Northeastern University

Dionisio Bernal

Associate Professor
427 Snell Engineering Center
360 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373 - 4417
Fax: (617) 373 - 4419
bernal@neu.edu
Website
Structural Health Monitoring
Degree(s):
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1979
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1976
B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1975

Dionisio Bernal

Areas of Research/Interest: Extraction of information on physical parameters from system identification results, Damage localization using flexibility based procedures, Damage localization in output-only systems, Identification of the excitation, Transmissibility in damage detection applications, Instability of torsionally eccentric buildings subjected to large earthquakes, Hybrid methods in the analysis of nonlinear soil-structure interaction, Sequential collapse.

Selected Publications:

  • Bernal, D. (2002). "Load vectors for damage localization," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.128, No.1, pp.7-14.
  • Bernal, D. (2002). "Phase II of the ASCE benchmark study - performance of the DLV approach," 1st European Workshop on Structurural Health Monitoring, Paris, pp.161-168.
  • Bernal, D. (2002). "A flexibilty based damage characterization for phase II of the IASC-ASCE benchmark study," 15th Engineering Mechanics Conference, Columbia University, NY.
  • Bernal, D., Dyke, S., Lam, P. and Beck, J. (2002). "Phase II of the IASC-ASCE benchmark study on SHM" 15th Engineering Mechanics Conference, Columbia University, NY.
  • Bernal, D. and Gunes, B. (2002). "A flexibility based approach for the localization and quantification of damage: A benchmark application," to appear in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
  • Prof. Bernal's NU Alumni Magazine Fall 2007 Article

    External Affiliations:

  • Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

    Honors/Awards:

  • Moisseiff Award (1993), from the American Society of Civil Engineers,for the paper "Instability in buildings subjected to earthquakes," Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 118, No.8, pp.2239-2260.
  • Hayes Engineering Award (1989), for excellence in research, Northeastern University.