Dr. Ali Abbas is a Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering. He joined UEL in September 2010. Prior to that he was a Lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London since 2005. Earlier on he has completed his PhD research project at Imperial College London in 2002. He also spent over three years in industry working on a variety of engineering projects with W S Atkins Consultants.

Dr. Abbas has a broad interest in structural analysis and design, encompassing numerical modelling and experimental work. A major current interest is the modelling by finite elements of the linear and nonlinear behaviour of concrete ground-floor slabs. A parallel development is that
of simplified design methods aimed at improving shortcomings in current design guidelines.
He also has a special interest in fibre-reinforced concrete structures and is currently investigating its application to pile-supported slabs as well as under seismic and impact conditions. A further interst is on earthquake engineering.

He has a wide practical experience in the analysis and design of structures.

Programme Leader for Postgraduate Civil Engineering Programmes

Numerical and Experimental Modelling of Structural Systems.
Behaviour and design of Concrete Structures.
Concrete Ground-Floor Slabs (such as Industrial Floors, Road and Airfield Pavements).
Fibre-Reinforced Concrete.
Seismic and Impact Modelling (of Reinforced-Concrete and Fibre-Reinforced Concrete Structures).

• BEng in Civil Engineering.
• MSc / PG Dip in Civil Engineering.
• MSc / PG Dip in Structural Engineering.
   

• CEM005 Design in Steel and Concrete.
• CEM006 Adavanced Structural Analysis.
• CE3202 Structural Engineering.

Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal papers

1. Abbas, A A, Pullen, A D, Cotsovos, D M, Structural response of RC wide beams under low-rate and impact loading, Magazine of Concrete Research, 2010, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 723-740.
2. Pullen, A D, Abbas, A A, Experimental investigations of partially-damaged RC beams and columns, Structral Concrete, 2010, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 139-148.
3. Abbas, A A, Pavlovic, M N, Kotsovos, M D, Discussion: Elastic analysis of ground-floor slabs under multiple loads, ICE Proc. Structures and Buildings, 2008, Vol. 161, No. SB1, pp. 41-41.
4. Abbas, A A, Pavlovic, M N, Kotsovos, M D, Post-elastic behaviour of ground-floor slabs. Part 1: Plain-concrete slabs, Magazine of Concrete Research, 2007, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 387-400.
5. Abbas, A A, Pavlovic, M N, Kotsovos, M D, Post-elastic behaviour of ground-floor slabs. Part 2: Fabric-reinforced concrete slabs, Magazine of Concrete Research, 2007, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 401-411.
6. Abbas, A A, Pavlovic, M N, Kotsovos, M D, Elastic analysis of ground-floor slabs under multiple loads, ICE Proc. Structures and Buildings, 2007, Vol. 160, No. SB3, pp. 151-164.
7. Abbas, A A, Pavlovic, M N, Kotsovos, M D, Aisle-width considerations in ground-floor slabs, Structural Concrete, 2007, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 125-131.
8. Abbas, A A, Pavlovic, MN, Kotsovos, MD, Permissible-stress design of ground-floor slabs, ICE Proc. Structures and Buildings, 2004, Vol. 157, No. SB6, pp. 369-384.

Book Chapters

9. Abbas, A A, Pavlovic, M N, Kotsovos, M D, Recent advances in the design of industrial ground-floor slabs with special emphasis on permissible deformations, Book Chapter 7, in Structural Materials and Engineering, Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2009, pp. 245-279, ISBN: 978-1606929278.

Peer-reviewed Conference papers

10. Abbas, A A, Cotsovos, D M, Pullen, A D, Wide RC beams under low and high loading rates, 9th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, Limassol, Cyprus, 12-14 July 2010.
11. Abbas, A A, Syed Mohsin, S, Cotsovos, D M, A comparative study on modelling approaches for fibre-reinforced concrete, 9th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, Limassol, Cyprus, 12-14 July 2010.
12. Abbas, A A, Syed Mohsin, S, Cotsovos, D M, Numerical modelling of fibre-reinforced concrete, The International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering icccbe 2010, University of Nottingham, June 30- July 2 2010.
13. Cotsovos, D M, Zeris, C A, Abbas, A A, Finite element modelling of structural concrete, Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics COMPDYN 2009, Rhodes, 22-24 June 2009.
14. Abbas, A A, Analysis and design of industrial ground-floor slabs using the finite element method, Young Researchers Conference, IStructE, 2001.

2007 – PRESENT Reviewer for the ICE Proceedings, Structures and Buildings Journal.
2007 – PRESENT Reviewer for the ICE Proceedings, Civil Engineering Journal.
2008 – PRESENT Reviewer for the ICE Proceedings, Engineering History and Heritage Journal.