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Ayad Aldeka

Senior Lecturer

School of Architecture Design and the Built Environment

Role

Ayad Aldeka is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering. He is currently acting as the Postgraduate Course Leader for Civil and Structural 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.