Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Structural Damage Modelling and Assessment

Prof. Magd Abdel Wahab is a Full Professor of applied mechanics in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University, Belgium, and Adjunct Full Professor in several universities in Vietnam and China. He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and his M.Sc. in Structural Mechanics, both from Cairo University. He completed his Ph.D. in Fracture Mechanics at KU Leuven, Belgium and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Surrey. He has published more than 460 scientific papers in solid mechanics and dynamics of structures and edited more than 25 books and proceedings. His research interests include fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, fatigue of materials, durability, and dynamics and vibration of structures.

• Monitoring and quantifying crack-based light damage in masonry walls with Digital Image Correlation.- Model updating for a railway bridge using a hybrid optimization algorithm combined with experimental data.- Degradation of concrete resistance: analysis of a homogeneous area. The city of Caserta.- Endurance tests of two reinforced concrete plinths of the former Saint Gobain factory in Caserta dating back to the 1960s.- Improved hydrostatic-season-time model for dam monitoring: inclusion of a thermal analytical solution.- Estimation of Bending Collapse Load for Triangle Tubes.- Intersection of convex cones as stress range for plane normal elastic bodies.