Publications

As an author, co-author and lecturer, WRK’s Principal and Founder Brian Knight has presented and published papers on the seismic design of various structural systems.  Publications include:

• Knight, B., and Kempner, L. Jr., “Seismic Vulnerabilities and Retrofit of High-Voltage Electrical Substation Facilities”, Technical Committee on Lifelines Earthquake Engineering (TCLEE) Conference, Oakland, California. Pending Publication, 2009.

• Knight, B., and Kempner, L. Jr., “A Utility’s Approach to Seismically Hardening Existing High-Voltage Electrical Transmission Substation Equipment”, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 2004

• Knight, B., “Case Study: HIgh Rise Wood-Framed Construction”, Wood Design Focus, Volume 15, Number 4, Winter, 2005

• Knight, B., and Thompson, C., “Seismic Strengthening of a Low-Rise Concrete Frame Residential Building-Adapazari, Turkey”, 5th International Conference, Cancun, Mexico, December, 2002.