Welcome & Greetings!!!
I am Fawad, an early-career academic and researcher in the area of Structural Engineering. I am associated with University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) and have set up this web portal as an online repository of my open educational resources. It contains my lectures, video playlists, class notes, blogposts, research publications, and many other resources. Please feel free to use them for educational and instructional purposes.
I also maintain a comprehensive set of professional training resources on my YouTube channel “Understanding Structures with Fawad Najam“. Please do visit this channel to explore detailed video playlists on topics of my educational interests.
For any feedbacks, please contact at fawad.najam@ubc.ca.
Happy Learning !!!
Fawad Ahmed Najam
Lecturer & Research Fellow, School of Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), Okanagan, Canada V1V 1V7.
A brief overview of inelastic modeling of structures using CSI PERFORM 3D. Click below to view a CSI seminar by Dr. Graham Powell and a hand-written tutorial (or hint file) for the seminar.
SOME OF MY RECENT POSTS
Our study interests include the areas in structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, performance-based seismic assessment and design of structures, numerical analysis, seismic hazard analysis, disaster resilience and vulnerability assessment, nonlinear modeling of structures, finite element programming, and structural engineering software development.
Significance of Soil-Structure Interaction in Seismic Response of Buildings
In current design office practice, a commonly used modelling assumption is that the base of a building structure can be idealised with fixed support conditions, thereby neglecting any effects from soil-structure interaction (SSI). Various recent studies, however, have shown that the explicit consideration of SSI effects in seismic analysis of buildings [...]
Torsional Irregularity Check and Accidental Torsion
Question: I am currently working in a Consultancy firm in Islamabad and have few queries regarding torsional Irregularity explained as follows: 1) As per UBC torsional irregularity exists if "Maximum story drift, computed including accidental torsion, at one end of the structure transverse to an axis is more than 1.2 [...]
The Importance of Understanding Structural Behavior
Once my PhD advisor told me a story. He asked, “You might have seen simply supported beams hundreds of times in textbook illustrations, papers and presentations; Have you ever saw an actual simply supported beam as part of a real structure, with a pin support at one end and roller [...]
Can We Build Jacob’s Ladder?
Can we build Jacob's Ladder???
Concrete Mix Design – Art of Balancing the Conflicting Requirements
Concrete Mix Design - Art of Balancing the Conflicting Requirements Why we need to explore potentials of Indigenous materials in Pakistan Concrete, like all other engineering materials, needs to be designed for properties like strength, durability, workability and cohesion. This extremely versatile material can be designed for strength ranging from [...]
Basics of making professional looking graphs in MS Excel
Basics of making professional looking graphs in MS Excel Graphical data visualization is the key element of almost every research publication. An impressive data reporting can not only helps in clear deductions and convenient result interpretation but also attracts readers’ attention by conveying message in easy-to-understand way. Recently I came [...]