Swaminathan (Swami) Krishnan

Research

My research interests include earthquake engineering, computational mechanics, structural dynamics, and computational seismology.  Lately, I have become interested in end-to-end simulations of earthquakes and building response using high-performance computing.  End-to-end simulations consist of holistically simulating the earthquake process, starting with fault rupture, generation and propagation of seismic waves to a site(s) of interest, and shaking of the top-soil layer, simulating the structural response including soil-structure interaction, and estimating the losses due to damage and the opportunity cost due to interruption of structure usage.

Please see my research group website for a complete list of my publications.