Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

[J4] Qureshi, R. K., Van Coile, R., Hop­kin, D., Ger­nay, T., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N. “Reli­a­bil­i­ty assess­ment of the US pre­scrip­tive stan­dard for steel columns under fire.” Struc­tures. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2022.04.049

[J3] Qureshi, R. K., Ni, S., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N., Van Coile, R., Hop­kin, D., Ger­nay, T. (2020) “Prob­a­bilis­tic mod­els for tem­per­a­ture depen­dent strength of steel and con­crete.” Jour­nal of Struc­tur­al Engi­neer­ing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943–541X.0002621

[J2] Qureshi, R. K., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N., Ger­nay, T. (2019). “Adap­tion of active bound­ary con­di­tions in struc­tur­al fire test­ing.” Jour­nal of Struc­tur­al Fire Engi­neer­ing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JSFE-12–2018-0042

[J1] Qureshi, R. K., Bruneau, M. (2019). “Behav­ior of steel plate shear walls sub­ject­ed to repeat­ed syn­thet­ic ground motions.” Jour­nal of Struc­tur­al Engi­neer­ing, 145(4), 04019008. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943–541X.0002281

Man­u­scripts under review

[JR1] Qureshi, R. K., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N., Siva­sel­van, M. “Devel­op­ing method­ol­o­gy for real-time hybrid sim­u­la­tion for inves­ti­gat­ing buck­ling of steel columns under fire.” Man­u­script sub­mit­ted to Jour­nal of Con­struc­tion­al Steel Research.

Man­u­scripts in Prepa­ra­tion

[JP2] Fer­dous, A., Qureshi, R. K., “State-of-the-art research sta­tus of exper­i­men­tal inves­ti­ga­tions and numer­i­cal mod­el­ling for mass tim­ber con­nec­tions under stan­dard fire expo­sure.” Man­u­script under prepa­ra­tion.

[JP1] Sadi­di, N., Sal­iu-Ahmad, A., Qureshi, R. K., “Sto­chas­tic mate­r­i­al mod­els for phys­i­cal and ther­mal prop­er­ties of tim­ber under ele­vat­ed tem­per­a­tures.” Man­u­script under prepa­ra­tion.

Refereed Conference Proceedings and Manuscripts

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[C4] Qureshi, R. K., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N., Siva­sel­van, M. “Devel­op­ing real-time hybrid sim­u­la­tion to cap­ture col­umn buck­ling in a steel frame under fire.” Pro­ceed­ings of the 11th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Struc­tures in Fire (SiF 2020), Bris­bane, Aus­tralia, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2020. Best Stu­dent Paper Award.

[C3] Qureshi, R. K., Van Coile, R., Hop­kin, D., Ger­nay, T., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N. “A prac­ti­cal tool for eval­u­at­ing fire induced fail­ure prob­a­bil­i­ty of steel columns designed based on US pre­scrip­tive stan­dards.” Pro­ceed­ings of the 11th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Struc­tures in Fire (SiF 2020), Bris­bane, Aus­tralia, Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2020. Best Stu­dent Pre­sen­ta­tion Award.

[C2] Qureshi, R. K., Ni, S., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N., Van Coile, R., Hop­kin, D., Ger­nay, T. (2019). “Effect of prob­a­bilis­tic strength reten­tion fac­tors for steel and con­crete on struc­tur­al reli­a­bil­i­ty of columns in fire.” Pro­ceed­ings of the 3rd Inter­na­tion­al Fire Safe­ty Sym­po­sium (IFireSS 2019), Ottawa, Cana­da, Jun. 5–7, 2019.

[C1] Qureshi, R. K., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N. (2018). “Instan­ta­neous stiff­ness cor­rec­tion for hybrid fire test­ing.” Pro­ceed­ings of the 10th Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Struc­tures in Fire (SiF 2018), Belfast, U.K., Jun. 6–8, 2018.

Accept­ed Con­fer­ence Abstracts

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Conference and Workshop Presentations without proceedings

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[P6] Qureshi, R. K., Ni, S., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N., Van Coile, R., Hop­kin, D., Ger­nay, T. “Prob­a­bilis­tic strength reten­tion fac­tors for steel and con­crete.” Engi­neer­ing Mechan­ics Insti­tute Conference/Probabilistic Mechan­ics and Reli­a­bil­i­ty 2021 Con­fer­ence, held vir­tu­al­ly via Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, New York City, May 25–28, 2021.

[P5] Qureshi, R. K., (2020) “Break­ing the wall of STEM learn­ing for Pak­istani girls,” Sci­ence Engage­ment track, Falling Walls Engage, Berlin, Nov. 8–9, 2020.

[P4] Qureshi, R. K. (2019) “STEM is for Every­one! — Inter­ac­tive Game-Based Learn­ing for increas­ing inter­est in Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy, Engi­neer­ing & Math­e­mat­ics (STEM) edu­ca­tion.” IFAC Advance­ment in Con­trol Edu­ca­tion (ACE’2019) Sym­po­sium, Philadel­phia, PA, Jul. 7–9, 2019.

[P3] Qureshi, R. K., Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N., Ger­nay, T. (2018) “Need of active bound­ary con­di­tions for fire test­ing.” Engi­neer­ing Mechan­ics Insti­tute Con­fer­ence, Boston, MA, May 29 – Jun. 1, 2018.

[P2] Qureshi, R. K. & Elha­mi-Kho­rasani, N. “Hybrid fire test­ing.” Poster pre­sent­ed at Dept. of Civ­il, Struc­tur­al and Envi­ron­men­tal Engi­neer­ing Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Poster Com­pe­ti­tion 2018, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo, Buf­fa­lo, NY, Apr. 5, 2018. Best Poster Award.

[P1] Qureshi, R. K. & Bruneau, M. “Para­met­ric eval­u­a­tion of steel plate shear walls sub­ject­ed to long dura­tion earth­quakes.” Poster pre­sent­ed at Women in STEM Sum­mit, Buf­fa­lo, NY, Apr. 11, 2017.

Technical Reports

[T1] Qureshi, R. K., Bruneau, M. (2017) “Behav­ior of steel plate shear walls sub­ject­ed to long dura­tion earth­quakes.” MCEER-17–0002, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo, Buf­fa­lo, New York.

Other Publications

[O3] Nameer­ah Hameed, Ram­la Qureshi, Tehreem Saifey Ford, Gun­jan Gau­tam (2020). “Pak­istan’s first-ever vir­tu­al job fair opens up oppor­tu­ni­ties for women in STEM.” World Bank Blogs: End Pover­ty in South Asia, Decem­ber 17, 2020. https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/endpovertyinsouthasia/pakistans-first-ever-virtual-job-fair-opens-opportunities-women-stem

[O2] Qureshi, R. K., Hameed, N. (2019). “Inspir­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of Pak­istani women lead­ers in STEM.” World Bank Blogs: End Pover­ty in South Asia, Novem­ber 05, 2019. https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/inspiring-new-generation-pakistani-women-leaders-stem

[O1] Qureshi, R. K. (2018). “Women in sci­ence.” The News Inter­na­tion­al, Feb. 11, 2018. https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/279449-women-in-science