Md Abdul Mirdad, PhD, PEng
Contact
Adjunct Faculty Member, Faculty of Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept
- mdabdul@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Structural Engineering Timber Engineering Bridge Engineering Shape memory Alloy Machine Learning
About
Abdul received his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering with a focus on Timber Structures from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in Structural Engineering with a focus on Bridge Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. He is a specialist in Structural Engineering, Timber Engineering and Bridge Engineering.
Research
- Resilient and robust sustainable tall mass timber buildings using shape memory alloys
- Long-span mass timber bridge girders and high-capacity bridge piers using shape memory alloys
- High-capacity and super-elastic mass timber hybrid connections with shape memory alloys
- Innovative hybrid mass timber gravity and lateral load-resisting systems
- Small-to-large-scale testing of mass timber structural elements and systems
- Artificial intelligence in mass timber connection and system design optimization
- Performance-based seismic design of mass timber buildings and bridges
- Innovative bridge rehabilitation and smart bridge assessments
Teaching
- Structural Timber Design
Featured Publications
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Bassem Andrawes
International Journal of Civil Engineering. 2025 January; 10.1007/s40999-024-01021-9
Bassem Andrawes, Isaias Colombani, Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Alexander Chen
Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). 2024 December; 10.36501/0197-9191/24-025
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Bassem Andrawes
Advances in Structural Engineering. 2023 October; 10.1177/13694332231188417
Hossein Daneshvar, Brian Qi, Tahiat Goni, Md. Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Marjan Popovski, Zhiyong Chen, Ying Hei Chui
World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2023). 2023 June; 10.52202/069179-0326
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Jan Niederwestberg, Arman Jucutan, Ying Hei Chui
World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2023). 2023 June; 10.52202/069179-0153
Md. Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Bassem Andrawes
ASCE Annual Conference. 2023 May; 10.1061/9780784484777.025
Dachina Gunasekaran, Md. Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Bassem Andrawes
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. 2023 April; 10.1061/JPCFEV.CFENG-4261
Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting 2023. 2023 January;
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Arman Jucutan, Rafid Khan, Jan Niederwestberg, Ying Hei Chui
Construction and Building Materials. 2022 August; 345
Md Mirdad, Rafid Khan, Ying Chui
Buildings. 2022 June; 10.3390/buildings12070885
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Ying Hei Chui, Douglas Tomlinson, Yuxiang Chen
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. 2021 October; 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0001620
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Ying Hei Chui, Douglas Tomlinson
Journal of Structural Engineering. 2021 February; 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0002909
Development of span tables for Mass Timber Panel-Concrete composite floors
World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE), Santiago, Chile. 2021 January;
Mass Timber Panel-Concrete composite floor behaviour with inclined self-tapping screws and insulation layer
World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE), Santiago, Chile. 2021 January;
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Hossein Daneshvar, Thomas Joyce, Ying Hei Chui
Advances in Civil Engineering. 2021 January; 10.1155/2021/6688076
University of Alberta Libraries. 2020 November; 10.7939/R3-380Y-P663
Md Abdul Hamid Mirdad, Ying Hei Chui
Journal of Structural Engineering. 2020 August; 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0002678
Engineering Structures. 2020 March; 10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.110215
Influence of self-tapping screw inclination and soundproofing resilient interlayer on timber-concrete composite slab
5th International Conference on Structural Health Assessment of Timber Structures (SHATiS), Guimaraes, Portugal. 2019 September;
Construction and Building Materials. 2019 July; 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2019.04.117
Behaviour of Mass Timber Panel-Concrete connections with inclined self-tapping screws and insulation layer
World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE), Seoul, Republic of Korea. 2018 August;
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