Invited talks, awards, industry visits, and lab highlights from the ATLAS Lab at KFUPM.
Delivered a seminar on our recent study of blast loading and CFRP-strengthened RC structures at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) on December 10, 2025.
Delivered an invited talk titled "Smart and Sustainable Structural Systems: Innovations in Experimentation, Modeling, and Digital Construction" at the University of North Dakota, USA.
Faisal Mukhtar received a Bronze Medal at the 2025 International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva for his work titled "Universal Debonding Test Apparatus for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer-Concrete System and Method for Sequential Multi-Testing."
Delivered an invited talk titled "Sustainable Structural Engineering" to the ABAAD 3D Concrete Printing team, Bahrain.
Graduate students in CE 522 visited Prainsa Saudi Arabia to observe the production of precast and prestressed concrete components.
Delivered an invited talk titled "Sustainable Structures, Materials, and Computations" at the Structural Engineering Research Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (EMPA), Zurich, Switzerland.
Delivered an invited talk titled "KFUPM ATLAS Lab and Research Initiatives: Past, Present, and the Future" to the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.