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Chairlady: Prof. Yao Yan
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Dr. Shaikh AHMED

Last name
Ahmed
Title
Lecturer
First name
Shaikh
Tel.
+618-92669054
Country
Australia
E-mail
s.ahmed@curtin.edu.au
Organization
Curtin University
 
 
Address
Dept. of Civil Engineering, GPO Box: U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Education:
PhD in Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2004
Master of Structural Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 1998
Bachelor of Eng. (Civil), Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, 1993
 
Professional Experience:
2009 – Present, Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
2007 – 2009 Senior Structural Engineer, Connell Wagner Pty. Ltd., Perth, Australia.
2005 – 2007 JSPS Post-doctoral research fellow, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan.
2003 – 2005 Senior Engineer, R.J. Crocker Consultants, Pte. Singapore, and SA&P Associates, Singapore.
1999 – 2003 Research Scholar, Dept. of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore. 1998-1999 Visiting research scholar, Nihon University, Japan.
1994 – 1996 Lecturer, Khulna University, Bangladesh.
 
Professional Standing:
 Member, Institute of Engineers, Australia.
 Member, Concrete Institute of Australia.
 
Awards / Honours:
• Awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) post-doctoral fellowship to pursue post-doctoral research at Tohoku University, Japan.
• Awarded NUS Graduate Research Scholarship to pursue doctoral study at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
• Cited biography in the 18th edition of the Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World.
• Awarded Netherlands Government Scholarship to pursue master’s study at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand.
• Awarded Japanese Govt. (Monbusho) Scholarship to pursue graduate research at Nihon University, Japan.
• Awarded Merit scholarship to pursue undergraduate study.
 
Funded Research Projects:
Mihashi, H and Ahmed, S.F.U., 2005-2007, Development of high performance fibre reinforced cement composites and their application for durable structures, funded by the Japan society for the promotion of science (JSPS) in terms of grant-in-aid in the scientific research. (Approx. grant amount $25,000).
 
 
Services to the profession:
• Editorial board member of Energy research Journal of Science publications, USA.
• Reviewer of ACI materials Journal.
• Reviewer of ACI structural journal.
• Reviewer of ASCE Journal of materials in civil engineering.
• Member of the international scientific committee of 7th International Conference of Steel and Aluminum Structures, ICSAS, 13 to 15 July 2011, Sarawak, Malaysia.
 
Research interests related to the TDC
 
  • Corrosion durability of concrete and high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCC).
  • Durability of concrete and HPFRCC under combined mechanical and environmental loadings.
  • Development of hybrid fiber reinforced high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites.
  • Self-healing of cracks in high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites.
  • Numerical simulation/modelling of corrosion induced damage in concrete and HPRCC.
 
I intend to co-operate primarily in the following group during the initial phase:
√Group A : Contributing to the literature review.
√Group B : Contributing to the comparative test.
Relevant publications
Scholarly Book Chapters
1. Ahmed, S. F.U., (2011) Corrosion resistance of strain hardening fiber reinforced cementitious composites, In Wythers, M.C. (eds) Advances in materials science research, Volume 3, Nova Publishers, New York, USA. pp 205-220.
 
Refereed Journal Articles
2. Mihashi, H., Ahmed, S.F.U. and Kobayakawa, A., (2011) Corrosion of reinforcing steel in fiber reinforced cementitious composites, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology, Vol. 9 No 2, pp 159-167.
3. Ahmed, S.F.U., and Mihashi, H. (2010) Strain hardening behavior of lightweight hybrid polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber reinforced cement composites, Materials and Structures, Vol. 44, pp 1179-1191.
4. Ahmed, S.F.U., and Mihashi, H. (2010) “Corrosion durability of strain hardening fiber reinforced cementitious composites” Australian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 8, No 1, pp.27-39.
5. Ahmed, S.F.U., and Maalej, M. (2009) Tensile strain hardening behaviour of hybrid steel-polyethylene fibre reinforced cementitious composites. Journal of Construction and Building Materials Vol. 23, No.1, pp.96-106.
6. S.F.U. Ahmed and H. Mihashi, (2009) Restrained Shrinkage-Induced Cracking of Light Weight High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites, American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 2 (4), pp. 775-780.
7. Ahmed, S.F.U., Maalej, M. and Mihashi, H. (2007) Cover cracking of RC beams due to corrosion of steel. ACI Materials Journal. Vol. 104, No. 2, pp.153-161.
8. S.F.U. Ahmed, and H. Mihashi, (2007) A Review on Durability Properties of Strain Hardening Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composites (SHFRCC). Journal of cement and concrete composites. Vol. 29, No. 5, pp.365-376.
9. Ahmed, S.F.U., Maalej, M., Paramasivam, P. and H. Mihashi, (2006) Assessment of corrosion–induced damage and its effect on the structural behavior of RC beams containing supplementary cementitious materials. Journal of Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.69-77.
10. H. Mihashi, S.F.U. Ahmed, T. Mizukami and T. Nishiwaki, (2006) Quantitative analysis of crack formation using image analysis and its relationship with permeability, International Journal for restoration of building and monuments, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp.335-348.
11. Maalej, M., Ahmed, S.F.U. Kuang, K.S.C. and Paramasivam, P., (2004) Fiber optic sensing for monitoring corrosion induced damage. Journal of Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 3, No.2, pp.165-176.
12. Maalej, M., Ahmed, S.F.U. and Paramasivam, P., (2003) Corrosion durability and structural response of functionally graded concrete beams. Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology, Vol. 1 No 3, pp 307-316.
 
Conference Submissions
13. S.F.U. Ahmed, H. Mihashi and A. Kobayakawa , Influence of crack widths on corrosion of Reinforcing Steel bar in Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites, In the proceedings of RILEM conference on Advances in construction materials through science and engineering, Hong Kong, 2011.
14. S.F.U. Ahmed and H. Mihashi, Corrosion of Reinforcing Steel in Strain Hardening Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites, In the proceedings of 5th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region and Australasian Structural Engineering Conference 2010, Sydney, Australia, 2010.
15. Ahmed, S.F.U. and Maalej, M., Corrosion induced damage model for ductile fiber reinforced cementitious composites, In the proceedings of international conference on Computational Design in Engineering (CODE), Seoul, Korea, 2009. (4 pages)
16. S.F.U. Ahmed, H. Mihashi, S. Suzuki and T. Nishiwaki, Experimental study on restrained shrinkage-induced cracking of mortars with different toughness, In the proceedings of fifth international conference on concrete under severe conditions: Environment and loading, Tours, France, 2007.
17. S.F.U. Ahmed, H. Mihashi, T. Mizukami, K. Shimozawa and M. Nagayama, Experimental study on the corrosion durability of cracked high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites, In the proceedings of 2nd ACF (Asian concrete federation) international conference, Bali, Indonesia, 2006, pp. DCS83-DCS92.
18. S.F.U. Ahmed, M. Maalej, P. Paramasivam and H. Mihashi, Corrosion durability and structural responses of RC beams containing supplementary cementing materials, In the proceedings of 1st international structural specialty conference, CSCE annual conference, Calgary, Canada, 2006, pp ST003-1-10.
19. Maalej, M., Ahmed, S.F.U. and Paramasivam, P., Corrosion durability and structural response of functionally graded concrete beams. In the proceedings of the international workshop on ductile fiber reinforced cementitious composites, Takayama, Japan, 2002, pp 161-170.