Faculty

College / Department

Teaching areas

Structural Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, Structural Analysis and Design of Steel and Concrete Structures, computational methods.

Research areas

Computer-aided analysis and design of structures, Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics and computational mechanics and materials

Education

Post Doctoral Research Affiliate, Stanford University, CA, USA, 1990-1991.

Ph.D., Structural Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA, 1989.

M.S., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 1983.

B.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, 1981

Professional experience

Associate Professor at the University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar (1997-2000)

Assistant/Associate Professor at the University of Khartoum, Sudan (1991-1997)

Consultant at Dar & Daywan Consultants, Khartoum, Sudan, (1992-1997)

Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at Stanford University, Stanford, USA (1990-1991)

Senior Software Engineer and Structural Analyst at PMB Engineering Systems, Bechtel Civil, San Francisco, USA, (1989-1990)

Memberships

Registered Professional Engineer, Sudan. Member of the American Society for Civil Engineers(ASCE). Member of Board of Directors, International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE)

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2959

Dr. Jamal El-Din Abdalla

Professor

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA

Jamal A. Abdalla was an associate professor at Qatar University and the University of Khartoum, and he worked with Bechtel Civil (PMB) in San Francisco. His research interests include earthquake engineering, computational methods and materials. He has numerous publications that are well cited. He has received several research grants and awards including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Best Paper Award. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE) and a member of the ASCE.

Publications

Abdalla, J.A. Faress Hraib, Rami Hawileh, Ahmed Mirghani. Experimental Investigation of Bond-Slip Behavior of Aluminum Plates Adhesively Bonded to Concrete. Accepted, Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 2016.

Nawaz, W., Hawileh, R.A., Saqan, E.I. and Abdalla, J.A. Effect of Longitudinal CFRP Plates on the Shear Strength of RC Beams. ACI Structural Journal, Vol. 113, No. 3, pp. 577-586, 2016.

Rami A. Hawileh, Jamal A. Abdalla, Sara S. Hasan, Meena B. Ziyada, Adi Abu-Obeidah. Models for predicting elastic modulus and tensile strength of carbon, basalt and hybrid carbon-basalt FRP laminates at elevated temperatures. Construction and Building Materials 114:364-373, 2016.

El-Emam, M., Khan, Z., Abdalla, J.A., and Irfan M. Local Site Effects on Seismic Ground Response of Major Cities in UAE. Springer Journal of Natural Hazards Vol. 79, No. 2, pp 791-814, 2015.

Hawileh, R.A., Nawaz, W., Abdalla, J.A. and Saqan, E.I.. Effect of Flexural CFRP Sheets on Shear Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Beams. Composite Structures, Vol. 122, pp. 468-476, 2015.

Hawileh, R. A., Abu-Obeidah, A., Abdalla, J. A. and Al-Tamimi, A. K. “Temperature Effect on the Mechanical Properties of Carbon, Glass and Carbon-Glass FRP Laminates.” Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier, Vol. 75, No. 30, pp. 342-348, 2015.

Abu-Obeidah, A., Hawileh, R. A. and Abdalla, J. A. “Finite Element Analysis of strengthened RC beams in shear with Aluminum plates.” Journal of Computers and Structures, Elsevier, Vol. 147, No. 15, pp. 36-46, 2015.

Abdalla, J. A., Attom, M. and Hawileh, R. A. “Prediction of Minimum Factor of Safety against Slope Failure in Clayey Soils using Artificial Neural Network.” Accepted to the Springer Journal of Environmental Earth Sciences, 2014.

Al-Tamimi, A. K., Hawileh, R. A., Abdalla, J. A. and Rasheed, H. A. “Durability of Externally Bonded CFRP Plates Exposed to Harsh Environment.” Accepted to ASCE Journal of Materials, 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0001226 , 04014252, 2014.

Hawileh, R. A., Abdalla, J. A., Naser, M. and Tanarslan, M. “Finite element modeling of shear deficient R/C beams strengthened with NSM CFRP rods under cyclic loading.” Accepted to ACI special publication, 2014.

Sakar, G., Hawileh, R., Naser, M., Abdalla, J.A., and Tanarslan, M. “Nonlinear Behavior of Shear Deficient RC Beams Strengthened with Near Surface Mounted Glass Fiber Reinforcement under Cyclic Loading.” Materials & Design, Elsevier, Vol. 61, pp. 16-25, 2014.

Abdalla, J. A., Saqan, E. I. and Hawileh, R. A. “Optimum seismic design of unbonded post-tensioned precast concrete walls using ANN.” International Journal of Computers and Concrete, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 547-567, 2014.

Hawileh, R., Rasheed, H., Abdalla, J.A., and Tamimi, A. “Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with Externally Bonded Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Polymer Systems.” Materials & Design, Elsevier, Vol. 53, pp. 972-982, 2014.

Hawileh, R. A., Naser, M. Z. and Abdalla, J.A. “Finite Element Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Beams Externally Strengthened with Short-Length CFRP Plates.” Composite Part B, Elsevier, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 1722–1730, 2013.

Khan, Z., Irfan, M., El-Emam, M., and Abdalla, J. " Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis and Spectral Accelerations for United Arab Emirates.", Natural Hazard, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 569-589, 2013.

Abdalla, J.A. and Hawileh R. “Artificial Neural Network Predictions of Fatigue Life of Steel Bars Based on Hysteretic Energy.” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 489-496, 2013.

Hawileh, R., Saqan, E.I. and Abdalla, J.A. “Simplified Optimum Design Procedure for Special Unbonded Post-Tensioned Split Precast Shear Walls.” Technical Note, Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 139, No. 2, pp. 294–299, 2013.

Naser, M., Hawileh, R., Abdalla, J.A. and Al-Tamimi, A. “Bond Behavior of CFRP Cured Laminates: Experimental and Numerical Investigation.” Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 134, No. 3, pp. 021002-1-021002-9, April 2012.

Hawileh, Rami, Jamal A. Abdalla, and Murat Tanarslan. "Modeling of Nonlinear Response of R/C Shear Deficient T-Beam Subjected to Cyclic Loading." Computers and Concrete, An International Journal, Techno Press, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 413-428, 2012.

Hawileh, Rami, Farid Abed, Abu Obeideh, Adi and Abdalla, Jamal A. Experimental Investigation of Inelastic Buckling of Built-up Steel Columns. Journal of Steel and Composite Structures, An International Journal, Techno Press, Vol. 13, No. 3: 295-308, 2012.

Atabay, Serter, Jamal A. Abdalla, Kutsi Erduran, Maruf Mortula, and Galip Seckin. "Prediction of Backwater Level of Bridge Constriction using ANN." Journal of Water Management, Institution of Civil Engineers Publishing, Vol. 165, Issue WM1, 2012.

Mortula, Maruf, Jamal A. Abdalla, and Ahmad Ghadban. "Comparison of Advection–Diffusion Models and Neural Networks for Prediction of Advanced Water Treatment Effluent." Journal of Environmental Engineering Science, Mary Ann Liebert Publisher, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 660-668, 2012.

Tamimi, A., Hawileh, R., Abdalla, J.A., Rasheed, H. “Effects of Ratio of CFRP Plate Length to Shear Span and End Anchorage on Flexural Behavior of SCC R/C Beams.” Journal of Composites for Construction, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 875-1002, 2011.

Abdalla, J.A. Hawileh, R.A. “Modeling and simulation of low-cycle fatigue life of steel reinforcing bars using artificial neural network.” Journal of the Franklin Institute, Elsevier, Vol. 348, No. 7, pp. 1393-1403, 2011.

Hawileh, R., Abdalla, J.A., Tanarslan, M. H. and Naser, M. “Modeling of Nonlinear Cyclic Response of Shear-Deficient RC T-beams Strengthened with Side Bonded CFRP Fabric Strips.” Computers and Concrete, An International Journal, Techno Press, An Int'l Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 193-206, 2010.

Hawileh, R., Abdalla, J.A., Oudah, F. and Abdelrahman, K. "Low-cycle fatigue life Behavior of BS 460B and BS B500B steel reinforcing bars." Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, Vol. 33, No. 7,397-407, 2010.

Hawileh, R. A., Abdalla, J.A., Al-Tamimi, A., Abdelrahman, K. and Oudah, F. “Behavior of Corroded Steel Reinforcing Bars under Monotonic and Cyclic Loadings.” Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, Taylor & Francis Group, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 218-224, 2010.

Abdalla, J.A. Hawileh, R.A. Oudah, F. Abdelrahman, K. Energy-based prediction of low-cycle fatigue life of BS 460B and BS B500B steel bars. Materials and Design, Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 4405-4413, 2009.

Abdalla, Jamal A. and Eltayeb, T. M. A version and configuration model for structural design objects: design and implementation. The American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 147-157, 2008.

Tamimi, A.K.Abdalla, Jamal A. and Sakka, Z.I. “Prediction of long term chloride diffusion of concrete in harsh environment”. Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 22, No. 5, 829–836, 2008.

Awards and Honors

Recipient of eight AUS Faculty Research Grants and two Emirates Foundation Research Grants (2000-2012)

Recipient of the ICTP Associate Membership Grant for Associate Members (1996-2000) at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

Recipient of the ASCE Award for Best Paper in the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering (1992).

Recipient of a National Science Foundation Grant for research in computer-aided engineering design (1985-1988) University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Recipient of the Prize for Best Final Year Graduation Project and forBest Overall Performance(1981), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Khartoum, Sudan.

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