Construction and Steel Structure

Biography

Farid Abed is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He earned his PhD in 2005 in Structures/Mechanics from Louisiana State University (LSU), USA. He taught for three years in the area of structures at Bradley University and LSU. He has more than four years of industrial experience working as a civil engineer in the Middle East. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings. His research interests include computational solids and structural mechanics, advanced structural analysis, advanced mechanics of materials, composite materials and nonlinear finite element analysis.

Abstract

Abstract : Buckling Capacity of Pretwisted Steel Columns; Experiments and Finite Element Study