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Dr. Abdulla Mahmoud

Gandhi Engineers and Architects, Inc.
Consultants to the New York State Dept. of Transportation

Education:
2017 Ph.D. Civil Engineering Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 
Thesis title: “Analysis and Design of Spirally Welded Thin-Walled Steel Tapered Cylindrical Shells Under Bending with Application to Wind Turbine Towers”

2017 M.S.E. Civil Engineering
 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2013 M.S.E. Structural Engineering 
Cairo University, Giza, Egypt 
Thesis title: “Experimental and Analytical Studies on Failure Modes of Structure Steel Scaffolds”
2008 B.Sc. Civil Engineering
 Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Publications:
• Mahmoud, A., Abdelghaffar, M. E. (2013) “Experimental and Analytical Study Failure Modes of Structural Steel Scaffolds” SSRC proceedings, Saint Louis-MO, USA.
• Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Jay, A., Myers, A. T., Smith, E., Schafer, B. W. (2015) “Modeling protocols for elastic buckling and collapse analysis of spirally welded circular hollow thin-walled sections” Proceedings of the Annual Stability conference, SSRC’15, Nashville-Tennessee, USA.
• Jay, A., Torabian, S., Mahmoud, A., Myers, A. T., Schafer, B.W., Smith E. (2015) “Static Flexural Local Buckling Tests on Large Scale Spirally Welded Tubes for use as Wind Turbine Towers” Structures Congress 2015, Portland-Oregon, USA
• Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Jay, A., Mirzaie, F., Myers, A. T., Smith, E., Schafer, B. W. (2016) “Collapse Analyses on Spirally Welded Tapered Tubes using EC3 Generated Imperfections” Proceedings of the Annual Stability conference, SSRC’16, Orlando-Florida, USA
• Mahmoud, A. N., Mirzaie, F., Torabian, S., Jay, A., Myers, A. T., Smith, E., Schafer, B. W. (2016) “Collapse Analysis of Spirally Welded Tapered Tubes under Flexural Moments using Measured and Generated Imperfections” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures. Baltimore-Maryland, USA.
• Jay, A., Myers, A.T., Torabian, S., Mahmoud, A., Smith, E., Agbayani, N., Schafer, B.W. (2016) “Spirally Welded Steel Wind Towers: Buckling Experiments, Analyses, and Research Needs” J. Constructional Steel Research 125.
• Jay, A., Myers, A.T., Mirzaie, F., Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Smith, E., Schafer, B.W. (2016) “Large Scale Bending Tests of Slender, Tapered, Spirally Welded Steel Tubes” J. Structural Engineering.

• Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Jay, A., Mirzaie, F., Myers, A.T., Smith, E., Schafer, B. W. (2018) “Modeling the Flexural Collapse of Thin-Walled Spirally Welded Tapered Tubes”, J. Structural Engineering.

• Mirzaie, F., Myers, A. T., Jay, A., Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Smith, E., Schafer, B. W. (2018) “Imperfection Measurements to Predict Buckling Behavior of Slender Steel Tubes” J. Thin-Walled Structures.

• Mahmoud, A., Torabian, S., Jay, A., Mirzaie, F., Myers, A.T., Smith, E., Schafer, B. W. (2018) “Predicting the Buckling Strength of Spirally Welded Tapered Tubes Under Flexural Bending Using Reference Resistance Design” Proceedings of the Annual Stability conference, SSRC’18, Baltimore-Maryland, USA.

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