Dr Muhammad Rahman received his PhD from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland. He is an active researcher with a significant number of papers in peer-reviewed Q1 journals. He has a wide range of research interests, both of a fundamental and applied nature, particularly in the areas of energy, retrofitting buildings, sustainable construction materials, computational structural mechanics, composite materials, water & wastewater treatment and slope stabilization. Before his current appointment at Northumbria University UK, he served as a faculty member, Head of Department and Head of Materials & Structures Research Cluster at Curtin University, Malaysia. He received eleven external grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia and industry. Under his supervision, 7 PhD and 3 MPhil students completed their studies successfully. He also supervised one post-doctoral research fellow. Currently, he is supervising two PhD students. He was awarded the IMM Green Materials Award from the Institute of Materials Malaysia. He also served the industry in Dublin, Ireland for two and half years in the field of design and assessment of infrastructure elements and has supervised junior engineers. He has also worked as a part-time lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland for one and half years.
He is a Fellow & Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers (CPEng) Australia, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE) in the UK and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. He is a member of the Nature group's scientific reports editorial board. He has also served as a technical reviewer for several journals in the field of civil engineering. In addition, he also served as an external grant reviewer and external reviewer for the PhD thesis and organised several international conferences.
Sustainable Construction Materials, Composite Materials, Computational Structural Mechanics, Slope Stabilization, Water & Wastewater Treatment and Energy.
Thushanthan Kannan Formulation of high-strength lightweight aggregates using renewable sewage sludge Start Date: 01/10/2023
PhD:
1. Brabha Hari Nagaratnam; (Completed in 2016); Thesis Title: Experimental Studies on Self-Compacting Concrete Mixed With Palm Oil Fuel Ash and Fly Ash.
2. BalajiPalaniSelvaraj, (Completed in 2017); Thesis Title: An Analytical and Experimental Study on Wire Rope Isolators for Vibration Isolation Equipment and Structures.
3. Omid Nabinejad, (Completed in 2017); Thesis Title: Mechanical Performance and Thermal Stability of Natural Fiber Composite Using Palm Oil Biomass.
4. Wan NurFirdausBinti Wan Hassan (Completed in 2019); Thesis Title: Mix Design Optimisation and Durability Study of High Performance Concrete Containing Micro and Nano Palm Oil Fuel Ash.
5. Timothy Ting (Completed in 2019); Thesis Title: An Experimental and Numerical Study of Axially Loaded Lightweight Concrete Wall Panel.
6. Michelle Tiong; (Completed in 2019); Thesis Title: Enhancing the Wellbore Integrity in High Pressure High Temperature CO2 Sequestrated Reservoirs by Developing a New Class of Portland Cement using Nano Materials.
7. Matthew Ting (Completed in 2021); Thesis Title: Strength and durability behaviour of fibrereinforced concrete incorporating industrial waste, marine sand and seawater.
8. Sarder Mohammad Yahya (In Progress); Thesis Title: A mathematical model for high-strength cold-formed steel screwed connection under cyclic loading.
9. Alex Mcintosh (Completed 2022); Thesis Title: Web crippling of cold-formed carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminium channels: Investigation and design.
10. Kajaharan Thirunavukkarasu (Started) Co-supervisor: Structural performance of built-up cold formed steel beams subject to web crippling action.
MPhil:
1. Sadia Tasnim(Completed in 2017); Thesis Title: Modified Cement Paste using Ultrafine-POFA under Aggressive Ammonium Nitrate Condition.
2. Ting Yuk Shyh (Completed in 2018); Thesis Title: Polycal Wire Rope Vibration Isolator for Industrial Equipment – An Analytical and Experimental Study.
3. Nor Hashimah bt. Mohamad Zain, (Completed in 2019); Thesis Title: Utilization of Agro-Industrial Waste in Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite (MMC).
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