Current Position

Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Purdue University
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois
B.S., Civil Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology

Research Interests

Prof. Khasawneh has extensive industrial experience in the design, construction, and retrofit of onshore wind turbine foundations, underground structures, deep foundations, and foundations for high-rise buildings. His expertise is in soil-structure interaction, structural and soil response to dynamic loading, development of constitutive models, forensic engineering, testing through various scales, and instrumentation. Recently, he developed a method to estimate rotational stiffness of existing wind turbine foundations utilizing the frequency signature of the accelerometers installed in the wind turbine hubs. Prof. Khasawneh is currently working on a detailed dynamic response of the onshore wind turbine towers and on the use of deep machine learning to extract a constitutive model for the foundation soils form wind turbine instrumentation.

Key Words

Wind Turbines, Soil Modeling, Computation Geotechnics