Mahmoud started following the work of 2 people.
Mahmoud started following the work of Esam Aziz, Michigan State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Mahmoud started following the work of Jakob Schlyter, Lund University, Faculty of Engineering, LTH.
Post-Doc, Civil and Environmental Engineering
About
Although I originally worked on concrete, I got the opportunity to work on the behaviour of steel structures under fire conditions, which was my PhD project. Building regulations for fire resistance as they are now are inaccurate and are therefore not safe. I modeled the beam-column behaviour of restrained steel beams under realistic conditions and devised a performance-based design method for fire resistance of retrained steel beams under fire. The beam-column response of restrained steel beams under fire conditions is not straightforward and it was an interesting puzzle to accurately model it, in which I succeeded using ANSYS finite element program.
While the focus of the previous century was on behavior of structures, the focus of this century is shifting towards the behavior of materials under extreme conditions. I am currently working on modeling the fracture and delamination of spray applied fire resistive materials. Not only the complexity of fracture mechanics makes it exciting, but also the outcome of such research which will improve the reliability of structures under extreme loading conditions. Ultimately this will lead to better predictable and therefore safer structures, and it is nice to realise I am contributing to that with my work.
