Civil and Environmental Engineering
3580 Engineering Building
East Lansing, MI 48824

Phone: (517) 353-9813
E-Mail: kodur@egr.msu.edu
Web: http://www.egr.msu.edu

• Design of Steel Structures (CE 405)
• Advanced Design of Steel Structures (CE 805)
• Structural Fire Engineering (CE 808)
• Design of Concrete and Steel Structures (CE 336 - Queen's University)
• Prestressed Concrete (CE 436 - Queen's University)

• Modeling the response of high strength concrete columns exposed to fire, Portland Cement Association, National Science Foundation.
• Collaborative Research: Fire behavior and design of building floor systems, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Princeton University.
• Evaluating the fire performance of FRP strengthened reinforced concrete structural systems, National Science Foundation
• Collaborative Research: Fire behavior and design of building floor systems, National Science Foundation, Purdue University.
• Guidelines for the design of steel shear angle connections under fire hazard, National Science Foundation, Princeton University.
• Performance-based methodology for demonstrating the feasibility of unprotected steel in sprinklered buildings, American Institute of Steel Construction, National Science Foundation.
• Characterization of high temperature thermal and mechanical properties of construction materials, MSU Foundation, Underwriters Laboratory.
• Modeling the fire induced spalling and restraint effects in reinforced concrete beams, MSU (IRGP).

Dr. Kodur's research has focused on the experimental behavior and analytical modeling of structural systems under extreme fire conditions, constitutive modeling of material properties at elevated temperatures, developing guidelines for fire resistance design of structural systems, evaluating fire performance of high performing materials, performance based fire safety design, non-linear design and analysis of structures and building collapse investigations.

Queen's University at Kingston: Ph.D., Structural Engineering

Awards and Honors:

Selected Publications:

• Designing Steel Structures for Fire Safety, with J-M Franssen and R. Zaharia, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 162, ISBN 978-0-415-54828-1, 2009.
• Response of Restrained High Strength Concrete Beams Exposed to Design Fire Scenarios, with M. Dwaikat, in press, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, pp. 1-29, 2009.
• Response of Steel Beam-Columns Exposed to Fire, with M. M. S. Dwaikat, Engineering Structures, Vol. 31, Issue 2, Pages 369-379, February 2009.
• Hydro-thermal Model for Predicting Fire Induced Spalling in Concrete Structural Systems, with M. Dwaikat, Fire Safety Journal, V. 44, 425-434, 2009.
• High-temperature Properties of Concrete for Fire Resistance Modeling of Structures, with M. M. S. Dewikat and M. B. Dwaikat, ACI Materials Journal, V. 105, No. 5, pp. 517-527, 2009.
• Review of Post-earthquake Fire Hazard to Building Structures, with S. Mousavi and A. Bagchi, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, V. 39, pp. 689-698, 2008.
• Strategies for Improving the Performance of High-strength Concrete Columns Under Fire Hazard, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, V. 15, pp. 1-18, 2008.
• A Numerical Approach for Modeling the Fire Induced Restraint Effects in Reinforced Concrete Beams, with M. Dwaikat, Fire Safety Journal, 43(4) pp. 291-307, 2008.