Role
Ayad is a Civil Engineer with a PhD in Earthquake Engineering. He teaches Advanced Structural Design and Structural Dynamics to Undergraduate and Postgraduate Civil Engineering students at NTU. He is currently acting as PG Course leader in Civil and Structure Programmes.
Research areas
Primary research interests include:
- Earthquake Engineering
- Structural Dynamics
- Structural Analysis and Design
- Sustainable Concrete Technologies
- Structural Retrofitting and Rehabilitation
Publications
- Aldeka, A. B. (2010), “Tendons Arrangement Effects on Reinforced Concrete Frames”, Tikrit Journal of Engineering Science, 17, 22-30.
- Mahmood, M. N. and Ayad, B. B. (2010), “Embedded formulation of prestressed tendon in 3D–brick element”, Journal of Al-Rafidain Engineering, 18(6), 1-14.
- Aldeka, A., Chan, A. and Dirar, S. (2012). Finite element modelling of non-structural components mounted on a torsionally multi-storey building. In Proceedings of the 20th UK Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering (ACME2012), March 27-28, Manchester, United Kingdom, 67-70.
- Aldeka, A., Chan, A. and Dirar, S. (2013). Finite element modelling of non-structural components mounted on irregular RC buildings. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Mechanics (CM13), March 25-27, Durham, United Kingdom, 6pp.
- Aldeka, A., Chan, A. and Dirar, S. (2013). Effects of torsion on the behaviour of non-structural components mounted on irregular reinforced concrete multi-storey buildings. In Proceedings of the 4th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, June 12-14, Kos Island, Greece, 9pp.
- Aldeka, A., Chan, A. and Dirar, S. (2014). Response of non-structural components mounted on irregular RC buildings: comparison between FE and EC8 predictions. Earthquakes & Structures, 6 (4): 351-373.
- Aldeka, A., Dirar, S., Martinez-Vazquez, P., and Chan, A. (2014). Influence of ground type on the seismic response of non-structural components integrated on asymmetrical reinforced concrete buildings. In Proceedings of the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society 2014 Conference, November 21-23, Lorne, Victoria, 11pp.
- Aldeka, A., Dirar, S., Chan, A. and Martinez- Vazquez, P. (2015). Seismic response of non-structural components attached to reinforced concrete structures with different eccentricity ratios. Earthquakes & Structures, 8 (5): 1069-1089.
- Aldeka, A., Tziavos, N, Gkantou, M., Dirar, D, Chan, A. “Design of non-structural components mounted on irregular reinforced concrete buildings”. Journal of Building Engineering. Submitted under review (May 2021).
- Aldeka, A., Tziavos, N, Gkantou, M., Dirar, D, Chan, A. “Influence of vertical mass irregularity of asymmetric reinforced concrete buildings on the seismic response of non-structural components“. Journal of Building Engineering. Under process (2021).
- Aldeka, A., Tziavos, N, Gkantou, M., Dirar, D, Chan, A. (2022). “Seismic Design of non-structural components mounted on irregular reinforced concrete buildings”. Journal of Building Engineering, 46, 103783, ISSN 2352-7102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.103783.