STRUCTURE ENGINEER
AHAD & ASSOCIATES
Total years of experience :8 years, 8 Months
• Responsibilities Include Modeling, Analysis and Design of Structures as per American & Pakistan Building Code, Preparing Design Calculation Reports and Construction Drawings
• To Conduct Site Visits to Ensure the Quality of Work
• To Prepare B.O.Q & Bar Bending Schedule
• Project Coordination with Architect, Public Health Engineer & Contractor
• Coordinate with Contractor to Establish Action Plans to Maintain Schedules and Prepare Site Progress Report
• Responsibilities Include Modeling, Analysis and Design of Structures Covering Industrial, Commercial, Residential and Educational Projects As Per Design Codes and Preparing Design Reports and Construction Drawings
• Project Coordination with Architects, Quantity Estimators and Public Health Engineers.
My M.Sc. thesis topic was "Performance Evaluation of RCC & Composite Structure Designed by Linear Elastic & Performance Based Design" and its abstract is as below; Abstract: Performance Based Design (PBD) is an advance structure analysis procedure used to design new structures and to carry out capacity analysis of existing structures. It is an advanced and more realistic design procedure as actual ground motion data is used for analysis and maximum material capacity is utilized beyond elastic limit considering material nonlinear behavior. In PBD site specific hazard analysis is carried out and ground motion data is collected to analyze the structure. Then structure is designed or evaluated as per preset building performance levels as specified by clients. In PBD building performance is evaluated at different hazard levels as per their probability of occurrence. In this study performance is evaluated for ten story RCC and composite structure designed by code based linear analysis and nonlinear performance based design. Seismic zone 3 is considered as per UBC-97. Nonlinear timed history is performed using seven set of ground motion data. Lumped plasticity material model nonlinear hinges are considered at element end points. Building performance is evaluated at service level earthquake (SLE) and maximum considered earthquake (MCE). Building performance is evaluated as life safety performance level for RCC and composite structure. It is evaluated that base shear generated by actual ground motions at MCE is higher than calculated as per UBC-97 static analysis. Base shear to weight ratio is observed as 0.181 for RCC structure and 0.259 for Composite structure. Even after being very high base shear structure survived, this is because more deformations are allowed and maximum material strength is utilized considering nonlinear behavior. Further initial cost of construction is evaluated and it is observed a 17% reinforcement steel reduction for RCC structure and a 22.2 % reduction of steel weight of composite structure.
Major areas of study in my civil engineering course include structural engineering, geotechnical engineering ,hydraulic engineering, transportation engineering & project engineering.