Fouad teaches structural analysis for all levels of the undergraduate Civil Engineering Programme, and structural appraisal and defects diagnosis of buildings for the BSc Building Surveying programme.

This course provides you with an understanding of the fundamental principles of structural elements design according to Eurocodes. It covers advanced aspects of the design of box beams for long-span ...

The present document presents a review on the use of the finite element software package CODE_BRIGHT to simulate reinforced soil structures (RSS). RSS are composed of longitudinal steel or polymeric ...

This paper examines the impacts of the total replacement of Natural Coarse Aggregates (NCA) by Recycled Concrete Coarse Aggregates (RCA) on the mechanical properties in concrete's fresh and hardened ...

Steel base plates are placed under steel columns to safely transfer the design forces to the foundations. When steel columns bear heavy loads with small cross-sections, directly applying the loads to ...

The built environment must hark back to its low-carbon past and embrace stone as a structural material if it is to effectively tackle its environmental footprint, writes Steve Webb as part of our ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Intumescent fire-resistive coatings are a more recent type of passive fireproofing ...