Dr. Craig C. Menzemer Associate Professor Office: 209E ASEC Tel- 330.972.7291 Fax- 330.972.6020 Email: ccmenze@uakron.edu Structural Engineering Education Ph.D. Lehigh University, 1992 Experience: 1981 – 1982, United States Steel Corporation, Field Engineer – Construction Management Group 1985 – 1996, Alcoa , Alcoa Technical Center, Technical Specialist, Product Design and Mechanics 1996 – Present, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, The University of Akron Courses Taught: Statics Mechanics of Solids Advanced Mechanics of Solids Steel Design Advanced Steel Design Fracture Mechanics for Civil Engineering Applications Research Projects: Steel Wire Reinforcement for High Pressure Hose Excessive Wear on Dump Body Truck Beds Development and Evaluation of Structural Systems for Freight Cars Strength of Joints in Kevlar Webbing Friction Grip Joints in Aluminum Post Buckling Behavior of Welded Aluminum Plates Block Shear Models for Connecting Elements Angles Attached by a Single Leg Fatigue Strength of Strand Splice Hot Spot fatigue Behavior of Joints Aluminum Alloys for Buried, High Voltage Conductors Representative Publications: Kostem, C. N. and Menzemer, C. C. Finite Element Analysis of Structural Details in Large Steel Bridge Superstructures, Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of the Fourth Congress, ASCE, 1986. Menzemer, C. C., Hinkle, A. and Nordmark, G. Aluminum Orthotropic Bridge deck Verification, Materials and Member Behavior, Proceedings of the Structures Congress, ASCE, 1986. Menzemer, C. C. and Fisher, J. W. Bridge Repair Methods – U.S./Canadian Practice, Bridge Evaluation, Repair and Rehabilitation, NATO ASI Series, Series E, Vol. 187, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990. Fisher, J. W. and Menzemer, C. C. Fatigue Cracking in Welded Steel Bridges, Transportation Research Record #1282, Transportation Research Board, 1990. Sharp, M. L., Nordmark, G. E. and Menzemer, C. C. Fatigue Design of Aluminum Components and Structures, McGraw-Hill, 1996. Menzemer, C. C. Aluminum Materials and the Infrastructure, ASCE Special Report, TBP. Menzemer, C. C., Emerging Materials and the Infrastructure, Alminum Alloys and the Infrastructure, American Society of Civil Engineers, State of the Art Report, October 2000. Xiao, Y. and Menzemer, C., Ultimate Compressive Strength of Aluminum Plate Elements Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Accepted September 2002. Menzemer, C. and Srivatsan, T, The Effect of Environment on Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Aluminum Alloy 5456, Materials Science and Engineering A, No. A271, Elseveir, 1999. Iascone, R. and Menzemer, C., Re-Establishing the Shear Strength of ALuminum Alloy Fillet Welds Welding Journal, AWS, Featured Article, April 2002. Professional Affiliations: American Society of Civil Engineers American Welding Society Sigma – Xi