QUT | Staff Profiles | Sabrina Fawzia

Name

Dr Sabrina Fawzia

Position(s)

Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Discipline *

Civil Engineering

Phone

+61 7 3138 1012

Email

sabrina.fawzia@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

Qualifications

PhD(CivilEng) (Monash University)

Professional memberships and associations

Engineers Australia
Engineer’s Institution of Bangladesh (IEB)
Member of International Institute for FRP in Construction

Keywords

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), Steel structure, Structural health monitoring, Finite element model, Structural strengthening and rehabilitation, Disaster mitigation of structures,, Impact and energy absorption of structures, Seismic response of structures, Microstructure modelling

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Dr Sabrina Fawzia is a structural engineering expert at QUT. Her research focuses on development of the high performance structural members and structural strengthening/ retrofitting by using Carbon Fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) material technology. Through her scholarly, innovative, high quality research she has established her national and international standing. Dr Fawzia’s excellence in research has been demonstrated by high quality refereed publications (100+ publications, 2000+ citations, h-index=23 Google Scholar), two ARC LIEF grants ($1.9M), two international grants ($143K), five QUT internal grants ($79K), QUT’s Science and Engineering Faculty award and Civil Engineering school award for Excellence in postgraduate research supervision, ten PhD’s and three Master’s by research completions, being invited by reputed universities for seminars and the establishment of national and international collaborative research relationships.

Research interests Dr Fawzia’s research interests include

Retrofitting and strengthening of structures by using Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite
Innovative material for structural engineering application
Structural health monitoring of building and bridges
Microstructural modelling

Research projects Dr Fawzia is the investigator of following research projects at QUT:

Hybrid high performance structural column optimized for axial compressive (concentric and eccentric) loading
Behaviour of carbon fiber reinforced polymer strengthened steel tubular columns subjected to transverse impact loading
Seismic Response of Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) strengthened Structures
Strengthening of Timber structure by using Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) strengthening
Identifying the prestressed force of the prestressed concrete bridges using non-destructive technologies
Environmental durability study of Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) strengthened steel structures under different kind of loading
Behaviour of interfaces of multilayer composite runway pavement under impact loading
Implementation of lean construction management practices in Saudi Arabian construction industry
Structural health monitoring of steel structures using acoustic emission technique

Grants, awards and recognition

AUS$1.4M, ARC LIEF18- New generation facility for impact testing
AUS$549K, ARC LIEF16- National drop weight impact testing facility
AUS $84K PNG Unitech research grant
AUS$ 59K University of Jaffna research grant
AUS $5K On prime CSIRO grant
AUS$22K, QUT internal Seed funding since
AUS $10K Women in research grant (WIR) from QUT
AUS$10K, Science and Engineering overall Faculty Award for Outstanding Supervision of HDR students
AUS$22K, Major equipment grant
AUS $15K, QUT ECARD grant: CFRP Strengthened Thin-walled RHS Subjected to Axial Compression

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Dr Fawzia has been actively engaged in engineering education and learning. She has taught civil and structural engineering, construction engineering and construction and project management units.

Teaching Areas:

Introductory Structural Engineering
Project Engineering
Design and Construction of Multi-storey Buildings
Construction Engineering

Current Units at QUT:

Principles of Construction
Designing Structures
Project Value and Innovation
Research Thesis Units – Thesis Supervisor Teaching Areas

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Dr Fawzia’s research and scholarship are strategically focused around three important research areas:

Carbon fibre reinforce polymer strengthening
Innovative material for structural engineering application
Structural health monitoring
Microstructural modelling.

Her performance in these areas are demonstrated by the quality and citations of her publications, the awards and grants she has received, the number of invitations that she received to review articles for different high-calibre journals. She has also received several invitations from external universities to act as an examiner of higher degree research (HDR) student theses. In the process of achieving this level of excellence, gaining substantial national and international recognition, and becoming a world known in these areas, she has actively engaged in strategic partnerships at both national and international levels with various research organisations and teams, and has been in close liaison with industry. She is regularly publishing in high impact journals and she has participated in and secured research funding from Australian research center.

Academic reviewer: Dr Fawzia is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Grants Reviewer, and also reviewer of several key Q1 academic journals, including:

Composite Structures
Engineering Structures
Materials and Structures
Construction and Building Materials
Journal of Composites for Construction.

This information has been contributed by Dr Sabrina Fawzia.

Awards and recognition

Type: Funding Award
Reference year: 2017
Details: CSIRO On PRIME grant $5,000 in 2016 (QUT awarded)for research commercialization

Type: Assessor, Examiner or Supervisor Role
Reference year: 2016
Details: I am acting as Australian Research Council (ARC) assessor for ARC discovery and ARC DECRA applications. I am also acting as academic Journal reviewer of Composite structures, Engineering structures, Journal of composites for construction, Advances in structural engineering: an international journal and Australian Journal of structural engineering. I supervise 6 PhD student in QUT and 1 PhD student from University of Moratuwa.

Type: Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
Reference year: 2014
Details: QUT STEM Award $1000 in 2014 for Outstanding Supervision of Higher degree research students

Dr Sabrina Fawzia

Awards and recognition

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)