Travis Welt
Engineering
University of Saint Thomas Saint Paul
United States of America
Biography
Travis has spent his professional career working on projects ranging from single-family residential design to design of floating offshore production facilities, specifically focused on steel stiffened plate hull design. As a structural design engineer (Shell International Exploration and Production), he developed a risk-based inspection philosophy for the largest (upon installation) floating production facility in the Gulf of Mexico, and led many brownfield projects including subsea developments and flowline pull-ins (to existing floating production facilities). Travis’ research career has focused specifically on seismic behavior of reinforced concrete structural walls. Through large-scale experimentation, he has isolated inconsistencies with classical analytical models for confined concrete as compared with modern design, and influenced changes in the building code accordingly. Travis is a member of ACI 369 (Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Concrete Frame Buildings) and ACI 374 (Performance-Based Design of Concrete Buildings), and is a registered Professional Engineer.
Research Interest
Seismic design of reinforced concrete structures, Rapidly deployable structures, Non-contact health monitoring systems, Integrity management & life-cycle analysis, Engineering education and professional development
Publications
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Welt T, Qureishi A, LaFave J, Lehman D, McCabe S. Performance of slender reinforced concrete structural walls under significant lateral loads. InProc., 10th US National Conf. in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Anchorage, AK 2014 Jul 21.
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Behrouzi A, Welt T, Lehman D, Lowes L, LaFave J, Kuchma D. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Flexural Concrete Wall Design Details. InStructures Congress 2017 (pp. 418-433).
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Welt TS, Massone LM, LaFave JM, Lehman DE, McCabe SL, Polanco P. Confinement Behavior of Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Prisms Simulating Wall Boundary Elements. Journal of Structural Engineering. 2016 Oct 28;143(4):04016204.
