RESLab
Research on Efficient and Resilient Structures at the University of Michigan
Welcome to the Resilient and Efficient Structures Laboratory at the University of Michigan!
We carry out research in the areas of performance-based wind engineering, community resilience to natural hazards, metamodeling of uncertain and dynamic structural systems subject to stochastic loads, probabilistic frameworks for system-level optimization of wind excited structures and more.
Two Ph.D. Positions Available Fall 2025!!!
If you are interested, please apply to the Structures Program of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Michigan
If you are interested, please apply to the Structures Program of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Michigan
News
February 2025 - 2025 NHERI Computational Symposium was successfully held at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation! Fantastic meeting with ample RESlab presence!
August 2024 - Dr. Spence assumes the role of Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 2025 NHERI Computational Symposium! Come join us at UCLA in February 2025!
August 2024 - RESlab part of NSF grant to study population mobility in areas that are historically unprepared for repeated flooding! Check out the project description here!
August 2024 - Bowei Li joins Texas Tech University as Assistant Professor: congratulations!
June 2024 - Dr. Spence is featured on Local 4 News where he discusses the effects of extreme winds on communities. Check out the interview here!
June 2024 - Dr. Spence Chairs the 7th AAWE workshop at the University of Michigan! Check out some memories here!
April 2024 - Srinivasan successfully defends his Ph.D.: congratulations Dr. Arunachalam!
April 2024 - Liuyun Xu wins second place in the MICDE Annual Symposium for the presentation "An adaptive surrogate-based multi-fidelity Monte Carlo scheme for reliability analysis of nonlinear "systems against natural hazards": congratulations!
March 2024 - RESLab paper on Rapid Integration Schemes for Performance-Based Wind Engineering wins Best Paper Award for 2023 in Engineering Structures! Check it out here.
March 2024 - Sejin Kim joins Chungbuk National University as Assistant Professor: congratulations!
November 2023 - NIST Report on the future of Performance-based Wind Design is published. Proud to have been part of this effort!
September 2023 - Min Li joins Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as Assistant Professor: congratulations!
August 2023 - Liuyun Xu is selected as the recipient of the 23/24 MICDE Fellowship: congratulations!
July 2023 - Dr. Spence assumes the role of Associate Editor for Engineering Structures.
June 2023 - Liuyun Xu is selected as the recipient of the 2023 CERRA Student Recognition Award: congratulations!
June 2023 - Srinivasan Arunachalam is selected as a ASCE O.H. Ammann fellowship awardee: congratulations!
May 2023 - Jieling Jiang successfully passes her PhD qualifying exam: congratulations Jieling!
April 2023 - Haimiti Atila will join the RESLab starting September 2023: welcome to the RESLab!
April 2023 - Prof. Spence gives invited talk at Texas A&M University on Machine Learning in Performance-Based Wind Engineering.
February 2023 - Srinivasan Arunachalam is selected as a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship recipient: congratulations!
February 2023 - RESLab secures new grant from the MKA foundation and ARUP to study the alignment of Wind Reliability Analysis with Code-Based ESWL Methods.
January 2023 - co-edited Special Collection in the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering on Advances in Information Technology towards Vision for the Future of Structural Engineering taking shape!
December 2022 - Prof. Spence gives invited talk at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on Advancing Computational Methods for Performance-based Wind Engineering.
November 2022 - Prof. Spence is elected to the board of directors of the American Association for Wind Engineering.
August 2022 - Sejin Kim joins the RESLab as a Postdoc: welcome to the RESLab!
July 2022 - Dr. Spence is elected member of the ASCE/EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee control group.
May 2022 - Srinivasan Arunachalam is selected for the final of the PMC Student Paper Competition: congratulations!
May 2022 - Liuyun Xu successfully passes her PhD qualifying exam: congratulations Liuyun!
April 2022 - RESLab secures new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate the commercial viability of technology for wind reliability analysis. Read more here.
April 2022 - Jieling Jiang will join the RESLab starting September 2022: welcome to the RESLab!
March 2022 - Bowei successfully defends his Ph.D.: congratulations Dr. Li!
January 2022 - RESLab secures new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop technology for wind reliability analysis. Read more here.
November 2021 - RESLab paper on Performance-based Wind Engineering wins Best Paper Award from the ASCE! Check it out here.
October 2021 - Min Li joins the RESLab at a Postdoc: welcome to the RESLab!
October 2021 - A new version of WiRA (WiRA v3.0) is available for download! Request a copy here.
July 2021 - Dr. Spence assumes the role of Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering
July 2021 - RESLab secures new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the collapse of engineered building systems in extreme winds. Read more here.
May 2021 - Prof. Spence participates on the invited panel “Performance-Based Design: Earth, Wind & Fire” of the 2021 ASCE Structures Congress
May 2021 - RESLab member Bowei Li wins PMC best Student Paper Award at EMI/PMC 2021. Congratulations Bowei!
May 2021 - Prof. Spence shares insights into the future of Michigan's Line 5
May 2021 - Bowei Li selected for the final of the PMC Student Paper Competition: congratulations!
April 2021 - Prof. Spence gives invited talk on PBWE at Virginia Tech
April 2021 - Liuyun Xu will join the RESLab starting September 2021: welcome to the RESLab!
April 2021 - RESLab secures new grant from the MKA Foundation
March 2021 - Zhicheng successfully defends his Ph.D.: congratulations Dr. Ouyang!
March 2021 - Ahmed successfully defends his Ph.D.: congratulations Dr. Abdelhady!
March 2021 - Prof. Spence gives invited talk at the University of Florida on computational modeling in wind engineering
Latest publications
Characterizing the role of non-stationary hurricane wind loads on nonlinear structural responses and collapse risk of steel structures, Journal of Building Engineering
Validation of a multivariate non-Gaussian and non-stationary stochastic wind pressure model driven by stationary wind tunnel data, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
Deep learning enabled rapid nonlinear time history wind performance assessment, Structures
AI-enabled damage estimation of hurricane-impacted residential communities through CFD simulations and stratified sampling, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
Collapse reliability of wind-excited reinforced concrete structures by stratified sampling and nonlinear dynamic analysis, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
A multi-fidelity stochastic simulation scheme for estimation of small failure probabilities, Structural Safety
Reliability of inelastic wind excited structures by dynamic shakedown and adaptive fast nonlinear analysis (AFNA), Engineering Structures
Generalized Stratified Sampling for Efficient Reliability Assessment of Structures against Natural Hazards, Journal of Engineering Mechanics
An efficient stratified sampling scheme for the simultaneous estimation of small failure probabilities in wind engineering applications, Structural Safety
Real-time forecast of hurricane-induced damage risk to envelope systems of engineered buildings through metamodeling, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
Metamodeling through Deep Learning of High-Dimensional Dynamic Nonlinear Systems Driven by General Stochastic Excitation, Journal of Structural Engineering
Reliability-Based Collapse Assessment of Wind-Excited Steel Structures within Performance-Based Wind Engineering, Journal of Structural Engineering
Special issue on Advances in performance-based design optimization of stochastic dynamical systems, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
Exogenous windborne debris: Definition and required extent of surrounding buildings for modeling in hurricanes, Engineering Structures