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Dr. Suhaib Salawdeh

Lecturer

Location: Civil Engineering, Room ENG 2030

Email: suhaib.salawdeh

nuigalway.ie

Telephone: +353 (0) 91 495932 Internal Ext. 5932

Suhaib has 10 years experience in consultancy, construction and research. Suahib's research activities including seismic design of structures, development of new design codes for engineering structures, earthquake engineering and sustainable construction technologies. Prior to joining NUI Galway, he worked as a researcher in the EU Centre, Pavia, Italy and EPC, Barcelona, Spain. He has also worked as a consulting engineer on numerous projects in UAE.

Professional Qualifications

BSc, MSc, PhD

Recent Academic Roles

Currently, lecturer on the following programmes at NUI Galway: BE in Civil Engineering, BE in Environmental Engineering, BE Energy Systems Engineering, BSc in Project & Construction Management.
Teaching responsibilities include concrete technology, concrete design, strucural engineering design and fundamentals of engineering.

Research Interests

Structural Engineering: Structures consisting of steel, concrete, masonry, timber and composite materials.
Earthquake Engineering: response of structures to earthquakes, using both force and displacement-based assessment approaches. Steel, concrete, masonry and composite materials.
Computational Mechanics: Numerical modelling; Nonlinear analysis; Time-history analysis; Time-frequency (wavelet) analysis; Finite element analysis.

Research Projects

Purpose / Topic	Funding	Sponsor	Link
Current
Improved European design and assessment methods for concentrically-braced frames ’BRACED Project’	€242,922	EU FP7
Complete
Seismic design of concentrically braced frame steel buildings	€48,000	CoEI

Awards & Honours

Award	Date
Best poster award, College Research Day	2011

Publications

Journals

Sullivan T., Salawdeh S., Goggins J. 'Displacement-based design of irregular reinforced concrete frame wall building structures’, Under preparation.
Goggins J., Salawdeh S., ‘Validation of non-linear time history analysis models for single storey concentrically braced frames using full scale shake table tests’. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (in press) [DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2264].

Salawdeh S., Goggins J., ‘Numerical model for steel brace members incorporating a fatigue model’. Engineering Structures 46 (2013) 332–349.

Conferences

Salawdeh S., Goggins J. ‘Comparison of DDBD with FBD procedures for concentrically braced steel frame’, 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (15WCEE), 24 - 28 September 2012. Lisbon, Portugal.
Salawdeh S., Goggins J. ‘Direct displacement-based seismic design of multi-storey concentrically braced frame structures’, IABSE Conference on "Global Thinking in Structural Engineering: Recent Achievements", 7 - 9 May 2012. Cairo, Egypt.
Salawdeh S., Sullivan T., Goggins J. ‘Benefits of a displacement based design procedure for reinforced concrete dual systems’, FUTURE CONCRETE 2011, 12-14 December, 2011, DUBAI – UAE.
Salawdeh S., Goggins J. ‘Analytical model for the seismic response of cold-formed steel braces’, The 6th International Conference on Thin Walled Structures, 5–7 September 2011, Timisoara, Romania.
Goggins J., Salawdeh S., ‘Direct displacement-based seismic design of single storey concentrically braced frames’, EUROSTEEL 2011, August 31 - September 2, 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
Salawdeh S., Goggins J. ‘Validation of a numerical model for use in non-linear time history analysis of CBFs’, Eurodyn 2011. The 8th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, 4-6 July 2011, Leuven, Belgium.

Thesis

Salawdeh S., ’Seismic design of concentrically braced steel frames’. PhD Thesis. College of Engineering & Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2012.

Civil Engineering
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 524411 Ext: 2170; Fax: +353 (0) 91 494507
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This page was last updated Friday, October 26, 2012