Research

Zaid Momani

Zaid Momami is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Arlington. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Jordan in 2015. He received his Master’s degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Jordan in 2016. His graduation project was on designing an eight stories building based on ribbed slabs. The building included the designing of slabs, columns, beams, shear walls, earthquake-resistant designs, and foundations of the building. My Master’s thesis was on “Influence of Openings on Shear Walls Using the International Building Code (IBC)”.
He worked on special concrete mixes such as Ultra High Performance-Fiber Reinforced Concrete “UHP-FRC” in the first two semesters at the University of Texas at Arlington. He got experience in increasing the concrete compressive strength and its ductility by using special admixtures with appropriate steel fibres in specific amounts.
Currently, he is working on monitoring three MSE walls, two in Hurst and one in Fort Worth. He monitors the walls monthly using a total station machine “SX10 Scanner” because of their excessive movement. Based on the monthly scans data, it can deduce whether the walls are still moving or not. Monthly progress reports are submitted to TxDOT.