Advanced Steel Structures

Biography

Dr. Fatimah De’nan is currently an Associate Professor for School Of Civil Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She pursued her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering – Steel Structures. Before joining the USM, she worked for consultant firm and had significant exposure to several field and design works. While being at the USM, she continues providing consultancy services especially in steel structures design and testing to the industries. Her main research interests are Steel Structure, Concrete Structure, Structural Analysis, Design and Testing, Finite Element Analysis, Non Uniform Steel Section Behavior and Thin Structure. Structural Engineering subjects taught includes Design of Steel and Timber Structures, Concrete and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Structural Engineering and Strength of Materials Laboratory, Reinforced Concrete Structural Design 1, Strength of Materials, Integrated Design Project, Dynamics and Stability of Structures, Principles of Structural Design, Advanced Structural Mechanics. Since 2011, she was appointed as a member of an academic panel (Engineering Division) for the Matriculation Programme, Ministry of Education, Malaysia. She is active in publishing papers for International Journals, Conferences and Seminars, and reviewing papers for International Journals and Conferences. Dr Fatimah actively involves in professional organizations such as Education Committee Member of Malaysian Structural Steel Association (MSSA), Member of Concrete Society of Malaysia (CSM), and Committee Member of Experimental Society of Malaysia. She received 4 International awards for her research products in 2011, 2012 and 2016. In National level, she had received 9 awards since 2012 until present for Open Ideas Steel competition by Malaysian structural Steel Association (MSSA). Other than that, she also actively involved in community service and had received a excellence achievement (one award for national level and 4 awards for university level) in community service in 2015 and 2016 from USM. She also has a copyright for her steel product, patent pending and several copyright ready to publish.

Research Interest

Steel Structure; Structural Analysis; Reinforced Concrete Structure; Non uniform steel section; Structural Design; Finite Element Analysis