Dr. Hussam N. Mahmoud

George T. Abell Professor in Infrastructure and Director, Structural Laboratory

The Socio-Physical and Hazard-Integrated Environment (SoPHIE) Research Group

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Dr. Mahmoud's research is on the effect of extreme demands on the response of the built environment and communities under single and multiple hazards in an era of climate change. The structural response analyses are used in human-centered models at a network level to capture the recovery of critical infrastructure and social institutions and devise optimal policy actions toward more sustainable and resilient communities.

About Dr. Hussam Mahmoud

Dr. Mahmoud's current research group is focused on establishing Socio-Physical and Hazard-Integrated Environments (SoPHIE) under the theme of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, focusing on establishing new frameworks for functionality recovery, performance-based design, and life-cycle analysis for the built environment and communities subjected to natural disasters and deterioration with considerations to climate change.

Dr. Mahmoud's research program has three major thrusts including - 1) assessing community resilience, 2) quantifying building response and life-cycle cost to extreme single and multiple hazards, and 3) evaluating, repairing, and estimating life-cycle cost of deteriorated infrastructure.

• The first thrust on community resilience pertains to spatial and temporal quantification of resilience of communities subjected to extreme natural hazards.



• The second thrust deals with assessment and development of resilient and sustainable structural systems (mainly steel structures) subjected to natural and man-made hazards including single and multi-hazards.



• The third thrust is assessment, evaluation, repair, and life-cycle assessment of deteriorated buildings infrastructure subjected to high cycle fatigue and services loads.

Dr. Hussam N. Mahmoud
Professor  •  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering  •  Colorado State University  •  Fort Collins, CO 80523-1372
Phone: 970-491-6605  •  Fax: 970-491-7727  •  Email: hussam.mahmoud@colostate.edu

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