Biography

Muhammad Imran Rafiq completed his first degree, B.Sc. (Honour) Civil Engineering, from the University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan in 1999. He obtained first position out of a class of over 200 students and was awarded three gold medals on the basis of overall academic performance. Imran obtained his M.Sc. degree at the University of Surrey in 2001, where he secured first position in the Structural Engineering. Imran joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer in February 2005 after completing his PhD at the same university. His PhD work was focused mainly on the development of a methodology for the integration of data obtained through health monitoring systems within the decision support system of a bridge management system.

Research Interests

• Health Monitoring of Deteriorating Systems
• Integration of Health monitoring data with the decision process of management systems.
• Bridge Deck Loading and Analysis.
• Analysis and Design of Prestressed Concrete Bridges.

Publications

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2005). “Sensitivity of uncertainties in performance prediction of deteriorating concrete structures.” Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, In Press.

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2004). “Performance updating of concrete bridges using proactive health monitoring methods.” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 86, pp 247-256.

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2005). “Improvement in performance of corroding concrete structures using health monitoring systems.” EUROCORR 2005, Lisbon, Portugal.

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2005). “Proactive health monitoring in performance updating of deteriorating systems.” COMADEM’05, Eds. David Mba and R.B.K.N. Rao, Cranfield, UK.

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2005). “The role of proactive health monitoring in performance prediction: A systems approach.” ICOSSAR’05, CD-Rom Proceedings.

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2005). “Comparison of different management strategies using life-cycle cost analysis of bridges.” Bridge Management 5, Eds. G.A.R. Parke and P. Disney, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2004). “Aspects of modelling uncertainty in predicting chloride induced deterioration for concrete bridges.” 2nd ASRANET International Colloquium, CD-Rom Proceedings.

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2004). “A system updating approach for proactive health monitoring of concrete bridges.” 2nd ASRANET International Colloquium, CD-Rom Proceedings

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2004). “Sensitivity analysis of chloride induced deterioration models for concrete bridges.” IABMAS’04, 2nd Intl. Conf. on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management. CD-Rom Proceedings.

M. Imran Rafiq ; M.K. Chryssanthopoulos ; T. Onoufriou (2003). “Performance updating of concrete bridges through proactive health monitoring methods.” Life-Cycle Performance of Deteriorating Structures – Assessment, Design and Management, Eds. D.M. Frangopol, E. Bruhwiller, M.H. Faber and B.Adey, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Teaching

1. Bridge Deck Loading and Analysis (ENGM030), M.Sc. Module.
2. Prestressed Concrete Bridge Design ENGM031)), M.Sc. Module.
3. Integrated Design B (SE1209), Level 2 UG Module.
4. Integrated Design C (ENG3136), Level 3 UG Module. 

Supervision / co-supervision of a number of PhD, M.Sc. and Undergraduate (Level 3) student projects.

Departmental Duties

- Program Director MSc Bridge Engineering

- Member of UCAS team to support Parent program and Student Interviews

- Open Days

- Head Start research project