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Maha Kenawy, Ph.D.
Uncertainty Quantification for Infrastructure Systems in Multihazard Environments

Our research team creates new numerical methods and uses high-performance computing tools to study and reduce the vulnerability of civil infrastructure to the direct and compounding effects of natural hazards. 

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News & Conferences

December 19, 2025: New Project on Integrating Multidisciplinary Simulations and Artificial Intelligence for Regional Flood Risk Assessment of Energy Transmission Infrastructure

Dr. Kenawy has received a grant from the Hamm Institute for American Energy to assess the vulnerability of electric transmission towers across Oklahoma to flooding and debris flow hazards. Learn more here.

June 5, 2025: International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability

Dr. Kenawy presented her research on adaptive sequential experimental design of regional-scale earthquake simulations at the 2025 International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability.

March 24, 2025: PEER LBNL Workshop on the Regional Scale Simulated Ground Motions

Dr. Kenawy presented her research on using simulated earthquake ground motions to improve regional-scale seismic hazard and risk analysis.

February 7, 2025: NHERI Computational Symposium

MSc Student Aman Karki presented his research on quantifying the influence of modeling uncertainty on assessing the collapse capacity of civil structures under dynamic earthquake loading.

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Publications

Our most recent publication explores the use of physics-based earthquake simulations to enable the prediction of the performance of structures that are susceptible to very large and rare earthquake events for which little or no recorded earthquake observations are available.

© 2024 by Maha Kenawy

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