Welcome

The Ziccarelli Research Group is part of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) at North Carolina State University (NC State). Our group is focused on the advancing the state-of-the-art in understanding the behavior of structural components at extreme limit states, including large scale yielding, fatigue, fracture and buckling. We work with a variety of structural materials, with a particular emphasis on steel structures and seismic loading conditions. Our work involves both experimental testing and detailed numerical simulation. Experimental testing is performed in the Structural Testing Laboratory in Fitts-Woolard Hall at NC State.