Amr Elnashai

Amr Elnashai is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a Professor at the CEE Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Director of the NSF Mid-America Earthquake Center. He is the Director of the Geoarge E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Laboratory at Illinois. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the UK Institution of Structural Engineers. Elnashai is the leader of the MAE Center project on catastrophic event planning funded by FEMA. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College, University of London, UK. Before joining the University of Illinois in 2001, he was a Professor of earthquake engineering and the Head of the Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Section at Imperial College. He is the Founder and Coeditor of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Editorial Board member of several journals, member of the drafting panel of several international seismic design codes, and Past Senior Vice President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey since 1997. Other visiting appointments include the University of Tokyo, the University of Southern California, and the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk, where he serves on the Board of Directors. He is a Member of the Applied Technology Council (ATC) Technical Committees. He has worked in the field and reported on most of the damaging earthquakes around the world since the mid-eighties, including the recent devastating earthquakes in Pakistan, Indonesia, and Peru. His technical interests are experimental, analytical, and field investigations of the response of structures to earthquakes, on which he has more than 250 research publications, including over 120 refereed journal papers, 8 books and book chapters, magazine articles, and field mission reports. He has supervised 29 Ph.D. theses in his field of interest.

Biography Updated on 10 April 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. A new neural network-based model for hysteretic behavior of materials
    International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 447–469, 2008
  2. Importance of shear assessment of concrete structures detailed to different capacity design requirements
    Engineering Structures, 2008
  3. Effect of Asynchronous Earthquake Motion on Complex Bridges. I: Methodology and Input Motion
    Journal of Bridge Engineering, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 158, 2008
  4. Effect of Asynchronous Earthquake Motion on Complex Bridges. II: Results and Implications on Assessment
    Journal of Bridge Engineering, vol. 13, no. 2, p. 166, 2008
  5. Flexural Behavior of Brittle RC Members Rehabilitated with Concrete Jacketing
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 133, no. 10, p. 1373, 2007
  6. Implications of Design Assumptions on Capacity Estimates and Demand Predictions of Multispan Curved Bridges
    Journal of Bridge Engineering, vol. 12, no. 6, p. 710, 2007
  7. Reconstruction of earthquake hazard in regions of sparse seismic monitoring
    Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 99–109, 2007
  8. Probabilistic fragility analysis parameterized by fundamental response quantities
    Engineering Structures, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1238–1251, 2007
  9. Fragility relationships for torsionally-imbalanced buildings using three-dimensional damage characterization
    Engineering Structures, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 2172–2182, 2007
  10. An analytical framework for seismic fragility analysis of RC high-rise buildings
    Engineering Structures, 2007
  11. Significance of severe distant and moderate close earthquakes on design and behavior of tall buildings
    The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 391–416, 2006
  12. Seismic retrofit schemes for RC structures and local-global consequences
    Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1–15, 2006
  13. Loss Estimation Analysis of Flat-Slab Structures
    Natural Hazards Review, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 26, 2006
  14. New Three-Dimensional Damage Index for RC Buildings with Planar Irregularities
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 132, no. 9, p. 1482, 2006
  15. Seismic retrofitting of framed structures with stainless steel
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 62, no. 1-2, pp. 93–104, 2006
  16. Assessment of seismic vulnerability of structures
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 1134–1147, 2006
  17. The effect of material and ground motion uncertainty on the seismic vulnerability curves of RC structure
    Engineering Structures, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 289–303, 2006
  18. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 127, 2006
  19. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 10, no. 5, p. 749, 2006
  20. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 95, 2005
  21. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 265, 2005
  22. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 741, 2005
  23. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 9, no. 6, p. 923, 2005
  24. Innovative strategies for seismic retrofitting of steel and composite structures
    Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 115–135, 2005
  25. A new analytical procedure for the derivation of displacement-based vulnerability curves for populations of RC structures
    Engineering Structures, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 397–409, 2005
  26. Fragility analysis of flat-slab structures
    Engineering Structures, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 937–948, 2004
  27. Seismic design and performance of composite frames
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 31–57, 2004
  28. Derivation of vulnerability functions for European-type RC structures based on observational data
    Engineering Structures, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 1241–1263, 2003
  29. Seismic performance assessment of stainless steel frames
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 1289–1319, 2003
  30. A very brief history of earthquake engineering with emphasis on developments in and from the British Isles
    Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 967–972, 2002
  31. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 6, no. Special Issue 1, p. 123, 2002
  32. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 239, 2002
  33. Overstrength and force reduction factors of multistorey reinforced-concrete buildings
    The Structural Design of Tall Buildings, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 329–351, 2002
  34. Seismic Analysis of RC Bridge Columns with Flexure-Shear Interaction
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 127, no. 5, p. 546, 2001
  35. A Procedure for Combining Vertical and Horizontal Seismic Action Effects
    Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 05, no. 04, pp. 521–539, 2001
  36. Inelastic spectra for displacement-based seismic design
    Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 47–61, 2001
  37. Static pushover versus dynamic collapse analysis of RC buildings
    Engineering Structures, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 407–424, 2001
  38. Refined force reduction factors for seismic design
    Engineering Structures, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1244–1260, 2000
  39. Analysis of the damage potential of the Kocaeli (Turkey) earthquake of 17 August 1999
    Engineering Structures, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 746–754, 2000
  40. An integrated adaptive environment for fire and explosion analysis of steel frames — Part I: analytical models
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 63–85, 2000
  41. An integrated adaptive environment for fire and explosion analysis of steel frames — Part II: verification and application
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 87–111, 2000
  42. Assessment of inelastic response of buildings using force- and displacement-based approaches
    The Structural Design of Tall Buildings, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 251–277, 2000
  43. Performance of Buildings
    Earthquake Spectra, vol. 16, no. S1, p. 237, 2000
  44. Inelastic Dynamic Response of RC Bridges Subjected to Spatial Non-Synchronous Earthquake Motion
    Advances in Structural Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 191–214, 2000
  45. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 1, 1999
  46. Structural performance and economics of tall high strength RC buildings in seismic regions
    The Structural Design of Tall Buildings, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 171–204, 1999
  47. Probabilistic assessment of ductility for earthquake resistant design of steel members
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 47–68, 1999
  48. Response of Semirigid Steel Frames to Cyclic and Earthquake Loads
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 124, no. 8, p. 857, 1998
  49. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 2, no. 4, p. 525, 1998
  50. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 121, 1997
  51. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, vol. 1, no. 4, p. 675, 1997
  52. Behavior of Beam-Column Connections under Axial Column Tension
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 122, no. 5, p. 501, 1996
  53. EFFECT OF MODELLING ASSUMPTIONS AND INPUT MOTION CHARACTERISTICS ON SEISMIC DESIGN PARAMETERS OF RC BRIDGE PIERS
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 435–463, 1996
  54. ANALYTICAL AND FIELD EVIDENCE OF THE DAMAGING EFFECT OF VERTICAL EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 1109–1137, 1996
  55. Seismic response of composite frames—I. Response criteria input motion
    Engineering Structures, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 696–706, 1996
  56. Seismic response of composite frames—II. Calculation of behaviour factors
    Engineering Structures, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 707–723, 1996
  57. A novel technique for the retrofitting of reinforced concrete structures
    Engineering Structures, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 359–371, 1995
  58. Analysis of the failure of interstate 10 freeway ramp during the Northridge earthquake of 17 January 1994
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 189–208, 1995
  59. An analytical solution for the probabilistic response of sdof non-linear random systems subjected to variable amplitude cyclic loading
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 489–506, 1994
  60. Experimental observations on the seismic shear performance of RC beam-to-column connections subjected to varying axial column force
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 859–876, 1994
  61. Observations on the effect of numerical dissipation on the nonlinear dynamic response of structural systems
    Engineering Structures, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 51–62, 1994
  62. Seismic resistance of composite beam-columns in multi-storey structures. Part 1: Experimental studies
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 201–229, 1994
  63. Seismic resistance of composite beam-columns in multi-storey structures. Part 2: Analytical model and discussion of results
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 231–258, 1994
  64. Seismic behaviour of semi-rigid steel frames
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 29, no. 1-3, pp. 149–174, 1994
  65. Advanced Nonlinear Formulation for Reinforced Concrete Beam-Columns
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 120, no. 10, p. 2913, 1994
  66. Application of Adaptive Analysis to Reinforced Concrete Frames
    Journal of Structural Engineering, vol. 120, no. 10, p. 2935, 1994
  67. Eulerian Formulation for Large-Displacement Analysis of Space Frames
    Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 119, no. 3, p. 549, 1993
  68. Performance of composite steel/concrete members under earthquake loading. Part I: Analytical model
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 315–345, 1993
  69. Performance of composite steel/concrete members under earthquake loading. Part II: Parametric studies and design considerations
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 347–368, 1993
  70. Modelling of material non-linearities in steel structures subjected to transient dynamic loading
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 509–532, 1993
  71. A new passive confinement model for the analysis of concrete structures subjected to cyclic and transient dynamic loading
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 409–431, 1992
  72. Analysis-based design equations for composite tubular connections
    Engineering Structures, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 195–204, 1992
  73. Nonlinear modelling of weld-beaded composite tubular connections
    Engineering Structures, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 34–42, 1991
  74. Effect of random material variability on seismic design parameters of steel frames
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 101–114, 1991
  75. Experimental behaviour of reinforced concrete walls under earthquake loading
    Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 389–407, 1990
  76. Verification of Pseudo-dynamic testing of steel members
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 153–161, 1990
  77. International assessment of design guidance for composite columns
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 191–213, 1990
  78. A new pressurised grouted connection for steel tubulars
    Journal of Constructional Steel Research, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 32–38, 1983