Qualifications:
 PhD Civil Engineering

Research Interests:
Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Numerical Modelling of Structures, Seismic Hazard Analysis of Structures considering Spatially Variable Earthquake Ground Motions (SVEGM), Structural Health Monitoring, Bridge Engineering, Design and Analysis of Structures.

Dr. Hafiz Ahmed Waqas

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Dr. Hafiz Ahmed Waqas

Assistant Professor

Qualifications: PhD Civil Engineering
Research Interests: Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Numerical Modeling of Structures, Seismic Hazard Analysis of Structures considering Spatially Variable Earthquake Ground Motions (SVEGM), Structural Health Monitoring, Bridge Engineering, Design and Analysis of Structures.

Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering 2018–2021
University: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Thesis Title: Seismic Performance Evaluation of a Cable-stayed Bridge under Probabilistic Multiple Support Excitation

M.E., Civil Engineering 2016–2018
University: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Thesis Title: Malfunction identification of steel bridge bearing and evaluation of its effects under service conditions

B.E Civil Engineering 2011–2015
University: University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan

Publications

  1. Waqas, H. A., Su, D., and Nagayama, T., “Response variation phenomena in long span bridges considering multiple support excitations of different scenario earthquakes”. Proceeding of the 23rd international summer symposium of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), Hiratsuka, Japan, September 9-10, 2021. ISSN 1345-8507
  2. Waqas, H. A., Su, D., and Nagayama, T., “Response variations of a cable-stayed bridge under SVEGM”. Proceeding of International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) conference – Risk Intelligence of infrastructures, Seoul, Korea, November 9-10, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2749/seoul.2020.066
  3. Waqas, H. A., Su, D., and Nagayama, T., “Response amplification due to anti-symmetric modes excitation in a cable-stayed bridge under multiple support excitations”. 75th annual meeting of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), Nagoya, Japan, September 9, 2020. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4992295
  4. Waqas, H. A., Su, D., and Nagayama, T., “Seismic design framework for cable-stayed bridge considering multiple support excitation”. Work in progress of next-generation structural engineers, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), Japan, April 18, 2020.
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4992188
  1. Waqas, H. A., Su, D., and Nagayama, T., “Numerical and experimental study of stick-slip behavior in malfunctioned steel bridge bearings”. 12th Pacific Structural Steel Conference, Japan society of steel construction, Tokyo, Japan, November 09-11, 2019.
    https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7LO3TI
  1. Ali, M., Kim, H., Fujimori, S., and Waqas, H.A., “Solar electric energy footprints of world mega cities”. The 27th general assembly of International Union of Geodesy and geophysics (IUGG), Montreal, Canada, July 08-18, 2019. https://www.czech-in.org/cmPortalV15/CM_W3_Searchable/iugg19/normal#!abstractdetails/0000747190
  1. Waqas, H.A., Su, D., and Nagayama, T., “Bearing malfunction identification of steel bearings from response measurement”. The 20th International Summer Symposium, Annual meeting of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), Sapporo, Japan, August 29-31, 2018. http://library.jsce.or.jp/jsce/open/00035/2018/73-01/73-01-0431.pdf
  1. Waqas, H.A., Su, D., and Nagayama, T., “Feasibility of in situ displacement and acceleration measurements to identify bridge steel bearing malfunction”. The 7th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring (7WCSCM), Qingdao, China, July 22-25, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BU54QU