Vitaliy Saykin

Education

• Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with Concentration in Structures
• Dissertation Title: “A Validated Approach to Modeling Collapse of Steel Structures”
• Advised by Jerome F. Hajjar, Northeastern University and Junho Song, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• M.S. in Civil Engineering with Concentration in Structures
• Thesis Title: “Pavement Macrotexture Monitoring through Sound Generated by Tire-Pavement Interaction”
• Advised by Ming L. Wang, Northeastern University

• B.S. in Civil Engineering

Professional Work Experience

• Residential and commercial projects dealing with new construction, forensics and repair, and renovations.
  • Analysis and design of reinforced concrete, hot-rolled and cold-formed steel, masonry, and wood structures in addition to foundations and retaining walls. Projects range from multi-story new construction to small renovations to adaptive reuse.
  • Project time management, interacting with clients and perform site visits.
  • Documentation of structural deficiencies, failures, and underperformance; their causes and solutions.

• Teaching
  • Undergraduate: Introduction to Matlab, Statics, Mechanics of Material, Design Projects, Structural Steel Design, Structural Analysis 2, Reinforced Concrete Design, Cap Stone
  • Graduate: Engineering Modeling and Analysis Methods
• Research
  • Finite element modeling of collapse of steel structures through implementation of fracture mechanics
  • Fracture mechanics
  • Behavior of steel structures under collapse
• Service
  • Student Support and advising, ABET accreditation, Faculty Senate, Steel Bridge, Departmental Committees, ASCE SEI TAD Fatigue and Fracture Committee, University Committees (LIT, COOP), BSCE journal review committee

• Experience in Teaching Structural Engineering Courses
  • Taught Structural Analysis 1 Recitation (which also covered Strength of Materials)
  • Teaching Assistant for Structural Analysis 2, Behavior of Concrete Structures, Advanced Structural Analysis, Structural Dynamics, Advanced Bridge Design
  • Taught structural review sessions for students taking Fundamentals of Engineering Examination
  • Supervised undergraduate concrete canoe competition

• Nonlinear continuum finite element modeling of steel structures
  • Implemented ductile fracture mechanics in finite element for collapse modeling
  • Studied the effect of triaxiality as an influential parameter for ductile fracture occurrence in steel structures
• Primary authorship of papers in conference and peer-reviewed journals (in progress)

• Investigated the prediction of pavement macrotexture through sound generated by tire-pavement interaction
• Sensor selection, installation, calibration, validation
• Presentation of research at Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (June, 2011)
• Assisted in organizing EMI 2011 conference
• Primary authorship of paper in Journal of Engineering Mechanics

• Developed preliminary (bid), final, and fabrication drawings
• Performed design calculations, material takeoffs, specifications

• Tutored math, drafting, and engineering courses privately at Springfield Technical Community College

Licensure and Professional Memberships/Activities

• Member. American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
• Member. ASCE Structural Engineering Institute Technical Activities Division Fatigue and Fracture Committee
• ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering Paper reviewer
• Member. Structural Engineers Association of Massachusetts (SEAMASS)
• Member. Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES)
• Licensure.Engineering in Training, EIT (2009)
• Chi Epsilon (December 2007)

Selected Awards

• Fatigue Tests and Data Analysis of Metal Components Under Different Stress Levels with Stress Concentrations” by Xiaobin Le, Richard Roberts, and Vitaliy Saykin

• Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference , Boston, Massachusetts, June 4th, 2011

Software Proficiency

• MS Office • AutoCAD • Revit • ABAQUS • SAP2000 • RISA • Matlab • Python • C++ • SQL

Foreign Language Proficiency

• Russian • Spanish

Selected Refereed Publications

• Saykin, Vitaliy V., Nguyen, T., Deniz, D., Hajjar, J. F. , Song, J. (2017). “The effect of triaxiality on finite element deletion strategies for simulating collapse of full-scale steel structures,” Engineering Structures, 210, 110364, May 1, 2020
• Saykin, Vitaliy V., Nguyen, T., Deniz, D., Hajjar, J. F. , Song, J. (2017). “Material Characterization Using Finite Element Deletion Strategies for Collapse Modeling of Steel Structures,” Engineering Structures, 147, 125-133, September 15, 2017
• Saykin, V. V., Zhang, Y., Cao, Y., Wang, M., and McDaniel, J. (2013). “Pavement Macrotexture Monitoring through Sound Generated by a Tire-Pavement Interaction” Journal of Engineering Mechanics, SPECIAL ISSUE: Experimental Methods in Damage Detection and Wind Engineering, Vol. 139, pp. 264-271.

Selected Conference Publications

• Deniz, D., Saykin, V. V., Nguyen, T., Song, J., Hajjar, J. F. (2014). “Collapse Prediction of Steel Structures,” Proceedings of the 2015 Structural Engineering Frontier Conference, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, March 18-19, 2015
• Saykin, V. V., Nguyen, T., Hajjar, J. F., Deniz, D., Song, J. (2014). “Validation of a Finite Element Approach for Modeling of Structural Collapse of Steel Structures,” Proceedings of the 2014 Structures Congress, Boston, Massachusetts, April 3-5, 2014, ASCE, Reston Virginia

Ph.D. Dissertation

• Saykin, V. V. (2014). “A Validated Approach for Modeling Collapse of Steel Structures,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

Selected Reviewed Publications

• Peer-reviewed paper “Rebar Anchorage Slip Macro Model Considering Bond Stress Distribution” submitted for Engineering Structures 2017
• Peer-reviewed paper “Dynamic Increase Factor for Progressive Collapse Analysis of Steel Frames with Semi-Rigid Connections” submitted for Engineering Structures 2017
• Peer-reviewed paper “Collapse Resistance of Steel Columns under Combined Axial and Lateral Loading” submitted for Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE 2015