Katrin Beyer is Assistant Professor for Earthquake Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnqiue Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. After her undergraduate studies at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), she worked for two years for the consulting firm ARUP in London, UK, on projects related to structural dynamics, impact and seismic analysis. She received her PhD from the Rose School, Pavia, Italy. Her research interests include large-scale structural tests, the seismic behaviour of non-rectangular RC walls and of unreinforced masonry structures and the torsional response of asymmetric buildings when subjected to seismic excitation.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Beyer, K.. and Dazio, A. (2010) “Quasi-static cyclic tests on masonry spandrels,” submitted to Earthquake Spectra.
- Beyer, K., Dazio, A. and Priestley, M.J.N. (2010) “Shear deformations of slender RC walls under seismic loading,” ACI Structural Journal, in press.
- Dazio, A., Beyer, K. and Bachmann, H. (2009) “Quasi-static cyclic tests and plastic hinge analysis of RC walls,” Engineering Structures 31(7): 1556-1571.
- Beyer, K., Dazio, A. and Priestley, M.J.N. (2008) “Quasi-static cyclic tests of two U-shaped reinforced concrete walls,” Journal of Earthquake Engineering 12(7): 1023-1053.
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Beyer, K., Dazio, A. and Priestley, M.J.N. (2008) “Inelastic wide-column models for U-shaped reinforced concrete walls,” Journal of Earthquake Engineering 12(S1): 1-33.