• Building Design & Construction (Residential, Commercial, Industrial & Institutional)
• Seismic Resistant Design; Code Compliance
• Construction Defects & Accidents
• Repair & Retrofit Cost Estimates
• Condition Assessment of Bridges, Sanitary Structures, Roads, Retaining Walls, Underground Conduits & Pipelines
• Concrete & Repair Materials
• Diagnostic & Failure Investigations
• Analysis of Damage due to Vibration, Blast, Impact, Wind & Earthquake
• Computer-Based Finite Element Analysis of Structural & Mechanical Components Failure Analysis

• Ph.D. - Civil/Structural Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987
  
  
• M.S. - Civil/Structural Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983
  
  
• B.S. - Civil Engineering, High Honors
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981

• Registered Professional Engineer (Civil)
  State of California (Registration # C61998)
  
  
• Licensed California General Building Contractor (B846888)
  
  
• Chartered Professional Engineer
  The Institution of Engineers, Australia (Registration #1044611)

• Charter Member
  • Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers
• Member
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Structural Engineers Association of Northern California
  • The American Concrete Institute (ACI)
  • Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
  • Forensic Expert Witness Association
  • The Institution of Engineers-Australia
  • Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
  • Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 447 on Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures
• Associate Member
  • Joint ACI-ASCE Committee 352 on Joints & Connections in Monolithic Concrete Structures
• Reviewer, Technical Articles
  • The Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE)
  • The Structural Journal of the American Concrete Institute
  • International Journal of Structural Engineering & Mechanics
• Chair
  • Technical session on "Structural Shapes", Third International Conference on Composites in Infrastructure, San Francisco, California (2002)
• Cited in Who's Who in Science & Engineering, 3rd Edition (1996-97)
• Associate Editor - Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE (Committee on Concrete & Masonry Structures), October 1991- May 1992
• Alfred Noble Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for a meritorious technical paper published in the Journal of Structural Engineering, 1990
• Reviewed the manuscripts of two texts on Finite Element Structural Analysis, & Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method, for West Educational Publishing
• Principal Investigator on several research grants from U.S. National Science Foundation (1988-90)
  Louisiana State University Council on Research (1988)
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center/Federal Highway Administration (1989-92)
  Australian Research Council (1994-95)
  The College of Engineering at the University of New South Wales (1993-96)
• Supervised five doctoral dissertations & eight masters theses/reports (Louisiana State Univ. & the Univ. of New South Wales)
• Coordinator of Post-Graduate Research, School of Civil Engineering, & a member of the Higher Degree Committee, College of Engineering, University of New South Wales, 1994-1995
• Halliburton Education Foundation Faculty Development Grant, College of Engineering, Louisiana State University, 1987
• Scholarship for graduate studies, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1981-86)
• Deans List for academic excellence (1979-81)
• Completed "Systems Analysis & Design" computer course, Ohlone College, Fremont, CA, 2001
• Completed "Spread-Sheets & Data Bases" computer course, TAEF College, Sydney, Australia, 1996

• Habitat Engineering & Forensics (2004- present) Principal
  
  
• Zolman Construction & Development, San Carlos, CA (2004) Project Manager
  
  
• Struct-Tech Group, Inc., Berkeley, CA (2000- ) Consultant
  
  
• Rutherford & Chekene Consulting Engineers, San Francisco, CA (1999-2000) Structural Designer/Senior Analyst
  
  
• Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Menlo Park, CA (1998-99) Senior Engineer
  
  
• Department of Structural Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (1992-1998) Senior Lecturer (tenured)
  
  
• Department of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (1986-1991) Assistant Professor

• Concrete & Reinforced Concrete
  
  
  • "Three Dimensional Modeling of Concrete Structures. I: Plain Concrete," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 123(10), pp. 1339-1346, October 1997 (with S. Maddipudi).
  • "Three Dimensional Modeling of Concrete Structures. II: Reinforced Concrete," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 123(10), pp. 1347-1356, October 1997 (with S. Maddipudi).
  • "Strength of Reinforced Concrete Sections under Eccentric Compression," Proceedings, FIP Symposium, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1997, Vol. 1, pp. 203-211 (with W.T. Wo).
  • "Concrete Sections Under Biaxial Bending: Interactive Analysis with Spreadsheets," Concrete International, American Concrete Institute, Vol. 17(12), pp. 28-33, December 1995 (with T.Erasito).
  • "A Study of Layering Procedures in Finite Element Analysis of RC Flexural & Torsional Elements," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 121(12), pp. 1773- 1783, December 1995 (with A. Ramaswamy & G.Z. Voyiadjis)
  • "Constitutive Models for Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures," UNICIV Report No. R-346, School of Civil Engineering, The University of New South Wales, ISBN No. 858413132, 74 pages, July 1995.
  • "A Post-Cracking Formulation for Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of RC Based on Secant Stiffness," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 120(12), pp. 2621-2640, December 1994 (with A. Ramaswamy & G.Z. Voyiadjis).
  • "Generating Reinforcement in FE Modeling of Concrete Structures," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 120(5), pp. 1656-1662, May 1994 (with S. Maddipudi).
  • "Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures II," Chapter 8, Generic Problems, J. Isenberg, ed., New York, New York, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1993, pp. 490-569 (with J. Isenberg, et al.).
  • "Generic Problems in Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures," Proceedings, Structures Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Antonio, Texas, April 1992, pp. 951-953 (with J. Isenberg et al.).
  • "3-D Finite Element Modeling of RC Columns," Proceedings, Structures Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Antonio, Texas, April 1992, pp. 177-180 (with S. Maddipudi).
  • "Moment Transfer & Slab Effective Widths in Laterally Loaded Edge Connections," Structural Journal, American Concrete Institute, Vol. 88(5), pp. 615-623, September-October 1991 (with R. Echle & M. Foroozesh).
  • "Layering of RC Membrane & Plate Elements in Nonlinear Analysis," Closure, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 117(1), pp. 299-300, January 1991.
  • "Elasto-Plastic Cracking Analysis of Reinforced Concrete," Discussion, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 117(1), pp. 292-294, January 1991.
  • "Post-Cracking Analysis of RC Panels Including Tension-Stiffening," Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 17, pp. 311-320, June 1990 (with W.C. Schnobrich).
  • "A Secant Post-Cracking Model for Reinforced Concrete with Particular Emphasis on Tension Stiffening," Proceedings, Second International Conference on Computer Aided Analysis & Design of Concrete Structures, Austria, April 1990, Pineridge Press, Vol. II, , pp. 1001-1016 (with A. Ramaswamy).
  • "Analytical Investigation of RC Membrane Elements with Anisotropic Reinforcement," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 115(3), pp. 647-665, March 1989.
  • "Layering of RC Membrane & Plate Elements in Nonlinear Analysis," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 114(11), pp. 2474-2492, November 1988.
  • "Modeling Tension Stiffening in Finite Element Analysis of RC Panels," Proceedings, Annual Conference of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Calgary, Canada, May 1988, Volume III, pp. 277-303 (with W.C. Schnobrich).
  • "Skew Anisotropic Reinforcement in 2-D Reinforced Concrete Elements," Proceedings, International Conference on Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials: Theory & Applications, Tucson, Arizona, January 1987, Elsevier Publishing Company, Vol. II, pp. 813-820 (with W.C. Schnobrich).
  • "Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete under Short Term Monotonic Loading," Civil Engineering Studies, SRS 530, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 137 pages (also available through University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Microfilm #NF 087-11773), November 1986 (with W.C. Schnobrich).
  
  
  
• Prestressed Concrete
  
  
  • "Three Dimensional Finite Element Model for Reinforced & Prestressed Concrete Structures,"
  • Proceedings, 14th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures & Materials, Hobart, Australia, December 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 278-283 (with K. Behfarnia & R.I. Gilbert).
  
  
  
• Concrete Pavements
  
  
  • "Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Plain Concrete Pavements with Doweled Joints," Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 199(5), pp. 763-781, September-October 1993 (with C. Channakeshava & G.Z. Voyiadjis).
  • "Evaluation of Selected Grouts for Installation of Load Transfer Devices," Prepared for Dayton Superior Company, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 22 pages, January 1983 (with E.J. Barenberg).
  
  
  
• Earthquake Engineering
  
  
  • "Influence of Local Inertia on Seismic Response of Offshore Jackets," Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 123(1), pp. 52-61, January 1997 (with K. Kayvani).
  • "Hysteretic Modeling of Tubular Members & Offshore Platforms," Engineering Structures, Vol. 18(2), pp. 93-101, February 1996 (with K. Kayvani).
  • "A Modeling Approach for 3D Dynamic Analysis of Offshore Jackets," Proceedings, 14th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures & Materials, Hobart, Australia, December 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 88-93 (with K. Kayvani).
  • "Local Inertia Effects on Seismic Response of Offshore Platforms," Proceedings, International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural & Geotechnical Engineering, Hong Kong, December 1994, Vol. IV, pp. 1313-1318 (with K. Kayvani).
  • "A Study on the Effect of Local Inertia on Seismic Response of Steel Offshore Platforms" UNICIV Report No. R-340, School of Civil Engineering, The University of New South Wales, ISBN No. 858413078, 67 pages, December 1994 (with K. Kayvani).
  • "Seismic Response of Offshore Platforms: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis," Proceedings, Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, Sydney, Australia, September 1994, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Publication NCP No. 94/8, Vol. 1, pp. 439-444 (with K. Kayvani).
  • "Modeling of Tubular Members in Offshore Steel Jackets under Severe Cyclic Loading," UNICIV Report No. R-324, School of Civil Engineering, The University of New South Wales, ISBN No. 858412918, 51 pages, December 1993 (with K. Kayvani).
  • "3-D Response of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column- Slab Connections," 2nd Annual Report on a Research Project Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 75 pages, August 1990.
  • "A Study on Edge Connections of Flat Plate Structures Subjected to Lateral Loading," Dept. of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 157 pages, April 1990 (with R. Echle).
  • "3-D Response of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column- Slab Connections," 1st Annual Report on a Research Project Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 90 pages, June 1989.
  
  
  
• Effect of Wind & Temperature
  
  
  • "Finite Element Analysis of a Reinforced Concrete Cooling Tower Subjected to Wind & Thermal Loadings," Proceedings, Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, Sydney, Australia, September 1994, The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Publication NCP No. 94/8, Vol. 2, pp. 937- 942 (with R. Veysi).
  
  
  
• Concrete Repair Materials
  
  
  • "Analytical Formulation of the Biaxial Behavior of Concrete Repair Material," Discussion, Materials Journal, American Concrete Institute, Vol. 90(6), pp. 627-629, November-December 1993 (with K. Behfarnia).
  • "Biaxial Testing of Repaired Concrete," Discussion, Materials Journal, American Concrete Institute, Vol. 90(5), pp. 524-528, September-October 1993 (with K. Behfarnia).
  • "Engineering Properties of Brittle Repair Materials," Final Report, Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, two parts, 712 pages, April 1992 (with G.Z. Voyiadjis et al.).
  • "Final Report: Experimental Studies on Engineering Properties of Brittle Repair Materials," Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 124 pages, February 1991 (with G.Z. Voyiadjis & T.M. Abu-Lebdeh).
  • "Report No. 2B: Engineering Properties of Brittle Repair Materials - Analytical Studies," Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 51 pages, June 1990 (with C. Channakeshava & G.Z. Voyiadjis).
  • "Report No. 2A: Engineering Properties of Brittle Repair Materials - Experimental Studies," Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 25 pages, June 1990 (with G.Z. Voyiadjis & T.M. Abu-Lebdeh).
  • "Report No. 1: Engineering Properties of Brittle Repair Materials," Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 21 pages, December 1989 (with G.Z. Voyiadjis & T.M. Abu-Lebdeh).
  
  
  
• Built-Up Roofing
  
  
  • "User's Manual for Program ROOF," Prepared for Union Carbide Company, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, 88 pages, August 1984 (with R.B. Haber).

• Invited Speaker, "Generic Problems in Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures," International Workshop on Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete, Columbia University, New York, June 1991.
• Presented a short course on "Bridge Dynamics," training course for bridge engineers from Vietnam, School of Civil Engineering (UNSW), 1996.
• Presented a short course on "Finite Element Method for Engineers & Scientists," Infrastructure Research Institute, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1997.

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