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Dr.
Maria I. Todorovska
Research
Professor
University of Southern
California Office:
Kaprielian Hall
216A |
Education
Ph.D. - 1988, University of Southern California (Civil
Engineering)
M.Sc. - 1985, University of
Southern California (Civil Engineering)
B.Sc. - 1982, Univ. St. Cyril & Methodius,
M.Sc.
- 1988, University of Southern California
(Applied Mathematics)
M.Sc.
- 2001, University of Southern California
(Electrical Engineering)
Research Interests
General: Interdisciplinary
research, synthesizing knowledge and technology from Engineering, Earth
Sciences, Applied Mathematics and Social Sciences, and aiming at solving
advanced problems in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Mechanics.
Areas: Earthquake Engineering, Engineering Seismology, Engineering
Mechanics.
Topics: Structural health monitoring; Rotational seismology;
Wavelets; Soil-structure interaction; Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis;
Strong ground motion; Full-scale testing of structures; Seismic monitoring
arrays, instrumentation, data processing and databases; Near-source tsunami
modelling; Wave propagation in structures, soils and sedimentary deposits;
Assessment of damage and losses from earthquakes; Passive isolation of
structures; Specification of earthquake resistant design criteria for
structures.
Awards and Honors
Named among Top 20 Authors Worldwide
on the Special Topic – Earthquakes for the period 1993-2003 (one of
only two earthquake engineers) by the
Named
among Top 1% Authors Worldwide in
Engineering for the period 1995-present by the
Kapitza Gold Medal, Russian Academy
of Natural Sciences, 2004.
Foreign
Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, 2004.
Fall 1986 Best Teaching Assistant Award in the Dept. of Civil Engr., Univ. of Southern California.
Some More on Thompson ISI Rankings
USC ranked among Top 5 High-Impact U.S. Universities in Civil
Engineering, 1998-2002,
by
In the news
NEW EARTHQUAKE TOOL
HELPS “LIFELINES” - METRANS News, October 2005.
Recent archived presentations
Todorovska MI. “Structural models for rational design,
structural health monitoring and seismic risk and loss assessment”,
Earthquake Hazards Seminar, U.S. Geological Survey,
Research Group Web Site
Publications
See Curriculum
Vitae and Publications page of Strong Motion Research
Group web site.
Selected Research Projects, Results and Publications
Structural
health monitoring
Earthquake damage detection in buildings and early
warning based on wave travel times, NSF, PI: Todorovska,
08/01/08-07/31/10.
Variability
of the fixed-base and soil-structure system frequencies of a building –
the case of Borik-2 building, Trifunac, MD, M.I. Todorovska, M.I. Manić, and
B.Đ. Bulajić, Structural Control and Health
Monitoring, in press, 2008.
Environmental effects on measured structural frequencies – model
prediction of short-term shift during heavy rainfall and comparison with
full-scale observations, Todorovska MI,
Al Rjoub Y, Structural Control and Health Monitoring,
in press, DOI: 10.1002/stc.260. 2008.
Impulse
response analysis of the Van Nuys 7-story hotel during 11 earthquakes and
earthquake damage detection, M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac,
Structural Control and Health Monitoring, DOI: 10.1002/stc.208, 15(1),
90-116, 2008.
Earthquake
damage detection in the Imperial County Services Building III: analysis of wave
travel times via impulse response functions, M.I. Todorovska
and M.D. Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2007.07.001, 28(5), 387–404, 2008.
Earthquake
damage detection in the Imperial County Services Building I: the data and
time-frequency analysis, M.I. Todorovska and M.D.
Trifunac, Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, 27(6), 564–576, 2007.
Earthquake damage detection in the Imperial County Services
Building II: analysis of novelties via wavelets,
M.I. Todorovska and M.D. Trifunac,
Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engrg, submitted for
publication, 2007.
Effects
of rainfall on soil-structure system frequency: examples based on poroelasticity and a comparison with full-scale
measurements, M.I. Todorovska & Y. Al Rjoub, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engrg,
26(6-7), 708-717, 2006. (Special issue on Biot Centennial – Earthquake Engineering).
See also section on
Structural Health Monitoring of the research group Selected
Publication page.
Rotational seismology
Lee WHK, Celebi
M, Todorovska
MI, Diggles MF (Eds) (2007).
Rotational Seismology and Engineering Applications:
Online Proceedings for the First International Workshop,
Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.—September 18 to 19, 2007, U.S.
Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2007-1144. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1144]
Lee WHK, Celebi
M, Todorovska
MI, Igel H (Editors). Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), Special Issue on Rotational
Seismology and Engineering Applications (May 2009).
International Working Group
on Rotational Seismology: http://www.rotational-seismology.org/
Selection
of comprehensive design criteria for highway bridges in the vicinity of and
crossing active faults, (METRANS;
9/06-3/08)
Soil-structure interaction
Todorovska MI (2008). Seismic interferometry of a soil-structure interaction model with
coupled horizontal and rocking response, Bull. Seism.
Soc. Am., submitted for publication.
Todorovska MI (2008). Fixed-base and rigid body rocking frequencies of Millikan library NS response during four earthquakes
(1970-2002), Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., submitted for
publication.
Celebi M, Todorovska MI, Okawa
I, Iiba M (Eds.) (2004). CD ROM Proc. Third UJNR
Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction, March 29-30, 2004, Menlo Park,
California. [http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/Proc/]
Okawa I, Iiba M, Celebi
M, Todorovska MI, (Eds.) (2007). CD ROM Proc. Fourth UJNR
Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction, March
29-31, 2007, Tsukuba, Japan (in press).
See section
on Full-scale testing and soil-structure interaction of the research group Selected
Publication page.
Methodology
for probabilistic assessment of permanent ground displacement across earthquake
faults for the transportation system, (METRANS; 9/03-12/04)
Building
periods for use in earthquake resistant design codes - earthquake response data
compilation and analysis of time and amplitude variations
(USGS; 12/04-12/05; 12/02-12/03)
See
also http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/ECEES_STS-E10/
Los
Angeles Strong Motion Array (NSF; 5/03-5/05)
Third
UJNR Workshop on Soil-Structure Interaction (NSF; 8/03-8/05)
Wavelets
applications to seismic response studies (NSF).
Processing
of 1999 Hector Mine earthquake records at USC strong motion stations (NSF).
Repeatability
of site effects-1994 Northridge earthquake and its aftershocks (USGS)
Processing
of 1994 Northridge earthquake records at USC strong motion stations
(USGS/NSF)
Northridge
Earthquake research
Simulation of Strong Earthquake Motion by Explosions
Experiments at
the Lyaur Testing Site in Tajikistan: Video, Publication
Strong Motion Data Releases
USGS
Building data of the Northridge earthquakes of January 17, 1994,and its aftershocks.
ML=7.0
Hector Mine earthquake of October 16, 1999 recorded at stations of the Los
Angeles Strong Motion Network
ML=6.4 Northridge earthquake of January 17, 1994,
and five M>5 aftershocks.
Consulting Interests
Accelerogram data processing, Seismic hazard assessment,
Site-specific design motions for earthquake resistant structures
Has served as a consultant
to government agencies, oil industry, land developers, consulting firms, and
law firms on strong ground motion, seismic hazard assessment, and strong motion
data processing.
Last updated:
Contact: mtodorov@usc.edu