Prof. Andrzej S. Nowak

Department of Civil Engineering

Auburn University, USA

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1975 Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Politechnika Warszawska, Warsaw, Poland

1970 M.S. in Structural Engineering, Politechnika Warszawska, Warsaw, Poland

Publications (Selected)

1. Ghasemi, S. H., Nowak, A. S., & Nazari, R. (2025, April). Analyzing reliability missteps: The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge—Target reliability, redundancy, and extreme load combinations. In Structures (Vol. 74, p. 108590). Elsevier.
2. Aguilar, V., Nowak, A. S., & Anderson, J. B. (2025). History of transition from allowable stress design to load and resistance factor design and beyond. Transportation Research Record, 2679(1), 544-555.
3. Safari, M., Ghasemi, S. H., & Nowak, A. S. (2024). Performance-based target reliability analysis of offshore wind turbine mooring lines subjected to the wind and wave. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 77, 103673.
4. Ghasemi, S. H., Lee, J. Y., & Nowak, A. S. (2024, April). A new generation of DCR by introducing reliability-survivability safety measure. In Structures (Vol. 62, p. 106154). Elsevier.
5. Kaszynska, M., & Nowak, A. S. (2024). Effect of Material Quality on Life-Time Performance of Concrete Structures. In Life-Cycle Performance of Deteriorating Structures: Assessment, Design and Management (pp. 141-147).
6. Stawska, S., Chmielewski, J., Nowak, A. S., & Stallings, M. (2023). Bridge life consumption by permit vehicles. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 19(10), 1378-1390.
7. Skibicki, S., Zieliński, A., Aguilar, V., Hurtado, P. E., Kaszyńska, M., & Nowak, A. (2023). Optimization of a temporary road traffic steel barrier using explicit finite element method and laboratory testing. Engineering Structures, 291, 116463.
8. Lutomirski, T. A., Nowak, A. S., & Lutomirska, M. (2022). Strength reduction factor for circular reinforced concrete columns. ACI Structural Journal, 119(4), 303-310.
9. Soltani, M. H., Ghasemi, S. H., Soltani, A., Lee, J. Y., Nowak, A. S., & Jalilkhani, M. (2022). State-of-the-art reliability analysis of structural drift control corresponding to the critical excitations. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 26(7), 3300-3316.
10. Norouzi, Y., Ghasemi, S. H., Nowak, A. S., Jalayer, M., Mehta, Y., & Chmielewski, J. (2022). Performance-based design of asphalt pavements concerning the reliability analysis. Construction and Building Materials, 332, 127393.
11. Abedin, M., Mehrabi, A. B., Azizinamini, A., Ghosn, M., Nowak, A. S., & Babu, A. R. (2022). Reliability evaluation of twin steel box girder bridges using a simplified method. Engineering Structures, 259, 114122.
12. Aguilar, V., Barnes, R. W., & Nowak, A. (2022). Strength reduction factors for ACI 318 strut-and-tie method for deep beams. ACI Structural Journal, 119(2), 103-112.
13. Nowak, A., Pipinato, A., & Stawska, S. (2022). Loads on bridges. In Innovative bridge design handbook (pp. 21-45). Butterworth-Heinemann.

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