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Kurtis R. Gurley (picture)
University of Florida
Civil and Coastal Engineering

Kurtis R. Gurley

Assistant Professor
Division: Structures

Office Phone: (352) 392-9537 x1508
Location: 475-I Weil Hall
Email Address: kgurl@ce.ufl.edu
Personal Page: www.ce.ufl.edu/~kgurl


Education

Ph.D., CE, University of Notre Dame 1997
M.S., CE University of Notre Dame 1994
B.S., A.A.E, University of Illinois 1991


Years of Service on this Faculty

Appointed August 1997
Aug 1997-Present   Assistant Professor


Research Areas
 

Probabilistic natural hazard modeling and damage mitigation

Simulation of stochastic environmental loads.

Wind / Offshore engineering, random vibration, structural reliability

Signal processing, data analysis

Applications of wavelet transforms and neural networks in structural analysis.


Principal Publications

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A. "Applications of Wavelet Transforms in Earthquake, Wind, and Ocean Engineering", Engineering Structures, 21, pp. 149-167, 1999.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A., "A Conditional Simulation of Non-Normal Velocity/Pressure Fields", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 77-78, pp. 39-51, 1998.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A., "Simulation of Correlated Non-Gaussian Pressure Fields", Meccanica-International Journal of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 33, pp. 309-317, 1998.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A. "Simulation of Ringing in Offshore Systems under Viscous Loads", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 124(5), 582-586, 1998.

Kareem, A., Tognarelli, M., and Gurley, K., "Modelling and Analysis of Quadratic Term in the Wind Effects on Structures", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 74-76, pp. 1101-1110, 1998.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A. "Analysis, Interpretation, Modelling and Simulation of Unsteady Wind and Pressure Data", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 69-71, pp. 657-669, 1997.

Gurley, K., Tognarelli, M. and Kareem, A. "Analysis and Simulation Tools for Wind Engineering",Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 12(1), pp. 9-31, 1997.

Gurley, K., Kareem A. and Tognarelli, M. "Simulation of a Class of Non-Normal Processes",International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, Elsevier, 31(5), pp. 601-617, 1996.

Kareem, A., and Gurley, K. "Damping in Structures: Its Evaluation and Treatment of Uncertainty", Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 59(2,3), pp. 131-157, 1996.

Gurley, K., and Kareem, A. "Gust Loading Factors for Tension Leg Platforms", Applied Ocean Research, 15, pp. 137-154, 1993.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A. "Higher-order intermittent correlation detection using wavelet transforms", 8th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, University of Notre Dame, July 23-26, 2000.

Jacobs, J. and Gurley, K. "Probabilistic and Spectral Characterization and Simulation of Soil Moisture Fields", 8th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, University of Notre Dame, July 23-26 2000.

Waisman, F., Gurley, K., Grigoriu, M. and Kareem, A. "A non-Gaussian model for the ringing phenomena in offshore structures", 8th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, University of Notre Dame, July 23-26, 2000.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A. "Higher order velocity / pressure correlation detection using wavelet transforms", 10th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 21-24, 1999.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A. "Simulation of Non-Gaussian Pressure Fluctuations on Building Envelopes", 12th Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, La Jolla, California, May 17-20, 1998.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, R., "Simulation of Non-Gaussian Processes", Third International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Santorini, Greece, June 14-17, 1998.

Gurley, K., Kareem, A., Waisman, F. and Grigoriu, M., "A Stochastic Model of Ringing", 17th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Lisboa, Portugal, July 5-9, 1998.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A., "A Multi-Variate Non-Gaussian Simulation Algorithm", 4th International Conference on Stochastic Structural Dynamics, Notre Dame, Indiana, August 6-8, 1998.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A., "Modelling PDFs of non-Gaussian system response", 7th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Kyoto, Japan, November, 1997.

Gurley, K., Waisman, F., Grigoriu, M., and Kareem, A., "Probabilistic Models of Ringing", 7th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR), Kyoto, Japan, November, 1997.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A., "A Conditional Simulation of Non-Normal Velocity/Pressure Fields", The Eighth U.S. National Conference on Wind Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, June, 1997.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A. "Numerical Experiments in Ringing of Offshore Systems Under Viscous Loads", 15th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME, June 16 - 20, Florence, Italy, 1996.

Gurley, K. and Kareem, A. "Comparison of a Tension Leg Platform Response Prediction Model With Experimental Data", 15th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME, June 16-20, Florence, Italy, 1996.

Gurley, K., Kareem, A., and Tognarelli, M. "Wind Effects: A Non-Gaussian Perspective", Proceedings of the Tenth ASCE Engineering Mechanics Specialty Conference, Boulder, Colorado, May 21-24, 1995.

Kareem, A. and Gurley, K. "Reliability-Based Gust-Loading Factors for Offshore and Coastal Structures", Proceedings UNDP sponsored Workshop on Engineering of Structures for Mitigating Damage due to Cyclones, Structural Engineering Research Center, Madras, India, Jan. 4-6, 1995. (Invited keynote delivered by A. Kareem)

Gurley, K., Kareem, A., Bergman, L. "Coupling of Tall Buildings for Control of Response to Wind", Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability [ICOSSAR], A.A. Balkema Press, Netherlands, Dec., 1993.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Kareem, A., Tognarelli, M.A., Gurley, K. and Kijewski, T.L., "Modeling of Nonlinear Ocean Systems", In: Shlesinger, M.F. and Swean, T., eds., Stochastically Excited Nonlinear Ocean Structures, World Scientific, 1998.

Kareem, A., Zhao, J., Tognarelli, M.A., and Gurley, K., "Dynamics of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems: a Frequency Domain Approach", In: Haldar, A. and Ayyub, B., eds., Uncertainty Modelling in Stability, Vibration and Control of Structural Systems, World Scientific, 1997.

 


Honors and Awards 

NSF Career Award, 2000-2004: "Modeling and Simulation of Wind Loads for Wind Hazard Mitigation".

Munro Prize, 2000 :International editorial board award for best paper of 1999 (Vol. 21) in Engineering Structures - "Applications of Wavelet Transforms in Earthquake, Wind, and Ocean Engineering", Engineering Structures, 21, pp. 149-167, 1999.

Alumni Association Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research- recipient, May, 1997.


Scientific and Professional Societies

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics