Department of

Civil and Environmental Engineering


Dr. Bo Kasal


Title:
Hankin Chair of Residential Building Construction
Office:
222 Sackett Building
Phone:
814-863-9788
E-mail:
bo_kasal@engr.psu.edu
Website:
Personal Webpage

Areas of Interest:

Design of wood structures, assessment of historic wood structures and analytical modeling of wood buildings, residential structures

Analytical modeling and testing of wood structures subjected to natural hazard loads, modeling of nonlinear, nonconservative behavior, historic buildings, composite hybrid structures (fiber composites-wood-high-performance concrete), application of supercomputers in analysis of hysteretic systems, in-situ evaluations of wood structures