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Dr. Kara Peterman is a structural engineering experimentalist who joined the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass Amherst in September 2016. Dr. Peterman’s research is focused on resilience of steel structures, and she has examined resilience from both a natural hazards and sustainability perspective, experimentally testing steel systems ranging from the connection-level to full scale buildings. To date, Dr. Peterman’s research has improved and informed current design codes, and she is a voting member of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Committee on Specifications and Committee on Framing Standards to further the dissemination of her work. In 2020, she was elected to the Executive Committee and serves as the Chair of the Education Committee. She also chairs the Thin-Walled Structures Task Group of the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC). Dr. Peterman has been an affiliated investigator with the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC) since 2015, and has focused her work at UMass on identifying and characterizing load transfer mechanisms in cold-formed steel structures, investigating the interactions between structural systems.
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