Mohammad Jonaidi
Dr. Jonaidi is working in the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering at
Kennesaw State University, where he has been a faculty member since Fall 2016. Prior
to joining the department full-time, he taught as an adjunct professor beginning in
Spring 2011.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1998. After graduation, he continued his research at the University of Sydney (as a posdoctor/ Research associate) before joining Taylor Thomson Whitting (TTW), a consulting engineering firm in Sydney, in 2000. He then moved to the U.S. in 2004 and worked as Chief Engineer/Technical Director at Tendon Systems/Trillium Structures, an engineering company in Suwanee, Georgia, from November 2004 until July 2016.
By May 2025, Dr. Jonaidi will have 40 years of industrial and academic experience in the field of structural engineering, 18 of which have been dedicated to teaching and research. He has taught Civil Engineering courses at various universities in Tehran, Sydney, and Atlanta.
For more information, please visit the research webpage.
During his research and professional career, Dr. Jonaidi has been involved in the analysis and design of complex structural projects, including: modeling and analysis of high-rise buildings, analysis and design of steel structures, floor vibration analysis for concrete slabs and pedestrian bridges, serviceability vibration analysis of high-rise buildings under wind effects, earthquake engineering, and design of post-tensioned concrete structures. He has also used Finite Element Analysis for: nonlinear and buckling analysis of silos and thin-walled members, temperature effects on concrete slabs, industrial concrete pavements, analysis of long-span spatial steel structures, analysis of glazing facades, and more. Furthermore, Dr. Jonaidi has experience with: below-grade shoring walls using soil nails and ground post-tensioned anchors, retrofit of concrete structures using Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP), and strengthening structures to resist progressive collapse.
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