Biography and Expertise

Keywords: Structural Engineering; Computational Mechanics; Optimization.

Present Research Interests:

  • Performance-based optimum design of semi-rigid frames
  • Simulation of wind loading of highway signs
  • Modeling forces in human muscles including fatigue
  • Productivity loss in civil construction projects

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Associations

American Concrete Institute
American Society for Engineering Education
American Society of Civil Engineers

Organizational Affiliations

Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Iowa

Education

Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics
1980, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics
1975, MS, University of California, Berkeley
Civil Engineering
1973, BE, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan