As Lehigh professor of civil and environmental engineering, Dr. Clay Naito is designing the next generation of infrastructure protection against natural and human disasters. Currently, Naito is working to assess the damage caused by tsunamis, earthquakes, and explosions to concrete structures. In collaboration with a national team of experts and international groups in Japan and Europe, he is also designing stronger and more efficient disaster resistant buildings and evacuation centers.
Through funding from the National Science Foundation, Naito’s research has the capacity to allow the nation’s aging infrastructure, and that of the world, to withstand disasters that have leveled past civilizations. In a time plagued with uncertainty, the work of Clay Naito strengthens the durability and adaptability of the man-made world.
