Research Interests

Dr. Sumner's research includes the analysis, design, construction, and performance of steel bridge and building structures. Particular areas of interest include:

• Analysis and design of steel connections
  
• Behavior and design of cold-formed steel structures
• Strengthening and repair of steel structures with fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) materials
• Behavior and design of steel bridge structures
• Analysis and design of temporary falsework systems for bridge construction

Education

M.S., Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1995

B.S., Civil Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1993

Representative Publications

Sumner, E. A. and Murray, T. M. (2002), "Behavior of Extended End-Plate Moment Connections Subject to Cyclic Loading," Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, vol. 128, no. 4, pp. 501-508.

Murray, T. M. and Sumner, E. A. (2003) , "Extended End-Plate Moment Connections, 2nd Edition," AISC Design Guide Series No. 4, American Institute of Steel Construction, Chicago, IL, 158 pages.
(Note: This document is an industry standard guide and was peer reviewed by approximately 10 reviewers with mandatory revisions)

Schnerch, D., Stanford, K., Sumner, E. A. and Rizkalla, S. (2004), "Strengthening Steel Structures and Bridges with High Modulus Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer, Resin Selections and Scaled Monopole Behavior", Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1892, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2004, pp. 237-245.

Dawood, M., Sumner, E. and *Rizkalla, S., "Fundamental Characteristics of New High Modulus CFRP Materials for Strengthening Steel Bridges and Structures", accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics and Construction, University of Waterloo, Canada, May 14-17, 2006, 12 pages.

Schnerch, D., Stanford, K., *Rizkalla, S., and Sumner, E., "Bond Behavior of CFRP Strengthened Steel Bridges and Structures", accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Bond Behavior of FRP in Structures, Hong Kong, China, December 7-9, 2005, 9 pages.

Schnerch, D., Dawood, M., Sumner, E. A., and *Rizkalla, S., "Strengthening Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges with High Modulus Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Laminates", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Composites in Construction (CCC 2005), Lyon, France, July 11-13, 2005, pp. 283-290.

Schnerch, D., Dawood, M., Sumner, E., and *Rizkalla, S., "Behavior of Steel-Concrete Composite Beams Strengthened with Unstressed and Prestressed High-Modulus CFRP Strips", Proceedings of the Fourth Middle East Symposium on Structural Composites for Infrastructure Applications (MESC4), Alexandria, Egypt, May 20-23 2005, 13 pages.

Schnerch, D., Stanford, K., Sumner, E., and Rizkalla, S., "Strengthening of Steel Structures and Bridges with High-Modulus Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polymers: Resin Selection and Scaled Monopole Testing", Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2004, CD-ROM, 23 pages.

Schnerch, D., Dawood, M., Sumner, E., and *Rizkalla, S., "Design Guidelines for Strengthening of Steel-Concrete Composite Beams with High Modulus CFRP Materials", 7th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 23-25, 2006.

Sumner, E. A. and *Murray, T. M. (2003), "Behavior and design of multi-row extended end-plate moment connections," Advances in Structures: Steel, Concrete, Composite and Aluminum, Sydney, Australia, June 23-25, 12 pages.

Murray, T. M., Shoemaker, W. L., Sumner, E. A., and Toney, P. N. (2003), "AISC/MBMA Steel Design Guide No. 16 Flush and Extended Multiple-Row Moment End-Plate Connections," North American Steel Construction Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2-5, 2003, 14 pages.

Sumner, E. A., Mays, T. W., and Murray, T. M. (2000), "End-Plate Moment Connections: Test Results and Finite Element Method Validation," Connections in Steel Structures IV: Steel Connections in the New Millennium: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop, Roanoke, Virginia, October 22-25, 2000, 12 pages.

Sumner, E. A., Mays, T. W., and Murray, T. M. (2000), "'Heavy' Moment End-Plate Connections Subject to Seismic Loading," Behavior of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas: Proceedings of the Third International Conference STESSA 2000, Montreal, Canada, August 21-24, 2000, F. M. Mazzolani and R. Tremblay, eds., 735-740, 2000.

Professional Memberships

American Institute of Steel Construction

American Society of Civil Engineers

Professional Registrations

Professional Engineer, Virginia