Jay, as in Javad
I work on the stability and design of bridge and building structures: how slender concrete columns and steel connections really behave, and how design codes can capture it simply. PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. On the side, I build open-source tools.
- Structural stability
- Second-order analysis
- RC bridge columns
- Steel bolted connections
- Computational modeling
Research
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2025Journal article
Evaluating Flexural Stiffness Equations for the Stability Design of Slender Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns
J. Esmaeelpour, M. D. Denavit, M. H. Scott
Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, 30(11)
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2024Research report · Caltrans
Second Order Effects on the Design of Slender Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns
M. D. Denavit, J. Esmaeelpour, M. H. Scott, M. Zhu
California Department of Transportation, Report CA24-3684
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2024Research report · AISC
Further Investigation of Bearing and Tearout of Steel Bolted Connections
M. D. Denavit, J. Esmaeelpour, P. Poudel
American Institute of Steel Construction, Research Report No. 04
Projects
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Obsidian pluginTypeScript
CheckSorted
Keeps checkbox lists tidy: completed tasks move into their own section, sub-tasks travel with their parent, tasks autocomplete as you type, and any task deletes in one click. Listed in Obsidian's community directory, desktop and mobile.
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Python packagePython
PeerStyle
Publication-quality Matplotlib styles for peer-reviewed journals, like IEEE, Nature and posters, so figures look right without hand-tuning rcParams every time.
pip install peerstyle -
Obsidian pluginTypeScript
SolidDAV
Reliable WebDAV sync for Obsidian vaults. A standalone AGPL-3.0 fork of obsidian-webdav-sync.