Ayman  Ababneh, Ph.D.

 
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Clarkson University

Box 5710, 236 Rowley Laboratories
Potsdam, NY 13699-5710 U.S.A.
 
Tel:      (315) 268-4435
Fax:     (315) 268-7985
E-mail: ababneh@clarkson.edu

Courses

CE 212: Introduction into Engineering Design (Fall 2006)

CE 301: Engineering Measurements (Fall 2006)

CE 457/557: Environmental Degradation of Concrete Structures (Fall 2006)

ES 222: Strength of Materials (Spring 2007)


Education

Ph.D.  2002, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil Engineering

M.Sc. 1994, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Civil Engineering

B.Sc.  1991, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Civil Engineering


Teaching Interests

Reinforced concrete design, structural steel design, construction materials, and durability of concrete structures


Research Interests

Numerical and experimental studies on the effect of environmental loading (temperature, humidity and chemical attacks), mechanical loading, and their coupling effects on the durability of structures


Professional Affiliations

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) – Associate Members

American Concrete Institute (ACI) - Member

Committee 201 "Durability of Concrete" – Associate Member

Committee 209 "Creep and Shrinkage" - Associate Member

Committee 222 "Corrosion of Metals in Concrete" - Associate Member

American Institute for Steel Construction (AISC) - Member

RILEM – Affiliate Member 

Recent Publications

Suwito, Ababneh, A., Xi, Y., and Willam, K. (2006). “The coupling effect of drying shrinkage and moisture diffusion in concrete.” Computers & Concrete, 3(2-3), 103-122.

Ababneh, A. and Xi, Y. (2006). Evaluation of Environmental Degradation of Concrete in Cold Regions.” Proc., The 13th International Conference on Cold Regions Engineering: Current Practices in Cold Regions Engineering, (CD-Rom), ASCE, Orono, Maine.

 

Sheban, M., Ababneh, A. and Fulton, S. (2006). “Numerical Simulation of Moisture Diffusion in Concrete.” Proc., Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering, Editors: Hughes Rivard, Edmond Miresco and Hani Melhem, Montreal, Canada, 1015-1024.

 

Ababneh, A., Sheban, M., Suwito, A. and Xi, Y. (2005). “The Coupling Effect of Drying Shrinkage and Moisture Diffusion in Concrete.” Proc. Of the International conference on creep, shrinkage and durability of concrete and concrete structures, Eds. G. Pijaudier-Cabot, B. Gerard and P. Acker, September, 12-14, Nantes, France, 175-180.

 

Ababneh, A., Benboudjema, F., and Xi, Y. (2003). "Chloride penetration in non-saturated concrete." Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 15(2), 183-191.

Ababneh, A., and Xi, Y. (2002). "An experimental study on the effect chloride penetration on moisture diffusion in concrete." Materials and Structures, RILEM, 35(254), 659-664.

 

Kong, J.S., Ababneh, A.N., Frangopol, D.M., and Xi, Y. (2002). "Reliability analysis of chloride penetration in saturated concrete." Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 17(3), 305-315.

 

Ababneh, A., Xi, Y., and Willam, K. (2001). "Multiscale modeling of the coupled moisture diffusion and drying shrinkage of concrete." Proc. of 6th International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage & Durability Mechanics of Concrete and other Quasi-Brittle Materials, Eds. F.-J. Ulm, Z.P. Bazant, and F.H. Wittmann, Aug. 20-22, MIT, Cambridge, USA, pp. 159-164.

 

Xi, Y., Willam, K., Frangopol, D.M., Ababneh, A., Nakhi, A., Kong, J.S., and Nogueira, C.L. (2001). "Accelerated testing and modeling of concrete durability under coupled environmental and mechanical loadings." Long Term Durability of Structural Materials, Proc. of The NSF Durability Workshop at University of California at Berkeley, Oct., Editors, P.J.M. Monteiro, K.P. chong, J. Larsen-Basse, and K. Komvopoulos, 45-56.

Ababneh, A., Suwito, A., Xi Y. and Abu-Hejleh, N. (2000). "A comparative study on durability of Type IP and Silica Fume concretes." Proc. of the International Symposium on High Performance Concrete: Workability, Strength and Durability, Editors, Leugn, C., Li, Z., and Ding, J.T., December 10-15, Hong Kong & Shenzhen, China, pp. 273-279.

Xi, Y., and Ababneh, A. (2000). "Prediction of the onset of steel corrosion in concrete by multiscale chloride diffusion." Proc. of the International Symposium on High Performance Concrete: Workability, Strength and Durability, Editors, Leugn, C., Li, Z., and Ding, J.T., December 10-15, Hong Kong & Shenzhen, China, pp. 181-186.

Ababneh, A. N., and Xi, Y. (1999). "Diffusion of chloride in non-saturated concrete." Proc. of 5th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Boulder, Colorado, Aug. 4-6, pp. 528.


 

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