Welcome to the Structural Engineering and Health Monitoring (SEHM) Lab at LMU

The high occupancy of urban multistory buildings, the aging of critical infrastructure, and evolving safety and sustainability expectations all demand new performance objectives for civil structures. Research at the Structural Engineering and Health Monitoring (SEHM) Lab at Loyola Marymount University focuses on developing resilient, damage-limiting structural systems and data-informed methodologies for buildings and bridges subjected to earthquakes and other natural hazards.

SEHM Lab research integrates analytical modeling, computational simulation, and experimental validation, with emphasis on:

• Rocking and self-centering structural systems for damage-limiting seismic response and retrofit of buildings and bridges
• Physics-based and probabilistic digital twins for real-time structural health monitoring and condition assessment
• High-fidelity finite element and reduced-order modeling to enable efficient simulation, model updating, and uncertainty quantification

Current work in the SEHM Lab combines numerical studies with laboratory-scale and system-level investigations to better understand structural response, improve predictive capabilities, and support performance-based engineering decisions.

For more details on ongoing research activities and projects, please visit the lab’s Research page.