Jerome F. Hajjar
Professor and Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
400 Snell Engineering Center
360 Huntington Avenue
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Tel: (617) 373 - 3242
Fax: (617) 373 - 4419
jf.hajjar@neu.edu
Faculty Website
COE Research Website
Education:
- Ph.D., Structural Engineering, Cornell University, 1988
- M.S., Structural Engineering, Cornell University, 1985
- B.S., Engineering Mechanics, Yale University, 1982
Expertise:
- Earthquake Engineering
- Computational Analysis
- Experimental Testing
- Structural Stability
- Steel and Composite Steel/Concrete Structures
Honors and Awards:
- 2010 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award
- 2009 ASCE Shortridge Hardesty Award
- 2007 ASCE Fellow
- 2005 AISC T. R. Higgins Lectureship Award
- 2004 AISC Special Achievement Award
- 2003 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize
- 2000 ASCE Norman Medal
Licensure:
- Professional Engineer: Illinois and Minnesota
Selected Publications:
- Szyniszewski, S., Smith, B. H., Hajjar, J. F., Arwade, S. R., and Schafer, B. W. (2012). "Local Buckling Strength of Steel Foam Sandwich Panels," Thin-Walled Structures, 59, 11-19.
- Deierlein, G. G., Krawinkler, H., Ma, X., Eatherton, M., Hajjar, J. F., Takeuchi, T., Kasai, K., and Midorikawa, M. (2011). "Earthquake Resilient Steel Braced Frames with Controlled Rocking and Energy Dissipating Fuses," Steel Construction: Design and Research, 4(3), 171-175.
- Eatherton, M. and Hajjar, J. F. (2011). "Residual Drifts of Self-Centering Systems Including Effects of Ambient Building Resistance," Earthquake Spectra, 27(3), 719-744.
- Borello, D. J., Denavit, M. D., and Hajjar, J. F. (2011). "Behavior of Bolted Steel Slip-Critical Connections with Fillers. I. Performance," Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Vol. 67, No. 3, March, pp. 379-388.
- Tort, C. and Hajjar, J. F. (2010). "A Mixed Finite Element for 3D Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Rectangular Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Beam-Columns," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 136(11), 1329-1339.
Professional Affiliations:
- American Concrete Institute
- American Institute of Steel Construction
- American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute
- Architectural Institute of Japan
- Association for International Cooperation and Research in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures
- Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- European Association for Earthquake Engineering
- George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
- International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering
- Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
- Research Council on Structural Connections
- Structural Stability Research Council


