Dr. Craig Menzemer

Title: Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Administration
Department: Engineering Dean's Office
Office: ASEC 201
Phone: 330-972-7911
Fax: 330-972-6020
Email: ccmenze@uakron.edu

Biography

Structural Engineering 

Education

• Ph.D. Lehigh University, 1992

Experience:

• 1981 - 1982, United States Steel Corporation, Field Engineer , Construction Management Group
• 1985 - 1996, Alcoa , Alcoa Technical Center, Technical Specialist, Product Design and Mechanics
• 1996 - Present, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, The University of Akron

Courses Taught:

• Statics
• Mechanics of Solids
• Advanced Mechanics of Solids
• Steel Design
• Advanced Steel Design
• Fracture Mechanics for Civil Engineering Applications

Research Projects:

• Steel Wire Reinforcement for High Pressure Hose
• Excessive Wear on Dump Body Truck Beds
• Development and Evaluation of Structural Systems for Freight Cars
• Strength of Joints in Kevlar Webbing
• Friction Grip Joints in Aluminum
• Post Buckling Behavior of Welded Aluminum Plates
• Block Shear Models for Connecting Elements
• Angles Attached by a Single Leg
• Fatigue Strength of Strand Splice
• Hot Spot fatigue Behavior of Joints
• Aluminum Alloys for Buried, High Voltage Conductors

Representative Publications:

• Kostem, C. N. and Menzemer, C. C. 
  Finite Element Analysis of Structural Details in Large Steel Bridge Superstructures, 
  Computing in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of the Fourth Congress, ASCE, 1986.
• Menzemer, C. C., Hinkle, A. and Nordmark, G. 
  Aluminum Orthotropic Bridge deck Verification, Materials and Member Behavior, 
  Proceedings of the Structures Congress, ASCE, 1986.
• Menzemer, C. C. and Fisher, J. W. 
  Bridge Repair Methods  U.S./Canadian Practice, Bridge Evaluation, Repair and 
  Rehabilitation, NATO ASI Series, Series E, Vol. 187, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.
• Fisher, J. W. and Menzemer, C. C. 
  Fatigue Cracking in Welded Steel Bridges, Transportation Research Record #1282, 
  Transportation Research Board, 1990.
• Sharp, M. L., Nordmark, G. E. and Menzemer, C. C. 
  Fatigue Design of Aluminum Components and Structures, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
• Menzemer, C. C. 
  Aluminum Materials and the Infrastructure, ASCE Special Report, TBP.
• Menzemer, C. C., 
  Emerging Materials and the Infrastructure, Alminum Alloys and the Infrastructure, American Society of Civil Engineers, State of the Art Report, October 2000.
• Xiao, Y. and Menzemer, C., 
  Ultimate Compressive Strength of Aluminum Plate Elements Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Accepted September 2002.
• Menzemer, C. and Srivatsan, T, 
  The Effect of Environment on Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Aluminum Alloy 5456, Materials Science and Engineering A, No. A271, Elseveir, 1999.
• Iascone, R. and Menzemer, C., 
  Re-Establishing the Shear Strength of ALuminum Alloy Fillet Welds Welding Journal, AWS, Featured Article, April 2002.

Professional Affiliations:

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Welding Society
• Sigma   Xi

Education

Ph.D. Lehigh University, 1992