Research Expertise and Interest

resilience, Durability, & Sustainability of civil infrastructure systems, Climate change impact, Multihazard risk, community resilience, Adaptive climate risk mitigation

Research Description

Eyitayo Opabola's research combines Structural Engineering, Reliability Theory, Statistics, and Hazard Science to solve complex engineering problems affecting civil infrastructure systems. He has extensive experience in large-scale field and laboratory testing of structural components and systems, nonlinear analysis of structures, multihazard risk analysis, and building-level and community-level resilience quantification. 

His research focuses on both high- and low-income communities. Eyitayo has collaborated on various projects across North America (US and Canada), Europe (United Kingdom, Turkey, and Russia), Oceania (New Zealand), Asia (Japan, Indonesia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka), and Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi). 

His current research projects investigate: (a) how future building codes can address resilience, sustainability, and durability under extreme loading events and changing climate; (b) how natural hazards interact and impact civil infrastructure systems and communities, especially marginalized communities; (c) innovative ideas on rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of buildings to meet net-zero goals.

Opabola is the recipient of the 2023 Shah Family Innovation Prize from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.