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Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology

Don White is a Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA. He is a member of the AISC Specification Committee and has served as a major contributor to the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications and the ANSI/AISC Specification for Structural Steel Buildings during the past 20 years. He was a lead author on the 1997 ASCE publication Effective Length and Notional Load Approaches for Assessing Frame Stability: Implications for American Steel Design, which was a precursor to the development of the AISC Direct Analysis Method of design. Dr. White was one of several researchers privileged to be involved closely with curved steel bridge experimental testing at the FHWA Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center from 1997 through 2005. Dr. White was P.I. and lead author of the 2012 NCHRP Report 725, Guidelines for Analytical Methods and Construction Engineering of Curved and Skewed Steel Girder Bridges. These combined effforts contributed substantive advances to the state-of-the-art in the engineering of curved and skewed steel girder bridge structures within the United States. More recently, Dr. White was the P.I. on a multi-year FHWA-sponsored effort leading to the modernization of the AASHTO LRFD provisions pertaining to all types of noncomposite box-section members including truss members, edge girders in cable-stayed spans, arch ribs, arch ties, and tower legs.

Dr. White received the 2009 T.R. Higgins lectureship award and a 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from AISC, and the 2006 Shortridge Hardesty Award and 2010 Raymond C. Reese Award from ASCE for his research on design criteria for steel bridge and building construction. Dr. White is a co-author of the AISC Design Guide 28, Stability Design of Steel Buildings, and the AISC Design Guide 25, Frame Design Using Web-Tapered Members. He is the author of Volume 4 of the NSBA Steel Bridge Design Handbook, Structural Behavior of Steel, which provides an extensive overview of the background to the AASHTO LRFD provisions for steel design.