Associate Professor Ehab Hamed
Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr Ehab Hamed is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW and a member of the the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES).
Research interest
- Viscoelastic behaviour of materials and structures
- Creep and shrinkage of concrete
- Use of FRP composite materials in construction
- Insulating sandwich panels
- Precast concrete structures
Courses taught
- Steel and Composite Structures
- Structural Analysis and Modeling
- Advanced Concrete Structures
- Reinforced Concrete Design
- Advanced Mechanics of Structures and Materials
- Engineering Mechanics
Professional Organisations
- Member of ACI (American Concrete Institute) Committees: 209听Creep and Shrinkage in Concrete, 440 Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement, and 533 Precast Panels.听
- Member of PCI (Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute) Committees: Precast Insulated Wall Panels, FRP Composites.
- Member of Standards Australia鈥檚 Committees AS1597 -听Precast Reinforced Concrete Box Culverts, AS2327 - Composite Structures, AS3600 Sub-Committees: BD-002-01 - Strength and Analysis of Concrete Structures, and BD-002-07 Design for Serviceability of Concrete Structures.
- Member of NSW State Committee of the Concrete Institute of Australia
- Member of the International Institute for FRP in Construction.
- Member of the National Precast Concrete Association Australia
- Member of Engineers Australia
Grants
2023-2026听听 听"Next Generation Concrete Pipes: Rubberized Solutions鈥. Tyre Stewardship Australia, $297,900 (with A Hajimohammadi and M Kalantari ).
2017-2019听听 听 "Coupled Service and Ultimate Behaviour of High Strength Composite Columns鈥. Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, $435,500 (with B Uy, Z Tao, and WH Kang).
2016-2018听听听听 "Time-Dependent Behaviour of Precast Concrete Sandwich Panels鈥. ARC Discovery Project, $330,000 (with RI Gilbert).
2012-2014听听听听 "Nonlinear Long-Term Behaviour and Analysis of High Strength Concrete Panels". ARC Discovery Project, $310,000 (with SJ Foster).
2009-2011听听听听听 鈥Long-Term Behaviour of Thin-Walled Concrete Curved Members Strengthened with Externally Bonded Composite Materials鈥. ARC Discovery Project, $180,000 (with MA Bradford).
Awards
2019听听 听听Australia-China Young Scientists Exchange Program.
2007听听 听听Tuvia Netzer Memorial Fund Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation. 鈥淒ynamic Behavior of Concrete and Masonry Structures Strengthened with Composite Materials鈥. Technion, Israel.
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Qualifications
2007听 Ph.D.听听听听听 Structural Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion 鈥 Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
2003听 M.Sc.听听听听 Structural Engineering, Technion, Israel.听听
2000听 B.Sc.听听听听听 Civil Engineering, Technion, Israel.听听
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