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Research Interest

• Early-age properties of concrete/Time effects in concrete structures (creep and shrinkage in concrete)/Hydration heat analysis/Thermal stress problems in concrete/Control of cracking in concrete/Fire resistance design of concrete structures/Development of ultra high-strength/high-performance concretes

Research Publication:           

• Muhammad Nasir Amin (2004), A Review of Soil Classification Systems, B.S. Thesis, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan, Text in English.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin (2006), Simulation of Thermal Stress in Mass Concrete by Thermal Stress Measuring Device, Master’s Thesis, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, Text in English.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin (2010), Hydration-induced Thermal Stress and Autogenous Shrinkage in Early Age Concrete, Doctoral Thesis, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, Text in English.
  

International Conferences and Workshops:

• Muhammad Nasir Amin and Jin-Keun Kim, “Simulation of the Thermal Stress in Mass Concrete by Thermal Stress Measuring Device”, Proceedings of the Eighteenth KKCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering (ISBN 986-80222-3-1), Dec. 18-21, 2005, Ambassador Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, pp. 765-774.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin and Jin-Keun Kim, “Thermal Stress Simulation of Mass Concrete Using Thermal Stress Device”, Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute (ISSN 1738-298X), Vol. 18 No.1, May 11-12, 2006, ICC JEJU, Korea, pp. 474-477.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin and Jin-Keun Kim, “Development of a New Device for the Measurement of Stress Generated due to Hydration Heat of Cement”, Asian Special Workshop on Concrete Technology in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Prof. Z. P. Bažant in Collaboration with the 2007 Annual Conference of Taiwan Concrete Institute (TCI), November 2, 2007, Taipei 116, Taiwan.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin and Jin-Keun Kim, “An Experimental Approach for the Simulation of the Thermal Stress in Mass Concrete by Considering the Uncertain Early-Age Properties of Concrete”, Proceedings of International Conference on “Advances in Cement Based Materials and Applications in Civil Infrastructure (ACBM-ACI)”, Dec.12-14, 2007, Lahore, Pakistan, pp. 817-827.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, and Jin-Keun Kim, “An Experimental Approach for Simulation of Thermal Stress in Mass Concrete”, The 2nd KAIST-UTiM Symposium on Urban Engineering and Sustainability, March 30th – April 1st, 2008, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 297-313.
• Jin-Keun Kim, Muhammad Nasir Amin and Jeong-Su Kim, “Assessment of cracking in concrete due to hydration heat and autogenous shrinkage”, International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures, Nov.26-27, 2008, Hangzhou, P.R. China.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, and Jin-Keun Kim, “An improvement of the test method to measure autogenous shrinkage in concrete at early-age”, Proceedings of the KCI Spring 2009 Convention, May 7-8, 2009, BEXCO, Busan, Korea, pp. 569-570.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, and Jin-Keun Kim, “Assessment of Cracking in Concrete due to Hydration Heat and Autogenous Shrinkage”, Nov. 26-27, 2009, TU Delft, Netherlands.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, and Jin-Keun Kim, “Cracking in Concrete due to Hydration Heat and Autogenous Shrinkage”, International Seminar on Advances in Cement Based Materials, January 21-22, 2010, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  

• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, Yun Lee, Jin-Keun Kim, “Simulation of the Thermal Stress in Mass Concrete using a Thermal Stress Measuring Device”, Cement and Concrete Research, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 154–164, 2009. (Impact Factor: 1.549)

• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, Tran Thanh Dat, Jin-Keun Kim, “Improving Test Methods to Measure Early Age Autogenous Shrinkage in Concrete,” ACI Materials Journal (full text submitted). (Impact Factor: 0.568)
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, and Jin-Keun Kim “Assessment of cracking in concrete due to hydration heat and autogenous shrinkage”, International Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 145–159, 2010.
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, Jin-Keun Kim, “Influence of temperature on autogenous deformations of concrete – can maturity concept be applied?,” Cement and Concrete Research Journal (full text submitted) (Impact Factor: 1.549)
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, Jin-Keun Kim, “An applicability of thermal stress device to measure stress of concrete structures in the field”, (submitting in ACI Structural Journal). (Impact Factor: 0.895)
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, Jin-Keun Kim, “Influence of temperature on drying shrinkage of concrete”, (shortly to be submitted in Cement and Concrete Research Journal). (Impact Factor: 1.549)
• Muhammad Nasir Amin, Jeong-Su Kim, Jin-Keun Kim, “Measurement of thermal dilation coefficient of concrete at early-age”, (shortly to be submitted in RILEM Journal “Materials and Structures”). (Impact Factor: 0.892)