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Professor Ghazi A.F.R. Abu-Farsakh

Civil Engineering Dept.
Jordan University of Science and Technology

Research Interests:
Behavior of composite materials: Multi-layered composite plates and shells; Linear, nonlinear, buckling, vibration; Experimental techniques in structures.

Selected Publications:
Abu-Farsakh, G.A.R., “Analytical and Experimental Study of Buckling of Composite Shells,” PhD Thesis, Univ. of London, 1983
Abu-Farsakh, G.AF.R. and Lusher, J.K., "Buckling of Glass Reinforced Plastic Cylindrical Shells Under Combined Axial Compression and External Pressure," AIAA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 12, Dec. 1985, pp. i946-1951
Ghazi Abu-Farsakh, “Experimental buckling of GRP cylindrical shells”, Experimental Mechanics, Vol. 27, No.1, 1987, pp. 1-9
Abu-Farsakh, G. “A Modified Triangular Element for Plate and Shell Analysis ”. Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), Vol. 17, No. 1,1990, pp. 1-18.
Abu-Farsakh, G. A., and Abdel-Jawad, Y. A.: A New Failure Criterion for Nonlinear Composite Materials,. Journal of Composites Technology and Research, Vol. 16, No. 2, April 1994, pp. 138-145.
Abu-Farsakh, G. A., and Khader, N. “Vibration Analysis of Multi-Layered Composite Thin Plates and Shells ” . Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), Vol. 23, No. 3, 1996, pp. 137-143.
Abu-Farsakh, G. A., Numayr, K. S. and Hamad, Kh. A. “ A micro-mechanical model for predicting the compressive strength of fibrous composite materials ”. Composites Science & Technology, Vol. 58, No. 9-10, 1997, pp. 1415-1422.

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