Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr Ehab Hamed is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW and a member of the the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES).

Research interest

• Viscoelastic behaviour of materials and structures
• Creep and shrinkage of concrete
• Use of FRP composite materials in construction
• Insulating sandwich panels
• Precast concrete structures

Courses taught

• Steel and Composite Structures
• Structural Analysis and Modeling
• Advanced Concrete Structures
• Reinforced Concrete Design
• Advanced Mechanics of Structures and Materials
• Engineering Mechanics

Professional Organisations

• Member of ACI (American Concrete Institute) Committees: 209 Creep and Shrinkage in Concrete, 440 Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Reinforcement, and 533 Precast Panels. 
• Member of PCI (Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute) Committees: Precast Insulated Wall Panels, FRP Composites.
• Member of Standards Australia’s Committees AS1597 - Precast Reinforced Concrete Box Culverts, AS2327 - Composite Structures, AS3600 Sub-Committees: BD-002-01 - Strength and Analysis of Concrete Structures, and BD-002-07 Design for Serviceability of Concrete Structures.
• Member of NSW State Committee of the Concrete Institute of Australia
• Member of the International Institute for FRP in Construction.
• Member of the National Precast Concrete Association Australia
• Member of Engineers Australia

Grants

2023-2026    "Next Generation Concrete Pipes: Rubberized Solutions”. Tyre Stewardship Australia, $297,900 (with A Hajimohammadi and M Kalantari ).

2017-2019     "Coupled Service and Ultimate Behaviour of High Strength Composite Columns”. Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, $435,500 (with B Uy, Z Tao, and WH Kang).

2016-2018     "Time-Dependent Behaviour of Precast Concrete Sandwich Panels”. ARC Discovery Project, $330,000 (with RI Gilbert).

2012-2014     "Nonlinear Long-Term Behaviour and Analysis of High Strength Concrete Panels". ARC Discovery Project, $310,000 (with SJ Foster).

2009-2011      “Long-Term Behaviour of Thin-Walled Concrete Curved Members Strengthened with Externally Bonded Composite Materials”. ARC Discovery Project, $180,000 (with MA Bradford).

Awards

2019     Australia-China Young Scientists Exchange Program.

2007     Tuvia Netzer Memorial Fund Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation. “Dynamic Behavior of Concrete and Masonry Structures Strengthened with Composite Materials”. Technion, Israel.

Qualifications

2007  Ph.D.      Structural Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

2003  M.Sc.     Structural Engineering, Technion, Israel.  

2000  B.Sc.      Civil Engineering, Technion, Israel.