Ghazanfarah Hafeez

Ghazanfarah Hafeez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University. Her, research focuses on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of wood buildings and bridges, sustainable design and composite systems, wood-soil interaction, retrofitting techniques for timber heritage buildings, and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) based optimization algorithms in wood structures and materials.

Publications

Estimating the In-Plane Lateral Resistance of Reinforced Log Wall Employing Soft Modelling Techniques
Estimating the In-Plane Lateral Resistance of Reinforced Log Wall Employing Soft Modelling Techniques
K. G. M. Kandethanthri, Mehdi Nikoo, Ghazanfarah Hafeez, Ashutosh Bagchi, Vagelis Plevris. © 2024. 21 pages.
The popularity of log houses has been on the rise in numerous regions worldwide. In the context of log construction, the stability of log walls is notably influenced by the...
Predicting the Fundamental Period of Light-Frame Wooden Buildings by Employing Bat Algorithm-Based Artificial Neural Network
Predicting the Fundamental Period of Light-Frame Wooden Buildings by Employing Bat Algorithm-Based Artificial Neural Network
Mehdi Nikoo, Ghazanfarah Hafeez, Ghasan Doudak, Vagelis Plevris. © 2023. 24 pages.
The study utilizes an artificial neural network model for determining the fundamental period of Light-Frame Wooden Buildings, employing the Bat algorithm on a data set of 71...