ProfessorBassam Izzuddin

Professor of Computational Structural Mechanics

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering

  • Professor of Computational Structural Mechanics
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
  • 020 7594 5985 (Work)
  • 330, Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom

RESEARCH

Overview
Fundamental Steps towards a Generic System for Structural Design, EPSRC, £8,650.
Integrated Nonlinear Analysis of Steel Frames under Fire and Explosion Loading, EPSRC (PI), £104,968.
Design Optimisation of Component-Based Structures, EU, £48,945.
Behaviour of Steel-Framed Structures under Fire Conditions, DoE/PIT (CoI), £22,500.
Realistic Modelling of Floor Slab Systems Subject to Extreme Loading Conditions, EPSRC (PI), £126,514.
Behaviour and Design of Floor Slabs Subject to Fire, BRE (PI), £36,000.
Progressive Collapse of Tall Buildings, EPSRC & ARUP (PI), £61,200.
Bionic Structural Modelling of Dragonfly's Wing by Finite Element Method, China-NSF (CoI), £15,000.
Failure Assessment of Floor Slab Systems under Extreme Loading Conditions, EPSRC (CoI), £240,291.
Using Blinding as Struts in Cut and Cover Excavations, EPSRC (CoI), £238,833.
Design Architecture for Cellular Beams, DTI & SCI, £198,047.
Structural Assessment and Retrofitting of Ancient Masonry Buildings, EU, €169,539.
Robustness of Car Parks against Localised Fire, EU-RFCS (PI), €150,000 (Total €750,000).
Keeping Our Structures Standing and Our People Alive The Next 25 Years, USA-DHS (PI), $150,000, (Total $750,000)
GGS - Modelling Forces and Stresses in Gigantic Granular Systems for Coastal Engineers, EPSRC (CoI), £458,024.
Computational Structural Mechanics

Nonlinear finite element analysis
Adaptive nonlinear analysis: error estimation, practical and accuracy-driven adaptivity
Geometric nonlinearity: buckling, large displacements
Material nonlinearity: steel, concrete, tensile fabric
Structural forms: frames, offshore jackets/jackups, whole buildings, R/C and composite floor slabs, shells, cable nets and membranes
Loading: static, dynamic (blast, impact, earthquake), fire
Special topics: dynamic contact analysis, nonlinear solution procedures
Simplified modelling: SDOF blast models, simplified buckling analysis, blast/fire resistance of beams and columns
Structures Subject to Extreme Loading

Fire resistance of steel-concrete composite buildings
Structures subject to coupled blast/fire scenarios
Robustness and progressive collapse of tall buildings
Response of offshore structures to extreme static/dynamic loading
Interdisciplinary Research

Soil-structure interaction
Use of blinding struts for cut and cover excavation
Risk assessment of structures under extreme loading
CSM Group Website

Inaugural Lecture - Simple Concepts for Complex Structures