Home Page of Prof. Lance Manuel, UT-Austin

Other activities/committees at UT that I'm involved with:

    2020-24 Associate Chair, Civil Engineering - CAEE
    2017-19 & 2020-24 Member, CAEE Advisory Committee
    2000-02 & 2021-24 Member, CAEE Curriculum and Accreditation Committee
    2002-06 & 2012-24 Member, 2006-10 & 2014-15 Chair, CAEE Graduate Policies, Fellowships and Recruiting Committee
    2020-24 Member, CAEE Internship Steering Committee

    2022-24 Member, 2024-25 Chair, University C-6 International Programs and Studies Standing Committee

Professional affiliations, technical committees, and journal affiliations ...

    Diplomate, Ocean Engineering - Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port & Navigation Engineers (ACOPNE), ASCE
    Member, Marine Board, NASEM

    Fellow, AAAS
    Fellow, ASCE
    Fellow, ASCE-SEI
    Fellow, ASME

    Member, AAWE
    Member, Sigma Xi
    Member, Tau Beta Pi

    Editor-in-Chief, ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

    Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering
    Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems
    Associate Editor, Wind Engineering and Science, Frontiers in Built Environment

    Editorial Board Member, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
    Editorial Board Member, Energies
    Editorial Board Member, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
    Editorial Board Member, Wind Engineering
    Editorial Board Member, Journal of Renewable Energy
    Editorial Board Member, Conference Papers in Energy

    Member, U.S. National Committee for IEC TC 88-MT1 (Design Requirements for Wind Turbines)
    Shadow Committee Member, U.S. National Committee for IEC TC MT-62600-2, TX114-MT1 (Design Requirements for Marine Energy Systems)

Students who have worked with me on research projects

Graduate - Ph.D. (dissertations available upon request)

Ali Sarı, December 2003 ... now on faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Hsin-Yang Chung, May 2004 ... now on faculty at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Korn Saranyasoontorn, May 2006 ... now at PTT Exploration & Production, Bangkok, Thailand
Puneet Agarwal, August 2008 ... now at ExxonMobil, Houston
Chen Shi, August 2011 ... now on faculty at Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China

Hieu Huy Nguyen, August 2012 ... now at DNV, Houston
Eungsoo Kim, May 2015 ... now at Posco, South Korea
Jae Sang Moon, May 2016 ... now Yooshin Engineering Corporation, South Korea
Ying-Chuan Chen, May 2019 ... now at KBR, Houston
Nan-You Lu, May 2019 ... now on faculty at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hyeong Uk Lim, December 2019 ... now at Stress Engineering Services, Houston
Phong Nguyen, December 2019 ... now on faculty at HCMC University of Technology and Innovation, Vietnam
Jinsong Liu, August 2021 ... now at United Power, China
Taemin Heo, December 2022 ... now postdoc at the Oden Institute

Graduate - M.S. (theses and reports available upon request)

Paiboon Lertwongkornkit, May 2001 ... now at C.I.T.Corporation Limited, Thailand
Wasan Patwichaichote, August 2001 ... now with Thai Military
Somchat Suwan, December 2002 ... now at Arup, Houston, Texas
Luke Nelson, May 2003 ... now at Datum Engineers, Austin, Texas
Sridhar Baldava, August 2004 ... now at Walter P. Moore Engineers & Consultants, Austin, Texas

Kenneth Berlin, May 2005 ... now with 12twenty, Santa Monica, California
Micah Florea, May 2005 ... now with Pacific Engineering and Design, Wenatchee, Washington
Matthew Albert, May 2006 ... now with Haynes Whaley Associates, Houston, Texas
Tanapat Srivilairit, August 2006 ... now with Bechtel, Bangkok, Thailand
Patrick Ragan, May 2007 ... now at SR+A Structural Engineers, Chicago, Illinois

Erica Bush, August 2009 ... now at Ensoft, Inc., Austin, Texas
Chungwook Sim, August 2009 ... now on faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abhinav Sultania, August 2010 ... now at Genesis Oil and Gas, Houston
Himanshu Arora, May 2011 ... now at BP, Houston
Jinkyoo Park, August 2011 ... now on faculty at KAIST, South Korea

Phanisri Pradeep Pratapa, December 2011 ... now on faculty at IIT Madras
Wooyoung Kim, May 2013 ... now at Sofec, Inc., Houston
Watsamon Sahasakkul, August 2014 ... now at DNV, Houston
Mohit Soni, August 2014 ... now at Oersted, Houston
Mandy Chen, December 2015 ... now at Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Seattle, Washington

Jinsong Liu, December 2015 ... now at United Power, China
Edwin Thomas, December 2015 ... now at Datum Engineers, Dallas
Jarred Canning, December 2017 ... now at NV5, Denver, Colorado
Katrin Chandra, December 2021 ... now at Thornton Tomasetti, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Elizabeth Washburn, December 2021 ... now at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Houston, Texas

Chi-Wei Niu, May 2024 ... now PhD student in group

Undergraduate - B.S.

Aaron Sterns, Academic Year 2002-03 [TREX Scholar and Sandia Summer Intern]
Brenda Guerra, Academic Year 2003-04 [TREX Scholar]
Victoria McCammon, Summer 2004
Martin Regner, Summer 2004
Enrique Dominguez, Summer 2004

Michael Warren, Spring 2005
Christopher Wright, Academic Year 2005-06 [TREX Scholar]
Erin Keys, Academic Year 2006-07 [GLUE Program]
Liliam Fernandez, Summer 2007, Academic Year 2007-08 [LSAMP Summer Scholar; TREX Scholar]
Denise Treviño, Academic Year 2007-08 [TREX Scholar]

Sergio Flores, Summer 2008, Academic Year 2008-09 [TREX Scholar and Sandia Summer Intern]
Azrin Amin, Academic Year 2008-09 [TREX Scholar]
Hua Liu, Academic Year 2009-10
Alexandra Houston, Academic Year 2009-10
Jae Lee, Academic Year 2009-10

Anthony Garcia, Academic Year 2010-11
Zahra Bhora, Academic Years 2009-10, 2010-11 [BS Honors Thesis]
Priscilla Nguyen, Academic Year 2012-13 [TREX Scholar]
Kate Spiesman (Harvey Mudd College), Summer 2013 [Harvey Mudd College Summer Research Assistant]
Wiley Jennings, Academic Year 2013-14 [UT-CAEE Legacy Fellow]

Emily Tat, August - December 2014
Brandon Comisarenco, Academic Year 2014-15 [TREX Scholar]
Lauryn Altena*, Academic Year 2014-15 [UT-CAEE Legacy Scholar]
Elsa Buvik, January - May 2015
Tarek El-Afifi*, January - May 2015

Lilian Gonzalez-Arechaga*, January - May 2015
Alexander Wallen, January - May 2015
Raul Olvera*, January - May 2015
Samuel Xiong, January - May 2016 [UT-CAEE Legacy Scholar]
Jarred Canning, January - August 2016 [UT-CAEE Legacy Scholar and Sandia Summer Intern]

Gitanjali Bhattacharjee*, November 2014 - May 2016 [Plan II and BS Honors Thesis]
Joseph Schmidt, Summer 2016 [LSAMP Summer Scholar]
Kee Young Jung, Academic Year 2016-17 [TREX Scholar]
James Luo (ME Student), Academic Year 2018-19 [BS Honors Thesis]
Uriel Laredo, January - May 2019 [UT-CAEE Legacy Scholar]

Michael Ramirez, January - May 2019
Nathan Zhang, January - May 2019
Elton Nguyen, Academic Year 2019-20 [TREX Scholar]
David Chen, Academic Year 2020-21
Aneesa Mohammed, Academic Year 2020-21 [TREX Scholar]

Kaushik Katta, Academic Year 2021-22 [Computational Science & Engineering (CSE 370) Certificate]
Jennings Ye, Academic Year 2021-22[Computational Science & Engineering (CSE 370) Certificate]
Avery Brennen, January - May 2023
Zoe Chen^, January 2023 - May 2024
Maria C. Dalton^, January 2023 - May 2024

Joshua Epps^, January 2023 - May 2024

*[2014-15 Part of Undergraduate UT Heat Island Team]
^[2023-24 Part of Undergraduate Managed Retreat Team, paper published - doi: 10.18260/1-2--45383]

and, finally, some random (okay, old) music ♫ samplings as well as other stuff, as long as you're here ...
enjoy!

Questions/comments?

If you have any, please contact me by e-mail at lmanuel[at]mail.utexas.edu

Thank you!

If you would like a copy of any of these, please contact me.

E. Marino, M. Gkantou, A. Malekjafarian, S. Bali, C. Baniotopoulos, J. van Beeck, R. P. Borg, N. Bruschi, P. Cardiff, E. Chatzi, I. Čudina, F. Dinu, E. Efthymiou, G. Ferri, H. Gervásio, J. Heng, Z. Jiang, S. Lenci, I. Lukacevic, L. Manuel, A. Meyer, M. M. Morales, A. Osmanović, V. Pakrashi, A. Pandit, G. Rega, D. Skejić, L. Tesch, V. Ungureanu, T. Uzunović, and A. S. Verma, “Offshore renewable energies: a review towards Floating Modular Energy Islands—Monitoring, Loads, Modeling and Control,” Ocean Engineering, 2024. (doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.119251)
P. Mendes, J. A. F. O. Correia, A. Mourão, R. Dantas, A. de Jesus, C. Horas, N. Fantuzzi, and L. Manuel, “High-Cycle Fatigue Design Curves of Mild- and High-Strength Steels for Offshore Applications,” Structures, 2024. (doi: 10.1016/j.istruc.2024.106827)
D. Haselibozchaloee, J. A. F. O. Correia, D. F. O. Braga, G. Cipriano, L. Reis, L. Manuel, and P. M. G. P. Moreira, “Quantifying Uncertainty in Fatigue Crack Growth of SLM 316L through Advanced Predictive Modeling,” Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 2024. (doi: 10.1111/ffe.14361)

P. T. T. Nguyen and L. Manuel, “A Bi-Fidelity Surrogate Model for Extreme Loads on Offshore Structures,” Ocean Engineering, 2024. (doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.118175)
D. P. Liu, T. Heo, G. Ferri, E. Marino, and L. Manuel, “On Long-Term Fatigue Damage Estimation for a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine using a Surrogate Model,” Renewable Energy, 2024. (doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2024.120238)
P. T. T. Nguyen and L. Manuel, “Uncertainty Quantification in Low-Probability Response Estimation using Sliced Inverse Regression and Polynomial Chaos Expansion,” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Vol. 242, 109750, February 2024. (10.1016/j.ress.2023.109750)
H. Lim, L. Manuel, P. Persson, L. V. Andersen, “Uncertainty Quantification of Wood Floor System Modal Frequencies resulting from Variable Densities in Members,” Structures, 2023. (10.1016/j.istruc.2023.04.111)
P. Veers, C. L. Bottasso, L. Manuel, J. Naughton, L. Pao, J. Paquette, A. Robertson, M. Robinson, S. Ananthan, A. Barlas, A. Bianchini, H. Bredmose, S. G. Horcas, J. Keller, H. A. Madsen, J. Manwell, P. Moriarty, S. Nolet, and J. Rinker, “Grand Challenges in the Design, Manufacture, and Operation of Future Wind Turbine Systems,” Wind Energy Science, 2023. (10.5194/wes-8-1071-2023)
W.-H. Tsao, Y.-C. Chen, C. E. Kees, and L. Manuel, “Response Mitigation of Floating Platform by Porous-Media Tuned Liquid Dampers,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 2023. (doi: 10.1115/1.4062292)

T. Heo, D. P. Liu, L. Manuel, J. A. F. O. Correia, and P. Mendes, “Assessing Fatigue Damage and Reuse of a Decommissioned Offshore Jacket Platform to Support a Wind Turbine,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 2023. (doi: 10.1115/1.4056943)
T. Heo, D. P. Liu, and L. Manuel, “Weather Window Analysis in Operations and Maintenance Policies for Offshore Floating Multi-Purpose Platforms,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, 2023. (doi: 10.1115/1.4056344)
R. G. Coe, L. Manuel, and A. F. Haselsteiner, “On Limiting the Influence of Serial Correlation in Metocean Data for Prediction of Extremes,” Ocean Engineering, Vol. 266, No. 5, December 2022. (doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.113032)
F. K. Donkor, S.-A. Mitoulis, S. Argyroudis, H. Aboelkhair, J. A. Ballesteros Canovas, A. Bashir, G. P. Cuaton, S. Diatta, M. Habibi, D. Hölbling, L. Manuel, M. Pregnolato, R. R. R. Ribeiro, A. Sfetsos, N. Shahzad, C. Werner, “SDG Final Decade of Action: Resilient Pathways to Build Back Better to Extreme Events,” Sustainability, Vol. 14, No. 22, 15401, November 2022. (doi: 10.3390/su142215401)
Y. Jang, E. Byon, S. Vanage, K. Cetin, D. E. Jahn, W. Gallus, Jr., and L. Manuel, “Spatiotemporal post-calibration in a Numerical Weather Prediction for quantifying building energy consumption,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022. (doi: 10.1109/TASE.2022.3201475)

P. P. Pratapa, H. H. Nguyen, and L. Manuel, “A computational model to simulate thunderstorm downbursts for wind turbine loads analysis,” ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation, Transactions of the ASME, February 2023. (doi: 10.1115/1.4055076)
W.-H. Tsao, Y.-C. Chen, C. E. Kees and L. Manuel, “The Effect of Porous Media on Wave-Induced Sloshing in a Floating Tank,” Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 11, June 2022. (doi: 10.3390/app12115587)
P. Mendes, J. A. F. O. Correia, J. Arrojado, T. Heo, N. Fantuzzi, and L. Manuel, “Horizontal and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines on Existing Jacket Platforms: Part 2 – Retrofitting Activities,” Structures, Vol. 40, June 2022. (doi: 10.1016/j.istruc.2022.03.084)
A. Sari and L. Manuel, “Correlation of Performance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Energy-Based Parameters,” The Open Civil Engineering Journal, Vol. 16, 2022. (doi: 10.2174/18741495-v16-e2202021)
T. Heo and L. Manuel, “Greedy Copula Segmentation of Multivariate Non-Stationary Time Series for Climate Change Adaptation,” Progress in Disaster Science, Vol.14, 100221, 2022. (doi: 10.1016/j.pdisas.2022.100221)

H. Lim, L. Manuel, Y. M. Low, and N. Srinil, "A surrogate model for estimating uncertainty in marine riser fatigue damage resulting from vortex-induced vibration," Engineering Structures, 2022. (doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2021.113796)
E. Kim and L. Manuel, "Loads on a Jacket-Supported Wind Turbine during Hurricane Sandy Simulation," Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, February 2022. (doi: 10.1115/1.4052482)
A. Aidibi, N. Fantuzzi, S. Babamohammadi, J. A. F. O. Correia, and L. Manuel, "Stress Concentration Factor Evaluation of Offshore Tubular KT-Joints based on Analytical and Numerical Solutions: A Comparative Study," Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, ASCE, 2021. (doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)SC.1943-5576.0000622)
A. F. Haselsteiner, R. G. Coe, L. Manuel, W. Chai, B. Leira, G. Clarindo, C. Guedes Soares, A. Hannesdottir, N. Dimitrov, A. Sander, J.-H. Ohlendorf, K.-D. Thoben, G. de Hauteclocque, E. Mackay, P. Jonathan, C. Qiao, A. Myers, A. Rode, A. Hildebrandt, B. Schmidt, E. Vanem and A. B. Huseby, "A Benchmarking Exercise for Environmental Contours," Ocean Engineering, Vol. 236, 109504, September 2021. (doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.109504)
N.-Y. Lu, L. Manuel, P. Hawbecker, and S. Basu, "A Simulation Study on Risks to Wind Turbine Arrays from Thunderstorm Downbursts in different Atmospheric Stability Conditions," Energies, 14(17), 5407, 2021. (doi: 10.3390/en12142773)

P. Mendes, J. A. F. O. Correia, J. M. Castro, N. Fantuzzi, A. Aidibi, and L. Manuel, "Horizontal and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines on Existing Jacket Platforms: Part 1 - A Comparative Study," Structures, August 2021. (doi: 10.1016/j.istruc.2021.01.069)
J. S. Moon and L. Manuel, "Toward Understanding Waked Flow Fields behind a Wind Turbine using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition," Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Vol. 13, 023302, 19 pp., 2021. (doi: 10.1063/5.0035751)
H. Xin, J. A. F. O. Correia, M. Veljkovic, F. Berto, and L. Manuel, "Residual Stress Effects on Fatigue Prediction using Hardness Measurements for Butt-Welded Joints made of High-Strength Steels," International Journal of Fatigue, June 2021. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2021.106175)
H. Lim and L. Manuel, "Distribution-Free Polynomial Chaos Expansion Surrogate Models for Efficient Structural Reliability Analysis," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 205, 107256, January 2021. (doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2020.107256)
H. Lim, L. Manuel, and Y. M. Low, "On Efficient Surrogate Model Development for Prediction of the Long-Term Extreme Response of a Moored Floating Structure," Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, February 2021. (doi: 10.1115/1.4047545)

T. Cheng, B. R. Cox, J. P. Vantassel, and L. Manuel, "A Statistical Approach to Account for Azimuthal Variability in Single-Station HVSR Measurements," Geophysical Journal International, November 2020. (doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaa342)
B. R. Cox, T. Cheng, J. Vantassel, and L. Manuel, "A Statistical Representation and Frequency-Domain Window-Rejection Algorithm for Single-Station HVSR Measurements," Geophysical Journal International, 2020. (doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaa119)
D. E. Jahn, W. A. Gallus, Jr., P. Nguyen, Q. Pan, K. Cetin, E. Byon, L. Manuel, Y. Zhou, and E. Jahani, "Projecting central U.S. most likely annual urban heat extremes through mid-century," Atmosphere, December 2019. (doi:10.3390/atmos10120727)
S. Woo, J. Park, J. Park, and L. Manuel, "Wind Field-Based Short-Term Turbine Response Forecasting by Stacked Dilated Convolutional LSTMs," IEEE PES Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2019. (doi: 10.1109/TSTE.2019.2954107)
N.-Y. Lu, P. Hawbecker, S. Basu, and L. Manuel, "On Wind Turbine Loads During Thunderstorm Downbursts in Contrasting Atmospheric Stability Regimes," Energies, 12(14), 2773, 2019. (doi: 10.3390/en12142773)

N.-Y. Lu, S. Basu, and L. Manuel, "On Wind Turbine Loads during the Evening Transition Period," Wind Energy, 2019. (doi: 10.1002/we.2355)
E. Kim and L. Manuel, "On the Simulation of Wind, Waves and Currents during Hurricane Sandy for Assessing the Performance of Jacket-Supported Offshore Wind Turbines," Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, December 2019. (doi: 10.1115/1.4043777)
P. T. T. Nguyen, L. Manuel, and R. G. Coe, "On the Development of an Efficient Surrogate Model for Predicting Long-Term Extreme Loads on a Wave Energy Converter," Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, December 2019. (doi: 10.1115/1.4042944)
J. Liu, E. Thomas, A. Goyal, and L. Manuel, "Design Loads for a Large Wind Turbine Supported by a Moored Semi-Submersible Floating Platform," Renewable Energy, Vol. 138, pp. 923-936, August 2019. (doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.02.011)
C. Shi and L. Manuel, "Non-Parametric Prediction of the Long-Term Fatigue Damage for an Instrumented Marine Riser," Applied Ocean Research, Vol. 82, pp. 245-258, January 2019. (doi: 10.1016/j.apor.2018.11.001)

C. Shi, L. Manuel, and M. Tognarelli, "A Comparison of Empirical Procedures for Fatigue Damage Prediction in Instrumented Risers undergoing Vortex-Induced Vibration," Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 11, November 2018. (doi: 10.3390/app8112085)
L. Manuel, P. T. T. Nguyen, J. Canning, R. G. Coe, A. C. Eckert-Gallup, and N. Martin, "Alternative Approaches to Develop Environmental Contours from Metocean Data," Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, Vol. 4, No. 4, November 2018. (doi: 10.1007/s40722-018-0123-0)
L. V. Andersen, T. L. Andersen, and L. Manuel, "Model Uncertainties for Soil-Structure Interaction in Offshore Wind Turbine Monopile Foundations," Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2018. (doi: 10.3390/jmse6030087)
J. Liu and L. Manuel, "Alternative Mooring Systems for a Very Large Offshore Wind Turbine Supported by a Semi-Submersible Floating Platform," Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation, Transactions of the ASME, October 2018. (doi: 10.1115/1.4039984)
P. Hawbecker, S. Basu, and L. Manuel, "Investigating the Impact of Atmospheric Stability on Thunderstorm Outflow Winds and Turbulence," Wind Energy Science, Vol. 3, pp. 2013-219, 2018. (doi: 10.5194/wes-3-203-2018)

J. Liu, E. Thomas, L. Manuel, D. T. Griffith, K. Ruehl, and M. Barone, "Integrated System Design for a Large Wind Turbine Supported on a Moored Semi-submersible Platform," Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2018. (doi: 10.3390/jmse6010009)
J. S. Moon, L. Manuel, M. J. Churchfield, S. Lee, and P. S. Veers, "Toward Development of a Stochastic Wake Model: Validation using LES and Turbine Loads," Energies, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2018. (doi: 10.3390/en11010053)
A. Sultania and L. Manuel, "Reliability Analysis for a Spar-Supported Floating Offshore Wind Turbine," Wind Engineering, February 2018. (doi: 10.1177/0309524X17723206)
P. Hawbecker, S. Basu, and L. Manuel, Realistic Simulations of the July 1, 2011 Severe Wind Event over the Buffalo Ridge Wind Farm," Wind Energy, November 2017. (doi: 10.1002/we.2122)
W. Hsu, K. Thiagarajan, L. Manuel, "Extreme Mooring Tensions due to Snap Loads on a Floating Offshore Wind Turbine System," Marine Structures, Vol. 55, pp. 182-199, September 2017. (doi: 10.1016/j.marstruc.2017.05.005)

C. Shi and L. Manuel, "An Empirical Procedure for Fatigue Damage Estimation in Instrumented Risers," Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 139, No. 3, 031701, 8 pp. June 2017. (doi: 10.1115/1.4035303)
E. Marino, A. Giusti, and L. Manuel, "Offshore Wind Turbine Fatigue Loads: The Influence of Alternative Wave Modeling for Different Turbulent and Mean Winds," Renewable Energy, Vol. 102, Part A, pp. 157-169, 2017. (doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2016.10.023)
M. Ghosn, L. Dueñas-Osorio, D. M. Frangopol, T. P. McAllister, P. Bocchini, L. Manuel, B. Ellingwood, S. Arangio, F. Bontempi, M. Shah, M. Akiyama, F. Biondini, S. Hernandez, and G. Tsiatas, "Performance Indicators for Structural Systems and Infrastructure Networks," ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, F4016003, 2016. (doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0001542)
M. Ghosn, D. M. Frangopol, T. P. McAllister, M. Shah, S. Diniz, B. R. Ellingwood, L. Manuel, F. Biondini, N. Catbas, A. Strauss, and Z. L. Zhao, "Reliability-Based Performance Indicators for Structural Members," ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, F4016002, 2016. (doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0001546)
E. Kim and L. Manuel, "Hurricane Risk Assessment for Offshore Wind Plants," Wind Engineering, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 261-269, 2016. (doi: 10.1177/0309524X16645482)

A. Sultania and L. Manuel, "Loads and Motions for a Spar-Supported Floating Offshore Wind Turbine," Wind and Structures, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 525-541, 2016. (doi: 10.12989/was.2016.22.5.525)
P. M. Karve, L. F. Kallivokas, and L. Manuel, "A Framework for Assessing the Uncertainty in Wave Energy Delivery to Targeted Subsurface Formations," Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2016. (doi: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2015.12.001)
K. Cetin, L. Manuel, and A. Novoselac, "Effect of Technology-Enabled Time-of-Use Energy Pricing on Thermal Comfort and Energy Use in Mechanically-Conditioned Residential Buildings in Cooling Dominated Climates," Building and Environment, Vol. 96, pp. 118-130, February 2016. (doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.11.012)
K. Cetin, L. Manuel, and A. Novoselac, "Thermal Comfort Evaluation for Mechanically Conditioned Buildings using Response Surfaces in an Uncertainty Analysis Framework," Science and Technology for the Built Environment, 2016. (doi: 10.1080/23744731.2015.1100022)

D. Schmidt, L. Manuel, H. H. Nguyen, L. V. S. Sagrilo, E. C. P. de Lima, “Fatigue Reliability Analysis for Brace-Column Connection Details in a Semisubmersible Hull,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 137, No. 6, 061301, 7 pp., December 2015. (doi: 10.1115/1.4031493)
L. V. Andersen, J. D. Sørensen, S.-B. Kim, J.-H. Yi, G.-L. Yoon, and L. Manuel, “Influence of Characteristic-Soil-Property-Estimation Approach on the Response of Monopiles for Offshore Wind Turbines,” Journal of Ocean and Wind Energy, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 160-167, August 2015. (doi: 10.17736/jowe.2015.jcr39)
J. Park, L. Manuel, and S. Basu, “Toward Isolation of Salient Features in Stable Boundary Layer Wind Fields that Influence Loads on Wind Turbines,” Energies, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 2977-3012, 2015. (doi: 10.3390/en8042977)
H. H. Nguyen and L. Manuel, “Extreme and Fatigue Loads on Wind Turbines during Thunderstorm Downbursts: The Influence of Alternative Turbulence Models,” Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Vol. 7, 013102, 22 pp., 2015. (doi: 10.1063/1.4905700)

E. Marino, H. Nguyen, C. Lugni, L. Manuel, and C. Borri, “Irregular Nonlinear Wave Simulation and Associated Loads on Offshore Wind Turbines,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 137, No. 2, 021901, 9 pp., April 2015. (doi: 10.1115/1.4029212)
H. H. Nguyen and L. Manuel, “Transient Thunderstorm Downbursts and their Effects on Wind Turbines,” Energies, Vol. 7, No. 10, pp. 6527-6548, 2014. (doi: 10.3390/en7106527)
J. S. Moon, W. Sahasakkul, M. Soni, and L. Manuel, “On the Use of Site Data to Define Extreme Turbulence Conditions for Wind Turbine Design,” Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 136, No. 4, 044506, 2014. (doi: 10.1115/1.4028721)
E. Kim and L. Manuel, “Hurricane-Induced Loads on Offshore Wind Turbines with Considerations for Nacelle Yaw and Blade Pitch Control,” Wind Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 413-424, August 2014. (doi: 10.1260/0309-524X.38.4.413)
C. Shi, L. Manuel, and M. A. Tognarelli, “Empirical Procedures for Long-Term Prediction of Fatigue Damage for an Instrumented Marine Riser,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 136, No. 3, 031402, 10 pp., August 2014. (doi: 10.1115/1.4027654)

C. Shi, J. Park, L. Manuel, and M. A. Tognarelli “A Data-Driven Mode Identification Algorithm for Riser Fatigue Damage Assessment,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 136, No. 3, 031702, 8 pp., August 2014. (doi: 10.1115/1.4027292)
H. H. Nguyen and L. Manuel, “A Monte Carlo Simulation Study of Wind Turbine Loads in Thunderstorm Downbursts,” Wind Energy, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 925-940, May 2015. (doi: 10.1002/we.1740)
H. H. Nguyen, L. Manuel, J. Jonkman, and P. S. Veers, “Simulation of Thunderstorm Downbursts and Associated Wind Turbine Loads,” Journal of Solar Energy Engineering including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 135, No. 2, 021015, 12 pp., May 2013. (doi: 10.1115/1.4023096)
H. H. Nguyen and L. Manuel, “Thunderstorm Downburst Risks to Wind Farms,” Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Vol. 5, 013120, 2013. (doi: 10.1063/1.4792497)
J. Park, S. Basu, and L. Manuel, “Large-Eddy Simulation of Stable Boundary Layer Turbulence and Estimation of Associated Wind Turbine Loads,” Wind Energy, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 359-384, March 2014. (doi: 10.1002/we.1580)

E. A. Rendon and L. Manuel, “Long-Term Loads for a Monopile-Supported Offshore Wind Turbine,” Wind Energy, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 209-223, January 2013. (doi: 10.1002/we.1569)
C. Sim, S. Basu, and L. Manuel, “On Space-Time Resolution of Inflow Representations for Wind Turbine Loads Analysis,” Energies, Vol. 5, No. 7, pp. 2071-2092, 2012. (doi: 10.3390/en5072071)
C. Shi, L. Manuel, M. Tognarelli, and T. Botros, “On the Vortex-Induced Vibration Response of a Model Riser and Location of Sensors for Fatigue Damage Prediction,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Transactions of the ASME, Vol. 134, No. 3, 031802, 10 pp., August 2012. (doi: 10.1115/1.4005193)
H. H. Nguyen, L. Manuel, and P. S. Veers, “Wind Turbine Loads during Simulated Thunderstorm Microbursts,” Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Engineering, Vol. 3, 053104, 2011. (doi: 10.1063/1.3646764)
P. Agarwal and L. Manuel, “Incorporating Irregular Nonlinear Waves in Coupled Simulation and Reliability Studies of Offshore Wind Turbines,” Applied Ocean Research, Vol. 33, pp. 215-227, March 2011. (doi: 10.1016/j.apor.2011.02.001)

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