Seong-Hoon Hwang Ph.D. Candidate McGill University Department of Civil Engineering Advisor: Prof. Dimitrios G. Lignos

Contact Information:

Address: Macdonald Engineering Building, Room 165

817 Sherbrooke Street West

Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C3, CANADA

email address

Interests and Current Research:

1. Earthquake Engineering

2. Seismic Risk Management

3. Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

4. Seismic Retrofit of Structural Systems

Education:

• B.Sc., Hanyang University, Korea, February 2009
  Department of Architectural Engineering
  

• M.Sc., Hanyang University, Korea, February 2009
  Department of Architectural Engineering
  

• M.Sc., Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, December 2011
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  

• Ph.D., McGill University, Canada, 2013-till now
  Department of Civil Engineering
  Advisor: Prof. Dimitrios G. Lignos

Publications:

1. Han, S.-W., Moon, K.-H., Hwang, S.-H., Stojadinovic, B. (2012). “Rotation capacities of reduced beam section with bolted web (RBS-B) connections.” Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 70, 256–263.

2. Hwang, S.-H., Han, S. W., Kang, K.-B., and Moon, K.-H., “Seismic performance evaluation of the steel intermediate moment frame systems with RBS with bolted web.” 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (7CUEE) & 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering (5ICEE), March 3–5, 2010, Tokyo, Japan.

3. Moon, K.-H., Han, S. W., Hwang, S.-H., and Lee, S. J. “Evaluation of rotation capacity for reduced beam section with bolted web.” 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (7CUEE) & 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering (5ICEE), March 2010, Tokyo, Japan.

4. Hwang, S.-H., Choi, B.-G., Moon, K.-H., and Han, S.-W. “New procedure for estimating the moment strength of reduced beam section connections with bolted webs.” The 5th International Symposium on Steel Structures (ISSS), March 12–14, 2009, Seoul, Korea, 447–454.