Dr P Abdul Salam wins Thailand Frontier Researcher Award for featuring in top 1 per cent of highly cited papers

Dr. P Abdul Salam of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has won the Thomson Reuters Thailand Frontier Researcher Award for 2016. The award was granted “in recognition of pioneering a new frontier in research, based on core papers comprising the world’s top 1% of Highly Cited Papers in the field of Engineering.”

Why do Buildings Collapse Suddenly Following the Failure of One Element?

Recall the 9-11 disaster when the Twin Towers collapsed after being struck by aeroplanes. Or the 22-storey 1968 Ronan Point Building in the United Kingdom which witnessed a partial collapse following a gas explosion at one corner of the building. Such situations have drawn increased attention in recent years, and they were the focus of AIT’s Sixth Distinguished Adjunct Faculty (DAF) Seminar delivered by Prof. Sashi Kunnath on 22 August 2016.