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Farah HOMSI
Ecole supérieure d'architecture de Beyrouth – Maître de conférences
École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Beyrouth – Maître de conférences
+961 (1) 421 000 ext 3406 farah.homsi@usj.edu.lb
Farah HOMSI received a diploma in Civil Engineering from the Lebanese University in 2007, a Master's Degree in Geological, Civil and Environmental Engineering from Bordeaux 1 University in 2008 and a Ph.D. degree in civil Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Nantes in 2011.Farah Homsi’s main Research Topics are the Design of Asphalt Pavements (Real loading signals, evaluation of the fatigue life of asphalt pavements, Validation of a flexible pavement model) and Sustainable Concrete (Concrete recycling and solid waste material concrete).Since September 2019, she is a full-time assistant professor at Ecole Supérieure d’Ingéneirus de Beyrouth, Saint-Joseph’s University of Beirut, teaching courses related to Construction Materials, General Construction Procedures, Traffic Engineering, Road and Pavement Engineering, Planning and Management of Large-Scale Projects and Mobility and Safety in Urban Areas. She also supervises Masters’ thesis in the area of road safety, and PhD thesis in the areas of construction materials and pavement design.Since September 2023, she is the Assistant Director of Administrative Affairs at Ecole Supérieure d’Architecture de Beyrouth, Saint-Joseph’s University of Beirut.Farah Homsi is a member of the Order of Engineers & Architects of Tripoli. She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Order of Engineers and Architects of Tripoli between June 2018 and May 2019.
Education
| Diplôme | Université | Pays | Année |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD in Civil Engineering | Ecole Centrale de Nantes | France | 2011 |
| Geological, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Université de Bordeaux | France | 2008 |
| Diploma in Civil Engineering - Specialty Structures | Université Libanaise (UL) | Lebanon | 2007 |
Teaching at USJ
University teaching outside USJ
| University teaching outside USJ | Pays | Institution | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor (Full-time) | Lebanon | Al-Manar University of Tripoli | 01/02/2019 | 30/08/2019 |
| Assistant Professor (Part-time) | Lebanon | Lebanese American University (LAU) | 01/01/2018 | 28/06/2019 |
| Assistant Professor (Part-time) | Lebanon | Al-Manar University of Tripoli | 01/09/2017 | 31/01/2019 |
| Assistant Professor (Full-time) | Lebanon | Beirut Arab University (BAU) | 01/09/2012 | 31/01/2017 |
| Full-time Assistant Professor, Mechanics and Engineering Institute, I2M, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | France | Université de Bordeaux | 01/11/2011 | 31/08/2012 |
Professional experience outside USJ
Areas of expertise
Research themes
Construction Materials<div>Flexible pavements design</div><div>Road Safety</div>
Publications and communications
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Rayan Mina, <b>Farah Homsi</b>, A figure of merit thatincludes 5 distinct performance indicators to improve research evaluation ofacademic scholars’, Heliyon, Volume 10, Issue 4, <b>2024</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Abdulkader El-Mir, Samer El-Zahab, Zoubir MehdiSbartaï, <b>Farah Homsi</b>, Jacqueline Saliba, Hilal El-Hassan Machinelearning prediction of concrete compressive strength using rebound hammer test- Journal of Building Engineering, </span><span lang="FR"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-building-engineering/v…; title="Go to table of contents for this volume/issue"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Volume 64</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">, <b>April 2023</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%"><span class="nlmstring-name"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Homsi, F.</span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">, <span class="nlmstring-name">Balay, J.</span>,<span class="nlmstring-name">Bodin, D.</span>, <span class="nlmstring-name">Breysse,D.</span>, and <span class="nlmstring-name">Yotte, S.,</span> 2015,"Estimating Truck Aggressiveness Using a Multilinear Fatigue Model and aViscoelastic Pavement Model." 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Eng.</i>, Volume 12,Issue 2, <b>February 2016.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Farah Homsi</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">, Jean-Maurice Balay, Didier Bodin, Denys Breysse,Sylvie Yotte</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">; Coupling a Multi-linear Fatigue Model anda Pavement Model to Estimate Truck Aggressiveness, 8th RILEM InternationalConference on Mechanisms of Cracking and Debonding in Pavements, Springer, <b>2016</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoAutoSig" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Homsi, F.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">,Bodin, D., Yotte, S., Breysse, D and Balay J.-M., "Fatigue life modelingof asphalt pavements under multiple axle loadings", Road Materials andPavement Design, RMPD, pp 749-768, September 2012.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>