Faculty and Staff Fred Moses, P.E.

Professor, Emeritus Email: Phone: (412) 624-9870 Fax: (412) 624-0135 Office: Benedum 949

Education

• Ph.D. (Civil Engineering), Cornell University, 1963.

Professional Interests

Fred Moses joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1992 as Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, coming from Case Western Reserve University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in structural engineering, including structural reliability, random processes, structural mechanics and analysis and system optimization. Dr. Moses has been Visiting Professor during sabbaticals at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, the Technion in Haifa, Imperial College, London, and the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has chaired the ASCE Committee on Structural Reliability and the ASCE Bridge Safety Committee. Dr. Moses' honors include the ASCE Wellington Prize, the Moisseiff Medal and the ASCE State-of-the-Art Award.

Professor Moses' areas of research and practice includes structural reliability, optimization, ocean structure safety, and highway bridge loading, fatigue, testing and safety analysis. He has had several NSF research projects in system reliability and optimization and has been P.l. on numerous NCHRP, TRB, FHA and Ohio DOT projects related to highway loads and safety. Dr. Moses has written three AASHTO Guide Specifications on design and evaluation for remaining bridge life and evaluation of bridge safety. He coauthored the recent AASHTO specification for bridge maintenance inspection and the new bridge testing manual.

Representative Publications:

• Moses, F., Aktas, E., and Ghosn, M., "Cost and Safety Optimization of Structural Design Specifications", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, No. 79, pp. 205-212, 2001.
• Moses, F., Fu, G., and Feng, J., "Reliability of Parallel Wire Cables for Suspension Bridges", IASBE Conference on Cable-Supported Bridges - Challenging Technical Limits, Seoul, Korea, June, 2001.
• Moses, F., Znidaric, A., and Ghosen, M., "System Behaviior of Post-Tensioned Beam Bridges - An Experimental Study", (ICOSSAR '01), International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, Newport Beach, CA, June 2001.
• Moses, F., Aktas, E., and Ghosen, M., "Structural Design Codes for Multiple Threats: A Reliability and Cost Optimization Approach", (ICOSSAR '01), International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, Newport Beach, CA, June 2001.