Adam is completing a Master's degree, working under the supervision of Robert Tremblay. His project is to develop and validate design rules for steel buckling restrained braces (BRBs). Adam is using finite element analysis techniques to study and characterize the stability and behaviour of steel core braces under cyclical plastic deformation. This is intended to lead to a component calculation methodology that gives adequate seismic behaviour for steel-only BRBs. Adam will also use experimental techniques on full scale seismic specimens to validate his results.