Faculty Members

Education

• PhD (Civil Engineering), The University of Tokyo, Japan (2012)
• MSc (Civil Engineering), The University of Tokyo, Japan (2009)
• BSc (Civil Engineering), UET, Lahore (2004)

Profile

Field of Interest:

Design Ground Motion Synthesis, Sustainable Structures and Materials, Soil Structure Interaction, GIS and Health Monitoring of Structures

Research & Publications:

Journal Publications:

1- Usman Akmal, Nauman Khurram, Muhammad Ammar, Zahid A. Siddiqi, Tauqir Ahmed (2021), Investigation of brick alignment effect on compressive strength, International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation (IJMRI), Vol. 6, No. 3, 2021

2- Tauqir A. (2018) Detection of Anomalies for health monitoring of concrete structures using video data. NED University Journal of Research, ISSN: 2304-716X, Vol. Thematic Issue on Advances in Image and Video Processing, 9-16

3- Mubashir Aziz, Tanveer A. Khan and Tauqir A. (2017). Spatial interpolation of geotechnical data using Geographic Information System: A case study for Multan city, Pakistan. Geomechanics and Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 3, 475-488

4- Tahir Saleem, Tauqir A., Nauman Khurram, M. Irfan, Usman Akmal (2014). Evaluation of seismic safety considerations of Non-Engineered houses in Pakistan. Science international (Lahore), 27(1), 293-299

5- Farooq, M. U., Tauqir A., Akmal, U., Khurram, N. (2014). Utilization of non-ferrous recycled foundry sand as a partial replacement of fine aggregate in concrete. Science international (Lahore), 26(4), 1611-1615 

6- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2012): Effectiveness of mutual information to select appropriate indices for selection of design ground motions. International journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET). Vol. 4, No. 6, 689-692.

7- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2012): Performance of nonlinear response of structures as feature indices for the selection of design ground motions. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. A1, (Structural Engineering and Earthquake Engineering (SE/EE)), Vol. 68, No. 4, 54-66.

8- R. Honda and A. Tauqir (2011): Design input motion synthesis considering the effect of uncertainty in structural and seismic parameters by feature indices, Journal of Structural Engineering ASCE, Vol. 137, No. 3, 391–400. 

Conference Publications:

9- Choudhry, R. M., Rafiq, S., Ahmed, A., Tauqir A. (2018): Estimating Probabilistic Cost and Time Contingency for Residential Building Projects, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Civil, Structural and Transportation Engineering (ICCSTE'18) Niagara Falls, Canada, June 10-12, 2018 Paper No. 134, DOI: 10.11159/iccste18.134 

10- Tauqir A., Wain, R., Hassan, Z., Hussain, M., Ghaffor, A., Aziz, M.(2014) Effectiveness of base isolation system against mass eccentricity due to dynamic excitation, First international conference on structural dynamics and vibrations(ICSDV 2014), 18-19, Nov. 2014 

11- Saleem, T., Tauqir A., Irfan M., Akmal, U., Khurram, N.  (2014). Seismic safety considerations of non-engineered houses in Pakistan.  1st International Young Engineers Convention (FEIICIYEC-2014), 18-20April 2014 

12- Tauqir A. and R. Honda: Synthesis of design input motion to represent possible ground motions considering nonlinear response of structures. ICOSSAR 2013, 11th International conference on structural safety and reliability, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 16-20, 2013

13- Z. A. Kazmi, M. Irfan and Tauqir A. (2013): Seismic vulnerability evaluation of non-engineered structures in Pakistan – A statistical approach based on cumulative opinion of professionals--, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, 1-2 March 2013, PP. 1795 to 1801. 

14- Tauqir A. and R. Honda(2013): Synthesis of design input motion to represent possible ground motions considering nonlinear response of structures. ICOSSAR 2013, 11th International conference on structural safety and reliability, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 16-20, 2013

15- Tauqir A. (2012): Efficiency-evaluation of synthesized ground motion in context of sampling of set of possible ground motions. International symposium on earthquake engineering in conjunction with JAEE Annual meeting, Tokyo, Japan. 8-10 November 2012.

16- Tauqir A., Miyamoto T. and R. Honda (2012): Quantification of reliability of ground motion selection by using nonlinear response of structure as feature indices. 15th world conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. 24-28 Sep. 2012  

17- Miyamoto T., Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2012): Synthesis of design input motion reflecting information of possible ground motions. 15th world conference on Earthquake Engineering, Lisbon, PORTUGAL. 24-28 Sep. 2012     

18- M. Irfan, Tauqir A., and Z. A. Kazmi (2012): Evaluation of seismic concern in construction of non-engineered structures in Pakistan using cumulative opinion of professionals, Second international multidisciplinary conference – towards batter Pakistan, 24th, 25th September, 2012 

19- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2012): Enhancement of effectiveness of indices for design ground motion selection to consider nonlinear structural response. JSCE 14th International Summer Symposium in conjunction with JSCE 67th Annual Conference. Paper number CS4-10. (ISSN 1345-8507) 

20- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2012): Efficiency of design ground motions synthesized in iterative modification utilizing multiple indices associated with nonlinear response of structures. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (9th CUEE) and the 4th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering (4th ACEE). JAPAN. PP. 1605 to 1614 

21- Z. A. Kazmi, Tauqir A., U. Saleem and M. Irfan (2012): Evaluation of design and construction practices -- A lesson learnt from Kashmir earthquake --, International Symposium on Engineering Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great Japan Earthquake, JAPAN. PP. 1846 – 1857

22- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2011): Performance of nonlinear response of structures as feature indices for the selection of design ground motions. 31st  Conference on Earthquake Engineering, JSCE, JAPAN, Paper No. 1-143

23- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2011): Efficiency of design ground motion representing ground motions generated by fault model in terms of nonlinear response values. Proceedings of the seventh Japan conference on structural safety and reliability, Vol.7, Paper No. WA3-7A

24- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2011): Quantification of effectiveness of indices for selection of design ground motions by using mutual information. JSCE Annual Meeting 2011, Paper No. I-473

25- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2011): Stability of design ground motion synthesized by using nonlinear response based feature indices. Proceedings of the thirteenth international summer symposium August 26, 2011, Uji, Japan by JSCE PP.67-70 (ISSN 1345-8507)

26- Tauqir A. and R. Honda (2010): Performance of design input motions selected using feature indices to represent possible ground motions. Proceedings of the thirteenth Japan Earthquake Engineering Symposium. Paper No. GO30-Fri-AM-5, PP. 1965-1972

Book Chapters:

27- Tauqir A., Honda, R., (2013) Chapter 595. Efficiency-evaluation of synthesized ground motion to represent possible ground motions considering nonlinear response of structures. Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructures, Edited by George Deodatis , Bruce R . Ellingwood and Dan M . Frangopol , 2013 Taylor & Francis Group ISBN: 978-1-138-00086-5 

Research Projects:

28- Tauqir Ahmed, M. Aun Bashir and Mubashir Aziz, and (2017) Use of vehicle induced vibration to index the bridge performance, funded by research center, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University Riyadh KSA.  (Status: completed)

29- Mubashir Aziz and Tauqir Ahmed (2016) GIS mapping of geotechnical characteristics of soils in Saudi Arabia, funded by research center, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University Riyadh KSA. (Status: Completed)