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Dr. Assaf Shmerling

Lecturer

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Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
30 - Sam Gorovoy (Natural Sciences) Building Floor 3 Room 310, Marcus Campus
- Tuesday 08:00-09:00
08-647-9693
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08-647-9693

assafs@bgu.ac.il

About

Dr. Assaf Shmerling is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where he previously earned his B.Sc. summa cum laude and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering. His primary research focuses on developing methodologies for seismic performance-based design and the retrofitting of structures using passive and semi-active energy dissipation technologies, often employing optimal control theory to solve complex civil engineering problems. Dr. Shmerling is currently advancing algorithms for semi-active pendulum systems to mitigate both earthquake and wind loads, while also investigating the seismic vulnerability of existing structures through the development of capacity and fragility curves. He leads the university's Earthquake Engineering laboratory, utilizing a small-scale shaking table for experimental research, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses including Earthquake Engineering and Dynamics of Structures.

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Courses

:Graduate Level Courses
?Advanced Topics in Dynamics of Structures
?Analytical Methods for Engineers
?Earthquake Engineering
:?Undergraduate Level Courses
?Dynamics of Structures
?Extreme Events and Practical Seismic Design

Publications

Shmerling, A., Levy, R., & Reinhorn, A. M. (2018). Seismic retrofit of frame structures using passive systems based on optimal control. Structural Control and Health Monitoring.
?Shmerling, A., & Levy, R. (2018). Seismic upgrade of structures using the H? control problem for a general system interconnection paradigm. Structural Control and Health Monitoring.
?Shmerling, A., & Levy, R. (2019). Seismic structural design methodology for inelastic shear buildings that regulates floor accelerations. Engineering Structures.
?Shmerling, A. (2019). Seismic retrofit of two-way unsymmetric-plan buildings with added masses. Engineering Structures.
?Nissan M., Shmerling, A. (2021). Analytical approach for the design and optimal allocation of shape memory alloy dampers in three-dimensional nonlinear structures. Computers & Structures.
?Shmerling, A. (2022). Reversed optimal control approach for seismic retrofitting of inelastic lateral load resisting systems. International Journal of Dynamics and Control.
?Shmerling, A., & Gerdts, M. (2022). Optimization of inelastic multistory structures under seismic vibrations using shape-memory-alloy material. Scientific Reports.
?Shmerling, A., & Gerdts, M. (2022). A Design Methodology for the Seismic Retrofitting of Existing Frame Structures Post-Earthquake Incident Using Nonlinear Control Systems. Buildings.
?Shmerling, A. (2023). Matrix equations models for nonlinear dynamic analysis of two-dimensional and three-dimensional RC structures with lateral load resisting cantilever elements. Nonlinear Dynamics.
?Shmerling, A., & Gerdts, M. (2023). Short-horizon acceleration-predictive control for reducing lateral seismic inertia forces of inelastic frame structures using semi-active fluid viscous dampers. Computers & Structures.
?Parizat S., Kamai, R., Shmerling, A. (2024). Correlating the seismic acceleration of reinforced concrete moment-resisting-frames with structural and earthquake characteristics. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.
?Parizat S., Kamai, R., Shaked Y., Shmerling, A. (2024). Seismic vulnerability of a pre-code, reinforced concrete, apartment-block building. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.