Jerome F. Hajjar
CDM Smith Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Marine and Environmental Sciences
Contact
- jf.hajjar@northeastern.edu
- 400 Snell Engineering Center
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Office
- 400 Snell Engineering Center
- 617.373.3242
Research Focus
Steel and composite steel/concrete structures; earthquake engineering; structural stability; large-scale experimental testing of structures; regional simulation
Education
- PhD, Structural Engineering, Cornell University, 1988
- MS, Structural Engineering, Cornell University, 1985
- BS, Engineering Mechanics, Yale University, 1982
Licensure
- Professional Engineer: Illinois, Minnesota
Honors & Awards
- 2022 NAE Member
- 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award, American Institute of Steel Construction
- 2018 Robert D. Klein Lectureship Award
- 2016 ASCE Moisseiff Award
- 2015 BSCES Clemens Herschel Award
- 2013 SEI Fellow
- 2010 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award
- 2009 ASCE Shortridge Hardesty Award
- 2007 ASCE Fellow
- 2005 AISC T. R. Higgins Lectureship Award
- 2004 AISC Special Achievement Award
- 2003 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize
- 2000 ASCE Norman Medal
Professional Affiliations
- American Concrete Institute
- American Institute of Steel Construction
- American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute
- Architectural Institute of Japan
- Association for International Cooperation and Research in Steel-Concrete Composite Structures
- Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- European Association for Earthquake Engineering
- International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering
- Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute
- Research Council on Structural Connections
- Structural Stability Research Council
Research Overview
Steel and composite steel/concrete structures; earthquake engineering; structural stability; large-scale experimental testing of structures; regional simulation
Laboratory for Structural Testing of Resilient and Sustainable Systems
The double-height STReSS Lab features a 2,000 square-foot, reinforced concrete strong floor to enable full-scale testing of buildings, bridges, and other structures to failure. The strong floor includes a grid of 416 tie-down anchors, each capable of withstanding 200,000 pounds of force.
Selected Research Projects
- Ensuring Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation
- – Principal Investigator, National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium
- CRISP Type 2: Identification and Control of Uncertain, Highly Interdependent Processes Involving Humans with Applications to Resilient Emergency Health Response
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Physics-Reinforced Deep Learning for Structural Metamodeling
- – Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Steel Diaphragm Innovation Initiative
- – Co-Principal Investigator, American Institute of Steel Construction and Industry
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Y. Yan and J.F. Hajjar, Automated Extraction of Structural Elements in Steel Girder Bridges from Laser Point Clouds, Automation in Construction, 125, 2021, 103582
- K. Peterman, J. Kordas, M.D. Webster, J.A. D’Aloisio, and J.F. Hajjar, Structural Performance of Steel Shelf Angles with Thermally-Improved Detailing, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 146(10), October 2020, 04020218
- L. Wang, M.D. Webster, J.F. Hajjar, Design for Deconstruction Using Sustainable Composite Beams with Precast Concrete Planks and Clamping Connectors, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 146(8), August 2020, 04020158-1
- R. Zhang, J.F. Hajjar, H. Sun, A Machine Learning Approach for Sequence Clustering with Applications to Ground Motion Selection, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, 146(6), June 2020, 04020040
- V.V. Saykin, T.H. Nguyen, J.F. Hajjar, D. Deniz, J. Song The Effect of Triaxiality on Finite Element Deletion Strategies for Simulating Fracture in Steel Structures, Engineering Structures, 210, May 2020, 110364
- D. Deniz, J. Song, J.F. Hajjar, Energy-Based Sidesway Collapse Fragilities for Ductile Structural Frames Under Earthquake Loadings, Engineering Structures, 174, 1 November 2018, 282-294
- S.T. Hallowell, A.T. Myers, S.R. Arwade, W. Pang, P. Rawal, E. Hines, J.F. Hajjar, C. Qiao, V. Valamanesh, K. Wei, W. Carswell, and C. Fontana, Hurricane Risk Assessment of Offshore Wind Turbines, Renewable Energy, 125, 2018, 234-249
Feb 08, 2023
Building a Carbon Negative Future with Steel and Cross Laminated Timber
In a new $3.1M grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), Northeastern Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar will lead a multi-institution team of researchers developing a new carbon sequestration technique using cross-laminated timber composite floor systems in bolted steel construction for building structures.
Feb 08, 2023
Devastating Earthquakes Demonstrate the Need for Old Infrastructure Retrofits
CEE Professors Jerome Hajjar, Mehrdad Sasani, and Mishac Yegian, who are experts in the field of earthquake engineering, advise that older structures should be retrofitted with modern standards to help prevent the devastating collapses that happened during the recent earthquakes in Turkey.
Jan 04, 2023
Northeastern Hosts Offshore Wind Tech Week
Northeastern University hosted the International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, which drew together members of the scientific community, researchers, academia and the offshore wind engineering industry from around the world.
Nov 02, 2022
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes […]
May 03, 2022
Hajjar Recognized at 2022 Academic Awards Convocation
CEE Chair & CDM Smith Professor Jerome F. Hajjar, recently elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, was featured in a video during the annual Academic Awards Convocation. Faculty excellence on display at Academic Honors Convocation Professor Jerry Hajjar is recognized at the 2022 Academic Honors Convocation awards ceremony hosted in the […]
Apr 05, 2022
Tam Receives 2022 Compass Award
Carrie Tam, E’22, civil engineering and architectural studies, won a 2022 Compass Award which recognizes exemplary students from the senior class who, during their time on campus, have demonstrated a true dedication to a core set of values: leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern.
Mar 19, 2022
Jerome F. Hajjar Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Jerome Hajjar, CDM Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to NAE is considered the highest professional distinction accorded to an engineer. Hajjar was recognized for his distinguished contributions to engineering for “development of design criteria and models for stability and seismic design of innovative steel and composite structures.”
Mar 17, 2022
Hajjar Leading NOWRDC Hurricane Resiliency Project
CEE Chair & CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar is leading a multi-university $650K grant from the National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium for “Ensuring Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation.”
Mar 08, 2022
In The Big Dig’s Shadow
CEE Chair and Professor Jerome Hajjar featured in the Boston Business Journal article “In The Big Dig’s Shadow.”
Mar 08, 2022
Hajjar and Collaborators Awarded New Grant for Fundamental Innovation in Building Design
In a new grant from the Charles Pankow Foundation and industry partners, CDM Smith Professor and Northeastern Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Chair Jerome Hajjar and colleagues at three other institutions were awarded $425,000 to investigate a new modular steel plate floor framing and diaphragm system in steel building structures.