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February Technical Speaker 2
“Rehabilitation and Repair of Steel H-piles with Severe but Localized Corrosion”
Mina Dawood, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mina Dawood, Ph.D., P.Eng. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston (UH). He joined UH after completing his MS and Ph.D. degrees and a post-doctoral fellowship at North Carolina State University. Dr. Dawood’s research focuses on evaluating the behavior of metallic and composite structures and structural systems. His research is focused in two primary areas: (i) evaluating the remaining capacity or service life of existing, deteriorated infrastructure, and (ii) developing new approaches to repairing deteriorated infrastructure using advanced materials, including fiber reinforced polymers (FRP), structural adhesives, and shape memory alloys (SMA), with an emphasis on the repair and rehabilitation of steel structures. Dr. Dawood has authored or co-authored 25 journal papers, 31 conference papers and 3 book chapters.
