Adel Abdelnaby

Adel Abdelnaby Ph.D., S.E., P.E., Associate Professor at the University of Memphis
Dr. Abdelnaby holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012). He has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Memphis since the fall of 2012. Dr. Abdelnaby has more than 15 years of experience in the field of failure analysis of buildings and bridges. He has assessed, repaired, and designed high-profile structures in the US and overseas, including 3,000+ years old large historical buildings in Egypt, where he conducted non-destructing testing and helped provide repair and retrofit plans to limit further deterioration of structural components and prevent possible structural failure. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses related to the behavior and design of steel, reinforced concrete, wood and masonry structures, earthquake engineering, nonlinear analysis of structural systems, and mechanics of materials. Dr. Abdelnaby has extensive knowledge of current structural engineering design and assessment codes and standards, including the International Residential and Building Codes, ASCE 7-16, ACI 318-14, AISC Manual and Specifications, NDS 2018, TMS 402/602, and AASHTO. Dr. Abdelnaby is a licensed structural engineering at the states of Illinois and Oklahoma and licensed professional engineer in the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.