Keith Porter
- Adjoint Professor
- STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING & STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
- CIVIL SYSTEMS
Education:
- BS Civil Engineering, University of California at Davis, 1987
- MEng Structural Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1990
- PhD Structural Engineering, Stanford University, 2000
Honors and Distinctions:
- National Chi Epsilon civil engineering honor society, 2013
- GW Housner Postdoctoral Fellowship (Caltech), 2000-2001
- ARCS Scholar (Achievement Rewards for College Scholarships) 1999-2000
- Haresh Shah Family Fellow (Stanford University) 1997-1998
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (UC Berkeley) 1989-1990
- Regents Fellow (UC Berkeley) 1988-1989
- Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society (UC Davis) 1987
Professional Affiliations:
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Seismological Society of America
Interests:
- Earthquake engineering
- Performance based earthquake engineering
- Natural hazard risk management
Latest Publications:
- Davis, M., and K. Porter, 2016. The public's role in seismic design provisions. Earthquake Spectra. 32 (3), 1345-1361
- Porter, K.A., 2016. Safe enough? A building code to protect our cities and our lives. Earthquake Spectra 32 (2), 677-695. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/112213EQS286M
- Porter, K., 2016. Seismic fragility of traction elevators. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics 45 (5) 819-833
- Porter, K., 2016. Preparing for the big one. Journal of the National Institute of Building Sciences 4 (5), 16-19
- Porter, K., and M. Davis, 2015. Not safe enough: the public’s expectations of seismic performance. Journal of the National Institute of Building Sciences 3 (5) 22-25
- Cho, I.H., and K.A. Porter, 2015. Three-stage multiscale nonlinear dynamic analysis platform for building-level loss estimation. Earthquake Spectra 31 (2), 1021-1042, http://earthquakespectra.org/doi/abs/10.1193/092712EQS293M [viewed 16 Sep 2015]
- Cho, I.H., and K.A. Porter, 2013. Modeling building classes using moment matching. Earthquake Spectra. 31 (2): 1021-1042
- Cho, I. and K. Porter, 2013. Structure-independent parallel platform for nonlinear analyses of general real-scale RC structures under cyclic loading. Journal of Structural Engineering, http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000871
- Cho, I.H., and K.A. Porter, 2013. Modeling building classes using moment matching. Earthquake Spectra. http://earthquakespectra.org/doi/abs/10.1193/092712EQS293M [viewed 11 Dec 2014]
- Bonstrom, H., R. Corotis, and K. Porter, 2012. Overcoming public and political challenges for natural hazard risk investment decisions. IDRiM Journal 2 (1), 1-23, http://www.sparisk.com/pubs/Bonstrom-2012-IDRIM-Investment.pdf