Nizar Lajnef
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3568
Biography
Dr. Nizar Lajnef is a Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His current research activities include sensors design for structural health and usage monitoring, damage detection algorithms with application to civil, mechanical and biomechanical structures, nano-watt and self-powered sensors, and smart materials and composites. He holds three patents in the area of sensor design and advanced materials. Dr. Lajnef is the author o
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Ph.D., Structural Engineering – Civil Engineering, Michigan State University 2008
M.S., Civil Engineering, Michigan State University 2008
M.S., Computational Mechanics, Tunisia Polytechnic Institute, Tunisia 2005
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Lilly Teaching Fellows Program, 04/2012 – 04/2013, “Visualization through Advanced Sensing Platforms as a Tool to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching of Structural Analysis”. Total: $14,000 (2013-2014)
Academy of Global Engagement Fellowship, 12/2013 – 12/2014 (2013-2014)
Best Paper award, ASME 2022 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (SMASIS2022)
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VKR Kodur, A Jha, N Lajnef (2024), Critical Egress Parameters Governing the Assisted Evacuation in Hospital Buildings, Fire, 7(3): 85.
H. Bolandi, G. Sreekumar, X. Li, N. Lajnef, V.N. Boddeti (2023). Physics Informed Neural Network for Dynamic Stress Prediction. Applied Intelligence (2023): 1-16.
M. Manosalvas-Paredes, K. Aono, S. Chakrabartty, J. Blanc, D. Lo Presti, K. Chatti, N. Lajnef (2023). Validation of a Novel Sensing Approach for Continuous Pavement Monitoring Using Full-Scale APT Testing. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements, 149(1), 04022062
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