Dr. Ahmed Amir Khalil, PhD, PE, Structural Consultant at Applied Science International, LLC (ASI) will be delivering the Opening Plenary Speech at the Forensic Engineering 8th Congress in Austin, Texas from 8:30AM-10:00AM on Friday November 30th, 2018. His address...
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Research & Practice on Progressive Collapse & Robustness of Buildings
Extreme events (i.e. terrorist attacks, vehicle impacts, explosions, etc.) often cause local damage to building structures and pose a serious threat when one or more vertical load-bearing components fail, leading to the progressive collapse of the entire...
Extreme Loading for Structures – Version 6.0 Released!
We’re happy to announce the release of our Advanced Structural Analysis Software, Extreme Loading for Structures (ELS) Version 6.0! ELS is used by structural engineers and researchers around the world to study the effects of blast, progressive collapse,...
Advanced Simulation of Blast Response of Reinforced Concrete slabs with Varying Material Strength
Tarek Kewaisy, PhD, PE, PMP will be presenting a paper entitled, “Advanced Simulation of Blast Response of Reinforced Concrete slabs with Varying Material Strength” at Structures Congress 2018 on Saturday, April 21 from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM in room...
Structures Congress 2018: Nonlinear Dynamic Impact Analysis of Collapsed Debris Using Applied Element Method
Ahmed Khalil, Ph.D., P.E., M. ASCE will be presenting a paper entitled, “Nonlinear Dynamic Impact Analysis of Collapsed Debris Using Applied Element Method” at Structures Congress 2018 on Friday, April 20 from 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM in room 202B...
Structures Congress 2018: Multi-hazard Modeling of Vapor Cloud Explosion for Offshore Structures using AEM
Ahmed Khalil, Ph.D., P.E., M. ASCE will be presenting a paper entitled, “Multi-hazard Modeling of Vapor Cloud Explosion for Offshore Structures Using AEM” at Structures Congress 2018 on Thrusday, April 19 from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM in room 203BC...
Blast Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs with FRP Retrofit using ELS
Ahmed Khalil, P.E, Ph.D from ASI and Tarek Kewaisy, P.E., Ph.D. from Louis Berger will be co-presenting a paper titled “Advanced Modeling of Blast Response of Reinforced Concrete Slabs with and without FRP Retrofit” on March 26 2018 at ACI Concrete...
Onsite Building Collapse Simulation for Urban Search & Rescue
The 3rd Newsletter for INACHUS has just been released. It details ASI’s role in performing onsite structural collapse analysis of a reinforced concrete building for use by Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) during emergency response to collapsed or damaged...
ELS Most Suitable to Predict Debris Heaps According to EC Study
Deliverable 3.2 Summary Report Report on Model Enhancement and Validation Cases was just released. The report identifies the promising of the capabilities of Extreme Loading for Structures (ELS) to be used in disaster response situations to accurately predict...