Humboldt Research Fellow Dr. Yongtao Bai

Dr. Yongtao Bai, from Xi’an Jiaotong University of China, will join the Institute for Risk and Reliability on a Humboldt Research Fellowship in collaboration with the Institute of Steel, Lightweight and Composite Structures at Ruhr Universität Bochum.

Yongtao will develop methods for collapse fragility analysis of steel and composite structures incorporating the uncertainties of damage variables and seismic parameters.