "Resilience of critical structures, infrastructures and communities," 2022, published in arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Frank McKenna
  • Xinzheng Lu
  • Qingle Cheng
  • Zhen Xu
  • Xiangfang Zeng

Best Publications

  • Seismic demands on steel braced frame buildings with buckling-restrained braces

    R. Sabelli;S. Mahin;C. Chang

  • NGA-West2 Research Project:

    Yousef Bozorgnia;Norman A. Abrahamson;Linda Al Atik;Timothy D. Ancheta

  • Aseismic design implications of near‐fault san fernando earthquake records

    Vitelmo V. Bertero;Stephen A. Mahin;Ricardo A. Herrera

  • A Simple Pendulum Technique for Achieving Seismic Isolation

    Victor A. Zayas;Stanley S. Low;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Lessons from damage to steel buildings during the Northridge earthquake

    Stephen A. Mahin

  • Pseudodynamic Method for Seismic Testing

    Stephen A. Mahin;Pui‐shum B. Shing

  • Model for Cyclic Inelastic Buckling of Steel Braces

    Patxi Uriz;Patxi Uriz;Filip C. Filippou;Filip C. Filippou;Stephen A. Mahin;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Seismic Evaluation of Existing Reinforced Concrete Building Columns

    Abraham C. Lynn;Jack P. Moehle;Stephen A. Mahin;William T. Holmes

  • Pseudodynamic Test Method—Current Status and Future Directions

    Stephen A. Mahin;Pui‐Shum B. Shing;Christopher R. Thewalt;Robert D. Hanson

  • Experimental Evaluation of the Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns

    Dawn Lehman;Jack Moehle;Stephen Mahin;Anthony Calderone

  • AN EVALUATION OF INELASTIC SEISMIC DESIGN SPECTRA

    Stephen A. Mahin;Vitelmo V. Bertero

  • EXPERIMENTAL ERROR EFFECTS IN PSEUDODYNAMIC TESTING

    Pui‐shum B. Shing;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Experimental and analytical study of the bi‐directional behavior of the triple friction pendulum isolator

    Tracy C. Becker;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Columns under Uniaxial Excitation

    Christos A. Zeris;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Cumulative experimental errors in pseudodynamic tests

    Pui-Shum B. Shing;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Improving performance of a super tall building using a new eddy-current tuned mass damper

    Xilin Lu;Qi Zhang;Dagen Weng;Zhiguang Zhou

  • Achieving reliable seismic performance enhancement using multi‐stage friction pendulum isolators

    Troy A. Morgan;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Seismic Response of Light Subsystems on Inelastic Structures

    Jon Lin;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Elimination of spurious higher-mode response in pseudodynamic tests

    Pui-Shum B. Shing;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Behavior of reinforced concrete structures subjected to biaxial excitation

    Christos A. Zeris;Stephen A. Mahin

  • Nonstationary ARMA modeling of seismic motions

    J.P. Conte;K.S. Pister;S.A. Mahin

Frequent Co-Authors

Gian Paolo Cimellaro
Gian Paolo Cimellaro Polytechnic University of Turin
Michel Bruneau
Michel Bruneau University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Egor P. Popov
Egor P. Popov University of California, Berkeley
Joel P. Conte
Joel P. Conte University of California, San Diego
Jack P. Moehle
Jack P. Moehle University of California, Berkeley
Khalid M. Mosalam
Khalid M. Mosalam University of California, Berkeley
Izuru Takewaki
Izuru Takewaki Kyoto University
Filip C. Filippou
Filip C. Filippou University of California, Berkeley
Jinping Ou
Jinping Ou Harbin Institute of Technology

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