Jack Moehle received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and joined the U.C. Berkeley faculty in 1980. From 1991 to 2001 he was Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Center at Berkeley, and in 1996 he became founding Director of the multi-university Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, where he served until 2008. His teaching and research includes topics in structural engineering, earthquake engineering, and reinforced concrete, with research covering both analytical and experimental methods; buildings, bridges, and infrastructure; materials, components, and complete structural systems, seismic retrofitting and design of new structures, including performance-based earthquake engineering. A licensed Civil Engineer in California, Dr. Moehle provides engineering consultation and expert peer review on highway systems (Caltrans, Works Consultancy New Zealand), mass transit systems (Bay Area Rapid Transit, Transbay Transit Center), water distribution systems (San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, New York City Aqueducts), existing construction (Stanford, UC Berkeley, US Army Corps of Engineers), and high-rise building consulting and peer review (Los Angeles, Reno, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle).

48 years of overall experience

120 scientific publications

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Ongoing activities
Consulting services, varius times:

American Society of Civil Engineers; Applied Technology Council; Bayez/Patel; Buscovitch Engineers; Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute; Dames and Moore; De Simone Consulting Engineers; Electric Power Research Institute; Kennedy/Jenks/Chilton; Portland Cement Association; Putnam Collins Scott Associates; Rutherford & Chekene; Simpson, Gumpertz, & Heger.

2011- ongoing

TY and Margaret Lin Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

1990 - ongoing

Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Ongoing

Past Chair of the American Concrete Institute Building Code Committee (ACI 318)

Licensed Civil Engineer, State of California

Consulting and review boards for several transit systems, older existing construction, and high rise buildings

Past Chair of the American Concrete Institute Building Code Committee (ACI 318)

1997-2008

Director, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2018

Arteta, CA, and JP Moehle, “Seismic Performance of a Building Subjected to Intermediate Seismic Shaking,” ACI Structural Journal, V. 115, No. 2, pp. 299-309, March 2018, DOI: 10.14359/51701095

2018

“Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings,” (R. Hamburger, J. Moehle, et al., Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

2016

“Seismic Design of Cast-in-Place Concrete Diaphragms, Chords, and Collectors: a Guide for Practicing Engineers, 2nd Edition,” J. Moehle, J. Hooper, T. Meyer, NEHRP Seismic Design Technical Brief No. 3, National Institute of Standards and Technology

2015

Tea Visnjic, Marios Panagiotou, and Jack P. Moehle, “Seismic Response of Tall Reinforced Concrete Special Moment Resisting Frame Buildings Designed with Current Code Provisions,” Earthquake Spectra, May 2015, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 869-893. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/082112EQS267M

2014

Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings, J. Moehle, McGraw-Hill, 2014, 760 pp.

2012

“Performance assessment of tall concrete core-wall building designed using two alternative approaches,” T. Y. Yang, J. P. Moehle, Y. Bozorgnia, F. Zareian and J. W. Wallace, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Volume 41, Issue 11, September 2012, Pages: 1515–1531. DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2219

PRIZES

2020

George W. Housner Medal, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

2019

Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (ACI

2015

Best Journal Paper of the Year, for “Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Core Wall Buildings with and without Moment-Resisting Frames,” The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings Journal

2015

Exceptional Public- and Private-Sector Research and Development Program, Tall Building Seismic Design Guidelines, ATC/SEI Award

2011

Award of Excellence (SEAONC and SEAOC) Tall Buildings Initiative Guidelines on Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Building

2009

Outstanding Paper Award, Earthquake Spectra

2008

President’s Award, Los Angeles Tall Buildings Structural Design Council

2005

The Annual Distinguished Lecture Award, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

1990

Huber Research Prize, ASCE