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Frank McKenna

Assistant Researcher
Department of Civil Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
Work: (510) 642-1392
Home: (415) 435-3284

fmckenna@ce.Berkeley.EDU
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Areas of Research

My research interests are in the areas of Object-Oriented Programming and Parallel Computing, with an emphasis on the use of Networks of Workstations for solving structural engineering problems. I am currently developing an OO Framework for Nonlinear Transient Finite Element Analysis for the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, under the direction of Professor Gregory L. Fenves. The framework being developed, is written in C++ for use on both sequential and parallel machines. The code is open source and is freely available at OpenSees..

Biographical Sketch

I graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1987 with a bachelors and a masters degree in Civil Engineering. For the next 4 years I worked as a Structural Engineer in the London Office of the architecture/engineering firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Eventually I got bored working, so I came to Cal's Civil Eng Dept. I completed my Ph.D in December 1997 and worked as a Postdoctural Research Fellow at Cal for the next two years. I was subsequently hired by the university and have been working as an Assistant Researcher ever since.
Last Updated December 1998