Russell Gentry
Associate Dean for Faculty; Acting Director, Digital Building Lab; Professor
Russell Gentry
Associate Dean for Faculty; Acting Director, Digital Building Lab; Professor
Education
Ph.D. Civil Engineering (Structures), University of Michigan, 1992
M.S. (Civil Engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology,1986
B.S. (Civil Engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985
Biography
Russell Gentry is Professor of Architecture and Civil Engineering (by courtesy) and a licensed structural engineer. He teaches graduate courses in building structures, computationally-driven fabrication and construction, and building integration. He is affiliated with the design computing faculty in the School of Architecture and the structural engineering and mechanics of materials faculty in the School of Civil Engineering.
Prof. Gentry is the chair of ASTM D30.10, Composites for Civil Structures and an expert on the development of test methods for composite materials. He is a fellow of the International Institute for Fiber Composites (IIFC). He is the Georgia Tech principal investigator on the NSF-sponsored international initiative to develop alternative uses for decommissioned composite wind turbine blades (www.re-wind.info).
Gentry is the Acting Director of the Digital Building Laboratory (DBL) an applied research lab in the College of Design, focusing on computational design, building information modeling, and information technology in the AEC industry. He serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty in the College of Design.
Benjamin Tasistro-Hart, Tristan Al-Haddad, Lawrence C. Bank, and Russell Gentry, (2019), “Reconstruction of Wind Turbine Blade Geometry and Internal Structure from Point Cloud Data,” ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, June 17-19, 2019.
Collins, Jeffrey and Gentry, Russell, (2019), “Mapping Precast: Linking Global and Local Descriptions of Architectural Precast Concrete,” ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering Theme: Future Cities and Resilient Infrastructures, June 17 - 19, 2019, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A, to appear.
Bermek, Mehmet, Shelden, Dennis and Gentry, Russell (2019) “Schema for Automated Generation of CLT Floor Framing and Panelization”, ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, June 17 - 19 2019.
Morrow, Ruth, Gentry, Russell and Al-Haddad, Tristan (2018), “Re-Wind: Architectural Design Studio and the Re-Purposing of Wind Turbine Blades”, SEEDS: Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, 6-7 September 2018.
Gentry, Russell and Bakis, Charles (2018), “ASTM Specification for Glass-Fiber Reinforced Polymer Bars for Concrete Reinforcement” 9th International Conference on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2016), July 17-19, 2018, Paris, France.
Gentry, Russell, Bank, Lawrence C., Chen, Jian-Fei, Arias, Franco and Al-Haddad, Tristan (2018), Adaptive Reuse of FRP Composite Wind Turbine Blades for Civil Infrastructure Construction, 9th International Conference on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2018), July 17-19, 2018, Paris, France.
K. Sanborn, T.R. Gentry, Z. Koch, A. Valkenburg, C. Conley, L.K. Stewart, (2018), Ballistic Performance of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Journal of Impact Engineering.
Lawrence C. Bank, Franco R. Arias, Ardavan Yazdanbakhsh, T. Russell Gentry, Tristan Al-Haddad, Jian-Fei Chen, Ruth Morrow, (2018), “Concepts for Reusing Composite Materials from Decommissioned Wind Turbine Blades in Affordable Housing”, Recycling, 3(1).
Gentry, T.R., Javaid, A., Chen, M. and Scott, D. (2016) “Bearing Strength of Small-Diameter Self-Tapping Fasteners in Hybrid Steel-FRP Connections”, 8th International Conference on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites in Civil Engineering (CICE 2016), December 14-16, 2016, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Shahmiri, Fereshteh and Gentry, Russell (2016) “A Survey of Cable-Suspended Robots and their Application in Architecture and Construction”, Congress of Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SiGraDi 2016), November 9-11, 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cavieres, Andres, Eastman Charles and Gentry, Russell (2016) “A Process-Driven Representation Schema for Masonry Wall Assemblies”, 33rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2016), July 18 to 21, 2016, Auburn, Alabama.
Sharif, S., T.R. Gentry, J. Yen, and J.N. Goodman (2013) “Kinetic Solar Panels: A Transformative and Expandable Geometric System for Photovoltaic Structures” International Journal of Architectural Computing, 11:2.
Gentry, T. Russell, (2011), “Performance of glued-laminated timbers with FRP shear and flexural reinforcement”, Journal of Composites for Construction, American Society of Civil Engineers, v 15, n 5, p 861-870.