Erica Fischer

Oregon State University

Research Expertise

structural fire engineering
community resilience
natural hazards

About

I completed my undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Civil Engineering. After Cornell, I worked with DeSimone Consulting Engineers and Murray Engineering in New York City as a structural engineer. I worked on several engineering projects in the New York City region including the design of new buildings and renovations of existing buildings. In my doctoral research at Purdue University, I performed large-scale structural engineering research and numerical analyses to study the performance of steel-frame buildings in fire. After my Ph.D. I worked at Degenkolb Engineers (Seattle) performing seismic evaluations of existing buildings and designing seismic retrofits of those buildings in the Pacific Northwest.  I started my academic career at Oregon State University in September 2017. I am currently working on a variety of projects (more information under research team). My overarching academic goals are to: * Examine technical topics relating to Structural Earthquake and Fire Engineering (including wildfires), * Promote multidisciplinary, global, and sustainable approaches to engineering, and * Inclusively help educate and train engineers that are more globally-engaged in research and practice. ##

Publications

Seismic performance of non-structural elements during the 2016 Central Italy earthquake
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
2018
Wildfire impacts on schools and hospitals following the 2018 California Camp Fire
Natural Hazards
2020
A review of modular cross laminated timber construction: Implications for temporary housing in seismic areas
Journal of Building Engineering
2023
Wildfires Impacts on Education and Healthcare: Paradise, California After the Camp Fire
Unknown Venue
2021
Fire resilience of composite beams with simple connections: Parametric studies and design
Journal of Constructional Steel Research
2017
Experimental Investigation of Composite Beams with Shear Connections Subjected to Fire Loading
Journal of Structural Engineering
2016
Review of large-scale CLT compartment fire tests
Construction and Building Materials
2022
2016–2017 Central Italy Earthquake Sequence: Seismic Retrofit Policy and Effectiveness
Earthquake Spectra
2018
Investigation of Cylindrical Steel Tank Damage at Wineries during Earthquakes: Lessons Learned and Mitigation Opportunities
Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
2016
The Marshall Fire: Scientific and policy needs for water system disaster response
AWWA Water Science
2023
Fire behavior of composite beams with simple connections: Benchmarking of numerical models
Journal of Constructional Steel Research
2015
Fundamental Behavior of Timber Concrete-Composite Floors in Fire
Journal of Structural Engineering
2021
Prediction of Water Distribution System Contamination Based on Wildfire Burn Severity in Wildland Urban Interface Communities
ACS ES&T Water
2020
Performance-Based Structural Fire Engineering of Steel Building Structures: Design-Basis Compartment Fires
Journal of Structural Engineering
2019
Database and Review of Beam-to-Column Connections for Seismic Design of Composite Special Moment Frames
Journal of Structural Engineering
2019
Closure to “Experimental Evaluation of the Fire Performance of Simple Connections” by Erica C. Fischer, Kristi L. Selden, and Amit H. Varma
Journal of Structural Engineering
2018
Experimental Evaluation of the Fire Performance of Simple Connections
Journal of Structural Engineering
2017
Less than expected? Landslides triggered by the 2023 Mw 7.7 and 7.6 Kahramanmaras (Türkiye) earthquake sequence
Unknown Venue
2023
Review of the charring rates of different timber species
Fire and Materials
2023
Simulation of Heat Transfer Through Soil for the Investigation of Wildfire Impacts on Buried Pipelines
Fire Technology
2022
Hydrometeorological Disasters Associated with Tsunamis and Earthquakes
Learning from Megadisasters: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
2014
Coseismic surface "conjugate" faulting of the 29 December 2020., MW 6.4, Petrinja earthquake (Sisak-Moslavina, Croatia)
Unknown Venue
2021
Experimental Evaluation of Single-Bolted Lap Joints at Elevated Temperatures
Journal of Structural Engineering
2018
A building information modelingfire dynamics simulation integrated framework for the simulation of passive fire protection in a mid‐scale cross‐laminated timber compartment: Numerical implementation and benchmarking
Fire and Materials
2022
Review of Research on the Fire Behavior of Simple Shear Connections
Fire Technology
2021
Behavior of Service Lateral Pipes during Wildfires: Testing Methodologies and Impact on Drinking Water Contamination
ACS ES&T Water
2023
Optimising disaster response: opportunities and challenges with Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) technology in response to the 2020 Labour Day wildfires in Oregon, USA
International Journal of Wildland Fire
2024
Numerical assessment of In-plane behavior of multi-panel CLT shear walls for modular structures
Engineering Structures
2023
The Influence of Housing, Parcel, and Neighborhood Characteristics on Housing Survival in the Marshall Fire
Fire Technology
2024
Heating duration effects on post-fire structural steel mechanical properties
Fire Safety Journal
2023
Monotonic Testing of Glue-Laminated Beam-to-Column Connections
Journal of Structural Engineering
2023
Oregon's Unprecedented Labor Day 2020 Fires: Impacts and Response
Journal AWWA
2024
Performance-Based Structural Fire Engineering of Steel Building Structures: Traveling Fires
Frontiers in Built Environment
2022
Design of Split-Tee Connections for Special Composite Moment Frames
Engineering Journal
2015
Advanced Fire Testing of a Composite Beam with Shear Tab Connections
Structures Congress 2014
2014
Experimental Testing and Numerical Simulation of Timber-Concrete Composite Floors in Fire
Journal of Structural Engineering
2023
A Delphi study to identify and prioritize research gaps for the incorporation of a fire into life cycle assessment of structures
Fire Safety Journal
2022
Contaminant Migration from Polymer Pipes to Drinking Water under High Temperature Wildfire Exposure
Lifelines 2022
2022
Cyclic Testing of Glue-Laminated Beam-to-Column Connections
Journal of Structural Engineering
2023
Front matter for Post-Earthquake Fire Assessment of Buildings
Post-Earthquake Fire Assessment of Buildings
2022
Seismic Behavior of Cylindrical Fluid-Filled Steel Tanks
Structures Congress 2017
2017
Sustainability and Structural Fire Engineering
Structures Congress 2015
2015
Residential Wildfire Structural Damage Detection Using Deep Learning to Analyze Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) Imagery
Computing in Civil Engineering 2023
2024
Integrating 4D BIM and FDS to Simulate and Assess Fires in Buildings under Construction
Construction Research Congress 2022
2022
Assessing Water Quality Impacts of Wildfire-Induced Depressurization in Water Systems: an Experimental Method
Fire Technology
2026
Holistic Approach to Resilience of Steel-Frame Construction in Fire
Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
2019
THE ROLE OF INTERMODULAR CONNECTIONS IN THE GLOBAL BEHAVIOR OF HIGH-RISE MASS TIMBER BUILDINGS
World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2023)
2023
Thermal and Structural Response of Beam-end Shear Connections During a Large Compartment Fire Experiment
Fire Technology
2023
Thermal response and capacity of beam end shear connections during a large compartment fire experiment
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF2020)
2020
Why Do Librarians Need to Know about Transdisciplinarity?
Transdisciplinarity Revealed
2017
Mechanical Characterization of Connections for Modular Cross-Laminated Timber Construction Using Underutilized Lumber
Journal of Structural Engineering
2024
Design of timber-concrete composite floors for fire
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF2020)
2020
The New Paradigm Of Post-Disaster Reconnaissance: Using Virtual Methods to Enhance Systematic In-Field Data Collection
GEOSTRATA Magazine
2019
Fire Testing of Glue-Laminated Beam-to-Column Connections
Journal of Structural Engineering
2025
Framework for Post-Wildfire Investigation of Buildings: Integrating LiDAR Data and Numerical Modeling
Fire Technology
2021
Develop and Benchmark FDS Numerical Models to Simulate Fundamental Fire Behavior in CLT Structures
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)
2021
Deep learning transferability across disaster types for UAS imagery based building damage assessment
Discover Civil Engineering
2025
Wildfires have created instability within risk transfer markets. Here’s a path forward
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2025
WOODWISE: LARGE-SCALE COMPARTMENT FIRE TESTS EXAMINING SUSTAINABILITY, SMOLDERING, AND EMISSIONS
World Conference on Timber Engineering 2025
2025
Learning to Survive: Disaster Resilience in Developing Countries
Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Congress 2016
2016
Composite Special Moment Frames
Unknown Venue
2020
A Review of Inter-Modular Connections for Volumetric Cross-Laminated Timber Modular Buildings
Buildings
2025
WASTE UTILIZATION PANELS – DESIGN OPTIMIZATION FOR GEOMETRY, STRUCTURE AND MATERIAL IN MASS PLYWOOD PANELS ADDITIVELY CONSTRUCTED FROM OFFCUTS
World Conference on Timber Engineering 2025
2025
Deep learning cross-applicability of Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) imagery from different disaster types for building damage assessment
Unknown Venue
2025
Time Scales of Gaseous Smoke Contamination Indoors from Real and Simulated Wildland-Urban Interface Fires
Unknown Venue
INFLUENCE OF FUEL TYPE AND LOAD ON FIRE INTENSITY: RESULTS FROM FULL-SCALE FIRE TESTS FROM THE WOODWISE PROJECT
World Conference on Timber Engineering 2025
2025
An open‐access simulated earthquake ground‐motion database for an M7 Hayward Fault earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Region
Earthquake Spectra
2025
FIRE BEHAVIOUR OF CLT FLOOR TO WALL CONNECTIONS: FINDINGS FROM THE WOODWISE PROJECT
World Conference on Timber Engineering 2025
2025
QUANTIFYING FIRE BEHAVIOUR IN GAPS IN CLT PANEL-TO-PANEL CONNECTIONS
World Conference on Timber Engineering 2025
2025
Thermo-mechanical properties of timber structures
Construction Materials and Their Properties for Fire Resistance and Insulation
2025
Data-driven and Scale-variant 3D Accuracy Assessment of Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data
Unknown Venue
2025
Component Modeling for Fire Behavior of Shear Tab Connections
Engineering Journal
2023
Initial sensor development and characterization for post-wildfire water recovery (Conference Presentation)
Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2023
2023
Water
Food and Sustainability
2020
Response
Unknown Venue
2018
Evaluation of economic efficiency from smallholder cocoa investment in Indonesia: A case study in central Sulawesi province with tropical climate
Australian Journal of Crop Science
2018
Structural Fire Engineering
Unknown Venue
2018
Closure to “Experimental Evaluation of Single-Bolted Lap Joints at Elevated Temperatures” by Erica C. Fischer, Amit H. Varma, and Qiaqia Zhu
Journal of Structural Engineering
2018
Advanced Analysis of Steel-Frame Buildings for Full Story Fires
Structures Congress 2017
2017
Experimental and numerical study on the bending response of a prefabricated composite CLT-steel floor module
Engineering Structures
2022
Adaption of active boundary conditions in structural fire testing
Journal of Structural Fire Engineering
2019
Using Fuzzy Logic to Visualize Vulnerability to Hazards
Unknown Venue
2023
EXPERIMENTAL MONOTONIC AND CYCLIC TESTING ON GLULAM BEAM-TO-COLUMN CONNECTIONS
World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2023)
2023
Experimental Evaluation of Composite Floor Assemblies under Fire Loading
Structures Congress 2010
2010

Education

Purdue University

Ph.D. / 2015

Cornell University

B.S. / 2007

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