Name:
Tim Huff, Ph.D., P.E.
Title:
Assistant Professor
Department:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email Address:
thuff@tntech.edu
Phone:
(931) 372-3605
Office:
PRSC 424
Education and Licensure
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Tennessee
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, August, 2013, UT-Knoxville, Dissertation: Isolation as a Seismic Design Strategy for Bridges in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
- M.S. in Mathematics, Tennessee State University, December 2006
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, Tennessee Tech University, August 1985
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Tennessee Tech, March 1984
- 2-month practicum in Appropriate Technology for developing countries, May 1997
- Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
- Member, Seismological Society of America (SSA)
- Reviewer, ASCE Journals of Bridge Engineering and Practice Periodical
- Member: American Society of civil Engineers (ASCE)
PREVIOUS POSITION DETAILS
- Lecturer in Structural Engineering, Tennessee Tech (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
- Structural design and project management for TDOT bridge construction
- Interstate 40 over TN State Route 5 – Seismic Isolation System Design
- SR-26 over Center Hill Lake - plate girder with large, deep drilled shafts
- I-55 over Mallory Avenue in Shelby County – curved steel plate girder
- Demonbreun Street Viaduct over CSX Railroad & 11th Avenue
- Seismic pushover analysis of various structures
- Authored the TDOT Seismic Design Manual
- 2016 Tennessee Government Engineer of the Year, TSPE Nashville
TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES
- Associate, ASCE 41 Seismic Retrofit Of Existing Buildings Committee
- NCHRP 12-114, Seismic Site Response w/ Pore Water Pressure Generation
- NCHRP 12-116, Proposed AASHTO Specs for Design of Piles for Downdrag
- NCHRP 12-106, Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Bridge Design
- NCHRP 20-05, Topic 42-03, Site-Specific Earthquake Ground Motions
- NCHRP 20-07 (Task 396), Updating the AASHTO Seismic Hazard Maps
- NCHRP 12-59(01), Seismic Design of GRS Bridge Abutments
- NCHRP 12-105, Seismic Performance of Accelerated Construction Connections
- NCHRP 20-7 (task 262-M2), Project Working Group, Seismic Isolation Design
- Associate Editor, ASCE Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
