The School of Civil Engineering and Surveying

Profile

Academic Qualifications

• BEng Civil Engineering
• PhD

Teaching

• Civil Engineering Design and Management Project - U09048B
• Conceptual Design Project - U12653
• Structural Analysis and Design in Practice - U17254
• Structures 2 - U08176B
• Structures 2 Cem - U17387

Research

• Fire-Engineering with reference to:
  • Coupled thermal and structural transient behaviour of structures at elevated temperature
  • Post-fire assessment and redesign of structures
  • Fire safety issues and procedures, including fire development and smoke movement
  • Degradation of new materials during fires
  • Structural health monitoring and control
• Management of damaged or deteriorating concrete structures
• Foundations in weak rocks or hard soils
• Soil-structure interaction
• Effect of environmental conditions on performance of concrete structures

Industrial and consultancy experience

• Assessment of damaged and deteriorating African concrete dam using the Stiffness Damage Test
• Determination of deformation characteristics of weak rocks from UAE for foundation design
• Stiffness Damage Test and other material degradation testing on concrete cores from various countries
• Consultancy research into Caststone and Stone-Facing concrete
• Design of concrete buildings
• Design and development of steel towers
• Site Engineer (Egypt)
• Irrigation Engineer (Egypt)
• Highways (Finland)

Publications

1. Nassif A.Y., Naveira A.J.A (2013) “Critical buckling moment in plate girders with stiffeners, discrete lateral torsional restraints and a combination of both” New Developments in Structural Engineering and Construction, Yazdani, S. and Singh, A. (Eds.), ISEC-7, Honolulu, June 18 –23, 2013
2. Nassif A. Y. (2012) " Thermal modelling and full-scale fire testing of a steel door-leaf opening into a standard fire" Research, Development, and Practice in Structural Engineering and Construction. Vimonsatit, V., Singh, A., Yazdani, S. (eds.), proceedings of ASEA-SEC-1, Perth, November 28–Decmber 2, 2012
3. Nassif A. Y. (2012) “Influence of cold weather during casting and curing of concrete on the stiffness and strength of concrete”. Submitted to Const and Building Materials (I.F.=1.8), Oct 2012
4. Nassif A.Y. (2012) "Full-scale testing and finite elements modelling of steel doors installed in non-load bearing partition walls during exposure to fires" submitted to The Fire Safety Journal (I.F=1.7), July 2012
5. Nassif A. Y. (2012) “Full-scale fire testing and numerical modeling of the transient thermo-mechanical behaviour of partition walls assemblies during exposure to fire” submitted to The Fire Safety Journal (I.F=1.7), June 2012
6. Nassif, A. Y., Ward, R. N. (2011). An Investigation into the Effectiveness of the Construction Health and Safety Regulations in the United Kingdom: Designers Role. Modern Methods and Advances in Structural Engineering and Construction. Cheung, S. O., Yazdani, S., Ghafoori, N., and Singh, A. (eds.), ISEC-6, Zürich, June 21–26, 2011.
7. Nassif, A. Y. (2009). Thermo-mechanical behaviour of doors and walls assemblies during exposure to the standard fire test. Proceedings of the 11th Arab Structural Engineering Conference, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
8. Nassif, A. Y. (2007). Behaviour of glass aggregate concrete in fire. Proceedings of the 11th International conference on Inspection, Appraisal, Repair and Maintenance of Structures. North Cyprus.
9. Nassif, A. Y. (2005). Full stress-strain characteristics of fire-affected concrete. Fire and Materials, 30(5), 323-332.
10. Nassif, A. Y. (2004). Finite element thermal analysis of concrete filled hollow steel sections during fires. Emirates Journal for Engineering Research, 9(2), 111-115.
11. Nassif, A. Y. (2003). Thermo-mechanical Finite Element analysis of concrete filled steel tubes. Part-I: Thermal Analysis. Proceedings of the 9th Arab Structural Engineering Conference, 9ASEC, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
12. Nassif, A. Y. (2003). Stress-strain relationship for weak rocks. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, volume 1, (pp415-419), Lyon, France.
13. Nassif, A. Y. (2003). Deformability characteristics of Middle Eastern weak rocks. Asian Journal of Civil Engineering (Building and Housing), 3(1), 23-31.
14. Nassif, A. Y. (2002). Post-firing stress strain hysteresis of concrete subjected to various heating and cooling regimes. Fires and Materials (FAM), 26, 103-109.
15. Nassif, A. Y. (2001). Assessment of damaged and deteriorating concrete using the Stiffness Damage Test. Proceeding of the Eighth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering & Construction. Singapore.
16. Nassif, A. Y. (2000). A proposed new classification index for fire damaged concrete based on the strain energy dissipated in a hysteresis loop. Magazine of Concrete Research, 52, (4), 287-295.
17. Nassif, A. Y. (1999). Comparison between the damaging effect of prolonged duration of thermal exposure and the effect of rapid cooling by water quenching on the stiffness properties of fire damaged concrete. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Inspection and Appraisal of Structures, (pp. 289-296). Melbourne, Australia.
18. Nassif, A. Y., Burley, E., Rigden, S. R. (1999). The effects of rapid cooling by water quenching on the stiffness properties of fire damaged concrete. Magazine of Concrete Research, 51 (4), 255-261.
19. Nassif, A. Y., Rigden, S. R. , Burley, E. (1995). A New Quantitative Method For Assessing Fire-Damaged Concrete Structures. Magazine of Concrete Research, 47 (172), 271-278.