ghazi abedelfattah abu-farsakh
• Civil Engineering - Faculty Member

  • Ph.D. of Civil Engineering from University of London, 1984
  • Bsc. of Civil Engineering from Ain Ahams University, 1978

    Publications
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "A New Failure Criterion for Nonlinear Composite Materials," Journal of Composites Technology & Research (ASTM), vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 138-145, 1994
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Letter to the Editor on: A micro-mechanical model for predicting the compressive strength of fibrous composite materials," Composites Science & Technology, vol. 58, no. 1-2, pp. 1985-1986, 1998
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Determination of the Reference-Axes for Bimodulus Cross-Ply Fibrous Composite Plates," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 131-137, 1998
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "An Alternative Model for Nonlinear Stress-Strain Behavior of Composite Materials," Materials Science, vol. 24, no. -, pp. 4009-4023, 1989
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "A Modified Triangular Element for Plate and Shell Analysis," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-18, 1990
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Global and Sub-Domain Smoothing of Stresses in Finite Elements," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 213-220, 1994
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "New Material Models for Nonlinear Stress-Strain Behavior of Composite Materials," Composites, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 349-360, 1989
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Crack Propagation in Laminated Fibrous Composite Plates Using Finite Element Method," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 15-22, 1996
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Effect of material nonlinearity in unidirectional composites on the behavior of beam structures," International Journal of Solids and Strutures, vol. 37, no. -, pp. 2673-2694, 2000
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "An improved Ten-Node Flat Shell Element and Performance Studies," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 43-53, 1991
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Modes of Failure of Fibrous Composite Materials as Affected by the Orientation Angle of Fiber," Journal of Composites Technology & Research (ASTM), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 90-98, 1995
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Vibration Analysis of Multi-Layered Composite Thin Plates and Shells," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 137-143, 1996
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "A macr-mechanical damage model of fibrous laminated composites," Applied Composite Materials, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 99-119, 1999
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "The use of an energy-based criterion to determine optimum configurations of fibrous composites," Composites Science & Technology, vol. 59, no. -, pp. 1891-1899, 1999
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Moment and deflection redistributions in composite plates subjected to transverse loading," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 487-498, 2007
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Buckling of Glass Reinforced Plastic Cylindrical Shells Under Combined Axial Compression and External Pressure," AIAA Journal, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1946-1951, 1985
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Experimental Buckling of GRP Cylindrical Shells," Experimental Mechanics (SEM), vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1-9, 1987
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Effect of welding on lateral-torsional buckling resistance of I-shaped built-up sections," JUST-JJCE (Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering), vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 295-313, 2009
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "New Triangular Finite Element for Plates and Shells," Engineering Computations, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 149-160, 1987
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "A New Triangular Finite Element for the Analysis of Free Vibration of Plates," The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis (SEM), vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 136-143, 1987
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "A Bimodular Material Model for Orthotropic Composite Thin Plates," Journal of Composites Technology & Research (ASTM), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 31-36, 1991
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "A micro-mechanical model for predicting the compressive strength of fibrous composite materials," Composites Science & Technology, vol. 58, no. 9-10, pp. 1415-1422, 1997
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Mico-mechanical charachterization of tensile strength of fiber composite materials," Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures, vol. 7, no. -, pp. 1-18, 2000
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Lateral Load Response of High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints," Construction and Building Materials, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 500-508, 2005
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "A composite finite element to predict failure progress in composite laminates accounting for nonlinear material properties," Structural Control and Health Monitoring (to be published), vol. -, no. -, pp. 0-1, 2011
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Retrofitting of reinforced concrete beams using composite laminates," Construction and Building Materials, vol. 25, no. -, pp. 591-597, 2011
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "Retrofitting of reinforced concrete beams using composite laminates," Construction and Building Materials, vol. 25, no. -, pp. 591-597, 2011
  • Abu-Farsakh, G.A.R. and Lusher J.K. , "Buckling of Glass Reinforced Plastic Cylindrical Shells Under Combined Axial Compression and External Pressure," AIAA Journal, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1946-1951, 1985
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. , "Experimental Buckling of GRP Cylindrical Shells ," Experimental Mechanics (SEM), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 1-9, 1987
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. , "New Triangular Finite Element for Plates and Shells ," Engineering Computations , vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 149-160, 1987
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. , and Khader, N. , "A New Triangular Finite Element for the Analysis of Free Vibration of Plates ," The International Journal of Analytical and Experimental Modal Analysis (SEM), vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 136-143, 1987
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. , "New Material Models for Nonlinear Stress-Strain Behavior of Composite Materials ," Composites , vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 349-360, 1989
  • Abu-Farsakh, G., "An Alternative Model for Nonlinear Stress-Strain Behavior of Composite Materials ," Materials Science , vol. 24, no. , pp. 4009-4023, 1989
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. , "A Modified Triangular Element for Plate and Shell Analysis ," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1-18, 1990
  • Khader, N.A., and Abu-Farsakh G. , "A Triangular Shell Element for Vibration of Cambered and Twisted Fan Blades," Finite Elements In Analysis and Design, vol. 6, no. , pp. 287-301, 1990
  • Abu-Farsakh, G.A., and Al-Zebdeh, Kh. , "An improved Ten-Node Flat Shell Element and Performance Studies ," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 43-53, 1991
  • Abu-Farsakh, G.A. , "A Bimodular Material Model for Orthotropic Composite Thin Plates ," Journal of Composites Technology & Research (ASTM), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 31-36, 1991
  • Abu-Farsakh, G.A. and Sheikh Qasem, "Global and Sub-Domain Smoothing of Stresses in Finite Elements ," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 213-220, 1994
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., and Abdel-Jawad,, "A New Failure Criterion for Nonlinear Composite Materials ," Journal of Composites Technology & Research (ASTM), vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 138-145, 1994
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., and Qatu, M. S. , "A Triangular Con­forming Element for Laminated Shells ," Thin-Walled Structures, vol. 21, no. , pp. 31-42, 1995
  • Abu-Farsakh, G.A., and Abdel-Jawad, "Modes of Failure of Fibrous Composite Materials as Affected by the Orientation Angle of Fiber ," Journal of Composites Technology & Research (ASTM), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 90-98, 1995
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., and Husein, N. M. , "Crack Propagation in Laminated Fibrous Composite Plates Using Finite Element Method ," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 15-22, 1996
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., and Khader, N. , "Vibration Analysis of Multi-Layered Composite Thin Plates and Shells," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 137-143, 1996
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., Numayr, K. S. and Hamad, Kh. A. , "A micro-mechanical model for predicting the compressive strength of fibrous composite materials ," Composites Science & Technology, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 1415-1422, 1997
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A. , "Letter to the Editor on: A micro-mechanical model for predicting the compressive strength of fibrous composite materials ," Composites Science & Technology, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 1985-1985, 1997
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., and Abdel-Jawad, Y.A. , "Determination of the Reference-axes for bimodulus cross-ply fibrous composite plates ," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 131-137, 1998
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., Barakat, S. A. and Abed, "A macr-mechanical damage model of fibrous laminated composites," Applied Composite Materials, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 99-119, 1999
  • Barakat, S. A., and Abu-Farsakh, G. A. , "The use of an energy-based criterion to determine optimum configurations of fibrous composites ," Composites Science & Technology, vol. 59, no. , pp. 1891-1899, 1999
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., Barakat, S. A., and Al-Zoubi, "Effect of material nonlinearity in unidirectional composites on the behavior of beam structures ," International Journal of Solids and Strutures, vol. 37, no. , pp. 2673-2694, 2000
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., Abdel-Jawad, Y. A., and Al-Abhari, "Prediction of failure of Laminated Fibrous Composite Materials ," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT), vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 183-189, 2002
  • MJ Shannag, N. Abu-Dyya, G. Abu-Farsakh, "Lateral Load Response of High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints," Construction and Building Materials, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 500-508, 2005
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A. and Abu-Alrub, R. K., "Moment and deflection redistributions in composite plates subjected to transverse loading ," Journal of Structural Engineering (IIT) , vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 487-498, 2007
  • Abdalla, K. M., Abu-Farsakh, G. A. R. and Barakat, "Behavior of extended end-plate steel beam-to-column connections," Steel and Composite Structures, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 87-103, 2007
  • Shannag, MJ. Abu-Farsakh, G. and Abu-Dyya, "Modeling the cyclic response of fiber reinforced concrete joints," Engineering Structures , vol. 29, no. , pp. 2960-2967, 2007
  • Younes, R. M., Abu-Farsakh, G. and Hunaiti, Y. M., "Effect of welding on lateral-torsional buckling resistance of I-shaped built-up sections," Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering (JJCE), vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 295-313, 2009
  • Obaidat, Y. T., Heyden S., Dahlblom, O., Abu-Farsakh, G. and Abdel-Jawad, Y. , "Retrofitting of reinforced concrete beams using composite laminates," Construction and Building Materials, vol. 25, no. , pp. 591-597, 2011
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. and Almasri, "A composite finite element to predict failure progress in composite laminates accounting for nonlinear material properties," Structural Control and Health Monitoring, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 752-768, 2011
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., "Effect of shear stresses on failure of fibrous composite materials accounting for nonlinear material behavior," JJCE (Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering), vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 419-439, 2013
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. and Almasri A. and Qa'dan, D. , "Stress concentration around a central hole as affected by material nonlinearity in fibrous composite laminated plates subject to in-plane loading," Science and Engineering of Composite Materials (SECM), vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 31-36, 2015
  • Abu-Farsakh, Ghazi A. F. R., "A nonlinear material model for fibrous composite materials and its effect on in-plane lamina stresses," Global Journal on Advances in Pure & Applied Sciences [Online] (GC-MAS-2014), vol. 6, no. , pp. 24-30, 2015
  • Ghazi A. Abu-Farsakh, "A Binary Model for Estimating the Remaining Life of a Cracked Pavement Element," TRB 73 Annual Meeting, 1994, pp. 0-0
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A. F., and Resheidat, M. R. , "Experimental Determination of the Geometric Imperfections Related to Buckling of GRP-Cylindrical Shells," Conference on Experimental Mechanics, Las Vegas , Nevada, Jun 1985, pp. 508-514
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A. F. , "A Modified Ten-Noded Triangular Finite Element for Coarse Mesh Divisions ," Twelfth International Congress for Statistics, Computer Science Social and Demographic Research, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Mar 1987, pp. 387-416
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A. F., and Issa , S.M. , "Computer Aided-Design of Steel Structures ," First Alexandria Conference on Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Dec 1990, pp. 813-826
  • Abu-Farsakh , G.A.F. and Abdel-Jawad Y.A., "Prediction of Failure Modes of Fibrous Composite Materials ," Ninth International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-9), Madrid -Spain, Jul 1993, pp. 129-136
  • . Abu-Farsakh, G. A., Abdel-Jawad, Y. A., and Al-Abhari, K. O., "Prediction of Failure of Laminated Fibrous Composite Materials ," Second International Conference on Composites Engineering, New Orleans LA, U.S.A, Aug 1995, pp. 1-3
  • . Abu-Farsakh, G. A. and Abu-Alrub, R. K. , "Effect of Material Nonlinear Behavior of Fibrous Composites on Bending of Plates," Ninth Arab Structural Engineering Conference (9ASEC), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Nov 2003, pp. 565-574
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., and Almasri, A. H. , "Effect of Material Nonlinearity on Failure of Laminated Fibrous Composite Shells Using Finite Element Method ," . Seventh international Conference on Concrete Technology in Developing Countries (7th ICCT): Modeling and Numerical Methods for Concrete Materials Proceedings, KualaLumpur, Malyasia, Oct 2004, pp. 63-75
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A., Hunati, Y. and Qadan, "Buckling of Steel Portal Frames Considering Material Nonlinearity: An Experimental Study," 10th Arab Structural Engineering Conference, Kuwait, Nov 2006, pp. 645-655
  • Abu-Farsakh, G. A. and Almasri, A. H. , "A Composite Finite Element to Predict Failure Progress in Composite Laminates: Comparison with Theories and Test Results," International Symposium on Aircraft Materials (ACMA-2010): Damage and Fatigue Diagnostics, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2010, pp. 22-30
  • Ghazi Abedelfattah Rasheed Abu-Farsakh, Yasmeen Taleb Mufleh Obeidat, Haitham Moh'D Moh'D Al-Harahsheh
    21/11/2023
  • Ghazi Abedelfattah Rasheed Abu-Farsakh, Ibrahim Nassem Mustafa Odeh
    12/05/2023
  • Ghazi Abedelfattah Rasheed Abu-Farsakh, Ahmad Mohammad Ahmad Asfa
    31/03/2020
  • Ghazi Abedelfattah Rasheed Abu-Farsakh, Haitham Mohammad Amin Al-Jarrah
    13/08/2018
  • Ghazi Abedelfattah Rasheed Abu-Farsakh, Ahmad Mohammad Ahmad Asfa
    09/01/2018
  • Deputy Head of Department, Civil Engineering, Sep 1992 - Sep 1993
  • Faculty Member, Civil Engineering, Sep 1986 - Present
  • Faculty Member, Yarmouk University, Feb 1984 - Sep 1986
  • Dean of Engineering, Jarash Private University, Jordan, Oct 2011- Oct 2012
  • Visiting Professor, Al-Isra Private University, Jordan, Sep 2006- Sep 2007
  • Visiting Professor, Jordan University, Jordan, Sep 1997- Sep 1998
  • Visiting Assiociate Professor-Acting chairman of Civil and Architecture Engineering, Al-Isra Private University, Jordan, Sep 1993- Sep 1994
  • Site Engineer, Al-Hani Company , Kewait, Jun 1978- Aug 1979
  • ADVANCED STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
  • ADVANCED STRUTURAL STEEL DESIGN
  • MATRIX ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES
  • MECHANICS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS
  • SPECIAL TOPICS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
  • SPECIAL TOPICS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING**
  • STATICS
  • STEEL DESIGN
  • STRUCTURAL STABILITY
  • Structurl Steel Design
  • Plastic Design of Steel Structures
  • Advanced Mechanics of Materials
  • Statics
  • Strength of Materials
  • Structure Analysis-I
  • Strucure Analysis-II