Professor - Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.895.2087
DREXEL UNIVERSITY
After receiving my Ph.D. in 2007 from The University of California in San Diego, I moved to Philadelphia to teach at Drexel University. At Drexel, I have been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering Since September 2010 and became Associate Professor in 2016.
COURSES I TEACH
Study of deformation, fracture and fatigue of structural materials used in infrastructure. Includes basic failure modes, yielding and plasticity, and fracture mechanics. Emphasis on analytical and predictive methods that designers use to avoid failure. Metals, ceramic and composites are considered, as is time-dependent behavior.
This course will provide a general overview of engineering design and then a specific treatment of the structural design process. The key topics to be covered include the determination of system-level loads/demands, the estimation of element-level demands and demand envelops, and the sizing of beams and columns constructed of both reinforced concrete and structural steel.
Covers elastic and plastic design of structural steel members, including beams, columns, tension members, beam columns, and plate girders; design of welded and high-strength bolted connections; and design of steel trusses, bridges, and buildings.
Open to advanced undergraduates. Covers shear flow and shear center, unsymmetrical bending, torsion of non-circular and open sections, bending of curved beams, stress at a point, and failure theories.
CIVE T-680: ADVANCED MECHANICS OF MATERIAL II
Open to advanced undergraduates. Covers additional topics of advanced mechanics of materials.
Covers matrix analysis of structures using finite elements, including elastic analysis of structures by influence coefficients, Argyris force method, direct stiffness method, and the displacement method. Introduces the finite-element method for planar structures.
Covers development of stiffness functions for planar and three-dimensional finite elements, and application to frame, plate, shell, and massive structures. Introduces the general application of finite elements to continuum problems.