College of Engineering

Faculty - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Habib Dagher

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Contact Information

Phone:
581-2138

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Orono, ME 04469

Prof. Dagher received his Doctorate degree in structural engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. He also holds two Masters Degrees in Structural Engineering and in Engineering Mechanics. He is Professor of Civil/Structural Engineering at the University of Maine, and Director of the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center.

Education

Ph.D., Structural Engineering; University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1985; P.E. - M.S., Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984 - M.S., Structural Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982 - B.S., Civil Engineering, University of

Research interests

He has designed and analyzed and maintained numerous bridges, fourteen of which are in Maine.  He has been a consultant to the Maine Department of Transportation for 12 years and has taught courses to their bridge engineers.   He has conducted many technical projects for the Federal Highway Administration, and has served on many national bridge technical panels.   He has helped develop design criteria for bridges that are now in place in the State of Maine.   He is frequently called upon nationally and internationally to consult on matters of bridge design.  He has consulted on numerous bridge projects some with lengths exceeding 450 ft.  Some of Dr. Dagher's bridge projects may be viewed on the following Web site address: www.aewc.umaine.edu.  

Publications

• Las Vegas, NV, September 27-29, 2000. Winner: Best Technical Paper
• Award. "Experimental and Numerical Study on Creep of FRP Reinforced Glulam Beams," Proceedings, 1st Rilem Symposium on Timber Engineering, Sweden, September 13-15, 1999. pp. 581-590 (with Davids, W. and Breton, J.)
• "FRP Reinforced Wood in Bridge Applications," Proceedings, 1st Rilem Symposium on Timber Engineering, Sweden, September 13-15, 1999. pp. 591-598 (with Lindyberg, R.)
• "Durability of FRP Reinforcement for Wood," Proceedings, 1999 International Composites Expo, Cincinnati, OH, May 10-12, 1999. Session 22-C (with Abdel-Magid, B.; Battles, E.; Iqbal, M.)
• "West Seboeis Stream FRP-Glulam Highway Bridge," Proceedings, 1999 International Composites Expo, Cincinnati, OH, May 10-12, 1999. Session 25-D (with Lindyberg, R.)
• "Probabilistic Nonlinear Computer Model for Reinforced Glulams," Proceedings, 1999 Structures Congress, New Orleans, LA., April 18-21, 1999. pp. 683-687 (with Lindyberg, R.)
• "Ultimate Strenth of FRP-Reinforced Glulam Beams Made with Douglas-Fir and Eastern Hemlock," Proceedings, International Composites Expo '98, Nashville, Tennessee, Jan. 19-22, 1998. Session 22-C (with S. Shaler, J. Poulin, b. Abdel-Magid, W. Tjoelker and B. Yeh)
• "Center for Advanced Wood Composites in Construction: Research and Demonstration Projects," Proceedings, International Composites Expo '98, Nashville, Tennessee, Jan. 19-22, 1998. Session 22-D (with S. Shaler, B. Abdel-Magid and E. Landis)
• "Creep Behavior of FRP-Reinforced Glulam Beams," Proceedings, International Composites Expo '98, Nashville, Tennessee, January 19-22, 1998. Session 22-E
• "FRP Post-Tensioning of Laminated Timber Bridges," Proceedings, International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition, Held in Anaheim, California, May 4-8. 1997. (with Abdel-Magid, B.; Ritter, M. and S. Iyer)
• "GRP Prestressing of Wood Decks," Proceedings, ASCE Structures Congress XV, held in Portland, Oregon, April 13-16, 1997. Vol. I, pp. 585-589 (with Abdel-Magid, B.; Ritter, M. and S. Iyer)
• "NDE and Performance Monitoring of FRP-Wood Hybrid Structures," Proceedings, ASCE Structures Congress XV, held in Portland, Oregon, April 13-16, 1997.
• "Stress-Laminated Timber Decks using Glass FRP Tendons," Proceedings, Fourth ASCE Materials Engineering Conference, held in Washington, D.C., November 10-14, 1996. (with Abdel-Magid, B.; Ritter, M. and S. Iyer)
• "Effect of FRP reinforcement on low-grade eastern hemlock glulams." Proceedings, 1996 National Conference on Wood Transportation Structures, Madison, Wisc. (with Kimball, T.; Abdel-Magid, B.; and Shaler, S.)
• "MPC Wood Truss Bridges," Wood Design Focus, 1996.
• "Nonlinear FE Analysis of RC Skewed Slab Bridges," ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol 121, No. 9. pp 1338-1345, 1995 (with J. Kankam).
• "The Effect of Composite Reinforcement on Structural Wood," Proceedings - ASCE 1994 Materials Engineering Conference, Infrastructure: New materials and methods for repair, San Diego, California, Nov. 14-16. (with B. Abdel-Magid, and T. Kimball)

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