Dixon Rea, Expert on Quakes
Dixon Rea, a UCLA professor of civil engineering and expert in earthquake engineering, has died of cancer, a UCLA spokesman said Monday.
Rea died Thursday, his 45th birthday, at UCLA Medical Center. Services will be held in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Rea had been a member of the UCLA faculty since 1974 and was a resident of Mar Vista. He was internationally known for his studies of the design of steel structures that could withstand strong earthquake motions. He developed the “shaking table,” a device designed to simulate in the laboratory the effects of earthquake motions.
He is survived by his wife, Katherine and a daughter, Anna.
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