Trevor D. Hrynyk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he has been on Faculty since 2019. Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, he was a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his doctorate from the University of Toronto (2013), after earning his M.S. degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla (2007) and his B.A.Sc. degree from the University of Waterloo (2005). His research interests relate to studying the mechanical behaviour of structural concrete and developing computational modelling procedures that can be used for the design and assessment of reinforced concrete structures, particularly for those influenced by shear response mechanisms. He has been awarded research grants and led research projects aimed at examining the shear-resisting performance of slab systems and connections, on developing damage-based analysis procedures for the assessment of shear-cracked reinforced concrete infrastructure, and on validating (experimentally and numerically) the shear resisting performance of existing shear-damaged reinforced concrete bridge members. He has served as co-principal investigator on projects with similar objectives related to the design, modelling, and experimental investigation of prestressed concrete bridge infrastructure components.

In 2018 he received the ASCE Raymond C. Reese Research Prize in recognition of one of his journal papers published in 2016, in the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, related to the modelling of steel-concrete composite elements under in-plane and out-of-plane shear loading conditions. He is a member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), and the Federation Internationale du Beton (fib) | International Federation for Structural Concrete and currently chairs technical committees within ACI and technical committee working groups of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CSA S6) relating to concrete bridge design.

AFFILIATIONS

  • Federation Internationale du Beton (fib)
  • American Concrete Institute (ACI)
  • American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
  • Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code | Concrete Bridges (CSA S6)
  • VecTor Analysis Group