Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
| richard.christenson@uconn.edu | |
| Phone | 860-486-2270 |
| Mailing Address | Civil and Environmental Engineering 261 Glenbrook Road, Unit 3037 Storrs, CT 06269-3037 |
| Campus | Storrs |
| Link | Affiliation Website |
| Google Scholar Link | |
Brief Bio
Richard Christenson is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UCONN). He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2002. His research focuses on structural engineering, particularly structural dynamics and experimental research.
- Smart Damping Technologies: His work investigates using smart damping technologies to improve the resilience of buildings, bridges, and pole structures.
- Bridge Monitoring: He researches methods for monitoring the health and integrity of bridges.
- Real-time Hybrid Testing Methodologies: Christenson explores advanced testing methods that combine physical experiments with computational models.
| Benchmark control problems for seismically excited nonlinear buildings
Y Ohtori, RE Christenson, BF Spencer Jr, SJ Dyke
Journal of engineering mechanics 130 (4), 366-385
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| Next generation benchmark control problem for seismically excited buildings
BF Spencer Jr, RE Christenson, SJ Dyke
Proceedings of the second world conference on structural control 2, 1135-1360
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| Large-scale experimental verification of semiactive control through real-time hybrid simulation
R Christenson, YZ Lin, A Emmons, B Bass
Journal of Structural Engineering 134 (4), 522-534
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| Semiactive control of civil structures for natural hazard mitigation: analytical and experimental studies
RE Christenson
University of Notre Dame
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| Semiactive damping of cables with sag
EA Johnson, RE Christenson, BF Spencer Jr
Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering 18 (2), 132-146
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| Coupled building control using acceleration feedback
RE Christenson, BF Spencer, Jr, N Hori, K Seto
Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering 18 (1), 4-18
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| Damage detection of a highway bridge under severe temperature changes using extended Kalman filter trained neural network
C Jin, S Jang, X Sun, J Li, R Christenson
Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring 6 (3), 545-560
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| Coupled building control considering the effects of building/connector configuration
RE Christenson, BF Spencer Jr, EA Johnson, K Seto
Journal of structural engineering 132 (6), 853-863
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| Large-scale real-time hybrid simulation for evaluation of advanced damping system performance
A Friedman, SJ Dyke, B Phillips, R Ahn, B Dong, Y Chae, N Castaneda, ...
Journal of Structural Engineering 141 (6), 04014150
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| Experimental verification of smart cable damping
RE Christenson, BF Spencer Jr, EA Johnson
Journal of engineering mechanics 132 (3), 268-278
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| A fully dynamic magneto-rheological fluid damper model
Z Jiang, RE Christenson
Smart Materials and Structures 21 (6), 065002
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| A comparison of 200 kN magneto-rheological damper models for use in real-time hybridsimulation pretesting
Z Jiang, R Christenson
Smart Materials and Structures 20 (6), 065011
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| Semiactive connected control method for adjacent multidegree-of-freedom buildings
RE Christenson, BF Spencer Jr, EA Johnson
Journal of Engineering Mechanics 133 (3), 290-298
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| System identification of a 200 kN magneto-rheological fluid damper for structural control in large-scale smart structures
BJ Bass, RE Christenson
2007 American Control Conference, 2690-2695
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| Performance validations of semiactive controllers on large-scale moment-resisting frame equipped with 200-kN MR damper using real-time hybrid simulations
YJ Cha, AK Agrawal, A Friedman, B Phillips, R Ahn, B Dong, SJ Dyke, ...
Journal of Structural Engineering 140 (10), 04014066
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| Experimental comparison of the performance and residual capacity of CFFT and RC bridge columns subjected to blasts
A Echevarria, AE Zaghi, V Chiarito, R Christenson, S Woodson
Journal of Bridge Engineering 21 (1), 04015026
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| Real-time hybrid simulation of a complex bridge model with MR dampers using the convolution integral method
Z Jiang, SJ Kim, S Plude, R Christenson
Smart Materials and Structures 22 (10), 105008
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| Parametric identification of the Dahl model for large scale MR dampers
N Aguirre, F Ikhouane, J Rodellar, R Christenson
Structural Control and Health Monitoring 19 (3), 332-347
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| Experimental evaluation of an adaptive inverse compensation technique for real-timesimulation of a large-scale magneto-rheological fluid damper
C Chen, JM Ricles, R Sause, R Christenson
Smart materials and structures 19 (2), 025017
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| Prognostic implication of late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac MRI in light chain (AL) amyloidosis on long term follow up
RQ Migrino, R Christenson, A Szabo, M Bright, S Truran, P Hari
BMC medical physics 9 (1), 5
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