Accelerated Bridge Construction & Seismic Resilient Bridge Technologies

  • Date & Time:
    • October 17, 2022
    • 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm
Seminar / Workshop

Accelerated Bridge Construction & Seismic Resilient Bridge Technologies

About this Topic

Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) offer many advantages compared to traditional bridge design and construction. The use of precast concrete in ABC has been gaining popularity in the United States and other countries. This presentation introduces ABC and discusses recent seismic technologies for ABC, in particular precast concrete bridges.

Speaker

Dr. Mustafa Mashal

PhD Civil Engineering ·

Dr. Mustafa Mashal is an Associate Professor and Director of the Disaster Response Complex and Structural Laboratories in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Idaho State University. He is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, working on projects in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory. Dr. Mustafa is currently a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. He obtained his PhD, MS, and BS in Civil Engineering with a focus on Structural and Earthquake Engineering from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the State University of New York at Buffalo in US, and Kabul University in Afghanistan, respectively.
Dr. Mustafa is a registered Professional Engineer in Idaho, USA, a Chartered Professional Engineer, and International Professional Engineer in New Zealand. He has more than 12 years of consulting and academic experience in the United States, New Zealand, and Afghanistan. He has been the recipient of several awards and recognitions such as the “2020 Alfred Noble Prize” from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the 2018 ASCE Southern Idaho Section “Outstanding Civil Engineer of the Year Award,” University of Canterbury’s Visiting Erskine Fellowship in New Zealand, and is a two times Fulbright grantee. He has been part of over 100 publications and is currently serving in multiple national standards committees in the United States. His research interests include Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC), low damage seismic design technologies, precast concrete, large-scale testing.