Hussam Mahmoud

George T. Abell Associate Professor in Infrastructure, Director, Structural Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado United States

Biography

Dr. Hussam Mahmoud is an associate professor and is the George T. Abell Professor in Infrastructure in the Department of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU). He is also the director of the Structural Laboratory at CSU and the academic advisor for the ASCE Student Chapter. He is affiliated with the School of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Advanced Materials Discovery. He obtained his BSc and MSc in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Prior to arriving at CSU, he was the manager of the NEES Earthquake Laboratory at the UIUC where he oversaw and conducted various large‐scale hybrid simulations. Prior to joining UIUC, he was as a research scientist at Lehigh University where he managed and led various projects pertaining to fatigue and fracture assessment of steel structures across the U.S. through laboratory testing and structural health monitoring. Dr. Mahmoud’s research program has three major thrusts including assessment of community resilience and recovery following extreme events, quantification of building damage to single and multiple hazards, and maintenance and evaluation of deteriorated infrastructure. For the first and second thrusts, the focus is on assessment and development of resilient systems subjected to extreme single and multiple, natural and manmade hazards including blasts, fire, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and hurricanes or a combination of such. The system level structural analyses are then utilized for spatial and temporal quantification of resilience of communities following extreme events. This is realized through modeling and representing the hazard, assessing infrastructure damage, losses, and recovery overtime, and evaluating the socio‐economic consequences within a community. Moreover, hazard‐agnostic models have been developed to allow for the assessment of community recovery, following economic downtime or social disruptions. The third major thrust pertains to assessment and repair of deteriorated infrastructure subjected to high and low‐cycle fatigue. He has conducted various studies on fatigue evaluation of navigation structures and has performed numerous in‐service evaluations of major bridges across the U.S. with successful implementation and adaptation by various specifications. The assessment and repair strategies are then utilized in holistic life-cycle analysis frameworks to devise optimized inspection and repair intervals for managing infrastructure while minimizing the total life-cycle cost, including direct and indirect social and economic costs. Dr. Mahmoud publishes his research findings in reputable journals. He is a technical reviewer for various journals and serves on many technical committees including ASCE on Fire protection and ASCE on Multi-Hazard Mitigation and is a member of the U.S. Steel Bridge Task Force of the American Iron and Steel Institute. He is the recipient of various awards including the American Institute of Steel Construction early faculty career award, the R. J. Dexter Memorial Lecture award, and the Air Force summer faculty fellowship award.