Professor Mohamed Saafi

Professor

Research Overview

Mohamed Saafi, Professor and Chair in Structural Integrity and Materials. His research focuses on the development of Functional Materials and Smart Sensors for Energy and Civil Infrastructure. He developed several structural integrity monitoring tools using MEMS, graphene and carbon nanotubes. Professor Saafi is currently conducting research activities in the following areas:

  • Functional Materials for Demanding Environments
  • Smart Materials for Energy and Civil Infrastructure
  • Durability of Cementitious Materials
  • Structural Health Monitonitoring using Smart Sensors
  • Bridge Scour Monitoring
  • Graphene and other 2D material-based cement nanocomposites
  • Big Data and Cyber Physical Nuclear-Civil Infrastructure Systems
  • Effect of Climate Change on Critical Infrastructure

Towards low-carbon heating and cooling of buildings using smart concrete
31/03/2020 → 30/03/2022
Research

Kinetic Energy Recovery from Carriageways and Energy Storage in Roadside Battery Units
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2021
Research

Development of Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure Materials
01/10/2019 → 30/09/2022
Research

Multi-scale Investigation on Engineered Aligned Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete for High-Speed Train Ballastless Track Slabs
18/03/2019 → 17/03/2021
Research

MSI: Biomaterials derived from food waste as a green route for the design of eco-friendly, smart and high performance cementitious composites for the next generation multifunctional built infrastructure
30/09/2018 → 29/09/2020
Research

SAFERUP: Sustainable, Accessible, Safe, Resilient and Smart Urban Pavements
01/03/2018 → 01/03/2022
Research

Meeting with MacRebur Ltd
Types of Business and Community - Hosting of external, non-academic visitor

Bo Huang

Bo Huang

PhD student, Associate Lecturer

Niloufar Zabihi

Niloufar Zabihi

Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, PhD student

  • Structures, Materials and Manufacturing