Staff Portal
Zaid Mohammed Kani Al-Azzawi (Assistant Professor)

PhD in Structural Engineering
Lecturer
Dams - Engineering
zaid.kani@uoanbar.edu.iq


Biography

 
  • Marital status: Married
  • Nationality: Iraqi
  • DOB: March 10th, 1974

Publication

 

  • Shear Capacity of High-Strength Fiber Reinforced Beam-Column Joints, Engineering and Technology Journal, V. 28, No. 6, 2010.
  • Mechanical Properties of High-Strength Fiber Reinforced Concrete, Engineering and Technology Journal, V. 28, No. 12, 2010.
  • Impact Resistance of Chopped-Worn-Out Tires Concrete, Engineering and Technology Journal, V. 28, No. 16, 2010.
  • Strength and Behavior of Fibrous High-Strength Concrete Columns, Anbar Journal for Engineering and Sciences, Special Issue- Part one, First Engineering Conference of the College of Engineering, University of Anbar, held on 21-22, Dec. 2011.
  • Finite Element Modeling of Shear in Beam-Column Joints Using ANSYS software, Proceedings, Jordanian International Civil Engineering Conference, Nov., 2011.
  • Effect of hoops and column axial load on shear strength of High-Strength Fiber Reinforced Beam-Column Joints, Journal of Engineering-University of Baghdad, No.3, Vol. 18, March 2012.
  •  Effect of Flange and Stiffener Rigidity on the Boundary Conditions and Shear Buckling Stress of Plate Girders, European Bridge Engineering Conference, Edinburgh 2015.
  • Buckling Strength of Slender Steel Plates Stiffened with Corrugated FRP Panels, ACIC, 2015
  • Towards a Better Understanding of the Factors Affecting the Prediction of Shear Buckling Coefficients of Steel Plate Girders, Scotland 3rd Joint postgraduate conference, 2015.
  •  FRP Shear Strengthening of Thin-Walled Plate Girder Web Panels Subjected to Cyclic Loading, Protect 2015.
  •  FRP Strengthening of Web Panels of Steel Plate Girders against Shear Buckling under Static and Cyclic Loading., ACMBS MCAPC VII, 2016.
  • Structural Behaviour and Fracture Energy of Recycled Steel Fibre Self-Compacting Reinforced Concrete Beams, Journal of Building Engineering, 2018.
  • Enhancing Mechanical Properties of No-fines Concrete Using Waste Plastic Fibres, Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13(5), 2018.
  • FRP Strengthening of Web Panels of Steel Plate Girders against Shear Buckling Part-I: Static Series of Tests, Composite Structures, 206 (2018) 722-738.
  • FRP Strengthening of Web Panels of Steel Plate Girders against Shear Buckling Part-II: Fatigue Study and Cyclic Series of Tests, Composite Structures, 210 (2019).
  • Utilizing Recycled Concrete and Stone Aggregate as Replacement for Natural and Crushed Virgin Aggregate, International Journal of Engineering & Technology (UAE) 7 (4.37) 2018, 90-97.
  • Finite Element Modelling of High-Strength Fibre Reinforced Concrete Columns Under Eccentric Loading, Third International Conference on Computing, Communications and Information Technology, CCIT 2019, Ramadi, Iraq.
  • Effect of High Temperature on Bond Strength of Concrete Reinforced with 180° Hooked Bars, Third International Conference on Computing, Communications and Information Technology, CCIT 2019, Ramadi, Iraq.
  • A Non-Linear Composite Finite Element Model for a New FRP Strengthening Technique Against Shear Buckling of Steel Plate Girders, International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering (I2C2E), Montreal, July 2019.
  • Mechanical properties of high strength self-compacting concrete with reused steel fibers at high temperatures, in Journal of Green Engineering202010(6), pp. 3156-3170.
  • Strengthening of Composite Castellated Beams Web with Corrugated Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Struts, in Key Engineering Materials Vol. 870, pp 49-60, October 2020.
  • A new design method for a novel FRP strengthening technique against shear buckling of steel plate girders, Thin-Walled Structures, Volume 148, March 2020.
  •  Effect of discarded steel fibers on impact resistance, flexural toughness and fracture energy of high-strength self-compacting concrete exposed to elevated temperatures, Fire Safety Journal 121 (2021) 103271.
  • Strength of Self-compacting concrete produced with cement kiln dust exposed to elevated temperature, 8th International Engineering Conference IEC-2022, Erbil, 23-24-2-2022.
  • Finite Element Modelling of High-Strength Fibre Reinforced Concrete Columns Under Eccentric Loading, Int. J. Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2022.
  • Effect of High Temperature on Bond Strength of Concrete Reinforced with 180° Hooked Bars, Int. J. Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2022.
  • Effect of Elevated Temperatures on the Microstructure and Bond Strength of Self-Compacting Concrete Made with Cement Kiln Dust, 2nd International Conference for Engineering Sciences and Information Technology (ESIT 2022) AIP Conf. Proc. 3009, 030072-1–030072-9; https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0197973.
  • Production and Properties of Foamed Concrete for Load- Bearing Units, 2nd International Conference for Engineering Sciences and Information Technology (ESIT 2022) AIP Conf. Proc. 3009, 030072-1–030072-9; https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0197973.
  • Behaviour of Composite Structural Members Built-Up from Locally Available Stone Units Jacketed with Ferrocement, STRUCTURES 43 (2022) 1600–1614.
  • Utilizing Waste-Plastic Pipes as Hoops in Circular Concrete Columns, International Review on Civil Engineering, V.14, No.2, 2023.
  • Strength and Thermal Properties of Hollow Foamed Concrete Blocks considering Various Parameters, Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research Vol. 14, No. 6, 2024, 18004-18013.
  • Enhancing Strength of Foamed Concrete by Adding Supplementary Materials, Iraqi Journal of Civil Engineering, V.19, No.1, 2025.
  • Investigating Hollow Foamed Concrete Block Walls: Effect of Using Additives and Joint material Type, Kufa Journal of Engineering, 2025.
  • Failure modes of self-compacting concrete beams reinforced with discarded steel fibre under fire conditions, Engineering Structures, 333 (2025) 120198.

Lectures


No. Subjects Lectures Stage File Video
1 Numerical Analysis Introduction + References Third
2 Numerical Analysis Determinants and Matrices Third
3 Numerical Analysis Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations Third
4 Numerical Analysis Iterative Methods Third
5 Numerical Analysis Interpolation and Curve Fitting Third
6 Numerical Analysis Numerical Differentiation & Numerical Integrat Third
7 Numerical Analysis Introduction of Ordinary Differential Equations Third
8 Numerical Analysis Consistency, Order, Stability, and Convergence Third
9 Numerical Analysis One-Dimensional Boundary-Value Ordinary Differenti Third
10 Numerical Analysis Higher-Order Equilibrium Methods Third
11 Numerical Analysis The Equilibrium Method of Nonuniform Grids Third
12 Numerical Analysis Numerical Solution of Partial Deferential Equation Third
13 Numerical Analysis Parabolic Equation Third
14 Numerical Analysis Hyperbolic Equation Third
15 Numerical Analysis//MATLAB (Math Library) Engineering Analysis Third
16 Numerical Analysis/MATLAB (Math Library) Numerical Analysis II Third

Academic certificates

[  1995  ]                BSc in Civil Engineering                             Anbar University

Civil Engineering

  • I ranked the 1st among (42) with an average of (75.5%).

[  1998  ]                MSc in Structural Engineering       University of Technology

Structural Engineering

  • I ranked the 1st with a total average of (85.5%).

[  2016  ]                PhD in Structural Engineering          University of Edinburgh

Infrastructures

 

 

 

 

Supervision

MSc students: 5
PhD students: 1

 

Other

 

Patents

  • Strengthening Shear Capacity and Improving Buckling Strength of Thin-Walled Steel Plates Using a Novel Section Prefabricated from Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRP). B32B13/02- E04B1/04 in 19-11-2017
  • Thermo-Mechanical Testing Machine for Laboratory Structural Application. G01N3/20 in 23-12-2020
  • A New Frame to Test Shear Buckling of Plate Girders Utilizing Four-Hinge Bar Mechanism G01N3/00, G01N3/24 in 17-8-2021

 

 Rewards:

  • Best teaching award for Visual Basic Programming Class, 2012.
  • PhD scholarship from MOHESR, 2013-2016.
  • Fulbright Visiting Scholar award, 2018.
  • RULA International Distinguished Researcher Award of the Year, 2020.

Conferences:

§ First Engineering Conference of the College of Engineering, University of Anbar, held on 21-22,Dec. 2011.

§ Jordanian International Civil Engineering Conference, Nov., 2011.

§  European Bridge Engineering Conference, Edinburgh 2015.

§ ACIC, 2015

§ Scotland 3rd Joint postgraduate conference, 2015.

§  Protect 2015.

§  ACMBS MCAPC VII, 2016.

§ Third International Conference on Computing, Communications and Information Technology, CCIT 2019, Ramadi, Iraq.

§ International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering (I2C2E), Montreal, July 2019.