Amr GhanemPh.D.

Amr Ghanem · Publications

Research

The papers behind Locus, and the work around it: seismic and tsunami fragility, structural health monitoring, and sustainable construction materials. The complete record lives on Google Scholar.

Lines of work

Five threads, and the papers behind each.

Multi-hazard fragility

A fragility curve answers one question about one structure. This work asks it across a whole parameter space, and for hazards that arrive in sequence rather than alone — an earthquake, then the tsunami behind it, where the first changes what the second meets.

Locus, the tool this produced →

hazard 1hazard 210P(failure)
The answer is a surface. Each marked line is an ordinary fragility curve — one slice, one hazard held fixed. The surface is all of them at once.

Accessibility and inclusive construction

Simulation applied to who can actually get out of a building, and what it costs to make one usable. Evacuation under heterogeneous mobility, resource allocation for accessible facilities, and life-cycle assessment of inclusive construction. Led from King Saud University.

core exit doorway width governs unassisted step-free route
Two routes to one exit. The step-free route is longer and pinches at a doorway — which is the finding.

Sustainable structural materials

Whether recycled plastic can replace conventional aggregate in structural lightweight concrete — assessed on performance, cost and environmental impact together, rather than one at a time.

1 in 3 aggregate particles replaced replacement % strength usable range
Recycled plastic replacing aggregate, and the strength it costs. Schematic.

Monitoring and condition assessment

What feeds the models from the field: multi-sensor fusion for non-destructive condition assessment, and bridge fragility rendered into the physical space where inspection and decisions happen.

multi-sensor fusion demand updated by measurement
What the field sends back: sensor fusion on a real span, and the fragility that shifts once measurement is included.

Seismic behaviour of braced frames

How the height of a structure changes the force reduction factor in eccentrically braced steel frames — the parametric work that led to everything above.

4 storeys 12 storeys short link yields first, by design R height
The short link yields first, by design. Height changes the reduction factor — the variable this work isolated.

All publications

The complete record, grouped by type.

Journal articles

Conference papers

Preprints

Dissertation and thesis

Technical reports

Integrated hazard vulnerability assessment and mitigation framework with mixed reality for transportation infrastructures

Sherif, M., Ghanem, A., Moon, D.-S., & Cho, C.

Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center / METRANSPSR-21-712022Open access

Hazard assessment taken off the screen: bridge models and their fragility curves rendered into the physical spaces where inspection and decisions happen.

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