Newswise — FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – For questions about damage to buildings and infrastructure due to the earthquake in New Zealand, please contact Brady Cox, assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Arkansas.
A geotechnical engineer, Cox specializes in issues related to earthquake loading, soil dynamics and material characterization and response to stress waves.
Cox documented construction failures and collected additional data on the devastating effects of the Haiti earthquake in 2010. He traveled to that country as a member of Geo-Engineering Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER), a national organization that partners with the National Science Foundation to conduct reconnaissance efforts of extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides.
He was also a member of a team that traveled to New Zealand and studied the earthquake there in September 2010. One of his doctoral students will be going to New Zealand to document the effects of Monday’s earthquake.
Cox’s research has focused on the development of a new test method for directly measuring the dynamic-pressure response and behavior of liquefiable soil deposits. He currently operates a Vibroseis shaker truck as part of his earthquake and dynamic material characterization research.
He is a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Arkansas Governor’s Earthquake Advisory Council.
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