Costas Synolakis
- Professor of civil and environmental engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Expertise Summary
Expert on tsunamis and tsunami hazard mitigation, ocean water flow and pollutant migration, and coastal and beach erosion
Expertise
- computer tomography applications in materials testing
- nondestructive testing of composites
- nondestructive testing of asphalt pavements and concrete
- natural hazard mitigation
- vibration control
- tsunamis
- tsunami hazard mitigation
- hydrodynamic pressures on dams
- reservoir vibrations
- disaster mitigation
- natural hazard mitigation
- ocean dispersion of pollutants
- coastal effects of long waves
- coastal and ocean engineering
- beach erosion
Additional Information
Recipient, Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation (1989)