School of Civil Engineering

Dr Anwar Orabi

Lecturer
School of Civil Engineering
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Researcher biography

Anwar joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland in mid 2023 as a lecturer in Fire Safety Engineering. His background is in Structural Fire Engineering, including numerical simulation for performance-based engineering, large-scale analysis of structures in fire, and application of AI and data science for real-time risk mitigation. Anwar has several years of teaching and academic experience in Hong Kong, where he managed and took part in keystone projects including SureFire: Smart Urban Resilience and Firefighting, and the Integrated Safety Engineering knowledge transfer initiative.

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (13)

Book Chapter

Orabi, Mhd Anwar, Nan, Zhuojun and Usmani, Asif (2024). Automation of Structural Fire Resistance Design. Intelligent Building Fire Safety and Smart Firefighting. (pp. 147-164) Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-48161-1_7

Journal Articles

Wang, Zhiruoyu, Orabi, Mhd Anwar, Nan, Zhuojun, Wang, Weiyong, Mason, Matthew and Lange, David (2023). The response of diagrid structures to fire. Fire Safety Journal, 141 103924. doi: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.103924
Nan, Zhuojun, Orabi, Mhd Anwar, Huang, Xinyan, Jiang, Yaqiang and Usmani, Asif (2023). Structural-fire responses forecasting via modular AI. Fire Safety Journal, 140 103863, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.103863
Chen, Cheng, Jiang, Liming, Qiu, Jin, Orabi, Mohamed Anwar, Chan, Wai Shan and Usmani, Asif (2022). OpenSees development for modelling timber structural members subjected to realistic fire impact. Fire and Materials, 47 (4), 461-478. doi: 10.1002/fam.3115
Cai, Xuesong, Jiang, Liming, Qiu, Jin, Orabi, M. Anwar, Yang, Chengyu, Lou, Guobiao, Khan, Mustesin, Yuan, Yong, Li, Guoqiang and Usmani, Asif (2022). Dual-3D hybrid fire simulation for modelling steel structures in fire with column failure. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 197 107511, 107511. doi: 10.1016/j.jcsr.2022.107511
Orabi, Mhd Anwar, Jiang, Liming, Huang, Xinyan and Usmani, Asif (2022). A Review on Structural Fire Tests of Two-Way Composite Floors. Fire Technology, 58 (5), 2533-2587. doi: 10.1007/s10694-022-01277-4
Orabi, Mhd Anwar, Qiu, Jin, Jiang, Liming and Usmani, Asif (2022). Modelling concrete slabs subjected to localised fire action with OpenSees. Journal of Structural Fire Engineering, 14 (1), 128-145. doi: 10.1108/jsfe-05-2021-0033
Qiu, Jin, Jiang, Liming, Orabi, Mhd Anwar, Usmani, Asif and Li, Guoqiang (2022). A computational approach for modelling composite slabs in fire within OpenSees framework. Engineering Structures, 255, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2022.113909
Orabi, Mhd Anwar, Jiang, Liming, Usmani, Asif and Torero, Jose (2022). The collapse of World Trade Center 7: revisited. Fire Technology. doi: 10.1007/s10694-022-01225-2
Orabi, Mhd Anwar, Khan, Aatif Ali, Jiang, Liming, Yarlagadda, Tejeswar, Torero, Jose and Usmani, Asif (2022). Integrated nonlinear structural simulation of composite buildings in fire. Engineering Structures, 252 113593, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2021.113593
AlHamaydeh, Mohammad and Anwar Orabi, M. (2021). Punching shear behavior of synthetic fiber-reinforced self-consolidating concrete flat slabs with gfrp bars. Journal of Composites for Construction, 25 (4), 1-16. doi: 10.1061/(asce)cc.1943-5614.0001131
AlHamaydeh, Mohammad and Orabi, Mhd Anwar (2021). Experimental quantification of punching shear capacity for large-scale GFRP-reinforced flat slabs made of synthetic fiber-reinforced self-compacting concrete dataset. Data in Brief, 37. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107196
Jiang, Liming, Orabi, M. Anwar, Jiang, Jian and Usmani, Asif (2021). Modelling concrete slabs subjected to fires using nonlinear layered shell elements and concrete damage-plasticity material. Engineering Structures, 234 111977, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2021.111977
Wang, Jie, Fajuyitan, O. Kunle, Orabi, M. Anwar, Rotter, J. Michael and Sadowski, Adam J. (2020). Cylindrical shells under uniform bending in the framework of Reference Resistance Design. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 166 105920. doi: 10.1016/j.jcsr.2019.105920

Areas of research

Fire Safety Engineering
Structural Engineering