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Wassim Ghannoum, Ph.D., P.E.

Wassim Ghannoum, Ph.D., P.E.

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Construction Management

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Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2021
  • M.Eng., Cornell University, 2016
  • B.S., Purdue University, 2014

Honors and Awards

Fellow of the American Concrete Institute
  • Year Awarded: 2025
  • Governing Organization: American Concrete Institute
Elected Vice Chair of the ACI Technical Activities Committee
  • Year Awarded: 2025
  • Governing Organization: American Concrete Institute
Award of Excellence in the Guidelines/Research/Study category: For work on project: "Benchmarking Evaluation Methodologies for Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings."
  • Year Awarded: 2024
  • Governing Organization: Structural Engineering Association of Northern California (SEAONC)
EERI Spectra Editor’s Choice paper: Paper titled: "ASCE/SEI 41 Assessment of Reinforced 1 Concrete Buildings: Benchmarking Linear Procedures and FEMA P-2018 with Empirical Damage Observations."
  • Year Awarded: 2023
  • Governing Organization: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
Sweet Sixteen Award: For project: "Evaluating Bridge Behavior Using Ultra-High Resolution Next-Generation Digital Image Correlation (DIC): Applications in Bridge Inspection and Damage Assessment."
  • Year Awarded: 2021
  • Governing Organization: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper: Paper titled: "Shear Behavior of Full-Scale Reinforced Concrete Members Strengthened with Anchored Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strips."
  • Year Awarded: 2021
  • Governing Organization: American Concrete Institute
Henry L. Kennedy Award: For dedicated service to the development of a national standard for seismic rehabilitation of existing reinforced concrete buildings and outstanding contributions as Chair of ACI Committee 369 (Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation).
  • Year Awarded: 2019
  • Governing Organization: American Concrete Institute
Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award: For outstanding leadership of Committee 369 “Seismic Repair and Rehabilitation.”
  • Year Awarded: 2019
  • Governing Organization: American Concrete Institute
Elected Board Member
  • Year Awarded: 2018
  • Governing Organization: Infrastructure Advancement Institute (IAI)
Fellow of ASCE SEI
  • Year Awarded: 2016
  • Governing Organization: American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineering Institute (ASCE SEI)

Publications

  1. Suselo A., Ghorbani R., Ghannoum W. M., Matamoros A. B., "Update to Shear Strength Provisions for Concrete Columns in ACI CODE-369.1-22," ACI Structural Journal, V. 122, No. 4, July 2025, 245-56.
  2. Sokoli D., Limantono A., To D., Moehle J. P., Ghannoum W. M., "From Global to Local Deformations of Concrete Frame Members Accounting for Steel Properties," ACI Structural Journal, V. 122, No. 3, May 2025, 133-45.
  3. Sharma L., Abdullah W., Niroula S., Budhathoki N., Ghannoum W. M., "Inelastic Cyclic Performance of Mechanical Couplers with Grade 80 Bars," ACI Structural Journal, V. 122, No. 1, January 2025, 225-40.
  4. Gonzalez J., Sasan Khedmatgozar Dolati S., Suselo A., Stalheim D., Araujo A., Ghannoum W. M., "Improving Fatigue Properties of Reinforcing Steel Bars," ACI Materials Journal, V. 122, No. 1, January 2025, 3-18.
  5. Ghorbani R., Matamoros A.B., Ghannoum W.M., "Multi-axial computational model for simulating the seismic behavior of concrete columns including axial collapse," Engineering Structures, V. 307, May 2024, 117821.
  6. Ghorbani R., Suselo A., Matamoros A. B., Ghannoum W.M., "New Multi-Axial Concrete Column Element with Adaptive, Calibrated Constitutive Models," Journal of Structural Engineering, V. 150, No. 3, January 2024, 04023233.
  7. Sasan Khedmatgozar Dolati S., Matamoros A. B., Ghannoum W. M., "Recommendations for Nonlinear Finite Element Analyses of Reinforced Concrete Columns Under Seismic Loading up to Collapse," ACI Special Publication, V. SP-358, October 2023, 230-50.
  8. Rajae S., Hoggsett G., Chapagain B., Banjade S., Ghannoum W. M., "Vision-Based Large-Field Measurements of Bridge Deformations," Journal of Bridge Engineering, V. 28, No. 11, August 2023, 04023075.
  9. Sen A., Cook D., Liel A., Basnet T., Creagh A., Koodiani H., et al., "ASCE/SEI 41 Assessment of Reinforced 1 Concrete Buildings: Benchmarking Linear Procedures and FEMA P-2018 with Empirical Damage Observations," Earthquake Spectra, V. 39, No. 3, August, editor's Choice 2023, 1658-82.
  10. Cook D., Sen A., Liel A., Basnet T., Creagh A., Koodiani H., et al., "ASCE/SEI 41 Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings: Benchmarking Nonlinear Dynamic Procedures with Empirical Damage Observations," Earthquake Spectra, V. 39, No. 3, August 2023, 1721-54.
  11. Sasan Khedmatgozar Dolati S., Matamoros A. B., Ghannoum W. M., "Evaluating the effects of loading protocol on the strength and deformation capacity of Flexure-Shear critical concrete columns," Engineering Structures, V. 279, March 2023, 115592.
  12. Ghorbani R., Suselo A., Gendy S., Matamoros A. B., Ghannoum W.M., "Uniaxial Model for Simulating the Cyclic Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Members," Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, No. 51, November 2022, 3574–97.
  13. Zhong K., Ghannoum W.M., Deierlein G. G., "Influence of High Strength Reinforcing Bars on Seismic Safety of Concrete Frames," ACI Structural Journal, V. 118, No. 5, September 2021, 299-311.
  14. To D., Sokoli D., Ghannoum W. M., Moehle J. P., "Seismic Performance of Tall Moment Frames with High-Strength Reinforcement," ACI Structural Journal, V. 118, No. 1, January 2021, 113-24.
  15. Shekarchi W., Pudleiner D. K., Alotaibi N., Ghannoum W. M., Jirsa J. O., "Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Spike Anchor Design Recommendations," ACI Structural Journal, V. 117, No. 6, November 2020, 171-82.
  16. Sokoli D., Limantono A., Ghannoum W. M., "Special Moment Frames with High-strength Reinforcement – Part 2- Columns," ACI Structural Journal, V. 117, No. 2, March 2020, 253-67.
  17. Alotaibi N., Shekarchi W., Ghannoum W. M., Jirsa J. O., "Shear Design of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened in Shear with Anchored Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Strips," ACI Structural Journal, V. 117, No. 2, March 2020, 185-98.
  18. Williams C., Moore A., Al-Tarafany D., Massey J., Bayrak O., Jirsa J. O., et al., "Evaluation of Cast-in-Place Splice Regions of Spliced I-Girder Bridges," ACI Structural Journal, V. 116, No. 6, November 2019, 183-93.
  19. Alotaibi N., Ghannoum W. M., Jirsa J. O., "Shear Behavior of Full-Scale Reinforced Concrete Members Strengthened with Anchored Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strips," ACI Structural Journal, V. 116, No. 6, November 2019, 227-40. Winner ACI Wason Medal for Most Meritorious Paper.
  20. Pudleiner D. K., Jirsa J. O., Ghannoum W. M., "Influence of Anchor Size on Anchored CFRP Systems," Journal of Composites for Construction, V. 23, No. 5: 04019033, July 2019, 1-12.
  21. Ghannoum, W.M., Alotaibi, N., Garcia, J., Kim, C., Kim, Y., Pudleiner, D.K., Quinn, K.T., Satrom, C.N., Shekarchi, W., Sun, S., Wang, H., Jirsa, J.O., "Shear Strengthening of Concrete Bridges using CFRP Strips and Anchors and Quality Control Procedures," ACI Special Publication 58, V. 327, November 2018, 43.1-20.
  22. Garcia, J., Satrom, C.N., Jirsa, J.O., Ghannoum, W.M., "Shear Strengthening of Concrete Girders Using Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Sheets and Anchors," ACI Structural Journal, V. 115, No. 4, July-August 2018, 1165-74.
  23. Shekarchi, W., Ghannoum, W.M., Jirsa, J.O., "Use of Anchored CFRP Strips for Shear Strengthening of Large Girders," ACI Structural Journal, V. 115, No. 1, pp. 281-91, January-February 2018.
  24. Moore, A., Williams, C., Massey, J., Bayrak, O., Ghannoum, W.M., Jirsa, J.O., "Shear Behavior of Post-Tensioned Girders," ACI Structural Journal, ACI Structural Journal, V. 114, No. 6, pp. 1615-25, November-December 2017.
  25. Yenidogan, C., Yokoyama, R., Nagae, T., Tahara, K., Tosauchi, Y., Kajiwara, K., Ghannoum, W.M., "Shake table test of a full-scale four-story reinforced concrete structure and numerical representation of overall response with modified IMK model," Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 10.1007/s10518-017-0261-0, pp. 1-32, November 2017.
  26. Kim, Y., Ghannoum, W.M., Jirsa, J.O., "Shear Design Considering Interaction between Steel Stirrups and Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strips," ACI Structural Journal, V. 114, No. 04, pp. 803-14, July-August 2017.
  27. Ghannoum, W.M., Slavin, C.M., "Low-Cycle Fatigue Performance of High-Strength Steel Reinforcing Bars," ACI Materials Journal, V. 113, No. 6, pp. 803-14, November-December 2016.
  28. Kim, C., Jirsa, J.O., Ghannoum, W.M., "Performance of Concrete Panels Reinforced with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Materials," ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, No. 04016100, pp. 1-8, 2016.
  29. Kwon, J., Ghannoum, W.M., "Assessment of international standard provisions on stiffness of reinforced concrete moment frame and shear wall buildings," Engineering Structures, V. 128, pp. 149-60, September 2016.
  30. Kim, C., Ghannoum, W.M., Jirsa, J.O., "Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Panels Strengthened with Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymers," ACI Structural Journal, V. 113, No. 5, pp. 1077-84, September-October 2016.
  31. Sokoli, D., Ghannoum, W.M., "High-Strength Reinforcement in Columns under High Shear Stresses," ACI Structural Journal, V. 113, No. 3, pp. 605-14, May-June 2016.
  32. Sun, W., Jirsa, J.O., Ghannoum, W.M., "Behavior of Anchored CFRP Strips Used for Strengthening Concrete Structures," ACI Materials Journal, V. 113, No. 02, pp. 163-72, March-April 2016.
  33. Kim, Y., Ghannoum, W.M., Jirsa, J.O., "Shear Behavior of Full-Scale Reinforced Concrete T-Beams using CFRP Strips and Anchors," Construction and Building Materials, V. 94, pp. 1-9, June 2015.
  34. Winkler, J., Georgakis, C.T., Fischer, G., Wood, S., Ghannoum, W.M., "Structural Response of a Multi-Strand Stay Cable to Cyclic Bending Load," Structural Engineering International, V. 25, No. 2, pp. 141-50, May 2015.
  35. Larson Varney, N., Fernandez Gomez, E., Garber, D., Ghannoum, W.M., Bayrak, O., "Inverted-T Beams: Experiments and Strut-and-Tie Modeling," ACI Structural Journal, V. 112, No. 2, pp. 147-56, March-April 2015.
  36. Nagae, T., Ghannoum, W.M., Kwon, J.*, Tahara, K., Fukuyama, K., Matsumori, T., Shiohara, H., Kabeyasawa, T., Kono, S., Nishiyama, M., Sause, R., Wallace, J.W., Moehle, J.P., "Design Implications of a Large-Scale Shaking Table Tests on a Four-Story Reinforced Concrete Building," ACI Structural Journal, V. 112, No. 2, pp. 135-46, March-April 2015.
  37. Sun, W., Ghannoum, W.M., "Modeling of anchored CFRP strips bonded to concrete," Construction and Building Materials, V. 85, pp. 144-56, March 2015.