Rafi Muhanna, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, Center for Reliable Engineering Computing
Contact
Office: PARB A221
Phone: 912-966-7931
Email: rafi.muhanna@gtsav.gatech.edu
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Research Thrusts
Structural Engineering
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Education
Ph.D., Higher Institute for Structure and Architecture, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1979
M.Sc., Higher Institute for Structure and Architecture, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1976
B.Sc., University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria, 1972
Research Interests
  • Computational solid and structural mechanics
  • Uncertainty modeling
  • Reliable engineering computing
  • Structural reliability
  • Finite elements

Dr. Muhanna’s research activity is in the general area of computational solid and structural mechanics that includes uncertainty modeling, structural reliability, computational reliability, shell theory, and optimization of masonry building materials in structural systems. This research activity has culminated in the development of new methods for reliable engineering computing, establishment of the Center for Reliable Engineering Computing (REC) at GT-Savannah, and organizing and hosting international NSF-sponsored workshops on reliable engineering computing during September 2004, February 2006, and February 2008. Dr. Muhanna has won a number of international prizes, among them: the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the largest architecture prize in the world (1992); the Golden Prize of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), for the best exposed patent at the International Fair of Damascus (1988); and the Special Prize of the United Nations HABITAT (1989).